bennes fixes à fond mouvant
English translation: skips with moving floors
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skips with moving floors Explanation: This FRENCH manufacturer calls it "moving floor" (for trucks) : http://www.legras.fr/index.php?id=100 http://www.legras.fr/index.php?id=100 Looking at this site again, I wonder if "benne" is a "camion-benne" rather than a skip as I have suggested previously. Here, though, it has to be a skip since it is "fixe": maybe it just means the waste is "walked out" of the skip (onto what?) when the end doors are opened rather than having to be raked or tipped out. How "fixe" is "fixe"? Are these things never moved, or are that sat in a given location until full, then removed to the waste centre and emptied? Having a "moving floor" for a truck that discharges through a door at the rear – as opposed to a skip that can be lifted and up-ended – would make sense. Semi-remorque à fond mouvant alternatif pour le transport des déchets http://www.legras.fr/index.php?id=230 Moving Floor Trailers Hauling Waste. A. Drive Mechanism: The hydraulic cylinder ... I. Wet Kit: a hydraulic pump, driven off a PTO mounted on the truck ... www.keithwalkingfloor.com/documents/manuals/BscMncplSpecs.p... Moving-floor technology in the trailer industry is becoming increasingly popular ... The three-axle trailer, which was designed and built by SA Truck Bodies ... www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=71888 The trailer has a hydraulic floor that walks the waste product off the trailer like a conveyor. The moving floor pushes 34000kg out the back in about 25 ... www.hankstruckpictures.com/glen_gowland.htm -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-25 12:50:26 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Check out the "shallow pit moving floor" at this site: http://www.wme.com.au/insidewaste/downloads/Iss.8 Aug.Sep05 ... Haven't read it in detail, but it appears to be an emplacement where people dump their waste, as in a French "centre de tri", only instead of having replacable skips the "pit" removes the waste to a remote location by means of its moving floor. This means there is no machinery at the locations where people like you and me are dumping their rubbish, so less danger. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 30 days (2008-03-26 16:11:36 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- Once again I find justification in time spent on Kudoz answering questions I did not hitherto know the answer to: a month on from this question, work of my own has "bennes à fond mouvant" delivering waste to a recycling plant! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 30 days (2008-03-26 16:13:43 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- Looking at the question again, maybe the "bennes" are indeed truck bodies, being "fixes" in that they are not tippable - and don't need to be since the moving floor will "walk" the contents out. |
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