Moving Dirt The preferred method of moving dirt is to collect a full blade of dirt, then to slide dirt forward to...
Excessive Tramming Where machines need to be moved across long distances on the mine-site, the practice of loading them onto a float...
Sharp or Quick Turns Avoid sharp turns as this produces excessive lateral forces on track roller flanges and is unnecessary. Stop machine before sharp...
Spinning the Track Where possible, avoid spinning the track as this leads to increased wear on the grouser bars.
Avoid Reversing Uphill Reversing uphill creates massive forces in chain tension. Such forces lead to accelerated wear on the pins bushes sprockets and...
Avoid Ripping Uphill Uphill travel already loads the undercarriage considerably. This will be exacerbated with on uphill ripping. Downhill or flat ripping uses...
Normal Ripping Correct angle of ripper when ripping to load the undercarriage across complete lengthThe ripper has two modes: penetration and ripping....
Back Blading Do not back blade any material as this increases the stress on the undercarriage components while reversing.