Sidewinder does its level best

Bedfordshire-based Relay Roads, which has been using its Sidewinder offset placing machines on contracts throughout the UK for the last four years, is currently using the machine on the A19 Peterfee contract.

The contract involves two Sidewinders placing and grading granular materials and Asphalt to the required levels. Outputs of materials placed and graded have gone as high as 1,600t in nine hours, but practical quantities are claimed to average around 600 - 800t per day.

The Sidewinder is designed to place and grade material from 175mm wide to 3 metres wide and from 200mm above road level to 750mm below road level.

Suitable for road widening, french drain reinstatement and central reservation hardening, the machine is also used for the profiling of 'V's and crowns to central reserves and verges.

A 'V' formed compactor is used to preserve 'V's formed by the Sidewinder. A variable blade can be adjusted to create whatever angle or crown is required.

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