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Understanding Tiltrotator Capabilities

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Tiltrotator at work -benefits & drawbacks

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An expert from Volvo Construction Equipment, Matt, explains the capabilities of a tiltrotator. It allows the excavator bucket to spin 360 degrees and tilt 45 degrees in either direction. Additionally, many tiltrotators can be outfitted with a claw or grapple on the back, enabling the excavator to pick up objects like logs. The video then shows the tiltrotator in action, demonstrating its digging and material handling capabilities by trenching and moving a large log.

Goal: Learn the specific movement and gripping capabilities of the tiltrotator.

Tools and materials

  • Excavator Bucket Steelwrist — Used for digging and manipulating objects
  • Grapple Steelwrist — Optional attachment on the tiltrotator for picking up objects
  • Steelwrist Tiltrotator Steelwrist — The attachment demonstrating rotation, tilt, and grapple functions
  • Volvo ECR235 Excavator Volvo — The heavy machinery operating the tiltrotator
  • Log N/A — Demonstrating the grapple's ability to pick up and move objects

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and what some of the the drawbacks when you hook your machine up to one of these are. And then we're going to actually show you one in action, what they're capable of doing and how they can dramatically change the face of an excavator. So without wasting any more time, let's go tilt rotate some stuff. There's got to be a better way of saying headquarters and what we're going to be talking with Matt by the way. Hi there. And Matt, what do you do with Provob? I am product manager for excavators. This year I'm focusing more on the wheel. Before that, I was the crawlers. So, I've got experience on both ends. What we're going to be showing you guys is what I consider to be pretty much the next level. One of those got to have it for an excavator. There's always these tools that come along that you don't think you need and then you make the mistake of going out and trying it once and you're like, "How did I live without that?" Or so long. I mean, the steel wrist is something that's been over in Sweden for about 25 30 years. Y uh we have brought it over before cuz there wasn't so much demand, but right now it seems to be a shift going on in the United States and people are getting used to trying out the steel wrist. Uh, generically it's called a tilt rotator. Okay. And it gives you the ability to spin your bucket 360, knuckle it over 45 either way. And generally they can be outfitted with kind of a claw on the back so you can pick up objects. So we're going over here to the excavator hill and we're going to try out an ECR 235 excavator with our steel wrist attachment. So tilt rotator. Is that actually a brand? That's actually the generic term. The generic term. Okay. So that's so if you guys aren't familiar with it and you hear that that's not a brand name. That's the

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