Asphalt planer
it goes where the road planer does not.
Synthetic image.
The same pick drum, applied to a road surface.
It takes off a thickness of asphalt and leaves a regular base:
it is the tool for the patches that a road planer cannot reach.
Other names for this tool: hydraulic planer, planing cutter, excavator-mounted planer, asphalt stripper.
- Family
- Cutting and milling
- Classes (t)
- All
- Coupler
- All, by plate
- Power source
- Hydraulic, continuous function — flow and pressure: we calculate it with you for your machine
What it is for
Right: the self-propelled road planer works in a straight line on a wide carriageway.
What sets it apart:
the same pick drum, but carried by an arm that goes everywhere.
Computer-generated image.
A self-propelled road planer is a machine, not an attachment:
it is made for large surfaces and for advancing in a line.
It goes neither into a yard, nor against a manhole, nor under a low structure, nor onto a pavement.
The planer on an excavator takes exactly that work:
a localised repair, a joint, the surround of a manhole cover, a vehicle entrance, a strip along a kerb.
The machine that planes is then the one that loads the spoil.
Clean planing often begins with a cut. If the repair is to have clean edges, the outline is cut with a disc before planing the inside — otherwise the edges chip and the reinstatement will lift there.
They are two tools that follow one another, not two ways of doing the same thing. See the asphalt disc.
On which machine?
The planer fits all couplers, via a mounting plate.
The recommended machine class: we calculate it with you for your machine.
What the tool does
This planer is used for milling asphalt.
There is a standard version and a high-power version.
The drum width, its power, its torque and the tool weight: we calculate them with you for your machine.
What is needed on the hydraulic side
It needs a hydraulic circuit with continuous function.
The flow and the maximum pressure: we calculate them with you for your machine.
Your study sets the exact value for your machine.
Don't have these figures?
A photo of the machine is enough to start.
Have your machine checked.
Tell us the area to be repaired, the thickness aimed at and what you know of the carriageway structure.
Say whether the job is on a road in use:
the time of occupation changes the answer.
- Your machine Its make and its tonnage.
- The auxiliary circuit Its flow in l/min, its pressure in bar, single- or double-acting.
- The coupler in place Its system and its class.
- The work The use, and the material.
Without these details, the study still begins: we will ask you for them.
Or call 01 84 16 55 49 · our lines are open 7 days a week, from 7h to 22h.
Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.
What determines the choice
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01 — The thickness to be removed
The wearing course alone, or a deeper structure?
That decides the tool and the number of passes. - 02 — The area and its shape A straight strip, the surround of a manhole and a yard are not planed with the same tool width.
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03 — The picks and their replacement
Asphalt is abrasive, and asphalt with hard chippings in it is more so.
The real cost of the day is in the picks. -
04 — The flow available, continuously
The drum slows down as soon as the pass is too thick:
it then rubs instead of cutting, and it wears without advancing.
What is checked before ordering
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The real structure of the carriageway
The thicknesses and nature of the layers.
It is information that is obtained beforehand, not at the moment of planing. -
The dust and the neighbours
Dry planing produces a great deal of it, and in a town it shows at once.
Watering assumes a water supply and management of the slurry:
we publish no threshold, that is settled with the client. -
What becomes of the millings
They are loaded, stockpiled and sometimes reused.
That item weighs more than the price of the tool on an urban repair. - The interface Coupler designation or pin dimensions.
- Family
- Cutting and milling
- Compatibility
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