William Adams – 982M Aggregate Package Increases Productivity
The 982M Aggregate Package has been specifically designed to reduce passes when loading trucks in a sales yard application. Equipped with the 7 cubic metre Performance Series bucket and Caterpillar Payload Management System (CPM) that is exactly what it achieved in a recent site demonstration.
With the Melbourne concrete market seeing record volumes in recent times this has also increased the requirement for sand from the Mountain View Quarry at Nyora. With the large number of 6 Axle trailers being used to haul sand in and around the Melbourne Metro area there was a need to try and reduce loading cycles.
Currently using 980 size machines with 5.5 cubic metre buckets the average pass match to load one of these trucks was six.
By utilising the 982M and the larger 7.0 cubic metre Performance Series bucket and the new M Series (CPM) System we could reduce this to four buckets in total for a forty eight tonne payload.
Significantly reducing the passes per truck and utilising the ‘Tip Off’ Feature of CPM will ultimately reduce loading time substantially, add to this the Fuel efficiency of the new 982M, tonnes per litre (productivity) will be vastly improved.
Barro Group’s recently appointed Operations Manager for Victoria, Craig Banthorpe told Plus his expectations were exceeded. “I was hoping to save one pass on the trailer but have also saved a pass on the truck given the bucket holds thirteen tonne of sand. The old loader took a little over five minutes to load the combination with the new one doing it in a little over four minutes. Once the operator becomes familiar with the 982M I expect this to improve even more. The CPM system will require a change of thinking for operators in that they can pick up full buckets and just tip off what is required with the last pass”.
Barro Group Director, Peter Barro, told Plus “that after observing the machine in operation, and then spending a few minutes with the operator, he had no hesitation whatsoever in recommending the purchase of the new Cat 982M to his board”.
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