CAMBBA trials kerbing system
A-Plant is supplying two Jumbo BV Kerb Lifters to CAMBBA, the
consortium building the Birmingham Northern Relief Road, for
trials.
The vacuum kerb lifters are being used for health and safety
implication and for their capability of laying up to 300m of
kerbstones per day.
Supplied via Kwik Split, these machines take most of the weight of
lifting kerbstone up to 150kg in weight, allowing the operator to
easily position the kerbstone without manual handling. The vacuum
is generated via a Honda petrol engine and the machine has a
4m-long swinging mast that can swivel through 270û for
positioning of the kerbstone.
It can be mounted on any wheeled machine that has forks (to which
it is clamped) and is equipped with its own forks to carry a pallet
of blocks.
The machine makes laying kerbstones a one-man operation and its
foam seal is said to be long lasting and allows blocks that do not
have a smooth surface to be lifted in safety.