Single drum: types and applications

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Soil roller belongs to the class of special equipment for repair, construction and road works. First of all, such a machine is designed to stabilize and compact soil masses: foundations made of sand, gravel, clay, stone or rock chips.

Classification

The main part of the roller is the roller, which is a large cylinder installed instead of wheels. Each machine is equipped with two rollers - driving and driven. It is depending on the design features of this working body that soil rollers are classified.

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1. With smooth rollers (cylinder working surface is smooth). Such a machine is intended for compaction of loose soil and asph alt paving.

2. With cam rollers: the surface of the working body is covered with truncated pyramidal protrusions (cams). Used for both leveling and compacting soft soils as well as harder frozen soils.

3. With lattice rollers: the surface of the cylinder is profiled - lattice or in the form of cast discs. Such a soil roller is intended for those types of work where, in addition to compaction, crushing of large fragments of soil is required. This technology provides good compaction.

4. With pneumatic rollers. The working body consists of a system of wheels separated by gaps.

If the soil roller has several different rollers, then it is called combined. Rollers are also classified by the number of rollers into one-, two- and three-rollers.

Separately, it is worth highlighting the vibratory soil roller. Recently, this type of special equipment has become widespread. A distinctive feature of such a roller is that the working body vibrates, creating an additional load on the soil base. This allows you to make one pass where a conventional soil compactor needs to make two or three. In fact, this technology helps to carry out road and construction works several times faster without loss of quality.

Distinguish rollers and dimensions. There are miniature manual machines with a working cylinder length of only 20-30 cm, and there is a powerful self-propelled technique with extra-heavy rollers (more than 15 tons) and a working body length of 1.5 meters or more.

Soil roller is a special technique that helps to greatly simplify the process of creating roads, platforms, foundations, parking lots and other objects. The only thing this type of machine cannot boast of is speed. For modern models, it is only 14 km / h, which is quite a lot, if you remember that mostrollers cannot move faster than 3-5 km/h.

And the last question: how much does a soil skating rink cost? The price can vary greatly, depending on the specific type of machine, specifications and brand of the manufacturer. Price range - from 1,600 thousand rubles. up to 4 million rubles. If a soil roller is needed only for one-time work, you can rent equipment. The cost of rent - from 1000 to 15 000 rubles. You can choose a cheaper option, for example, a manual asph alt compactor is suitable for soil compaction for paths around the house (rent - from 800 rubles).