Spreaders are mobile continuous operating dumping machines receiving the material from the shiftable dump bench conveyor via a tripper car or from Mobile Transfer Conveyors.
The main parts of a spreader are the receiving boom with or without support crawler track, the superstructure, the sub-structure with crawler tracks and the discharge boom. Determined by operational requirements the discharge boom can be fixed, is liftable and slewable. Tenova TAKRAF offers Spreaders of compact design or large Spreaders with long discharge booms for high and safe dumps. The capacity ranges from 2500 m³/h to 14500 m³/h. The length of the discharge boom can reach 195 m as built for a cross pit spreader for Russia.

directly from a Bucket Wheel/Chain Excavator. The discharge boom of those Spreaders reaches over the open pit and transfers the material directly onto the dump site.
Tenova TAKRAF Cross Pit Spreader operate in Russia (8800 m³/h – 195 m boom length) and Hungary (5200 m³/h, 165 m boom length).