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Alpin Underground Mining Equipment

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Bitis from Alpin introduces their specialized underground mining equipment, focusing on a compact skid steer and a mini-loader/dumper. She explains that their equipment is designed for underground mining, where narrow conditions require maneuverability. The showcased skid steer has a low height (1.5 meters or ~5 feet) for tight spaces. The mini-loader/dumper is highlighted for its unique sideways operator seating, allowing the operator to always face the direction of travel without needing to turn the vehicle, which is crucial in narrow underground tunnels. It's fully hydraulic, has no electronic components, ensuring reliability in harsh mining environments, and carries 1.2 metric tons (approx. 2,646 pounds).

Goal: Introduce specialized compact equipment for underground mining.

Tools and materials

  • Alpin Mini-Loader/Dumper — Transporting and dumping materials in underground mining, designed for narrow spaces and bidirectional operation
  • Alpin Underground Skid Steer Alpin — Loading and moving materials in confined underground mining spaces

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the con Expo this year is crazy what's the name of your company what's your name nice to meet you nice to meet you I'm Stan you guys specialize in mining equipment Underground underground my knees and that's what it [Music] is like this size issue well yeah look at you if you're not that tall and this is shorter than you are yes exactly that is officially designed for these jobs if you have any height problem you cannot find anything like that what's the height that this will dump do you know the tip height like up to three meter it goes down it goes up to three meters and then you also so do you specialize in manufacturing mining equipment exactly this is the dumper one dump truck okay uh it works exactly like skid loaders it can turn around itself like 360 degrees and everything just hydraulic there's no electronic components so okay it's very very good for underground mining reliable exactly yeah yeah very easy to try just to enjoy but if your underground isn't those fumes part of the problem you know you're asphyxiating yourself yeah there's no problem about that because it's over the arm and it starts working but that doesn't look like a mining skid loader this is just regular just a regular skid loader wait a minute say that again okay you operator sits here slideways sideways and you know that the underground conditions are very narrow so maybe you may not have a place to turn around yeah so it's very easy that just forward them backwards you can just go like that and with that at the back so you don't need to turn the vehicle oh so you're saying you don't turn the vehicle you're you're always sitting sideways yes very specialized piece of equipment and it carries 1.2 tons 1.2 ton kilograms okay uh what else I can't say we we have every safety issue like the cabin is very durable so Forbes ropes certificates or whatever they have seen certificates I already have yep very good all right thank you

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