Rotaside® railcar dumpers

Rotaside dumpers lift and invert the railcar for unloading. This yields: 

• Reduced depth of receiving hopper, minimizing civil work and foundation requirements.
• More flexibility in discharging to conveyors, feeders or bunkers.
• Less maintenance due to fewer component parts.
• Lower capital equipment and installation costs. 

• Typically used in lower throughput, random railcar unloading operations (strings of 50 railcars at an average of 25 cars per hour) where the railcars need to be uncoupled for tipping; however, the Rotaside can be designed to accommodate much higher efficiency and throughputs of up to 40 cars per hour (and up to 60 cars per hour in tandem barrel operations).
• Rotaside^® style dumpers offer greater flexibility in the sizes of railcars being handled. Taller railcars are also no problem as the cars are being lifted and inverted, not rolled.
• The highlift version of a Rotaside^® dumper lifts before inverting yielding generally slower tip rates, but can be designed to dump at ground level.
• Rotaside^® style dumpers utilize fewer component parts compared to rotary and crescent design dumpers.