- Consistent spreading of any dry material
- Extending bridge life. Too much salt impacts the structural integrity of bridges.
- Decreased salt use without compromising safety
- Being safety conscious by avoiding under application (which can lead to accidents)
- Calibrating before the winter season helps ensure equipment is ready to use and functioning properly
- Ensuring all trucks in your fleet are applying accurately
- Being environmentally friendly. (Over salting results in the loss of shoulder grass and leads to higher concentrations of salt in our rivers and streams.)
- The Calibrator IV is designed to be used with all types of vehicles, tire sizes and spreader configurations
- Saving money
- Drivers soon recognize what the correctly calibrated spread looks like.
- Confidence and peace of mind that the amount of salt being applied is accurate and sufficient.
Choose from 2 designs:
Poly - lighter unit, less expensive, conducive to use with fork lifts, does not corrode with time, designed with a bottom door that allows you to easily empty the calibrator without dumping, and built to fit in the back of a mid-sized pick up for easier transportation.
Steel - heavy duty, conducive to use with end loaders, front of the calibrator is sloped for easier dumping/removal of dry material, and built to fit in the back of a mid-sized pick up for easier transportation. This unit has a durable finish starting with 12 gauge hot roll construction. The box and frame have a two coat powder-coat process, primed and then finished with a durable top coat finish.
Each Calibrator IV comes equipped with a GT 400 indicator.
Load cells have a capacity of 3,500 pounds each and the Calibrator IV box can hold up to 900 pounds of material in the steel style and 400 pounds in the poly. The scale unit comes pre-calibrated and ready to use.
Optional upgrade to the GT400 (includes RS232 port so data can send to an attached printer or DDL)
- Press start to set the tare to document a load. The read out will show 0.
- Start Calibration procedure.
- Load salt into the Calibrator IV.
- Push stop when you're done with the calibration process.
- This signals the system to record the time, date, and weight.
$$$$$$$$$ Save Money Quickly $$$$$$$$$
+ With current salt costs at $60 per ton, one Calibrator IV costs less than 50 tons of salt!
+ With current salt costs at $60 per ton, one Calibrator IV costs less than 50 tons of salt!
+ A spreader controller over-applying materials by 5% on a truck that applies 225 tons of salt per year will waste 11.25 tons of salt. At $60 per ton, that costs you an extra $675. Multiply that by 900 snowplows and entire fleet would spend an extra $607,500.
+ Some customers have discovered greater savings! If a current fleet is over applying salt by 10% that can cost an extra $1350 per year per snowplow. Multiply that by 900 snowplows and the department is wasting $1,215,000 annually!
