RRS accepted a scope of work from C. Soar & Sons, a specialist in dismantling and recycling of electrical plant equipment, to load the rotors onto vehicles from its transport fleet and deliver them to a recycling facility where C. Soar unloaded them using its own yard cranes.
The first challenge was presented by the storage arrangement of the rotors, which was designed to take up the least amount of space rather than facilitate efficient load-out. Each rotor had to be jacked up and moved about 10m sideways using RRS’s 270t capacity Hydra-Slide HT300 heavy track hydraulic skidding system and power pack.
Paul Barber, managing director at RRS, said: “There was lots of other equipment in the warehouse and space was limited. We chose the HT300 over the LP 350 skidding system, which is capable of pushing loads up to 310t, because we were jacking the rotors up to the trailer bed height and loading over the side of the trailer inside the building. The HT300 system only needed supporting every 3m with a 55t load, whereas the LP350 would have required support across its full length.”
Also onsite in Goole, RRS used a 12t capacity Valla mini-crane to lift and move sections of the track into place.
To transport the rotors RRS chose to employ its two largest tractors, of 150t capacity, as with the load at 55t the gross vehicle weight and axle loads were not suited to smaller vehicles. One unit had four axles with a four-axle low loader and the other three axles with a four-axle semi low loader. Abnormal load escort was provided by RRS, completing the comprehensive service.
