At a glance
- Fully welded, sealed floors
- Cast Meiller lifting lugs and tipping bar
- Full-depth pressed-channel fork sleeves
- Double-skin Duraflex polyurethane lids
Every new skip we build is made to take years of hard use. Construction is sturdy throughout: a fully welded and sealed floor, a fixed roof section, reinforcement where it matters, a cast Meiller tipping bar, full-depth pressed-channel fork truck sleeves, front protection and Double Skin Duraflex polyurethane lids.
Built to your specification
Below is the full specification for our 8-yard front end loader skip. Options such as drain holes and a deflector plate are available — tell us what you need when you ask for a quote.
8-yard front end loader skip
- Front, rear and side walls
- 3 mm steel plate, fully welded outside and stitch-welded inside
- Floor
- 3 mm steel plate, fully welded inside and out. Four drain holes if required — please specify
- Top rails
- 3 mm pressed steel channel, fully welded and sealed, with a fully welded fixed roof section. Deflector plate optional — please specify
- FEL truck pockets
- 4 mm pressed channel, reinforced with top and bottom gussets
- Side rails and lifting lugs
- 76 mm hot-rolled steel channel, with industry-standard cast Meiller lifting lugs welded through the channel into the sidewall
- Tipping bar
- 32 mm mild steel bar with angle-welded plate supports
- Fork truck sleeves
- Full-depth pressed channel with 3 mm hot-rolled angle welded into front and rear, plus extra gussets to reduce crushing when setting down
- Front protection
- Angle plate welded into the corners to reduce collision damage from FEL truck arms
- Lids
- Industry-standard Shanks green double-skin Duraflex polyurethane, side-hinged, with a hold-open mechanism and locking facility
