Cost and work safety

Each person can do the job where he adds the most value

Having the banksman doing heavy and maybe even dangerous tasks is not the best usage of the resources, especially if those jobs can be done directly by the excavator operator. Then you can let the banksman work with the things were he is really needed.

This is a well known fact for those already working with a tiltrotator.

Instead of writing down what we know lets instead look at what a new user really experience.

From Earthmovers Magazine April 2011- Rotating Groundworks

“There is often a direct relationship between the contractor’s attitude to costs and site safety. Enlightened contractors realise that mechanising more of the work on site will not only result in cost savings, but will also remove labourers from the risky environment of working in trenches close to an excavator.”

“I can happily sit in one spot and dig out two runs of footings at 90-degree angles to each other. We used to get a man to jump into the dig to clean out any spoil from where two footings join each other. All I do now is rotate the bucket and clean it out myself. It makes the job quicker and safer” Brian Blair , Friel Construction

“Anotyer area that the Steelwrist has been saving money is the positioning of beam and block floor systems. Swap the bucket for a pallet fork attachment and the excavator can then lift packs of concrete beams into position.

Once the beams are in place forks are used to lift packs of the infill concrete blocks. This ability allows the site’s telehandler to focus on other jobs and generally reduces the amount of manual handling that the site laborers need to perform.”

“We would not have been able to this job so cleanly and tidily without the Steelwrist. Brian was able to position the machine and dig to the required 3m depth and still produce a totally square hole. It is the ability to undertake such demanding taske as these that will possibly see another coupler of units join the fleet in the next 12 months.”

Bill Friel, MD, Friel Construction