Road milling machine
Taking off a thickness of asphalt over a whole width, before resurfacing.
On the edges, around manholes and on small areas, the excavator attachment takes the advantage again.
Other names for this machine: planer, road planer.
- Category
- CACES R.482A category F (special machines)
- Status
- Does not carry interchangeable attachments
What it does
it takes off a measured thickness, and loads the lorry without anything being picked up off the ground.
Diagrammatic silhouette, without dimensions and not to scale.
Removing a thickness of asphalt across a full width before resurfacing.
What it does not do. On the edges, around manholes and on small areas, the excavator attachment takes the advantage again.
the lorry moves with it, it does not wait for it.
Synthetic image.
What decides its use
- The volume and the distance They are what decide whether this machine has a place on the site, or whether another will do the same work for less.
- The room available A machine that cannot manoeuvre does not produce, whatever its capacity.
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The rate of the neighbouring machines
It is rarely calculated and often costs more than the hire:
a machine that waits costs as much as a machine that works. - Transport to the worksite It governs what can actually be sent, and it is settled before everything else.
One model, as a reference point
The values below hold for this model only.
They are there to give an order of magnitude to anyone who has none, not to serve as a reference.
- Milling width
- 1 000 mm
- Maximum depth
- 330 mm
- Operating weight
- 20,000 kg, EC standard
- Maximum power
- 265 kW, that is 360 hp
- Milling speed
- 0 to 3.6 km/h
Caveat. A milling width of 1,000 mm leaves all the edge work, the manholes and the small areas to the equipped excavator.
That is exactly the boundary between the two.
Source. Product page of the manufacturer Wirtgen,
recorded on 1 September 2026.
These values are those of one precise model, at one precise date. They do not describe a category:
there are no characteristics of a compact loader in general, there are those of the model you have.
They change from one year to the next and never replace the data sheet of your machine.
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