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Why the HYDREMA City Excavator is a highly efficient work tool
HYDREMA – machines are known for their versatility. The Danish-German manufacturer wants to highlight why it is so important for the building contractor to invest in a particularly efficient machine and presented the year 2024 under the motto <> HYDREMA Sales Manager Martin Werthenbach explains what this means: “The contractor usually has to deal with very different tasks on the construction site. The trench in a narrow construction site has to be opened with the smallest possible machine. And if there is very heavy material in the ground, larger machines have to be used. It is not uncommon, however, that digging deeper than 4m has to be done in narrow areas and the excavated material then has to be loaded onto a truck. Even this description of possible tasks shows how important it is to have compact machines that can reach deep and lift heavy objects. Then material has to be moved on pallets, or sheet piles have to be driven into the ground for safety. Finally, compaction has to be carried out and the construction site area has to be swept clean,” says Werthenbach, outlining the variety of tasks that exist on construction sites.
So how many machines do you want to drive to a construction site to do all these different jobs? There are even more jobs that can be done: hammering, breaking and sorting, mixing concrete or mulching green areas, mowing or even clearing, or using an attached suction box to clear an area in a very targeted manner are by no means all the tasks that could be described. The task of placing a pallet precisely behind a fence, hedge or road barrier alone can be a much greater challenge for many other machines and devices than it is, according to Werthenbach, for a properly equipped mobile excavator that can place the pallet over the obstacle with its arm. And Werthenbach emphasizes another aspect: “Not only do I need a parking space on the construction site for the different machines assigned to the individual tasks, but the transport of each individual machine to the site will also represent a significant factor in the calculation for the job to be done with the increasing transport costs. The pure machine costs have not even been taken into account.”
The solution from a Danish-German perspective – HYDREMA is a Danish company with production in Denmark and Germany – is not a Swiss Army knife, where one or the other tool also represents a compromise solution. Werthenbach explains it like this: “The equipment carrier concept is not an unknown idea and has long been established in the field of multifunctional municipal vehicles, for example. In the field of construction machinery, however, the idea is often not well thought through. The backhoe loader did exist very early in the 1960ies, but this machine, as built by most manufacturers, is more like a Swiss Army knife and has been replaced as a compromise solution in many parts of Europe by compact wheel loaders and compact mini excavators. Not so with the HYDREMA backhoe loader, which is more like a large 1.4cbm or a larger 1.6cbm loader and a 10 tonne mobile excavator in terms of size.
The Danish building contractor loves this combination, which cannot be replaced economically by comparable loaders and excavators.” And Werthenbach goes on to explain the HYDREMA city excavator: “When our engineers redesigned the short-tail mobile excavator for the German market, it was clear that this machine also had to be uncompromising. The result was a city excavator whose balanced design with components equipped with enormous engine and hydraulic power fundamentally took the tool carrier into account when using tiltrotators. And so the HYDREMA city excavator is not a compromise in its functions, but the ultimate construction machine workhorse, i.e. a tool carrier that is ideal like no other for the most diverse tasks on a construction site. It rotates in the area where a 5-ton crawler excavator could only rotate, it has enormous lifting power, so that even as a 15-ton machine it can lift an 8-ton weight out of the hole, despite its compact dimensions it has a reach that others can only achieve with difficulty – if at all, and with a total output of 407 liters per minute it has as much hydraulic power as only the very large machines in the competition have.”
Since HYDREMA’s idea is to solve as many tasks on the construction site as possible with one machine, HYDREMA is happy to provide several tools during demonstrations: “With the idea of one efficient machine for many tasks, we always like to offer our customers several attachments to test during demonstrations,” explains the sales manager. “We have attachment compactors for the OQTR, i.e. the high-flow tiltrotator from OilQuick, and in cooperation with Terra Infrastructure also a MÜLLER attachment vibratory hammer. In any case, we are always happy to offer our ENGCON tiltrotators with pallet forks for the demonstration. We want to show the full range of possible applications at every demonstration. The customer should experience what it means when we talk about uncompromising work on the construction site.” The possibilities are obviously limitless and therefore the following applies to HYDREMA customers:
“It is not the large number of machines on the construction site that is the key to profit, but the one efficient machine on the construction site that ensures profit for the company!”
Source: HYDREMA Press