Power barrow
The site dumper:
taking the spoil out of a trench or a small area.
Where the lorry cannot get in, it is either this or the barrow.
Other names for this machine: site dumper, tipping dumper, 'the dumper'.
- Category
- CACES R.482A category A or E depending on the useful capacity - criterion revised in 2025
- Status
- Does not carry interchangeable attachments
What it does
the skip is in front, not behind — on a narrow site, it does not have to reverse to tip.
Diagrammatic silhouette, without dimensions and not to scale.
Removing spoil from a trench or a small footprint, where a lorry cannot get in.
What it does not do. Small capacity, no road use.
It is a machine for a short shuttle.
where a lorry will not go, it still goes.
Synthetic image.
that is what sets it apart from a plain trailer.
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.
- Payload
- 6 000 kg
- Struck skip
- 2,700 l front-tipping, 2,350 l swivel-tipping
- Heaped skip
- 3,600 l front-tipping, 3,150 l swivel-tipping
- Operating weight
- 4,217 kg front-tipping, 4,457 kg swivel-tipping
- Engine power
- 44.5 kW as standard, 55.4 kW optional
- Overall width
- 2 230 mm
Caveat. The overall width of 2,230 mm is the real constraint:
it is what says whether the machine gets into the area, not its payload.
Source. Technical data sheet of the manufacturer Wacker Neuson,
document of 4 December 2021, 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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