Farming Monthly National November 2016 | Page 17

| CropTec Griffith Elder to launch a bigger portable weighbridge At CropTec Griffith Elder will launch a new 6m long platform adding to the already popular family of portable weighbridges. ue to the increase in size of vehicles being weighed on farms today it has been noted that longer weighbeams are needed to take the modern larger vehicles. At the same time, research has shown that there is a requirement for a full size weighbridge that can easily be moved from one store to another for weighing tractors and trailers as well as articulated bulker D lorries in one go, rather than stopping and moving forwards for each set of axles. To satisfy these new parameters, Griffith Elder have designed a longer light-weight platform which has the modular capability of adding extra sections to make the length up to 15 metres. Each section weighs less than a tonne a