Peacock Brothers is involved in earthmoving, site clearance, plant hire, haulage, crushing and screening. As such, its tipper fleet has been specified to carry a variety of arduous payloads from muck and rubble through to demolition spoil, stone and crushed concrete.
The underfloor provides the tippers with stability and safety when working on uneven ground and tipping out difficult loads such as clay and soil.
The key feature of the K110 is its stabiliser arms, located outside of the twin lifting cylinders. The stabiliser arms keep the raised body rigidly inline with the truck chassis, adding protection to the whole vehicle from potentially hazardous sideways pressures, whether those be from uneven ground, sticky loads or high winds.
“Having a built-in stabiliser makes the Harsh underfloor unique,” said company boss Chris Peacock, “it just gives us an extra margin of safety in any operating environment. Compared to any other gear, it’s really in another league. The K110 has been our only tipping gear from even before the 1990’s – that long!”
According to Harsh, the tipping gear on Peacock’s trucks is mounted to the rear of the chassis to give the highest possible tipping angle, which enables heavy, lumpy and sticky loads to drop out of the body quickly and cleanly. The raise / lower sequence is fast too, being powered in both directions, minimising the time the body is in the air.
The K110’s twin ram configuration is expected to simplify routine maintenance. If a worker needs to change a seal, the empty body can be raised on one ram, and be propped, with the required work then being carried out on the opposite cylinder.
“But best of all is the Harsh underfloor’s exceptional reliability and durability” said Chris’s son Robert, who plans the daily workload. “Our tippers get a hard life, and they need to be ready for work each and every day. With their Harsh gears these new Ivecos look ideal for our job, and we’ve given them our standard – fit Townend steel bodies as well. The result looks like an ideal heavy duty tipper specification, and they are already well liked by their drivers.”
