Built around your load
Every tug we sell is fitted with the coupling that suits what it has to move. When a standard coupling doesn’t fit, or the load needs its own trolley, trailer or machine, we design and build it ourselves at Cheddleton. No third parties, no waiting on suppliers.
Five couplings cover most loads.
Tell us what you’re moving and we’ll fit the right one before the tug leaves the factory. Couplings can be swapped later if your loads change.
None of these fit? We design one that does.
Our engineers design couplings around the load itself: its coupler, cradle, frame or chassis. The interface is drawn, made and tested in-house, and the tug arrives ready to connect to what you already have.
If the load isn’t on wheels yet, we put it on some.
A tug can only move what rolls. Where a load has no wheels of its own, or the trolley it sits on was never meant to be towed, we design and make the trolley, dolly or trailer to go with the machine: the right castors or wheels for your floor, a towing point that matches the tug, and the load secured properly. Loads with no wheels at all, such as machinery, containers and building modules, go on a custom skate system.
Two ways to move a drum.
Drums and reels can be moved on their circumference with the paper roll coupling, which rolls them directly with no trolley, or on a drum trailer towed by the tug. Which is right depends on the drum size, the floor and how far it travels. We supply the tug, the coupling and the trailer together so they are matched from the start. For drums that need lifting and paying out in situ, we build the Cable Drum Trolley.
When the load needs carrying, not towing.
Some loads have no wheels and never will: dies, tooling, engines, heavy plant. For those we build burden carriers, battery-powered platforms that carry the load on a deck and are driven by a walking operator. The TBC30 carries up to 30,000 kg.
Beyond that, the same engineers design one-off machines: different decks, drive arrangements, controls and remote operation, built for one job on one site.
