VEHICLES, SKIP AND HOOK LOADERS
Paint our wagon! Hague plant’s ruby red loadmaster celebrates their 40th in great style
How has one of the UK’s leading regional plant and tipper businesses celebrated its 40th year in business? With an absolutely top-spec, ruby red Thompsons tipper of course! Hague Plant of Sheffield was
set up way back in 1975, and in the intervening four decades this family – owned business has gone from strength to strength, continuously adding to its services and capabilities. Today, the company’s tipper
fleet is standardised on Thompsons all – steel Loadmaster Lite bodywork mounted on Scania chassis. With his bright red trucks already widely recognised everywhere over the roads of South Yorkshire, managing director William Hague thought the idea of doing a one – off special ‘celebratory’ tipper a local PR opportunity too good to miss. “The colour for our 40th
anniversary truck really chose itself” says William. “The deep ruby shade actually complements very well the standard red of our fleet. The ruby paint is also a deep metallic, and then finished off with a coat of hi – gloss laquer. The final result looks quite stunning, and has already attracted a great deal of comment.” In addition to the
top quality paintwork, the new tipper is also easily recognised by its aluminium wheels and chrome finish protectors to both the rear axle hubs and wing mirrors. Underneath all the
exterior, bright work, ‘Ruby’ is still a Hague fleet – standard workhorse tipper built around Thompsons highly productive Loadmaster Lite bodywork. “With a northern
manufacturing base in Blackburn,
Thompsons has been our preferred tipper bodybuilder for many years now” adds Mr Hague, also noting that “the latest Loadmaster Lite model is supremely versatile in being able to handle every type of payload from sand and aggregates through to muckaway, as well as all manner of materials from demolition. Built in Hardox it’s a strong, tough and highly durable body that’s designed to be essentially maintenance – free over its working life.” With smooth single piece
sides, the Loadmaster Lite not only projects signwriting and vehicle livery to its fullest potential but is also easy to maintain and keep clean. Of single – skinned steel construction and without front cornerposts, payload is very acceptable too. Completed to the full Thompsons N3G off – road Type Approval specification the latest Hague 410hp Euro 6 Scanias each have a ready to roll unladen weight just a whisker over 13 tonnes. Whilst ‘Ruby’ is already hard at
work on Hague’s tipping services, the company is also highly active in Plant Hire, Recycling and Reclamation, Aggregate Supply, Skip Hire and Waste Disposal.
One year on, Inglenorth contracting proves Hyva’s lightweight super – versatile FC137 cylinder is truly heavy duty
In the ultra-demanding world of site clearance, demolition and muckaway, the equipment tipper operators need really has to offer genuinely heavy duty performance. Precisely to address this operating
requirement, three years ago Hyva launched the FC137 tipping cylinder into the UK, an all-new separate ram and tank design that perhaps has one notable feature above all others – an average weight (depending upon its specification for individual tipper chassis) of just 450kgs. Not only is the FC137 some 40kgs
lighter than Hyva’s previous heavy duty combined ram and tank cylinder, but at 450kgs the FC137 also matches the lightest cylinders from the competition that are specifically NOT offered for heavy duty applications. In this way, FC137 offers tipper
operators the unique combination of light weight and heavy duty operation, as Lancashire – based Inglenorth Contracting has proved. “We took a pair of DAF CFs fitted
with Abba heavy duty steel bodies and the FC137 a year ago, and they’ve been absolutely faultless” says Inglenorth’s General Manager Stuart Campbell. “The trucks have to turn their hand to any job whatsoever, with some 90% of their time working
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on demolition, site clearance and muckshifting. In such an arduous environment, complete vehicle reliability is always our No. 1 operating requirement.” Based in Standish near Wigan,
Inglenorth Contracting operates either as a stand – alone demolition service or as part of a wider in – house activity that includes the disposal and recycling of waste materials as well as full site remediation. Operating its own recycling facility, Inglenorth tippers bring all manner of demolition materials in for reprocessing. The company’s extensive crushing facilities then enable brick, concrete and stone to be easily transformed into valuable sub – base products, piling mats and road construction materials. As a key part of Hyva’s latest
Alpha range of tipping cylinders, FC137’s low weight and high performance provides tipper operators with an unrivalled level of versatility. Unlike other lightweight tipping gears that have been ‘scaled up’ from 26 tonnes / 6x4 tipper designs, FC137 has a genuine lift capacity of 32 tonnes, making it more than capable of handling any UK 8x4 application.
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