Concrete Agitator

Maxon Industries recently released a new SCC (Self-Consolidating Concrete) agitator shaft to be installed into their current Agitor ready-mix trucks. Their standard Maxon agitators include bi-rotational, horizontal agitation shafts with seven knife blades that assist in keeping the concrete from segregating while in transit. The new SCC Agitator developed by Maxon has 10 paddles with additional surface area on each paddle providing more agitation of the load.

In testing, the Maxon Agitor equipped with the new SCC Agitator used in conjunction with the proper mix design resulted in consistent flow rates of 25 in. to 27 in. with approximately 5 percent air. The new SCC Agitator actually allows the Agitors to continually mix the SCC in the body, "folding" the materials, creating a more homogenous mix with higher air percentages. For more information, contact Pat Conerty, 414-351-4000.

Sweeper Attachment

Midland Machinery Inc. recently announced a new line of heavy-duty sweeper attachments. Dubbed Multi-Sweep, these four new models range in size from 46 in. to 98 in. sweeping width and offer capacities to 1 cu. yd.

Multi-Sweep is ideal for quick cleanup of a wide range of applications from construction and industrial sites to road debris, parking areas and lumber yards. They are designed to attach quickly and easily to a wide range of prime movers with forks, including lift trucks, skid steer loaders, wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, tool carriers and telescoping material handlers. The uniqueness of the fork attachment gives the machine a speed advantage for set up, especially with the engine-powered models. Large diameter, heavy-duty castor wheels guide the unit over the roughest ground, keeping the weight of the unit off the brush contact at the surface. For more information, contact George Smith at 908-850-8710.

Surveillance System

Hoss Equipment Company (Hoss), an independent global distributor of new, custom rebuilt and used heavy construction and mining equipment, and Remote Monitoring Technologies, a supplier of advanced long-range wireless surveillance systems, recently announced the availability of their jointly developed SiteWatch Camera Tower Surveillance System.

The SiteWatch Camera Tower System delivers Network Video over a WiFi 802.11b wireless protocol with capabilities that not only allow control of the system at a user's location from an office PC, laptop computer or handheld PDA, it also provides the ability to transmit that image and control over the Internet to any off-site, password-secured computer. For more information, call Tom Bagnell at 972-257-1244 or send an e-mail to tomb@hossequipment.com.