When it comes to heavy machinery, landfill compactors form the backbone of a landfill fleet. Because of that, Aljon, one of the world’s top manufacturers of these types of machines, specializes in several variations of the landfill compactor, specifically, ensuring that you can find one that best suits your daily requirements.
For such an important and robust piece of equipment, you need to take into account the specific features that facilitate its usage, prolong its operational lifetime, and meet or exceed your performance expectations. In this article, we’ll give you just five reasons that present the Aljon landfill compactor as a top choice for your landfill compactor purchasing.
1. Optimized Cab Design
One of the first things that you’ll notice about the cab in an Aljon compactor is the straightforward accessibility. With other designs, due to the necessarily high placement of the cab on heavy machinery of this sort, a ladder is essential for access. On the Aljon design, convenient stairs are built into the sides as a part of the overall design.
In addition to giving your operator easy access to the cab at a moment’s notice, this design facilitates both service calls and training operations. The dual stair system for the two-door cab also bolsters safety, since it eliminates the need for external ladders in the high-traffic area surrounding cab access.
Another important aspect of cab design is, of course, visibility. To this end, the Aljon series of compactors all possess sizable windows that enable full views from the front, sides, and back of the operator compartment; the front-facing direction, in particular, is unobstructed. The rear part of the cab has a window that is higher up, of course, and so the cab design incorporates a rear-view camera to make up the difference of the smaller rear window size.
2. General Service Accessibility
Whether you choose general servicing or have opted to use the extensive network of service technicians available through the OEM manufacturer of your Aljon compactor, ease of accessibility is essential for a variety of reasons, including minimizing machine downtime for repairs. To this end, Aljon prioritizes the accessibility of service points during the manufacturing process. This design consideration isn’t limited to the 100% American-made Aljon ADV 500 landfill compactor; it’s a feature of all their heavy machinery.
Another key benefit of easily-accessible service points is the cost savings; this goes hand-in-hand with the reduced downtime that occurs when service points are unobstructed and can be identified, reached, and perhaps fixed in a single visit. In suboptimal designs, there are sometimes things that need to be unscrewed just to get to the service panel, which, of course, is a time and resource-draining complication. Obstructions can also make it more difficult to identify the offending component.
During the manufacturing process, Aljon optimized the placement of the electrical harness, brakes, hose, pressure switches, and pumps in a convenient pump house that can be reached at the rear of the compactor from a panel.
3. Platform Design: Ease of Service
The geometry of the service platform is the most obvious design choice geared towards ease of maintenance. For starters, the platform itself is constructed to facilitate both safety and effectiveness. In old cabs, service techs often had to lean at awkward angles just to open panels and remove components; there was even a need to navigate tight squeezes and corridors to reach these parts. Aljon compactor design eliminates these issues with the installation of a more expansive service platform.
4. Maintenance Optimization: Removal of Cleaner Bars
Cleaner bars on landfill compactors are used to reduce the buildup of grit and wire as your machine trudges through the landfill terrain. Although they are generally useful in the reduction of wheel-packing, cleaner bars can themselves become a hassle for a variety of reasons:
- They tend to wear down quickly, and thus have to be maintained and eventually replaced
- Even before they eventually fail, cleaner bars become filled with dirt and wiring as they work to protect the compactor’s wheels from this, and therefore require regular maintenance
- Because of the nature of their operation, cleaner bars don’t always prevent wire wrap on the compactor wheels
Although cleaner bars do serve some function, overall, Aljon design has removed them in favor of a specialized compactor cleat design that mitigates the need for cleaner bars. This eliminates the added burden to the maintenance schedule, as well as the eventual replacement costs associated with cleaner bars and wire wrap on cleats/wheels.
5. The Reliability of US Parts and Craftsmanship
At Aljon, nearly every part used in the landfill compactors is sourced in America. In fact, the Aljon ADV 500 is 100% American-made, and the parts for it are readily accessible directly from our Iowa facility or from our North American dealers throughout the continental United States. This aligns perfectly in the event you opt for the help of OEM manufacturer service technicians, as one of our biggest goals is to minimize downtime for our customers.
There are many more features that make it profitable to own an Aljon landfill compactor; when combined with more than half a century’s worth of operational experience in the industry, you are certain to get heavy machinery that meets or exceeds your rigorous expectations at Aljon.
