Belgian tippers
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LAG UK has supplied three Belgian-built lightweight tipping trailers worth over 00,000 to Pauls Malt of Ipswich for bulk matt transport.
The semi-trailers feature an aluminium body and chassis giving a body capacity of 50cum (65.39cuyd) and possible payload of up to 25.70 tonnes (25.29tons) operating at 38 tonnes gcw depending on trac.tive unit.
LAG UK claims this gives a payload advantage of more than one tonne over conventionally designed bulk semi-trailers with steel chassis.
The bulker bodies are 11.86m (38.91ft) long with a top opening of 1.5m (4.92ft) wide with chequer-plate walkways and kickrails along each top side rail. The rear of the body is hinged and is fitted with a 400 x400mm (15.76x15.76in) grain hatch.
The 5.8 tonne (5.70ton) unladen weight triaxle trailers are equipped with Rubery OwenRockwell series 18000 lightweight Tridem axles spaced at 1360mm (53.58in) with two axles on each trailer capable of being raised. Aluminium wheels have also been specified for the 15R 22.5 super single tyres.
To help reduce the trailer's unladen weight, LAG has turned the hydraulic ram pack upside down with the smallest tube diameter at the bottom. Each trailer has its own donkey engine hydraulic tank and pump for tipping, and will be used with a Seddon Atkinson 401 4x2 tractive unit.