LANDFILL COMPACTORSTRASHMASTER^® TM-5 / TM-8 / TM-11

Landfill life and profitability comes down to density of the fill material and how efficiently the material is placed and compacted. The very high performance of the TM-11 is designed for arduous duty in today’s high volume landfill operations.

The semi-U shaped blade ‘funnels’ most materials to the center, then beneath the blade and four independently powered, hydrostatically driven steel cleated wheels of the TM-11.

In a typical operation old fashioned style tractors, frequently plagued by the uncompacted ‘windrow’ of materials between the only two wheel paths, risk high centering of the machine, losing traction and getting bogged down in the uncompacted soil. This presents a significant operational limit to the machine. To address this limitation, makers of the old-style tractors fit the machine with wider high flotation wheels attempting to strike a balance between the reduction of compaction force produced by wider wheels and the risk of getting stuck.

The TrashMaster’s close, inset front wheels compacts the center line swathe, greatly reducing the risk of getting high centered. This full width compaction, combined with high distributed load (measured in pounds per linear inch or PLI), means that the TrashMaster achieves the most efficient compaction in a single pass of any landfill compactor.

Unique four wheel configuration for effective full width compaction.

OLD-STYLE TRACTORS

CMI TrashMaster Masterline extended wear wheels and cleats come with a 4 year or 10,000 hour warranty as standard. The cleat contour design delivers the crushing force needed to penetrate and break down refuse with a crisp “chopping” action, which reduces refuse size and eliminates surface“fluffing”. Cleats are mounted in a chevron pattern that discourages build-up and eliminates the need for power sapping raker bars. The TrashMaster wheels have a large diameter, providing greater pushing power with less rolling resistance than competitors’ smaller diameter wheels.

CMI TrashMaster self cleaning cleats are mounted in a chevron pattern across the width of the wheel, facing the direction of rotation, for maximum crushing force and minimal gaps across the compaction path. Competitors’ have to rotate the cleats 90 degrees to allow space for raker bars to fit in between which results in gaps across the width of the wheel compaction path reducing the effective crushing force.

Compaction is as much about how a machine applies force – Distributed Load measured in pounds per linear inch or PLI (N/m) – as how much the machine weighs.

PLI is calculated by dividing total machine mass in pounds (Newtons) by the combined effective width of all four wheels in a single pass, in inches (meters). Generally speaking, the higher the PLI (N/m), the more material will be compacted in the same space, resulting in a greater density and improved productivity.