Or you need to do some excavation work in a tight place? Traditionally you have three options:
- People with hand tools: Slow, but if they are careful, sensitive underground infrastructure can be maintained without damage.
- An excavator or a backhoe: Fast, but a blunt weapon, with a relatively high risk of damage to underground infrastructure.
- A suction truck: Very good around sensitive infrastructure, but trucks are expensive, and most need water. The wet slurry needs to be disposed at controlled facilities. And finally, a truck needs another operator, and you’ll pay licensing, insurance, and maintenance costs. So trucks are expensive.
Is there another option! YES! It’s the tinbin TC2. The tinbin TC2 is a German engineered suction excavation device that runs off the hydraulics on your excavator. Since it runs from your excavator, is much more reasonably priced than truck-mounted excavation unit. In addition, it will not require another operator, more insurance, and maintenance costs are minimal.
There are all kinds of great ways to use the product.
- Material removal anywhere other equipment won’t work and you’ve been forced to use hand shoveling – bridges, switches, and between ties.
- Utility day-lighting when you’re already bringing in an excavator.
- Spill cleanup after derailments or accidents. It’s very good at cleaning up liquids, plastics pellets, grain, and powders.
- Small-scale rail car clean-outs and other material transfers.
- Fouled ballast cleanup around grain elevators, mills, aggregate facilities, mines, under road bridges and other places where dust and debris builds up quickly.
And the joy of this technology is that, with dry excavation, you can dump in a bin or on site. You don’t need to haul the material away. You don’t need to hire or buy another truck, pay more insurance, go through scales, or spend time in traffic.
Would you like more information? Please let me know! Email me at peter.scholtens@integrityrailproducts.com.
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