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CASE STUDY FAYMONVILLE
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EUROPEAN HEAVY HAULAGE trailer specialist Faymonville has redesigned its hydraulic lifting platform trailer for access and forklift transport, increasing its lower bed loading length by 400mm and trimming some tare weight Designed to run within C&U at 44 tonnes GCW it handles payloads up to 26 tonnes and features a hydraulic raising and lowering floor that extends from the main bed to the gooseneck. Its loading angle (from the 9.6m main bed to the gooseneck) is just and there's no need for manual handling of loading ramps. Only the front 3.0m of the main floor lifts and lowers, with up to 9.0 tonnes of payload.
At the rear the trailer's 30-tonne-rated double-flip ramps have a hydraulic slide capability for width adjustment. Standard features include a grated or hardwood floor, 16 pairs of certified deck lashing points, underfloor toolboxes, a self-tracking rear axle and a low-profile 150mm gooseneck. Recent innovations include Pendelmax `swing-axle' rear-bogie steering.
The design allows a two or three-axle front bogie to be connected between the gooseneck and low-bed for a much reduced overall length and lower weight. A deep boom trough has chamfered top edges for cylindrical loads, long-stroking (600JTim) hydraulic suspension and extensive parts commonality with the Variomax range. The swing axle design offers 60 of steering angle: with a 3+5 low-bed configuration this will easily out-manoeuvre a 2+4 rig with standard power-steered beam axles.
Fayrnonville's Prefamax in-loader, designed for hauling precast concrete components, has also been facelifted. The trailer frame straddles the pallets and lifts or lowers them to the ground for unloading. A bed height of only 300mm makes it possible to transport components more than 4m high.