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There are all sorts of special machines built for specific tasks (special purposes).

Fordson Power Major - RFX 814 with Loader and Winch at Belvoir 08 - P5180410

Winch mounted on Fordson Major tractor

Ford Road rail hedge cutter tractor - PA040110

Road-Rail Ford tractor with hedge cutter attachment

Landrover fitted with Road rail conversion - PA040123

Road Rail Land Rover maintenance crew support vehicle

Machine Types[]

Some examples being:

Howard trencher cutting wheel IMG 4061

Details of the cutting wheel and pipe guide on Howard trencher

Fordson Super Major and grab crane-8485

Clamshell bucket loader/crane on a Fordson Super Major

  • Drainage & Trench cutters
  • Pipe lifting Crawlers
  • Pipeline welding support units (early units built out of old crawlers).
  • Dust suppression unit and self propelled Water Bowsers built from old Scraper units
  • Mobile on-site Refuelling units built on old scraper chassis.
  • Early piling & drilling rigs built out of old excavator base units
  • Rock headers for tunnelling
  • Rock millers
  • Winch tractors for powerline erecting works, built by the Auto-Mowers company & heavy duty winches for timber & Forestry works fitted to County & Roadless 4 Wd tractors from firms like Broughton.
  • Peat harvesters
  • Demolition Hi-Reach units most are custom built (up to 90m reach)
  • Long reach excavators for rivers and quarry's
  • Barge mounted Excavators
  • Dock side ship loading/unloading material handlers
  • Road-rail adapted machines: - Excavators, Land Rovers, Tractors and Unimogs for track maintenance works.
  • Timber forwarder / Skidder units. used for pulling timber out of forests to the roadway or in some place the river to go to the processing plant.
  • And a 101 others.

Specialist attachments[]

Crusher-screener bucket - P5140163

A Crusher - screener bucket for recycling

A growing range of specialist attachments is available to fit machines such as excavators, loaders and skid steers.

See Special Purpose Attachments
examples include

See also[]


References[]

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