Rising functional and technological efficiency of a log truck hydraulic manipulator

Abstract

Rising functional and technological efficiency of a log truck hydraulic manipulator

Shegelman I.R., Skrypnik V.I., Kuznetcov A.V., Vasilev A.S.

Incoming article date: 10.02.2017

One of the problems with exploitation of log trucks is damage to equipment during the process of transportation of wood material and during loading-unloading operations. The authors of the paper suggest equipping a log truck with an innovative protective butting device in order to increase reliability and work efficiency of the hydraulic manipulator. This device will allow aligning the sawn wood ends of wood products, and thus it will allow excluding a chance of protruding of sawn wood ends at an inadmissible scale which prevents forming a neighboring pack of wood products. The device will also allow excluding mechanical damages of a hydraulic manipulator by sawn wood ends of wood products being laid on a load platform. This will increase its reliability and will reduce the expenses on repair works.

Keywords: log truck, hydraulic manipulator, modernization, reliability, safety