can you please explain to me what a class 1 walking floor set up is ? all i know is the job is to do with waste paper ? so how do you load it and unload it etc ? thanks kev .
I have never used one but i am suprised that you have not had an answer yet from som-one who has. As this reply will put it at the top of the new posts list you might have more luck 
Only ever seen one used, delivering spuds. It was a bulker, loaded in the normal way but the unloading was through a hatch in the rear where the spuds were moved down the body of the trailer on a moving belt - hence the walking floor bit. Sloping internal sides meant the spuds all eventually hit the belt & out. Total thing emptied into 24x1 ton boxes in less than 30 minutes - seemed simple enough, just 3 buttons - forward, stop & reverse. I gather the whole process means the potatoes are less damaged than if using a normal tipping bulker.
only seen one in use and that was fertisliser,saves having to tip the body up,great when windy 
,also have more control over the load,as it dont shoot out as fast and can be tipped in a smaller space.
Just google Walking floor trailers. You’ll soon get the gist.
A walking floor trailer is a trailer that has a moving floor, not usually a belt in the centre but the whole floor moves to discharge a load out the back,
Mostly used on wood chip trailers or waste paper etc etc,
The one i have seen but not used had loads of slats that run the length of the trailer, then half the slats (evenly spaced out) move to the back, then the other slats move, so it slowly walks a load out the back doors,
A bit like you would move a bookcase on your own you would walk it rather than dragging it 
Some trailers look like a box trailer with a cover over the roof and standard barn doors, and i believe you can get curtain side walking floors so its multi purpose
Hope this helps
I want one of these fitted to my truck for unloading pallets, stupid pallet truck.
the class 1 bit has nothing to do with walking floors
www.legras.fr
these make them
ROG:
I have never used one but i am suprised that you have not had an answer yet from som-one who has. As this reply will put it at the top of the new posts list you might have more luck
Do you mean me rog? (i do have to do some work you know 
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Most of the basics have been covered. Basically you open the roof by rolling the sheet to one side of the body. Theres a false headboard inside with a large rubber mat fastened to it. Lay the mat on the floor.
Youll either load under a hopper or by a loading shovel. Most trls have either an onboard weigher or a pressure gauge on the back to give you an idea of your gvw. Fasten it up..go onto the weighbridge...... go wherever your going... weigh off.again. Theres various makes of floor- i pull a knapen, and they all have different means of controlling the tipping mechanism.
I open the back doors, engage the pto on the unit, turn the side lights on(some kind of safety feature)
Walk to the back and press a button on my remote to start the load walking off.
Its kind of like an ejector trl, the weight of the paper on the mat pulls the headboard with the load on it out of the back.
Sweep it out and start again.
Hope this gives you a rough idea.
don’t forget the walking floor takes a bit longer than the tipper for discharging the load.
Discopete:
The one i have seen but not used had loads of slats that run the length of the trailer, then half the slats (evenly spaced out) move to the back, then the other slats move, so it slowly walks a load out the back doors,A bit like you would move a bookcase on your own you would walk it rather than dragging it
That’s my understanding of ‘Walking floor’.
The description of spuds being unloaded, I would categorise as ‘conveyor discharge’.
I’ll stick to being a ‘Fridge Jockey’. Far less complicated.
I would say walking floor uses the type of moving planks like pete describes. I have ssen a few different types working, some driven by a crank, (no not JB) that shuffle the alloy plates.
We use moving floor trailers which the dutch try to call walking floors. They are more of the tatey bulker type with either sloping sides or a full width belt and a flat bottom for lighter stuff like coffee or cocoa.
I was loading in Rennes last week and the local farmers were bringing apples into a pulp factory and just tipping them up but the lorries were using conveyor discharge and the apples were still in good condition
JB:
ROG:
I have never used one but i am suprised that you have not had an answer yet from som-one who has. As this reply will put it at the top of the new posts list you might have more luckDo you mean me rog? (i do have to do some work you know
Most of the basics have been covered. Basically you open the roof by rolling the sheet to one side of the body. Theres a false headboard inside with a large rubber mat fastened to it. Lay the mat on the floor.
Youll either load under a hopper or by a loading shovel. Most trls have either an onboard weigher or a pressure gauge on the back to give you an idea of your gvw. Fasten it up..go onto the weighbridge...... go wherever your going... weigh off.again. Theres various makes of floor- i pull a knapen, and they all have different means of controlling the tipping mechanism.
I open the back doors, engage the pto on the unit, turn the side lights on(some kind of safety feature)
Walk to the back and press a button on my remote to start the load walking off.
Its kind of like an ejector trl, the weight of the paper on the mat pulls the headboard with the load on it out of the back.
Sweep it out and start again.
Hope this gives you a rough idea.
JB, I see loads of your chaps in Veurne … do you ever use it■■? any identifying marks on the old truck?
Im in there all the time bear.. In fact i saw you one night last week but it was late and raining so i didnt chat. Im in fleet h3507
Big fat bald headed bloke(me not you )
squannogs:
can you please explain to me what a class 1 walking floor set up is ? all i know is the job is to do with waste paper ? so how do you load it and unload it etc ? thanks kev .
Walkingfloor may You just find on Trailers,like Boxtrailers,but open to Top,to load with Cran or Loader,and Doors to back to unload with Forklift or walking Floor
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The Floor has many Elements which move lenghtways and You can move Fright that Way forwats as well as Backwards,as needed
One of Steve Walker’s blokes showed me how to use one once. He had a full load of paper spool. He pressed and held the button and the whole lot just moved forwards (looking in though the back doors, towards us). Slats in the floor like fingers raised and slid forwards then they dropped back down and another load of slats raised and moved forwards while the first lot slid backwards under the second lot, then it all repeated until the paper got to the back doors…
Oh sod it. Its difficult to explain. Coller someone with one and ask them to show you… Thats what i did.
jb wrote Big fat bald headed bloke(me not you )
jb why are you always knocking yourself about the baldness i’ve told you there’s creams for it
good System but Expensive to buy and to repair
stuh:
jb wrote Big fat bald headed bloke(me not you )
jb why are you always knocking yourself about the baldness i’ve told you there’s creams for it
You`ll need more than cream stueyboy!
Hows iraq?