Unimog

Road maintenance
A “one-man show” with six implements
This ‘jack-of-all-trades’ amazes even
the most experienced road
construction experts: a Unimog
U 500 with six attachments as a
complete solution for road-shoulder
construction, leaving not only a
finished shoulder but also a clean
road.
The Söder shoulder building solution work stages are
coordinated efficiently
At one of the numerous beautiful spots in
Germany’s Lüneburg Heath region, in
the triangle between the towns of Celle,
Gifhorn and Uelzen, a Unimog U 500 can be
seen from some distance away on a country
road. It is being driven behind a truck and is
apparently swallowing large quantities of
the material sliding out of the truck’s tipping
body. This is the innovative shoulder building
method developed by Unimog System
Partner Alfred Söder in Burkardroth (Northern
Bavaria) and the young company owner
Achim Rosinsky based in Winsen an der
Aller, who had the idea for building it.
Rosinsky received help from Unimog consultant
Christian Rabe, who works for Unimog
general agent Peter Meineke in Fallingbostel
(Lower Saxony). “It’s quite obvious
why I needed this combination of equipment,”
says Achim Rosinsky, “I wanted to optimise
the use of my U 500 all the year
round, take full advantage of the four attachment
points it possesses and become more
competitive on the market.” Rosinsky’s goals
have been achieved: his road shoulder construction
services are hard to beat. The Unimog
U 500 with Söder shoulder building machine
are far superior to the working
methods used in the past. It can place up to
1,500 tonnes of construction material such
as asphalt, gravel, mineral mixtures or soil
above or below street level with the Unimog
set up as a “multi-purpose solution” including
VarioPilot® changeover steering and
a combination of six attachments. In the past,
a considerably higher workforce was needed
and costly hourly rates for machines for the
various work stages were incurred. The U 500
is today driven along the road that needs the
work, with push rollers for the truck and material
bunker at the front, the shoulder building
machine, Amman compacting plate and
sowing machine (if plants are required) at
the right and rear sweeper with brush, so
that the construction site can be cleaned
during the same work cycle. Once the work
is done, nobody would guess that right next
to the road, where the shoulder now finishes ➔
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