Excavators without tilt- rotators - Engcon

Precision work
with a tiltrotator
Martin Karlsson digs out the petrol and
diesel tanks and pipes for the pumps
with the utmost care and precision.
“It’s quite complicated since the
pipes run in all directions. The job
would be impossible without a tiltrotator,”
he says emphatically.
When the new Coop Forum supermarket was
being built in Ulricehamn, it turned out the
Uno X petrol station was too close and needed
to be moved. Lasses Entreprenad AB in Frillesås
was hired to do the excavation work. The three
fuel tanks could stay where they were, but the
pipes and pumps needed moving slightly.
Martin joined the company in January this
year. Not only was he given an exciting task
straight away – he also got to operate a brand
new Komatsu PC138 fitted with an engcon
EC15.
“It’s my first new machine, so it was a very
special feeling,” he says.
Demanding job
The excavation work lasted almost two weeks.
It took slightly longer than expected because
leaked diesel was found in the ground and had
to be cleaned up.
The actual excavation work was also demanding.
It involved digging up the existing
pipes that needed to be moved, as well as uncovering
the upper side of the tanks so that
new pipes could be installed to the new distribution
point.
engcon tiltrotators
the trend
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“There were five pipes attached to each underground
tank. It was quite complicated, and
would have been impossible without the tiltrotator,”
says Martin.
For Lars Gustavsson, who founded Lasses
Entreprenad in 1990, tiltrotators are a must on
excavators. He has a total of twelve excavators
– mainly Komatsus – and ten of them are fitted
with engcon tiltrotators.
“They range from EC05 to EC30. The only
Jemab in Jönköping has worked with construction
and ground installation for over 40 years. A lot has
happened in that time – and Mats Davidsson, machine
supervisor at Jemab, sees a clear trend.
“Tiltrotators will soon be standard on excavators
weighing up to 25 tonnes,” he says. “They’re a must
for machine owners and a requirement from clients.”
excavators without tiltrotators are my two
smallest ones, Takejob, but they’ll soon be getting
tiltrotators too,” says Lars.
The company has just over 15 employees. It
does a wide range of work, but specialises in
road and railway works, service operations,
drainage and ground levelling. engcon tiltrotators
are a given choice.
“The equipment itself is great,” says Lasse.
“But what’s equally important is that engcon’s
Jönköpings Entreprenad & Markbyggnad AB,
commonly known as Jemab, was founded in
1966. Today the company is a large, well-established
actor in central and south Sweden,
with roughly 40 employees. Although the business
has several strings to its bow, roughly 70%
of the parent company’s business consists of
renting out machines with operators, and the
rest consists of contract work. The company’s
subsidiary, Jemab Rent, rents out smaller construction
machines (up to 10 tonnes) without
operators.
“In Jemab and Jemab Rent, we have about
ten excavators fitted with tiltrotators ranging
from the engcon EC02 to the engcon EC30,”
says Mats.
“We’ve been using engcon tiltrotators for
five years. They’re reliable, and engcon has an
excellent aftermarket organisation for service
and spare parts. This is extremely important,
since time is money.”
The parent company, Jemab, has 22 con-
“engcon makes great equipment, and their service is by
far the best,” says Martin Karlsson, who uses engcon
tiltrotators in all sizes from EC05 to EC30.
service is by far the best. Having ready access to
the equipment is crucial. These days you can’t
turn up for a job without a tiltrotator on your
excavator.”
Chuckling, he adds:
“By the way, I’ve got an engcon vibratory soil
compactor too. That also works like a dream,
but we’ll talk about that another time.”
struction machines and twelve trucks. Its
projects include roadworks, foundation laying,
fine levelling and water and sewerage. The
company’s long list of customers includes
Vägverket Produktion, NCC, PEAB, Jönköping
Municipality and Skanska.
The larger excavators used to be equipped
with a different brand of tiltrotator – until
about a year ago when Jemab fitted an engcon
EC30 to a New Holland 305.
“We’ve had excellent experience of engcon
tiltrotators on our smaller machines, and
wanted to try engcon on a large machine. So
far we’re very satisfied,” reports Mats.
He’s convinced that more of their larger machines
will also be equipped with tiltrotators in
future.
“Many jobs like water and sewerage work,
golf courses and reservoirs really can’t be done
without a tiltrotator. And machine operators
are increasingly expected to do the fine levelling
during earth moving work.”