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Specialized AR450 Hardox Dump Body

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The video presents a specialized AR450 Hardox bucket dump body, unique to Hilltip. This innovative design allows the body to remain down while material is fed consistently to a front driver-side discharge conveyor. This setup eliminates the need to raise the dump body during spreading, enhancing safety by preventing contact with overhead structures like bridge abutments and improving traction in challenging terrain like hills or steep slopes. This design focuses on gaining traction by distributing weight over the axles. This body combines Hilltip's expertise in both spreader and dump body manufacturing.

Goal: Showcase Hilltip's unique dump body design

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  • AR450 Hardox Bucket Dump Body Hilltip
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main difference between these two units. >> Correct. All right, Craig. My understanding is this is something that is a very specialized body that Hiltep produces that nobody else makes anything like this. Is that right? Absolutely. So, if you basically took the best of who we are as a spreader manufacturer, the best of who we are as a dump body manufacturer and combine those two, you would come up with this product. But why are we looking at this odd looking dump bed here? What is What are we looking at with that, Craig? Great question. So, this is an AR 450 Hardox bucket that will with two cylinders on the side lift lifts material onto a live conveyor chain with front driver side discharge. So, the benefit of this design is that the dump body can be down and that the body the internal work into the body feeding material to the conveyor consistently. So, you can run down the road without the body in the air, eliminating the risk of any any accidents contacting bridge abutments or uh things like that. >> body can be down, you're still feeding material, you're feeding it over your axles, so now you're gaining traction. So, I'm guessing for specifically ideal for hilly terrain, steep slopes, things like that where if you're rear discharging it, the truck has none of the benefit of the traction, but if you're putting it over the in front of the axles, now the truck is able to actually gain traction. >> Absolutely. And the other benefit, as it sits, is where this is positioned, especially especially in rural routes, the driver is on the center line. So, as he's spreading, he's hitting both of those lanes. All right, a couple

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