Big beasts of Bauma Report: Bryan Jarvis. Photography: Peter Cramer.
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• Austrian body and trailer manufacturer Empl has more than 50 years' experience of building tippers for extreme conditions around Europe. Versions for Russia need their body floor heated, so the exhaust system is re-routed underneath. This OAF 41.403 8x4 rigid is rated at 32 tonnes for the owner Froschl Bau; elsewhere they often carry around 40 tonnes. It will normally haul just three or four large rocks and tip them off to the left side, hence the sturdy doublehinged hydraulic linkage on the headboard. When loaded the side locks into place via vertical hydraulic pins in the corner posts. • Edbro's owner, Marrell group, which has now been bought by the French investment group Caravelle, exhibited this Mercedes 4143 AK 8x4 with its latest curved Rock Carrier tipper body. It's a new design for the German market and is designed for all three and four-axled rigids. Yet another gently swaged body, it tips to 48° via a four-piece Edbro ram and sits over a 126mm-deep subframe. This is fully enclosed from the stabiliser to the rear. For eight-leggers there are two 17m3 scow-ended steel Rock Carrier bodies and these weigh between 3.55 and 3.70 tonnes while a 14m3 6x4 body weighs 3.35 tonnes.
• Tatra trucks have to withstand some of the most demanding conditions imaginable, but they're built to a very rugged spec, especially 26-tonne 6x6s like the one seen at the show. It's an all-Tatra driveline from the 342hp (255kW) 12.7-litre vee-eight to the air-suspended 18tonne rear bogie and steel-sprung 7.5-tonne front axle, the 10-speed synchro box driving through the huge cylindrical centre spine to the spiral differentials. Semex is the official German importer for Tatra trucks and has almost 50 26tonners in service so far. Payload is 13.8 tonnes: with a retail price around 30% below that of a comparable MAN, Semex should be busy, but not if German drivers see the Tatra's spartan cabin first.
• Partek Cargotec was showing a new fiveextension Hiab 085 crane with a 14m outreach and a newly patented Multilift LHT 260 hooklift. Its pivoting arm is capable of handling a variety of container sizes. There was also this smallest and newest Multilift skip carrier, designed for a 2.6m-wheelbase Mercedes UX100 rated at 4.8 tonnes GVVV. • Half of Daf's CF65Series may come from Foden's Sandbach factory, but the rest are solid Eindhoven, especially this 85CF.380 8x4 mixer chassis. Built for European use at far higher weights, the full-length double-skinned frame has much more beef on the bone. The rails are of KF375 (50-grade) steel yet still need a hefty 180mm to 240mm subframe and there's a sturdy 26-tonne hub reduction axle bogie. All in all, it's a good tonne heavier than UK-bound lookalike eightleggers, but at Holland's 40-tonne limit there's the promise of pretty fair payloads. There's an even better payoff in Italy where it can run at 44 tonnes gross.
• Gergen builds a range of waste skip and container handling equipment but its latest development, the TAK Z4 silo-carrying system, is universal in use. It can also be adapted for accepting waste containers or skips. Used with a specially adapted drawbar trailer, the truck can off-load 6m3 (10-tonne) silos at two different sites. Shown on a Mercedes 1844 6x2, the system can also be equipped with radio remote controls for oneman operation.
• Broshuis's five-axle lowbed lowloader, with extending outer beams, detachable floor and twin set pendular axled 'between dolly' section, is designed to handle any load in the Category-3 weight bracket. The Multi-Fastner hydraulic connections are under the neck with easy-touse stirrup-type couplers. Broshuis fits an adjacent airline and handgun for the operator to remove any grime before undoing them. Lincolnbased KDJ recently took delivery of a similar low-loader but with just a four-axled rear end capable of hauling Cat-3 loads of up to 75 tonnes. • With its heavy Actros chassis, cab and big vee-engine, this 32.35 is more than a tonne too heavy for the UK so if anyone over here wants a Mercedes four-axled rigid it will have to be one of the old series. In the long term, M-B (UK) is seeking an Atego-cabbed 8x4 with an in-line six of say 350hp, but prospective customers shouldn't hold their breath. Meanwhile, Actros six-wheelers have the green light. Straight after the Hanover truck show right-hand-drive models will begin heading our way. These will be 280hp 26.28 tipper and mixer trucks based on an Actros chassis with the Atego cabs and a straight-six engine. • Bronto Skylift Oy, the Finnish platform maker, exhibited several of its truckmounted industrial lifts, among them this S40MDT on a Mercedes 4x2 truck chassis.
The unit is a compact 8.9m when closed down for travelling and on the Meic's short wheelbase is easily manoeuvrable.
In operation it can work at a height limit of 40m but its maximum outreach to the side of the vehicle is 23.3m.
Bronto, which was bought by Federal Signal Corporation of the US in 1966, markets its lifts in the UK via Blue Line Access of Kenilworth and Angloco of Bradford.
Steyr Antriebstechnik, a division of Steyr-Daimler-Puch, has developed a system of automatic drivehe management which suits vehicles with or without all-wheel drive from 4x2s to 8x8s. It can also be linked to other electronic vehicle systems. ADM uses sensors on each component to control all engine, gearbox, transfer case and axle functions whatever the driving situation. It also operates the various all-wheeldrive, diff and inter-axle locks automatically and checks stability in all conditions. When traction improves sufficiently it systematically switches the extra drive modes out.
• Hyva is about to introduce its FC80 range of tipping gears into the UK for tipper chassis in the 3.5-tonne to 7.5-tonne range.
The first versions, which have an 80mm-diameter first stage, will be on show at this week's TipCon exhibition at the Manchester GMex Centre. The new range includes FCT80 versions with an integral oil reservoir. Hyva UK recently moved into new premises at Earlem, Greater Manchester.
• A Mercedes 33.403 eightwheeler was shown carrying a Merc UX100 with new light skip gear. Only the second of a new GAK 3038 TK skip system from Georg of Neitersen, the 8x4's designed specifically for Densberg waste contractor Landers to cope with the awkward access roads in the Thyssen factory. The short (4.8m) body system has new telescopic arms that extend from 3m to 3.8m and can handle 25-tonne payloads.