Spillard News

Spillard Safety Systems of Gailey in Staffordshire has recently installed a ‘wireless’ camera/monitor system on a 182 tonne Cat 5130B excavator at Tarmac’s Swinden Quarry in Yorkshire.

The system, which utilises the same proven components found in Spillard’s standard rear view CCTV packages, has replaced an unreliable different make set-up which enables the operator to remotely monitor inside the throat of a Nordberg LT160 mobile jaw crusher being fed with blasted limestone by the Cat’s 8 cu m capacity bucket. The clear colour images are transmitted to a monitor located in the cab using state of the art transmission equipment previously only available exclusively for use in the broadcast industry.

All Spillard equipment has been designed to operate within the harsh environment of the quarrying and construction industries to ensure trouble-free operation – even when the camera is mounted onto a crusher, as at Swinden, and has to withstand significant amounts of vibration.

The 5130B was already equipped with a pair of Spillard rear facing cameras linked to in-cab monitors to allow the driver to see down both sides of the machine and, as these have been fault-free ever since they were fitted some five years ago, Tarmac was very pleased that Spillard was able to come to the rescue with a replacement wireless system.

Swinden Quarry currently produces some 2M tonne of limestone per annum, all of which is handled by the Cat machine – making it a vital member of the mobile plant fleet. Tarmac is confident that, with its new Spillard system installed, the 5130 will now be working at maximum efficiency and without the worry of frequent ancillary equipment failures.