The Savannah Grader Benefits

• Lower Initial Cost: The cost to customers for an Outback towable grader is very low compared to approximately $150K for a typical motor-grader. Although a customer will also need a truck capable of pulling the Outback, contractors and counties typically have one or more heavy duty trucks in their inventory capable of towing our grader.
• Lower Maintenance Costs: As a simpler design with less moving parts, the Outback should required less frequent maintenance. When maintenance is required, the simple design of the Outback ensures that the cost of repairs will be minimal compared to fixing a motor-grader.
• Lower Transportation Costs: Numerous counties we contacted owned a number of "low-boy" trailers. In addition to using these trailers for transport motor-graders with engine problems, some counties would trailer motor-graders whenever they needed to be moved a long distance (due to their slow highway speeds). With towable graders replacing some of their motor-graders, counties would need fewer low-boy trailers.
• Lower Fuel Costs: Motor-graders use between 7 and 8 gallons of diesel fuel per hour of grading. A large truck pulling an outback grader will burn approximately 4 gallons per hour. In addition to the costs savings from burning half the fuel per hour, the Outback will be able to grade more miles every hour than a motor-grader and the gallons of fuel required per graded mile is decreased even further.
• Man-hour Benefits: Because the Savannah Road Grader is able to grade roads at higher speeds than a motor-grader, the operator can either grade more road miles in the same amount of time or grade the same number of miles and have time remaining to work on other county projects.
• Longer Service Life: The replacement cycle used by the counties we contacted varied widely. While some counties replaced their motor-graders every 5 years using a buy-back program, other counties kept their motor-grader in operation as long as possible, sometimes up to 15 years. The expected service life of the Outback compares favorably with motor-graders, and the parts that do wear out (tires, hydraulics, and blades) are relatively easy and inexpensive to replace.