Large Canal Trimmer
The G&Z Canal Trimmer is available in both two, or four track configurations offering self-moving options. The particular series of jacking columns, crawler tracks, truss main frame, power unit, and conveyor widths selected are sized to match the maximum future canal periphery and your target production rates to stay ahead of the concrete lining operation in keeping with the type of soils to be encountered.
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Through decades of experience, G&Z has determined that its trimmer bucketline system, although initially a higher investment, has proven to be the least costly system to operate, and can handle a wider variety of soil conditions. The bucketline trimmer can be reconfigured to handle trapezoidal shaped canals in the half span, full span, or flat configuration of varying slope angles, as well as parabolic and half round canal cross sections. Thus, no matter what canal you run into in the future, your G&Z trimmer can be reconfigured to handle it.
​The other key feature of a G&Z bucketline trimmers is that once the material is trimmed, it is efficiently carried to the top of the canal and deposited directly onto a discharge conveying system. This conveying system can be designed to handle a wide variety of canal construction scenarios:
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Depositing the trimmer spoils in a windrow away from the side of the canal that can be used for fill or haul road to avoid rehandling.
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Depositing the trimmer spoils directly into hauling trucks to haul away from cuts and to avoid rehandling.
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Depositing the trimmer spoils into other conveyors to discharge spoils on the opposite side of the canal or further away from the edge of the canal.