Plant Equipment and Hire July 2018 | Page 32

NEW EQUIPMENT 2 3 4 1 Once the container is loaded, a hydraulic barrier swings into place to hold the load back while the slip mat is removed by the dual-directional pulling mechanism. moved along by the dual-directional slips out from underneath the product once pulling mechanism underneath, which the container is loaded.” comprises four hydraulic cylinders moving lengths between 6.1m and 12.2m and is of the cylinders move up, fitting into able to carry 30 000kg in weight. the sheet’s holes and securing it, while The unit is free-standing, meaning it is the cylinders pull the sheet forward, easily positioned wherever the container ensuring that the product is guided into will be delivered to a factory. Alternatively, the container safely, void of damage as Mc Vicar explains, “It can be free- through unnecessary handling, dropping, or standing or mounted into the loading scuffing. docks, within a customer’s building. We When the load is fully loaded within can then load the material/product within the container, a hydraulic rear barrier (gate) the building. When the container comes to affixed to the end of the platform and the loading bay, the contents are unloaded positioned in front of the open end of the using the Slip Sheet.” container, swings across the container 32 The Slip Sheet can load containers in in sequence. Hydraulic pins on the ends After-sales is vital with any product With the Combilift Slip Sheet, we are not limited to any market; we will be available in whichever country we conduct business, including South Africa.” Martin Mc Vicar, Combilift Irish manufacturer Burnside Hydracyl, he opening and is locked in place across the produced by Combilift, the MD stresses. informs. All hoses come from Gates, a entire width of the platform. “The purpose He explains that the various components US brand, recognised as global leaders of the barrier is to hold the material/product have different origins of manufacture, in power transmission and fluid power within the container while the metal sheet with the Hardox steel made in Sweden, products and services. “The brand is well- is extracted from underneath it,” Mc Vicar the hydraulic motors/pumps coming known internationally, even readily available says and comments, “That’s where the from Bosch Rexroth in Germany, and in South Africa and is a standard SAE hose name Slip Sheet comes from. The sheet the hydraulic cylinders being supplied by line,” Mc Vicar notes. JULY 2018