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Common jobs for the Hitachi ZX135

The Hitachi ZX135 is a short-swing machine for urban civil and demolition jobs. On Swedish sites it runs heavy excavation and demolition inside barriers where a long-tail machine will not fit. At 13.5 tonnes it is powerful yet still nimble on tight jobs.

The short swing makes the ZX135 at home near facades and in the street where slew room is short. On a utility job it digs pipe trenches in the middle of the city, on demolition it takes concrete and rebar with the right attachment. You keep production going even where a conventional machine would strike.

Since the ZX135 drives most attachments in the class, it pays to have several and swap by job. A tiltrotator makes the machine more versatile near edge and facade.

Buckets and attachments that fit the ZX135

For a 13.5-tonne machine you choose a toothed bucket for excavation and pipe trench, a wide grading bucket for levelling and slopes, and a cable bucket for narrow trenches. On tight city jobs you often need both a narrow and a wide bucket.

A sorting grapple turns the ZX135 into a strong demolition and material machine. It lifts stone, pulls apart and sorts spoil. At 13.5 tonnes the machine carries the grapple steadily even a fair way out from the tracks.

All attachments run on the S60 hitch, the standard for this class. With the same hitch and ideally a tiltrotator you swap quickly between bucket, grapple and breaker even on tight jobs.

Hydraulic breaker and heavy attachments for the ZX135

A 13.5-tonne machine drives a demolition breaker for rock and concrete. On city jobs the breaker is often the attachment that gets you through old concrete and rock without needing a bigger machine on site.

Check the oil flow against the breaker spec before you buy. The ZX135 has the flow, but the breaker has to be matched to your machine hydraulics to hit at full force and last.

On demolition near other buildings, a pulveriser or demolition grapple is an alternative to the breaker when you want to take concrete apart more under control and without percussion.

S60 quick hitch and tiltrotator

The Hitachi ZX135 runs an S60 hitch, the standard coupler for the 13-15 tonne class. Check the attachments are listed for S60 before you buy. A common hitch means you build a set of attachments that all fit.

On a short-swing machine like the ZX135 a tiltrotator is extra worth it. It lets you angle and rotate the bucket so you work near a facade and edge without moving the machine, which is just what the short swing is built for.