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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide wheel loaders with operators?
Front End Loaders (Wheel Loaders)
Yes.
KDT provides front end loaders (wheel loaders) with qualified operators for loading trucks, moving debris, stockpiling material and handling supplies on hurricane, flood and oil spill incidents, and as the Front End Loader resource on wildfires.
Typical configuration
- Wildfire ordering name
- Front End Loader
- Bucket capacity
- About 1–6 cu yd, depending on size
- Power
- About 70–300 hp diesel
- Attachments
- General purpose bucket, debris grapple bucket, pallet forks, material pusher
- Tires
- Rubber tires; solid or foam-filled tires for sharp debris
- Transport
- Trailer or lowboy, depending on size
A front end loader, also called a wheel loader, is the workhorse for moving bulk material fast. After a hurricane or flood it loads dump trucks at a debris site, stockpiles gravel and sand, pushes mud and silt off streets and fills sandbag stations. With forks, it unloads heavy supplies at a staging area.
On a wildfire, the Front End Loader works alongside the rest of the forestry equipment KDT supplies: forwarders, log loaders, log processors, log trucks, feller bunchers and skidders. KDT supplies loaders with an operator, fuel and maintenance, or as bare rentals, sized to the work.
Available as
- Compact wheel loaders
- Mid-size loaders (about 2–4 cu yd)
- Large loaders for high-volume debris and truck loading
- Loaders with grapple buckets or forks
What's included
- Qualified operator
- Delivery, moves on the incident and pickup
- Fueling and daily maintenance
- Attachments matched to the work
Where it's used
- Loading dump trucks at hurricane and flood debris and reduction sites
- Clearing mud, silt and sand after floods
- Stockpiling gravel, sand and sandbag material
- Moving heavy supplies at staging areas
- Loading recovered material at oil spill sites
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide wheel loaders with operators?
Yes. We supply front end loaders (wheel loaders) from compact to large, with an operator, fuel and maintenance, for debris, material handling and site work.
Is a front end loader the same as a wheel loader?
Yes. Wildfire orders call it a Front End Loader, and contractors and rental yards usually call it a wheel loader. KDT supplies it under either name.
Wheel loader or skid steer?
A skid steer is better for tight spaces and light work. A wheel loader moves much more material per pass and is the right tool for loading trucks all day.
Can loaders work on sharp debris?
Yes, with solid or foam-filled tires or tire protection. We set up machines for debris work when that's the job.
Need it on your incident? Say the word.
Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.