Flexible welding facilities mean any bespoke size can accommodated.Ĭommercial axles are recommended because of the load weight potential but lower-spec “standard” axles are also available. The 23ft unit exhibited is a typical size for M4’s customers, and is priced at just under £17,000 with hydraulic and air brakes, and 560/45 R22.5 tyres. “You still have to separately connect the lighting cable and hydraulic brake pipe, but all four hoses for the wings stay on the tractor and are connected to the trailer in a flash,” says Mr Rees.Īnother refinement is the use of galvanised steel for the load-securing wings, as these get the most wear and tear, he points out. Phillip Rees, whose business is located at Foelgastell, near the end of the M4 motorway in Carmarthenshire, includes the over-centre coupling to save operators getting the four outflow and return hoses muddled. Phillip Rees of M4 Trailers shows the hydraulic hose quick coupling device for his load-securing trailer © Peter HillĪ handy hydraulic hose quick-coupling device is a standard feature of another load-securing hauler making its Royal Welsh debut from M4 Trailers. “The wings are constructed using tubular steel top and bottom to resist twisting, and we have a telescopic option at about £2,000 that adds an extending third rail for taller loads,” Mr Watkins adds. The 16t, 28ft unit on show is priced at about £21,000 with hydraulic and air brakes, commercial axles with parabolic leaf spring suspension and 560/60 R22.5 flotation radials.īut the range starts at £12,000 for a 10t, 22ft version and goes to 36ft on tandem or tri-axle running gear. “A solution such as our Ultima bale trailer with hydraulic wings not only secures the load, but does so a lot more easily and quickly than using numerous ratchet straps, with significant time saving, especially on longer trailers.”
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“Tractor drivers are coming under much closer scrutiny with regard to trailer load stability,” says the firm’s Andrew Watkins. With the spotlight increasingly falling on safe and secure transportation of bales, potato boxes, bulk fertiliser and seed bags on public roads, Hereford-based AW Trailers showed its take on mechanical load securing for the first time at the Royal Welsh. The wing-type load-securing unit from AW Trailers positioned in front of the company’s Platinum Jubilee Ultima grain trailer © Peter Hill A weighing system and a rear linkage-mounted variant are planned. The device is 2.2m wide, weighs just over a tonne and is expected to retail for about £12,000.
Up to 12 bolt-on paddles can be fitted to the rotor, arranged at opposing angles to get a good mixing action, and silage-slicing knives can be added to reduce the length of clamped or baled silage or straw. To keep things simple, the machine can be operated using just one double-acting auxiliary hydraulic service, with plunger valves and adjustable triggers automatically switching between grab and rotor functions, and rotor direction.
Opening the grab section exposes an outlet, and reversing the rotor then dispenses the prepared ration to one side. It operates like a shear-grab to load with silage, then other ingredients can be added before setting the mixing paddles in motion on the way to the feeding location.
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Mr Davies learned how to use computer design software, constructed the prototype himself and has set up Davies Technology at Llanymynech, Powys, to put the implement into production. “Having spent a lot of time thinking this through, I left my job at MX loaders in January this year to pursue the idea.” “My background is in loader sales and installation, and it struck me that the existing solutions are unnecessarily complicated and very expensive,” he says. It could also suit a growing number of sheep farmers feeding rations who could not justify buying a diet feeder to regulate silage intake. He reckons the device, which holds about 1cu m, would be handy for dairy units wanting to put a fully mixed ration in front of youngstock without resorting to the farm’s full-size mixer. Young engineer Stephen Davies presented his loader-mounted mixer-feeder for preparing and dispensing small batches of silage-based rations. Stephen Davies with his loader-mounted 1cu m ration mixer-feeder © Peter Hill
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