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platforms platforms from from Cumberland
Cumberland
The Vertikal Days stand of Cumberland Industries UK was a good
place to see how it has mounted Socage access platforms from Italy
onto two different 4x4 chassis. This Kettering, UK based design and
fabrication company has become a specialist in mounting insulated
and non-insulated access platforms onto commercial vehicles.
The smaller of Cumberland’s new vehicle mounted platforms is
the A314 tailored to fit a Land Rover 110 or 130 chassis. On a 110
vehicle, the A314 boom provides a maximum working height of
13.5m with a 225kg cage capacity. Maximum outreach is 6.2m and
the telescopic upper boom allows ground level entry to the cage.
Standard equipment on the Land Rover mounted A314 platform
includes 12V and 110V sockets and a water /air hose in the cage.
The first of these units has been sold to UK rental company Smart
Rental Ltd.
The other new Cumberland 4WD platform is the DA320 with its
Socage boom mounted onto an Iveco Daily 55S17W 4x4 vehicle.
This double articulating platform has a capacity of 225kg, a
maximum working height of 20.3m and a maximum outreach of
9.0m. This off road combination is likely to find favour with aborists
and utility companies.
Land & Water exhibited this interesting
amphibious midi excavator that brings
together a Hitachi Zaxis ZX70
superstructure, a Kocurek long reach boom
and an amphibious tracked undercarriage
from Malaysia.
Cumberland
Land and & & W WWater
W ater shows shows amphibious
amphibious
midi midi excavator
excavator
Visitors to the Hillhead Quarry Show this year cannot have failed
to spot the latest machinery joining the specialist fleet of the UKbased
contractor and plant hirer Land & Water. Of particular
interest was the smaller of the two excavators on show – an
amphibious long reach midi machine put together by Land &
Water for use on very soft terrain and work on silt lagoons. The
machine can work in water that it can ‘wade’ through.
The new midi excavator utilises the superstructure of a 7.0
tonne class Hitachi Zaxis ZX70 and a lightweight amphibious
tracked undercarriage produced for Land & Water by an
engineering company in Malaysia. The undercarriage has
special high flotation tracks that retract to a width of 3.5m for
road transport and extend to 4.5m to maximise stability on site.
Land & Water helped develop and CE mark this amphibious
undercarriage and it is now the UK dealer for the product.
Land & Water runs six Hitachi Zaxis ZX70 midi excavators in
its fleet and can offer several different boom and dipper
combinations. The machine whose slew ring was bolted to the
amphibious undercarriage at Hillhead had a 8.0m long reach
boom produced by with 8.0m Kocurek Excavators Ltd of Ipswich
in the UK (www.kocurek.com).
Land & Water also used Hillhead 2010 to exhibit its new
Hitachi Zaxis ZX670 with a two piece articulated boom made by
Kocurek. Weighing in at some 80 tonnes, this machine can be fitted with either of two different dipper arms to give
maximum outreaches of 20.0m or 25.0m with buckets of 3.2m³ or 3.2m³ respectively. The company also displayed its
two new Hitachi EC70R-3 tracked carriers – each fitted with a 6500kg payload swivel skip.
CP&E Contractors Plant & Equipment Vol 1 No 5
The two new Cumberland 4x4 platforms with
Socage booms – the Land Rover A314 (left)
and the Iveco Daily DA320 with maximum
heights of 13.5m and 20.3m.
Land & Water
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