Description
The County of Portage Wisconsin is requesting bids for two compactors, an MSW and Recycling Compactor. The compactors should be designed to meet specific site operations, including materials being dumped on the transfer station tip floors and loaded into semi-trailers. The MSW compactor is expected to manage a minimum of 50,000 tons of MSW and C&D waste per year, while the Recycling compactor is expected to manage a minimum of 5,000 tons of recyclables per year. The compactors should include custom fabricated hoppers to facilitate loading operations and be designed to allow compactor operations in a safe manner.
• The compactors should be designed to meet the following site operations: materials are dumped on the transfer station tip floors, front-end loaders will be used to load material from the tip floors to the compactors' hoppers and charge boxes.
• The compactors' equipment packages will be located in rooms considered NEC unclassified areas.
• The compactors should include custom fabricated hoppers to facilitate loading operations using a CAT 950G with a 4-yard bucket.
• The configurations of the hoppers should allow for loading when the compactors' charge boxes are full, while also preventing spillage back to the tip floors.
• The compactors' scissor locks should be designed to connect with semi-trailers meeting specific pin height and scissors lock center line requirements.