Micropack
- Designed especially to be compatible with chassis up to 4.2 tonnes GVW
- Body lengths up to 3.5 metres
- Hinged, side loading doors both sides for easy access
- Manual loading or hydraulic bin lift operation without restriction
- Designed for the maximum safety of operatives
- Unique LinkTip design
- Designed and built in the U.K.
- High Lift option for load ejection to RCV’s and skips
Developed from the successful range of LinkTip non-compaction side loading refuse collectors the ‘Micropack’ compaction body offers the ideal solution to many of today’s environmental problems whilst being simple, rugged and easy to use. The all steel construction of the Micropack design has many of the advantages of more complex rear end loading RCV’s without the expensive and perhaps unnecessary sophistication. The body design is both lightweight and robust featuring a clean discharge floor profile with swaged side panels and roof. Hinged loading doors are available on both sides allowing both manual and mechanical loading.
Internally the Micropack is fitted with a dual purpose hydraulically operated, compaction and ejection plate. This works in the same way as the ejector plate system on larger FEL units, the load being compressed towards the rear tailgate to leave a clear space by the loading doors. To ensure crew safety. built-in safety systems ensure that the ejector/compactor plate cannot be operated while the side loading doors are open. In addition, to comply with recent legislation, all control systems are of fail-safe design. ‘Auto rev’ and ‘Autocycle’ operation are standard features maximising operational resources. For many operational applications the Micropack RCV’ can be used by just one operative thanks to user friendly controls. The unit features a one piece, hydraulically operated, swing up tailgate and uses the ejector plate for rapid load discharge.
The ‘Micropack’ is also available with a highly versatile ‘rear lift’ system – enabling the unit to discharge cleanly at landfill or transfer sites, into a range of skips and bulk containers, or directly over the rave of a larger two, three or four axle RCV. The large loading aperture of the Micropack unit makes it ideally suited for plastic wheeled bin collections. LinkTip have already produced a number of such units featuring a unique, LinkTip designed, body mounted ‘Slimlift’ hydraulically operated bin lift system. The ‘Slimlift’ equipment in no way obstructs the loaders when not in use, or causes obstruction to other road users, being designed within the normal width of the vehicle. All types of plastic wheeled bins up to 360 litres capacity can be operated, and the bin lift system is both quick and easy to use, while being quiet in operation.
If required larger roof loading bin lifts can be specified – keeping side loading doors for manual loading, enabling maximum compaction potential. The LinkTip ‘Micropack-RCV’ is particularly suited to collection from town centre pedestrianised zones and ‘shopping malls’ where larger conventional RCV units cannot easily access. The compact body design allows the vehicle to be driven info such areas where it has proven to be far more ‘customer friendly’ than conventional larger RCV’s when working in busy shopping streets. The reduced size and weight also reduce the risk of costly damage to the ‘block paving’ areas used in many such locations. The design of the Micropack’ lends itself to easy cost-effective adaptation to dual or split loading compartments for recycling programmes and LinkTip are able to discuss these and other modifications to suit individual customer requirements.
