IDENTIFICATION: SWING-LINK REAR LOADERS

Classification: Swing-Link type Rear Loaders
LOADING: INTERMITTENT

    A rear loading refuse body with one or more hydraulically-powered packing panels, any of which are controlled/guided in their travel throughout the hopper by sold links (or rods, tubes, bars etc.) one end of which is affixed to a moving panel, and the other to the hopper or body structure. Any of the packer panel(s) may be fully suspended within the hopper (trackless), or guided by rollers/slides in trackways, or pivotally connected to the hopper or body structure. The links may operate independently or each other, or may connected by crossbars.

    Classification excludes: Models in which the primary driving means for the packer panel consists of rotating crank arms, and models in which the sole links are retractible hydraulic cylinders. Excludes all bucket loaders and hinged-hopper type packers

    The most modern of rear loader designs currently in extensive use around the word, swing-link rear loaders can deceptively similar in outward appearance to their slide-sweep cousins. The Leach Packmaster was the first model introduced in 1947, with a two-link system on a track-guided panel. Gar Wood pioneered the first "trackless" swing-link models with the T-100 (1964), and later the T-800 (1967) which while not entirely successful, paved the way for more efficient designs of the the 1970s. The Dempster Route King and Gar Wood LP-900 heralded the age of the modern swing-link, the latter still in production (Heil Formula 5000) after over a half-century. In 1980, Moser developed a completely new swing link design and one of the most powerful crushers on the market, currently produced as the GPM series by Geesink-Norba