Metal recycling specialist, Sell & Parker, has developed a specialised hooklift bin trailer based on a Hamelex White J-bin trailer.
Headquartered in the Sydney suburb of Banksmeadow, Sell & Parker, a business established by entrepreneurs Max Sell and Ross Parker, has been transporting and recycling metal since 1966.
Today, Ross’ son and Managing Director, Luke Parker, heads the company while Transport Manager, Phil Baxter, oversees the company’s fleet. Sell & Parker specialises in hauling scrap metal from building and construction sites, industrial projects, rail and defence force contracts before shredding the metal at its plant and redistributing it to steel manufacturers.
In July, Sell & Parker used Hamelex White to create the new trailer.
Sell & Parker’s unit of choice was the Hamelex White dual-axle “J-bin” trailer – a semi-trailer with a specialised hooklift designed to carry and tip Sell & Parker’s various sizes of heavy-duty steel waste bins. Capable of handling bins from 45 to 65 cubic metres on its high-tensile steel chassis, the J-bin trailer is one of the most versatile units in Sell & Parker’s fleet.
“The bins themselves can handle all sorts of material that’s thrown into to them, but the J-bin trailer adds to that versatility by being able to access any site,” said Mr Baxter.
He said one of the biggest aspects of the J-bin hooklift trailer is its lightweight structure, allowing Sell & Parker to maximise the unit’s payload for each run.
“One of the major weight saving designs on the J-bin trailer is that it isn’t detachable from the prime mover and hence does not use landing legs,” he said.
Mr Baxter said it is actually fixed to the prime mover’s ball race turntable, which Hamelex White achieved by transporting one of the company’s prime movers from Sydney to its Melbourne factory during pre-production. The trailer was then fixed to the prime mover prior to delivery.
The resultant weight savings in turn increased capacity. “Regardless of the bin size, our payload in our older models was 18-tonnes,” he said. “However, with this new model we can achieve up to 20 tonnes of capacity, which makes a massive difference over the course of the day.”
For added safety and to preserve the trailer’s components, Hamelex White modified the J-bin’s brake boosters and mudflaps, respectively. “One issue that’s given us plenty of headaches in the past is metal debris falling onto the running gear, which can snap the brake boosters right off when tipping the bin. But in the new trailer, Hamelex White has repositioned the brake boosters so that they tuck up underneath the chassis when the bin is being tipped; that way it’s more protected,” Mr Baxter explains.
“The mudflaps, on the other hand, can now automatically tuck underneath the trailer. In older models, our drivers would have to remove the mudflaps manually before tipping the bin, otherwise if the trailer was in a tipped position, the driver would end up damaging the mudflaps by reversing straight over them.
That’s no longer a concern with the new design. Mudflaps now tuck up automatically when the trailer is tipped, saving time and increasing mudflap life.”
Other features of the J-bin trailer include a hydraulic hooklift used to hoist the bins onto the trailer, with drum brakes and spring suspension for the running gear.
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