trailer world issue One 2010

Issue One 2010 27 Reportage Photo:Zappner Four huge wheels plough easily through the damp, clingy soil, the 203 hp engine purrs with joy and moves the six and a half tons of its load with up to 40 km/h: a tractor has re- ally got what it takes! As recently discovered by the building trade. With increasing frequency, these strong vehicles work away from the farm: for example, just now they‘re to be found on one of Eu- rope‘s largest building sites, the Airport Berlin Brandenburg International in Schönefeld to the South of Berlin. “JD 7530 Premium” by the American ag- ricultural machinery specialist John Deere is involved in excavation work on this par- ticular building site – combined with a tip- per unit by Kröger Nutzfahrzeuge or Krampe Fahrzeugbau, which carries up to 25 tons with its BPW axles. The family company HKL Bau- maschinen from Hamburg added the green vehicle with the deer logo to its fleet about two years ago and hires it out for use among others on the airport building site. “Before this, we didn‘t have any vehicles in our pro- gramme that were capable of moving larger masses”, says Friedrich Schneider, manager of the nearest HKL branch in Königs Wuster- hausen. “We were looking for a practical and flexible solution, and came up with the idea of using tractors and tipper units. This has filled in a service gap and customers no longer need to turn to an additional transport company.” The trac- tors have clear advantages over dumpers or trucks: they use less fuel – only about eight litres – while achieving more. “They can pull really heavy loads”, summarises Friedrich Schneider. The tractors are also allowed to travel on the open roads – a special advantage at BBI where the vehicles have no problems in travelling to the nearest gravel pit outside the site premises. There‘s still plenty for the powerful ma- chines to do on the huge building site. Work on the largest infrastructure project in Ger- many‘s new federal states began in 2006. The official opening of the Airport Berlin Brandenburg International BBI is planned for 30 October 2011, when it will be called Airport Berlin Brandenburg “Willy Brandt”. At the same time – in fact on the evening before – Berlin‘s Tegel airport at the other end of the city will be closed. Schönefeld will »They can pull really heavy loads« The tipper trough takes up to 25 tons of load and is pulled by a tractor at full power. At the building site for the Airport Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI), Agroliners help with the earthworks. These are convincing machines when it comes to power, speed and flexibility Tractors on the building site

trailer world issue One 2010

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