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From tailgate-mounted systems to industrial tow-behind truck loaders to self-contained hydraulic dump loaders, Giant-Vac leaf loaders quickly load leaves from ground to truck. Designed for the municipality or golf course, these Giant-Vac products feature compaction ratios up to 12:1. By keeping workers on the job, not going back and forth to the dump site, you can improve productivity and profitability.

Load Leaves Quickly

The Giant-Vac truck loaders quickly load leaves and debris into a truck, resulting in less travel time back and forth to the dump site improving profitability. The tailgate mounted unit is designed for use by the professional landscaper with a minimum half-ton pick-up truck. The combination retractable discharge nozzle combined with the swivel discharge stack are designed to make it easier to unload the debris at the dumpsite without removing the unit.

• All-steel welded construction
• 4-blade welded steel scalloped impeller
• Up to 12:1 reduction ratio
• Large diameter flexible hose
• Hose and boom transport lock
• Retractable discharge nozzle
• 270° swivel discharge stack
• Adjustable handle nozzle standard

Durable Equipment for Rugged Jobs

Giant-Vac Skid Mount Truck Loaders make leaf removal a one-person operation. The innovative design of the hitch mounted version allows users complete access to the tailgate. The skid mount version gives the user the flexibility in mounting the unit in the most convenient place whether using the unit with a dumping body or a standard pick-up truck and trailer.

• All-steel welded construction
• 4-blade welded steel scalloped impeller
• Replaceable wear liners in blower housing and discharge stack
• RM-402 Ready (Rotary Mount) for flexible mounting
• Electric start (battery Included)
• Up to 12:1 reduction ratio
• Quick release hose adapter
• Adjustable handle nozzle standard

Durable Equipment for Rugged Jobs

Giant-Vac Hitch Mount Truck Loaders make leaf removal a one-person operation. The innovative design of the hitch mounted version allows users complete access to the tailgate. The skid mount version gives the user the flexibility in mounting the unit in the most convenient place whether using the unit with a dumping body or a standard pick-up truck and trailer.

• All-steel welded construction
• 4-blade welded steel scalloped impeller
• Replaceable wear liners in blower housing and discharge stack
• Electric start (battery Included)
• Up to 12:1 reduction ratio
• 2' Receiver Class II Hitch required
• Quick release hose adapter
• Two models (33' TLH and 49' TLHX available)
• Adjustable handle nozzle standard

Productivity Equals Profitability

Giant-Vac truck loaders improve productivity and profitability by quickly loading, reducing and compacting debris from ground to truck. Designed for use by the professional landscaper, municipality, township or golf course, truck loaders save time, labor, mileage and fuel costs. Reduction ratios up to 12:1 assures users of minimal expensive trips to dumpsites or landfills, keeping workers on the job site.

• Spring-loaded adjustable hose boom w/chain support
• Front swivel-jack w/caster wheel and rear stand
• Fenders,safety chains,stop/tail lights
• Highway ready
• Bolt-in replaceable wear liners
• Electric start (battery and all-weather battery box included)
• Heavy-duty height and length adjustable draw bar w/2' drop-ball hitch standard (easy change to pintle hitch)
• Available in skid mount configuration for direct mounting to truck chassis, trailers, etc.
• 6 gallon wide opening fuel tank
• 4-blade welded steel scalloped impeller
• Taper Lok™ hubs standard
• Adjustable handle nozzle standard
• Tor-Flex™ heavy-duty axles
• 4-ply tires

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For the experienced professionals, debris clean-up operations sometime require chipper capabilities. We've listened to what experienced professional like yourself need during debris clean-up operations, and we've responded with the all-new Industrial Tow-Behind with Chipper.

Introducing a truck loader with chip capabilities opens up several new and potentially lucrative earning opportunities. From tree pruning and trimming throughout the growing season to storm or disaster clean-up, the Giant-Vac truck loader stands to help generate additional profits.

• Spring-loaded adjustable hose boom w/chain support
• Front swivel-jack w/caster wheel and rear stand
• Fenders, safety chains, stop/tail lights
• Highway ready
• Bolt-in replaceable wear liners in blower housing
• Electric Start (battery and all-weather battery box included)
• Heavy-duty height and length adjustable draw bar w/2' drop-ball hitch standard (easy change to Pintle Hitch)
• 6 gallon wide opening fuel tank
• Adjustable Handle Nozzle Standard
• 4-ply tires with Tor-Flex™ Heavy Duty Axle
• Up to 4' chip capability**
• Two 4 3/8' tooled steel 1/4' thick blades
• 20' Diameter 4 blade 3/8' welded steel impeller with 1/2' thick backing plate
• Four 3/8' Kevlar-reinforced belts driving a 1 7/16' tooled steel rod impeller shaft
• Clearing stake and cropping shear holder included

Handling Big Jobs with Ease

Giant-Vac Pro-Series heavy-duty truck loaders are designed to make quick work of large jobs. Our heavy-duty models come standard with high torque industrial grade engines. Other impressive features include bolt-in replaceable wear liners in the blower housing, large capacity intake hoses, pintle-eye hitches, 90-degree intake flange and Tor-Flex axles with 4-ply tires.With 4-blade,welded steel 1/2' and 3/4' thick impellers these units are powerful enough to make any job routine.

• Tor-Flex™ axles with 4-ply tires (F78x15)
• Adjustable pintle eye hitch
• Spring-loaded adjustable hose
boom w/chain support
• 1/4&quote; replaceable bolt-in wear liners
• 90° intake flanges
• 4-blade welded steel impeller
• Fenders, safety chains, stop/tail lights
• Highway ready
• Turbo Diesel option available

Hitch And Go Flexibility With A 5-Cubic-Yard Capacity

For the operator who needs to be able to hook-up and go, Giant-Vac proudly introduces our new 5 Cubic Yard Self-Contained Gravity Dump. This unit is built for operators that need the flexibility to leave a totally self-contained unit at the job site with quickness and ease.The Self-Contained Gravity Dump comes standard with all of the features of our Industrial Tow-Behind model, but with its own separate 5 cubic yard dump box with barn style doors. The open top helps increase air flow allowing maximum performance of the machine even when the collection box is almost full. The barn style doors assure a tight seal with no leakage. The Tor-Flex axle and 4-ply tires assure smooth towing whether empty or full.

• Adjustable height hitch w/swivel jack (drop ball standard - pintle available)
• Spring-loaded adjustable hose boom with chain support
• 1/4' replaceable bolt-in wear liners
• 4-blade welded steel scalloped impeller
with Taper Lok™ hub
• Fenders, safety chains, stop/tail lights
• Tor-Flex™ heavy-duty 6,000 lbs. axle
• Adjustable handle nozzle standard
• Heavy-duty trailer support frame
• 6 gallon wide opening fuel tank
• Battery and all-weather battery box Included
• Barn-style rear doors w/holding pins for dumping
• Electric trailer brakes

For Large Jobs

Designed after large municipal units, the Giant-Vac self-contained hydraulic dump trailer features a 10 cubic yard debris box for large collection jobs. Heavy-duty features like 12-ply tires, two 6,000 lb. Tor-Flex™ axles and electric brakes assure optimum performance.

Hydraulic dump trailer allows 10 cubic yards of leaves/debris to be collected before leaving the job site for the leaf disposal facility. More time at the job site increases productivity and allows more debris to be collected in less time.

• 10 cubic yard debris box (clam shell style)
• 12' electric brakes
• Markers, stop/tail lights
• Height-adjustable pintle eye hitch
• 10,000 Hitch Class requirements
• Kohler or Wisconsin engine models available

A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move or load materials such as soil, rock, sand, demolition debris, etc. into or onto another type of machinery (such as a dump truck, conveyor belt, feed-hopper, or railroad car).

There are many types of loader, which, depending on design and application, are variously called a bucket loader, front loader, front-end loader, payloader, high lift, scoop, shovel, skip loader, wheel loader, or skid-steer.

Description[edit]

A loader is a type of tractor, usually wheeled, sometimes on tracks, that has a front-mounted wide bucket connected to the end of two booms (arms) to scoop up loose material from the ground, such as dirt, sand or gravel, and move it from one place to another without pushing the material across the ground. A loader is commonly used to move a stockpiled material from ground level and deposit it into an awaiting dump truck or into an open trench excavation.

The loader assembly may be a removable attachment or permanently mounted. Often the bucket can be replaced with other devices or tools—for example, many can mount forks to lift heavy pallets or shipping containers, and a hydraulically opening 'clamshell' bucket allows a loader to act as a light dozer or scraper. The bucket can also be augmented with devices like a bale grappler for handling large bales of hay or straw.

Large loaders, such as the Kawasaki 95ZV-2, John Deere 844K, ACR 700K Compact Wheel Loader, Caterpillar 950H, Volvo L120E, Case 921E, or Hitachi ZW310 usually have only a front bucket and are called front loaders, whereas small loader tractors are often also equipped with a small backhoe and are called backhoe loaders or loader backhoes or JCBs, after the company that first claimed to have invented them. Other companies like CASE in America and Whitlock in the UK had been manufacturing excavator loaders well before JCB.

The largest loader in the world is LeTourneau L-2350. Currently these large loaders are in production in the Longview, Texas facility. The L-2350 uses a diesel-electric propulsion system similar to that used in a locomotive. Each rubber tired wheel is driven by its own independent electric motor.

Loaders are used mainly for loading materials into trucks, laying pipe, clearing rubble, and digging. A loader is not the most efficient machine for digging as it cannot dig very deep below the level of its wheels, like a backhoe or an excavator can. The capacity of a loader bucket can be anywhere from 0.5 to 36 m^3[1] depending upon the size of the machine and its application. The front loader's bucket capacity is generally much bigger than a bucket capacity of a backhoe loader.

Unlike most bulldozers, most loaders are wheeled and not tracked, although track loaders are common. They are successful where sharp-edged materials in construction debris would damage rubber wheels, or where the ground is soft and muddy. Wheels provide better mobility and speed and do not damage pavedroads as much as tracks, but provide less traction.

In construction areas loaders are also used to transport building materials such as bricks, pipe, metal bars, and digging tools over short distances.

Front-loaders are commonly used to remove snow especially from sidewalks, parking lots, and other areas too small for using snowplows and other heavy equipment. They are sometimes used as snowplows with a snowplow attachment but commonly have a bucket or snow basket, which can also be used to load snow into the rear compartment of a snowplow or dump truck.

High-tip buckets are suitable for light materials such as chip, peat and light gravel and when the bucket is emptied from a height.

Unlike backhoes or standard tractors fitted with a front bucket, many large loaders do not use automotive steering mechanisms. Instead, they steer by a hydraulically actuated pivot point set exactly between the front and rear axles. This is referred to as 'articulated steering' and allows the front axle to be solid, allowing it to carry greater weight. Articulated steering provides better maneuverability for a given wheelbase. Since the front wheels and attachment rotate on the same axis, the operator is able to 'steer' his load in an arc after positioning the machine, which can be useful. The tradeoff is that when the machine is 'twisted' to one side and a heavy load is lifted high, it has a greater risk of turning over to the 'wide' side.

Front loaders gained popularity during the last two decades, especially in urban engineering projects and small earthmoving works. Heavy equipment manufacturers offer a wide range of loader sizes and duties.

The term 'loader' is also used in the debris removal field to describe the boom on a grapple truck.

Major components[edit]

The major components included in a loader are the engine (diesel in almost all cases), the hydraulic components (such as pumps, motors and valves) and the transmission components (gearbox, axles, wheels/tracks, pumps, motors, etc.). The engine runs both the hydraulics and the transmission, and these in turn move the front attachment (a bucket, forks, sweeper, etc.) to manipulate the material being handled, and the wheels or tracks to move the machine around the jobsite.

Wheel loaders[edit]

The first wheel loader was invented by Volvo Construction Equipment in 1954, it was called H10.^[2] Back then it was based on a tractor and had a rear wheel drive. Today wheel loaders are articulated and the rear and front wheels are the same dimensions.

Armored wheel loaders[edit]

The IsraeliCombat Engineering Corps uses armored Caterpillar 966 wheel loaders for construction and combat engineering missions in militarily occupied territories such as the West Bank. They are often seen building or removing road blocks and building bases and fortifications. Since 2005, they have also been used to demolish small houses. The Israel Defense Forces added armor plating to the loader to protect it against rocks, stones, molotov cocktails, and light gunfire.

Rio de Janeiro's police elite squad Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE) has acquired one wheel loader designed for military use to open routes and make way for the police in Rio de Janeiro's slums, which are controlled, and blocked, by drugdealers.^[3]

Several if not most countries have similar equipment. The Dutch armed forces for instance use models like the Werklust WG18Edef, which weighs 15 tons, 2 more than the corresponding unarmored civilian model. In addition, the Dutch military previously used extra armor modules covering most of the window surface with steel for extra protection. These were however not popular with the crews due to low visibility.

The Turkish Army and Turkish Police use remote controlled armored wheel loader Tosun during the building of the Syria–Turkey barrier, the Operation Euphrates Shield, Operation Idlib Shield) and Operation Olive Branch.^[4]

Tractor front loaders[edit]

These loaders are a popular addition to tractors from 50 to 200 hp. Its current 'drive-in' form was originally designed and developed in 1958 by a Swedish company named Ålö when they launched their Quicke loader.^[5] Tractor loaders were developed to perform a multitude of farming tasks, and are popular due to their relatively low cost (compared to Telehandler) and high versatility. Tractor loaders can be fitted with many attachments such as hydraulic grabs and spikes to assist with bale and silage handling, forks for pallet work, and buckets for more general farm activities.

Compact front end loaders[edit]

Abram Dietrich Thiessen of Eyebrow Saskatchewan in the 1940s built the first quick attach front end loader. International Harvester's took a picture of the loader and replicated it at the Regina Agribition in November of the same year.

Front-end loaders (FELs) are popular additions to compact utility tractors and farm tractors. Compact utility tractors, also called CUTs, are small tractors, typically with 18 to 50 horsepower (37 kW) and used primarily for grounds maintenance and landscape chores. There are 2 primary designs of compact tractor FELs, the traditional dogleg designed style and the curved arm style.

John Deere manufactures a semi-curved loader design that does not feature the one piece curved arm, but also is not of the traditional two piece design. New Holland introduced a compact loader with a one piece curved arm on its compact utility tractors, similar one piece curved arm loaders are now available on compact tractors on many brands including Case IH/Farmall, and some Montana and Kioti tractors. Kubota markets traditional loader designs on most of its compact tractors but now features a semi-curved loader design similar to the John Deere loader design on several of its small tractors.

While the front-end loaders on CUT size tractors are capable of many tasks, given their relatively small size and low capacities when compared to commercial loaders, the compact loaders can be made more useful with some simple options. A toothbar is commonly added to the front edge of a loader bucket to aid with digging. Some loaders are equipped with a quick coupler, otherwise known as a quick attach(QA) system. The QA system allows the bucket to be removed easily and other tools to be added in its place. Common additions include a set of pallet forks for lifting pallets of goods or a bale spear for lifting hay bales.

LHD (Load, Haul, Dump machine) is also a front end loader but meant to be used for mine compact conditions, can handle various range of loads with varying size of buckets, and can be driven with electric motors as well as diesel engines.

Skid loaders and track loaders[edit]

A skid loader is a small loader utilizing four wheels with hydraulic drive that directs power to either, or both, sides of the vehicle. Very similar in appearance and design is the track loader, which utilizes a continuous track on either side of the vehicle instead of the wheels. Since the expiration of Bobcat's patent on its quick-connect system, newer tractor models are standardizing that popular format for front end attachments.

Swingloaders[edit]

A swingloader is a rigid frame loader with a swinging boom. The boom can swing 180 degrees or more. Swingloaders are primarily used by the railroad industry to lay rail. Like other loaders many attachments can be attached to the boom such as magnets, forks, and buckets. Smaller swingloaders are used in farming applications for loading out. A swinging boom is advantageous where space is limited. The loader is able to lift on all sides and dump off on all sides.

Gallery[edit]

• A Hanomag loader

• DK45 with and without a toothbar on the bucket

• UNIMOG with front loader and excavator attachment (backhoe loader)

• A relatively small front loader

• A loader with a specialized claw used to move logs at a sawmill

• A Caterpillar 930G fitted with a loader rake on a residential construction site in South Florida.

• The front of a Caterpillar 930G fitted with loader rake.

• HEPCO HWL110-2

• Wacker Neuson wheel loaders at a trade fair

• Compact utility tractor with a front loader showing two different measurement points for loader capacities

• Swingmaster Swingloader

• A Liugong ZL50A in Guilin East Railway Station, Guilin, Guangxi, China

• VOLVO L60H Articulated loader

Notable manufacturers[edit]

• Doosan Infracore (formerly Daewoo Heavy Industries & Machinery)—including Solar brand

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Cat - North America - Caterpillar'. www.cat.com.
2. ^'Birth Of The Loading Shovel'. Agriland Media Ltd. 2017-01-21. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
3. ^'Bope recebe veículo para quebrar concreto e derrubar barricadas do tráfico (Bope receives vehicle to break concrete and knock down traffic barricades)'. UOL News (in Portuguese). 12 August 2009.
4. ^'Milli Savunma Sanayi Ürünleri ve Projeleri: TOSUN Zırhlı İş Makinesi' (in Turkish). Milli Savunma. 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
5. ^'Ålö history: From innovation to world-leading position'. Archived from the original on 2011-06-24. Retrieved 2012-05-21.

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