HD Trucks

Backed by a three-year warranty, the AUSROAD® Horizontal Discharge Unit (HD Series) is designed to deliver asphalt or quarry products. It’s suitable for a variety of maintenance tasks dependant on optionally fitted equipment. It is a premium quality road maintenance machine utilising low-cost materials to produce high quality road repairs.

It’s suitable for large/small pothole patching, heavy maintenance, patch compaction and general maintenance repairs.

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Low maintenance operation
High quality construction, leading to long-life body
Flexible additional equipment to suit individual applications.

AUSROAD® HD SERIES TRUCK

Ausroad Horizontal Discharge Trucks are your no.1 Choice for safe asphalt transportation and application. keeping material centre of gravity low at all times. All units contain emulsion storage for tac coating and feature heated hopper and weatherproof covers the HD series is well suited to your region. A large range of attachments to suit your Road Maintenance requirements, contact Ausroad to discuss your requirements today.

A large number of Local Government also utilise the HD Series for remediating crash seens with sand reducing manual handling and time.

Specifications

Approximately 2.5m³ to 6m³ hopper capacity, able to receive and discharge
- Quarry products up to 75mm in particle size
- Hot mix asphalts
- Cold mix premix asphalts
- 3-14mm aggregate
- 10-40mm crushed base aggregates.
‘Reversing floor’ conveyor system to discharge material to rear of hopper
Controls both in cab and at machine’s rear
Material is discharged horizontally to ground
Shovel bin and other attachments as specified by local council

Emulsion systems

Pressurised emulsion tank (volume to be confirmed upon ordering)
Vessels are built to AS 1210 1997 standards
Fitted with doubling pads and stress relieved to Class 2B requirements for transportable vehicles
All pressurised emulsion tanks have independent safety relief valves and pressure gauges. This is separate from the regulator and gauge that is used to set pressure.
Working pressure is 40 PSI with safety set at 50 PSI
All pressure tanks have non-return valves to eliminate backflow.

Emulsion filling

Filling the emulsion tank is quick and efficient via a two-inch cam lock
All operations can be conducted from ground level
Self-contained equipment can be supplied to allow filling from 210-litre drums
Heating of emulsion can be done either via Inline Heating (from emulsion tank to nozzle) or Overnight Heating (within emulsion tank).

Heating of emulsion

Inline heat exchanger using waste heat from truck cooling systems included.
Overnight 240 V heating of emulsion within the emulsion tank is another heating option standard on all Ausroad^® Units.

Pressurised Water / Kerosene Tanks

Galvanised steel water tank with a minimum capacity 100 litres, 40 litres kero. – Larger tanks are available upon request.

Hopper

Single hopper 2.5m³ to 6m³ hopper capacity.
Hopper 4mm steel walls, 5mm steel plate hopper floor
From the hopper, material is discharged to:
- Rear via horizontal slat chain type conveyor (reversible) to,
- Either direct to ground, into shovel bin at mid-thigh height for ergonomic shoveling, side chute
- Attachments as specified by individual council (or other Ausroad^® optional equipment ie: Aggregate Spreader or Asphalt Paving Unit).

Conveyor Chain SS188 Rivet Chain

Pins – Alloy steel, case-hardened
Bushings – Carbon steel, case-hardened
Sidebars – Carbon steel, heat-treated
Scrapper bars – 50 x 20mm, alloy steel, heat-treated.

Paint (Powder Coating)

Standard ARTIC white or a colour as required.
- The body is sand-blasted to class 2.5
- Under coated zinc, powder primer ‘Corro Zinc’ (epoxy)
- Top coat ‘white’ powder coating, (polyester powder).

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