Wednesday 10 December 2014

Soil Compactor (Engineering Vehicle)

Compactors are machines frequently used to compact materials such as soil in order to increase its density for construction. In addition, compactors are utilized in landfill tasks.



Normally powered by hydraulics, compactors take many shapes and sizes. In landfill sites for example, a large bulldozer with spiked wheels called a landfill compactor is used to drive over waste deposited by waste collection vehicles (WCVs).
WCVs themselves incorporate a compacting mechanism which is used to increase the payload of the vehicle and reduce the number of times it has to empty. This usually takes the form of hydraulically powered sliding plates which sweep out the collection hopper and compress the material into what has already been loaded.

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