Tipper Skips
Tipping skips, also known in the trade as tipper skips, collect waste where it is produced and empty it into a larger skip, bin or bay by forklift, telehandler or crane, with no shovelling or manual lifting. HERMEQ supplies them for construction and demolition sites, factories, machine shops and recycling yards.
The range covers forklift self tipping skips, heavy duty, lidded and mesh extension skips, telehandler skips with auto lock, crane lift and circular skips, rotating skip bins, and mini and low height skips for the factory floor, from 150 to 2,400 litres. HERMEQ manufactures in the UK with in-house steel processing, and most models come in standard colours or a custom RAL finish.
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Forklift tipping skips
Forklift self tipping skips
Standard forklift self tipping skips are the everyday choice for yards, warehouses, factories and sites that move mixed waste to a main skip or bay. They handle general waste, from rubble and timber to packaging and production offcuts, and their sizes run from compact skips for warehouse trucks to large skips for site forklifts.
Heavy duty tipping skips
Heavy duty tipping skips are made from thicker gauge steel for demolition, civils and scrap handling, where the waste is dense and abrasive and the skip is loaded hard. They come in the widest spread of sizes in the forklift range and can be built with extra lifting lugs for crane movement, a lid, a mesh extension or an auto tipping mechanism, with every modification carried out in-house.
Lidded tipping skips
A fitted heavy duty lid keeps waste in the skip while it is carried and keeps rain off it while it waits for the next lift. Lidded self tipping skips are the right choice for light waste that would otherwise blow out of an open skip and for skips that stand outdoors between collections.
Tipping skips with mesh extensions
Tipping skips with a mesh extension have raised heavy duty mesh sides above the steel body, which hold bulky and loose loads such as packaging, timber offcuts and light scrap that would spill from an open skip.
Rotating skip bins
Rotating skip bins are emptied by a forklift fitted with a rotator attachment, which turns the whole bin over in one controlled movement. They suit recycling plants, demolition contractors and manufacturers that already run rotators on their trucks. A truck with standard forks and no rotator cannot tip them, so confirm the attachment on the fleet before choosing this type.
Telehandler and crane tipping skips
When the lifting machine on site is a telehandler or a crane, the skip has to be built for that machine: telehandler skips lock to the forks, and crane skips hang from lifting points.
Telehandler tipping skips
Telehandler tipping skips lock onto the forks with a gas strut assisted auto lock, so the driver picks up, carries and tips the skip without leaving the cab. They are the natural choice on construction sites where the telehandler is already moving materials, since the same machine can lift waste from upper floor loading bays, carry it over rough ground and tip it into a high-sided skip.
Telehandler tipping skips on castors
Telehandler tipping skips on castors run on heavy duty braked castors when they are off the forks, so the skip can be pushed along a corridor or into a building and filled where the work is. Choose them for refurbishment, fit-out and modular builds, where waste is moved several times before it is lifted out and tipped.
Crane lift tipping skips
Crane lift tipping skips are lifted on certified lugs, which makes them the choice for clearing waste from roofs, upper floors, basements and enclosed areas that no forklift or telehandler can reach.
Circular tipping skips
Circular tipping skips are crane skips with a round body, which spreads the load evenly and can be positioned and filled from any direction. That 360-degree positioning helps in tight work zones, and the smaller sizes suit a single gang's waste on a slab or a roof.
For placing wet concrete by crane, use concrete pouring skips, which are built to discharge a pour where it is needed.
Mini and small tipping skips
Mini tipper skips and swarf bins
Mini tipper skips and swarf bins sit beside lathes, mills, presses and punching machines to collect swarf, turnings and small offcuts at the source. Their compact footprint fits between machines in crowded workshops, and with the optional castors one person can move a bin from machine to machine before a forklift takes it away to be emptied.
Low height automatic tipping skips
Low height automatic tipping skips are built low enough to sit under conveyors, beneath dross chutes and at the end of automated lines, where a standard skip would not fit under the discharge point. Their fork pockets open on all four sides, so a forklift can pick them up from whichever direction the production bay allows.
Self tipping skips and manual release
Automatic tipping is the right choice where skips are emptied many times a shift or tipped at height into a large skip or bay. Once released, a self tipping skip tips forward under its own load and rights itself when empty, so the driver completes the whole cycle from the seat. This applies to the forklift self tipping and lidded skips and to heavy duty skips built with the auto tipping option.
Manual release suits smaller, loose or awkward loads, where the operator wants to control the moment and pace of emptying. The mesh extension skip uses a manual latch with a self-righting body, and the mini tipper skip rolls forward under the operator's control. The circular crane skip sits between the two: the safety lock is opened by hand, and the skip then tips and empties by gravity. Low height skips can run either way, automatic on a busy line and manual when a shift or a particular waste needs closer control.
Tipping skips for construction, factories and recycling
Construction and demolition sites
Construction and demolition waste is heavy and mixed, from brick and concrete rubble to timber and packaging, and it often has to come down from upper floors or across rough ground. Tipping skips carry it to the main builders' waste skips, which take it off site.
Manufacturing, machining and production lines
In machine shops and production plants the waste is swarf, turnings, offcuts and packaging, produced at fixed points on the floor throughout the shift. Forklift self tipping skips carry it from those points out to the yard. Cutting fluid and oil spilled on the floor around the skips are cleared with spill absorbents.
Recycling yards and waste segregation
Segregation at source works when every waste stream has its own skip and every skip is recognisable from the driver's seat, so recycling yards and sorting areas give metals, timber, plastics and general waste a colour each. The double door dumping hopper holds two streams in separate compartments, so both are moved to the sorting area in one lift and kept apart until they are emptied.
Tipping skip sizes, steel and fork fit
Capacity and safe working load
Every skip has two limits, its capacity in litres and its safe working load in kilograms, and the type of waste decides which is reached first. Dense waste such as rubble, soil, hardcore and swarf reaches the safe working load before the skip is full, so a smaller skip filled to the brim can carry as much weight as a larger one. Light, bulky waste such as packaging, polystyrene and timber offcuts fills the volume first, and that is the case for a larger capacity or a mesh extension.
Steel thickness
Most skips in the range are made from 3 mm steel, which is the right gauge for general site, warehouse and production waste. The larger heavy duty skips step up to 5 mm, and that heavier gauge earns its place with demolition rubble, scrap metal and skips loaded by excavator or grab, where the body takes repeated impact.
Fork pockets and truck capacity
Before buying, check that the forks fit the skip's pockets in length, section and spacing, and that the truck's rated capacity at its load centre covers the weight of the skip and a full load combined. Each product page gives the skip's own weight and safe working load for this check. On a telehandler, capacity falls as the boom extends, so read the load chart at the reach and height where the skip will be tipped.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do tipping skips need a safety chain?
A forklift tipping skip has to be secured to the truck so it cannot slide off the forks when it is raised or tipped, and a safety chain fastened around the fork carriage is the usual way to do it. HERMEQ's forklift self tipping skips and mini tipper skips come with a safety chain. Telehandler tipping skips lock to the forks automatically instead, so the driver does not leave the cab to secure them.
What is the difference between a tipping skip and a builders' skip?
A builders' skip is sized in cubic yards, sits on the ground and is lifted onto a skip lorry to be taken away for disposal. A tipping skip stays on site, collects waste where it is produced and is carried by forklift, telehandler or crane to be emptied into that builders' skip or a waste bay. Most sites use both, with tipping skips doing the internal moves and the builders' skip taking the waste away.
Can tipping skips be stacked when empty?
HERMEQ's forklift self tipping skips stack and nest when empty, which saves yard space and reduces the room they take up when moved between sites. Stack skips of the same size only, empty, on firm and level ground.
Are tipping skips CE marked and LOLER certified?
HERMEQ's heavy duty tipping skips and telehandler tipping skips on castors are CE marked, and the heavy duty and forklift self tipping skips conform to the Machinery Directive and the relevant British Standards. Crane lift tipping skips have LOLER certified lifting lugs. Lifting accessories used with a crane need thorough examination at set intervals under LOLER, so keep the skip's certificate with the site's lifting records.
Can a tipping skip hold liquid or wet waste?
The low height automatic tipping skip is fully seam welded, so it retains fluids such as coolant and wash water that drain from swarf and production waste. That makes it the skip to place under machines, chutes and conveyors where waste arrives wet. For wet spoil on a construction site, size the skip so the water-laden load stays within its safe working load.