Wood fiber – sawdust – forage – biomass. Ten Damme’s business in writing, right there. The company has a large and interesting fleet of heavy trucks and tractors, such as this 2021 Volvo FH straight truck with a hydraulic hooklift hoist.
VDL (Van der Leegte) supplied the truck’s complete hooklift system. The 375 kW/510 DIN-hp Volvo is rated at a gross weight of 28 tonnes (61,700 lbs), that’s 9 tonnes axle weight on the front axle and 19 tonnes on the tandem.
The whole configuration indicates that the cargo is voluminous rather than heavy (per m³/yd³), otherwise the truck would have had one or two more axles and a VDL hooklift from the manufacturer’s ‘Heavy-Duty’ class for straight trucks with a GVWR over 32 tonnes (70,500 lbs).
The open top container at ground level. Great canteen or motel, during any truck show weekend!
For finding more images of the vehicles I come across, I often turn to the owner’s Facebook page. At least there’s one good reason to ‘consult’ FB.
Hook, lift, and dumper. Splendid photo, by the way!
Of course you don’t need 510 hp to move a 28 tonnes straight truck. But all those horses are very useful when towing a full trailer…
…or a center-axle trailer with another container, filled with wood fiber. Or something similar. Ten Damme’s 20 tonnes, GS Meppel center-axle trailer chassis is essentially a mega variant of a trailer that folks couple to their own four-wheeler, transporting everything you can imagine.
Full trailers, with two but mostly three axles, seriously rule in the roll-off trucking world. Typically, center-axle trailers have a fully enclosed body or a flatbed with curtainsides.
Two containers on the go is not enough? In that case, the only solution is going for an extra long EcoCombi, capable of carrying three of them. Hook, lift, and just pull it off.
Those Volvo FH tractors and trucks are really impressive.
Hurrah, a comment! Thanks Jim.
Nice! I like those hook-lift trucks! Haven’t really seen one, though.
This is a pretty common way to do this in North America:
Yes, the container systems with a tipping, auxiliary frame. The container is pulled on that frame with a central chain or with cables. Simply called ‘chain system’ or ‘cable system’. At least, those are the ones I know of.
And then there are the semi-trailer mounted specialties that can place a silo (with dry cement, for example) straight up….
…or even a 40ft/43ft shipping container (to be filled, from above, with scrap metal or something similar).
That’s pretty interesting. Is the orange rope-like thing a safety?
Jerome, have a look here. Scroll down for a demo-video.
https://van-zandwijk.nl/producten-oplossingen/verticaal-laden/