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Re: Heavy Equipment Maintenance
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:37:36 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Duane Hess writes:
> Not sure where this should end up, so I'll start here and FUT to .General
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> I'm looking for pictures of wheel/tire replacement for heavy equipment in
> the field. If a large Terex dump truck gets a flat on the way to a mine, how
> do they raise the truck and replace the tire? Do they use a large jack and
> mobile crane, or some other equipment?
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> Any help is appreciated.
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> -Duane
I'd guess a crane, theres one (was two) mine 100 miles from here, but I had
never thought about the tires being changed! I know that they deliver them
with a normal flat bed truck, simular to a logging pulp wood truck, that has
a fairly large crane on it... I suppose a crane, & often changes at the
maintainence building!
Josh
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| (...) I know that there is a lot of preventive maintenance with the mining equipment, so my example is a little far fetched. Ross Crawford gave a good example of how they change out a tire in that situation. How about something a little more common (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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