This is what soil operator Lars Vicklander had to say during engcon's visit to a major construction site in Bållstaberg, Vallentuna, just north-west of Stockholm, when we asked him whether he thinks that the tiltrotator makes his job easier.
Lars and around a hundred other soil and plant operators are working for the construction company, JM Entreprenader. The job they are currently working on is only one of many in a construction project which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
"At the moment, we are laying the foundations for a further 35 villas," says Lars, who has been working on this building project for six years. He believes that it will last for another seven.
An almost new Hyundai 140W-7 fitted with an engcon tiltrotator is working next to Lars.
It is operated by Börje Hellström who is spreading gravel with great precision around a foundation.
"I agree with Lars. Driving without a tiltrotator would be almost unthinkable now," he says. Börje has been using a tiltrotator on his excavators since early 2000.
"It makes my job so much easier. If you add an integrated grab, like I have on this one, there are even more jobs it can do," Börje continues.
Börje says that he is always kept busy removing demolition timber, lifting and positioning posts, lifting reinforcement and a lot of other things with his grab.
"The people working around me know exactly how useful the integrated grab really is, so they are always coming up with new things they want help with," says Börje as he is leaving to collect a new load of gravel with the trailer he has hooked on to the back of his excavator.
As well as gravel, the trailer can be used for transporting all the equipment which belongs to the excavator. Börje has added the following accessories to his excavator: tiltrotator, deep excavation bucket, levelling bucket, cable bucket, asphalt cutter, frozen earth hook and pallet forks.
Wheel excavators with trailers are fairly common in the Nordic region nowadays, and an increasing number of people are beginning to realise how effective this combination really is. Customers realise that the combination is unbeatable at a building site since an excavator fitted with a tiltrotator and a range of tools can replace several other machines that had to be used on site in the past
