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Miniveyor Applications
Miniveyors are regularly used in the following
Applications. There are many more where
Miniveyors have been used on a one-off basis
such as moving a quarter of a million Cricket
balls, which we have not quoted.
ARCHAEOLOGY - moving tons of material without heavy
machinery on site, can damage precious artefacts. Many
used in Japan. Recently used at Chester Amphitheatre, UK
and Chaco Culture National Park, New Mexico.
ARSON / CRIME INVESTIGATION - removal of
volumes of debris after a fire or crime in a controlled
manner. Miniveyor gives the inspecting officers opportunity
to methodically sift material as it passes.
BAGGING PLANTS - Miniveyors are used in bagging
plants, such as bark chipping machines, especially where
they are mobile because they are lightweight.
BACKFILLING - having built a retaining wall, it is
important to backfill with a suitable material to allow
drainage. The reason the retaining wall is put in is usually
to hold up a steep bank, thus access from below is
normally impossible and one cannot risk heavy machinery
on the unsupported upper slope. Often the site dictates
that the only form of mechanical means is via Miniveyor.
BASEMENTS - just lowering the floor of a basement by a
CANALS / RIVERBANKS - natural action of water
against banks causes erosion. Access is often difficult
especially for heavy machinery; compounded by the fact
the bank is frequently unstable. Miniveyor have been used
to deliver appropriate materials to renovate banks, both
along the bank from a suitable loading position, and from
canal barges back onto the bank.
CHURCH BUILDINGS / GRAVEYARDS - if any
refurbishment, maintenance or building work needs to be
carried out in a graveyard or church building, access for
heavy equipment is usually very restricted. At Hereford
Cathedral a vast hole had to be dug in front of the building
to accommodate the Mappe Mundi. As it was consecrated
ground the site was covered and excavated material was
removed by Miniveyor. In London Miniveyor was used on a
mass exhumation of a graveyard prior to redevelopment.
CONCRETE - Miniveyor comes in very useful when such
a dense material needs to be delivered up/down steps,
through a window or doorway where access is difficult.
Field tests have shown that steadily loaded Miniveyors will
out perform a small dumper truck in a restricted access
site (and you do not have to pay for a driver!).
CULVERT CLEANING - often culverts become silted up.
It is important to maintain, and to minimise, potential flood
hazards. Miniveyor with its unique electrical system has
been used effectively to remove tons of silt from culverts.
few centimetres means many tonnes of material has to be
lifted up and out of the area.
DEMOLITION - Miniveyor are frequently used to clear
BLOCK SHIFTING - a building company gutted a
debris from site pre-refurbishment. They are just as
effective at removal as delivery (Grand Hotel - Stockholm).
relatively modern office block in a town centre location.
As part of the refurbishment they needed to move 2,000
concrete blocks to each floor for the new walls.
BOX SHIFTING - packaging factories often have peak
demands (such as Christmas) where a permanent
conveyor line cannot be justified. Miniveyors can be set up
to provide the temporary situation each year, e.g. The Post
Office, Novelty distributors.
BRIDGE CLEANING - repainting bridges requires
shot blasting the old paint and dirt off first by specialist
companies. Environmental factors require that the shot
is collected and recycled. Miniveyors are set up, hanging
under bridges, collecting the shot / beads for recycling.
POTTERIES - craft potteries required tons of clay to be
initially into large mixing vats to produce a well mixed
slurry. Further on in the processed slabs of clay needed
to be moved efficiently around the factory. Miniveyor has
successfully been doing this for the past four years.
FORESTRY – The US Forestry department is using
Miniveyor for forestry management; removing dead trees
from within the forest in a National Park to reduce fire risk.
FOUNDRY SAND - once the mould has been used, it
is broken down and the sand is recycled. Miniveyor is
very effective in moving the sand to the start point in this
restricted environment.
HEIGHT RESTRICTION JOBS - Many cellar/basement
jobs come into this category (covered earlier). However
there are many more such as underpinning motorway
bridges. Civil engineers needed to undermine the road
in order to reinforce it, clearly there was not room for
conventional machinery, though many tons were required
to be moved. Again Miniveyor came into its own.
RAILWAY EMBANKMENTS - again access on railway
embankments is especially restricted, particularly in
urban areas. When maintenance work is required, often
the largest part of the project is moving the materials to
and from site. 3M40C are often used to overcome these
steeply sloped situations.
HOUSE & SCHOOL EXTENSIONS - Miniveyor has been
standards in the Oil industry, large storage tanks have to
be lifted and the sand on which they sit has to be replaced.
It is difficult to raise these heavy tanks far from the ground
and so machine access is virtually impossible. However
Miniveyor has been ideal to move volumes of sand.
used on many occasions to remove soil from the rear of
the original building in order to create a level platform for
the extension. Obviously applications are most common
where houses are terraced or semi-detached.
KILNS - when relining kilns which are long and narrow,
Miniveyor has been used to remove old bricks and to
deliver their replacements.
LANDSCAPING – Due to the small footprint, landscaping
contractors can use Miniveyor to move large amounts of
soil without damaging existing groundwork’s and avoid
expensive replanting. Also the perfect answer to sites
with limited access where excavator and truck access is
impossible.
MINING and QUARRIES - Miniveyor’s portability has
proved extremely helpful for creating inputs onto the main
conveyor line only in mines where light metals and nonfireproof motors are allowed. They have also been used
to clear up underneath the main conveyor line. Miniveyor
is also used behind Face Cutting machines to carry away
spoil. Options include flame retardant belts to ISO340 and
hydraulic motors as well as anti spark coatings.
NOISE - Miniveyor’s are very silent in operation and can
be used at night or in hospital areas, hotels, libraries,
residential homes etc.
PADDLE MIXERS - whilst paddle mixers provide
excellent plaster/cement mixes, they are notoriously
difficult to load. Miniveyor has been successfully used to
overcome this shortcoming of the paddle mixer.
PLANT MAINTENANCE - a large crushing plant requires
new teeth on a regular basis. They have to be fitted
approximately 5 metres from ground level each weighing
20 KGs. The teeth are taken up by two 3M40C’s until the
mechanic lifts the teeth and bolt them into position.
POST DISASTER DEBRIS REMOVAL - Miniveyor is ideal
for removing debris where the situation is weight sensitive.
RAILWAYS - UNDERGROUND - Miniveyors are
regularly used by underground maintenance crews
when they need to move much material quickly. London
Underground specially commissioned wide conveyors to
lift sleepers and buckets of track ballast into their wagons.
REFINERY MAINTENANCE - As part of the rigorous
REFURBISHMENT / REMODELLING - by definition
refurbishment implies that one is dealing with a standing
building which leads to restricted access. Miniveyor is
most often used for this application taking/bringing
materials on/off site in the most efficient manner.
ROOFTOP – Miniveyor is ideal for rooftop landscaping
where weight is restricted. In 2007/2008 Miniveyor was
used on the VCCEP to build a massive rooftop ‘living
garden’ for the 2010 Winter Olympics Media Centre.
SEWERS - Miniveyor can be used when sewers become
silted up. The Miniveyor system is deemed safe to operate
in the sewer environment.
SKIP FILLING - much builders’ rubble ends up in a skip.
Loading by Miniveyor can save up to four times the labour
bill and overcomes safety aspects of taking heavy loads
up steep inclines such as the ramp onto the skip.
SWIMMING POOLS / PONDS - increasingly swimming
pools are being built in smaller spaces. Miniveyor has been
involved in a number of jobs where the digger has had to
be installed by crane then Miniveyor has removed the bulk
of material by the side of the house.
TRENCHING - Miniveyor can be invaluable when digging
trenches in bad access positions especially when working
with ditch digging machines.
TUNNEL WORK - Again tunnel is by definition restricted
access. This can be height and/or width restriction.
UNDERPINNING - Miniveyor is often used in
underpinning jobs which has involved removing several
tons of material that has given rise to subsidence/potential
subsidence, and replacing with suitable building materials
to underpin the building.
UTILITIES / WATER COMPANIES & FILTRATION
PLANTS - Miniveyors have regularly been used to
remove and then replace filter material both in open filter
beds and inside water filter plants.
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