By trade

Local authorities and roads

A technical department does not do one trade:
it does them all, with one machine and one budget. The right question is not which tool to buy, but how many tools a single machine can carry in the year.

This trade also covers: municipal technical departments, joint authorities, road maintenance boards, direct labour organisations, winter maintenance, maintenance of public spaces, differentiated management.

The essentials

Common classes: 2 to 10 t
Use: All year round, varied
Constraint no. 1: The budget and the calendar
Auxiliary line: Essential

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01 The trade

What this trade demands of the tooling

The same worker, the same machine and the same week:
resetting a sunken kerb, cleaning out a ditch, weeding a gutter, trimming a hedge, and at the first frost clearing snow from the accesses. No private firm has a range as wide.

Two constraints peculiar to the public sector, and they weigh heavily. The capital budget is voted once:
what is not bought this year will not be before the next — the coupler and the hydraulic lines must therefore be planned for the tools to come, not only for those of today.
And the calendar is set by the season, not by the programme.

Mini-excavator opening a trench in a village street, setts taken up and stacked to one side, barriers and cones, one lane left clear — The setts are stacked, not carted away:
they will be relaid.
Barriers, cones, one lane left clear. **A council job is judged on the reinstatement and on the disruption**, not on the cubic metre.
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A mini-excavator opens up the street, the paving stones wait alongside.
A single machine, and every trade of a technical department.
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02 The tools

The tools that matter, season by season

Weed control without chemicals The weed-control brush tears the vegetation out of the joints and the gutters.
Where chemical weed control is not an option in a public space, mechanical is what remains — and the brush is what treats a length of kerb fastest.
Roads The kerb grab lays and relays without a worker carrying anything.
The asphalt disc opens cleanly, the vibrating plate closes it up again.
Green spaces The rotary mulcher for banks and verges, the saw trimmer for rows of trees you want to keep, the pruning saw and the shears for clearing the road envelope.
Winter The snow blade for the accesses the lorry cannot reach — school yards, car parks, fire brigade accesses — and thespreader to treat in the same pass.
The ditch and the service Ditching bucket, trapezoidal bucket, trencher for a lighting duct.

A single machine can carry all of this — on one condition. That it has the hydraulic lines and the coupler the tools you will buy in three years call for. It is the most structuring decision of a technical department, and it is taken when the machine is bought, not when the tool is bought.

03 Check

What is checked before fitting out

The number of auxiliary lines, and those to be provided for Not only for this year's tool. See the 7 criteria.
Consistency of coupler with the existing fleet A technical department often owns several machines.
One and the same coupler family lets the tools be shared between them.
The surfaces to be treated Old setts, asphalt, exposed-aggregate concrete:
that governs the brush and the wear strip.
A brush that is too aggressive causes lasting damage, and the damage shows.
What the public contract imposes The documents of a contract often describe performance requirements that designate the tool.
We can help you translate a requirement into a characteristic — without ever writing a specification that would favour one make.

Have your fleet checked.

Give us your machines and the list of the work your department carries out in the year, including what you put out to contract.
We will tell you what fits on what you already have, and what would call for a change of machine.

Written study within 3 working days, complete file.

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Other trades

By machine

Understanding

By trade

The same tool is not chosen in the same way depending on who fits it, and on what is around it.

The 12 trades

Agriculture Drainage, ditches, hedges, land clearing, handling.
Pipelayer and services Opening narrow, laying heavy, closing clean.
Quarries and rock Blasting out, picking up, loading a material that wears everything.
Local authorities and roads You are here. Roads, green spaces, winter maintenance, weed control.
Demolition and recycling Bringing down, separating the materials, crushing on the spot.
Railways The tool is the simple part; access to the track is not.
Special foundations Driving, boring, supporting — before anything comes out of the ground.
Forestry and silviculture Mulching, felling, extracting, stump grinding, restoring.
Hire companies A tool that goes on several machines earns; a dedicated tool sleeps.
Landscaper Getting in without damage, working the soil, maintaining.
Recycling and waste Sorting, gripping, separating, recovering on the spot.
Civil engineering and roads Opening, laying, closing, and giving the road back in good order.

Tell us what you want to do.

Your machine, your worksite, your coupler if you know it.
We tell you what fits on it — and what does not.

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