Rock Machinery 37 ton box wedge splitter

[polish pete]

 Hi everyone, 

 Rock Machinery have this new splitter that looks like a copy of Eastonmade.  Box wedge seems to be a pretty efficient setup combined with a conveyor belt. 

 It's not the cheapest and the splitter is not legally road towable. 

 My questions: how hard would it be to make it road legal? Are there any other brands in UK making something similar?

  Cheers

 

Peter

[AHPP]

Push it onto a flatbed trailer with a loader/digger (take that too). Use the flatbed as an infeed/outfeed table, loaded by the machine. Or leave the splitter up on the flatbed to gain some outfeed height.

[Steven P]

Do you know why it wouldn't be road legal?

[openspaceman]

Trailers need type approval nowadays or individual vehicle checks and I doubt this one is even CE marked being a chinky knock off. Nothing to stop you getting an iva

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[polish pete]

4 hours ago, Steven P said:

Do you know why it wouldn't be road legal?

I contacted Rock Machinery and that's what they told me- it has Indespension units but it's not road towable.

[polish pete]

4 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Trailers need type approval nowadays or individual vehicle checks and I doubt this one is even CE marked being a chinky knock off. Nothing to stop you getting an iva

Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA): trailers - GOV.UK

WWW.GOV.UK

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Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single trailer, or a very small number of trailers.

 

 

 

Which probably is a hassle if they sell it without approval. 

 Is it a more substantial axle, tow hitch?

[polish pete]

6 hours ago, AHPP said:

Push it onto a flatbed trailer with a loader/digger (take that too). Use the flatbed as an infeed/outfeed table, loaded by the machine. Or leave the splitter up on the flatbed to gain some outfeed height.

That's Plan B. But it would save extra fuel if I could tow one thing.

 Eastonmade would be the choice. But the price...

[openspaceman]

35 minutes ago, polish pete said:

Which probably is a hassle if they sell it without approval. 

 Is it a more substantial axle, tow hitch?

I don't know but @Justme was the expert on trailers, I don't think he reads this forum now.

[openspaceman]

37 minutes ago, polish pete said:

That's Plan B. But it would save extra fuel if I could tow one thing.

 Eastonmade would be the choice. But the price...

@Billhook made his own with videos.

 

I would like to see one dealing with a big beech or oak fork

Edited Wednesday at 20:09 by openspaceman
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[dan blocker]

Mount it on a heavy duty, type approved motorbike trailer🤔