Anyone out there who drives or operates 8 wheeler twin bin skip loaders ( not roll on roll off type ), they are quite a rare sight on the roads and I have only seen one company being Gibbs scrap metals that runs a quite a few of them. The question im asking is how to they get the skips up the front seeing the arms wont reach, im thinking its easier when unloading to drag them back with the chains but how to they get them to the front in the first place? Have seen a couple of posts in the past about hitting the brakes to make them slide up the bed, surely there must be another way. Ive looked on youtube and cant find any videos of these type of trucks loading any bins and very few pictures of them around either.
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Anyone out there who drives or operates 8 wheeler twin bin skip loaders ( not roll on roll off type ), they are quite a rare sight on the roads and I have only seen one company being Gibbs scrap metals that runs a quite a few of them. The question im asking is how to they get the skips up the front seeing the arms wont reach, im thinking its easier when unloading to drag them back with the chains but how to they get them to the front in the first place? Have seen a couple of posts in the past about hitting the brakes to make them slide up the bed, surely there must be another way. Ive looked on youtube and cant find any videos of these type of trucks loading any bins and very few pictures of them around either.
You mean like this one?
trucks.autotrader.co.uk/used-tru … ab1c303398
They have extending arms to get the skip up front.
I’ve only ever seen them operating on the scrap & I doubt they make more sense than a trailer so they should be quite a rarity !
twin chains either side. load first skip onto enpy bed. when on, unhook chains , back off ram, then attatch foremost chain to foremost lug and pull ram in. skip then moves to forward position.
wildriggs of penrith had some a while back and iv lost the piccies of there 8 wheel F86s in pale blue colour
They look bloody long, must be a bugger to manoeuvre.
I had a very old tired old Scania for a couple of months many moons ago, nothing special about the lift gear it was just a very long skip wagon.
Official way was to put empty up front by loading on then unhooking it, load the full bin and it would push the empty forward. To get them off you’d attach the chains to one end and drag it backwards, then when it was in reach connect all 4 and lift it off. Theoretically a full bin would push another full one.
Unofficial was to load a full bin on the back and unhook it, roar off down the yard and hit the brakes to slide it forward taking care to come off brakes before stopping to slow the skip down and not make it hit the stops. Getting it off was performed by putting the grab hooks up and doing it in reverse.
First time I ever did it was at New Holland in Basildon, I’d just weighed the first bin at the weighbridge and slid it forward whilst going for the second. This was the point I realised that coming to a dead stop was a bad idea as a 12 yd skip of metal turnings weighing about 9t hit the stops with a helluva bang and shot oily swarf over the top of the cab 
The one in the link does have extending arms which would make it a lot easier but the ones I have seen on Gibbs Scrap I think had fixed arms
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The one in the link does have extending arms which would make it a lot easier but the ones I have seen on Gibbs Scrap I think had fixed arms
You is thunking wrong. They all have extending arms.
No extending arms on this one, they always look well loaded, nice trucks though