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Sell off the outdated heavy equipment

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Every rewarding industry is dynamic and it requires people who are associated with such industry to change with time and situations. Knowing the construction industry, one will suggest that in order to survive in this industry, one has to keep himself updated and abreast with all the latest developments. It may not be a simple task but when it comes to heavy equipment, one has to seriously follow the mandate of the time. They have to procure latest heavy equipment or even machines that are not pretty old. This often leaves us with the question what will happen with the old machines that we already have in our position. The heavy equipment that you have been using for more than 1-2 decades should be shunted from use and also no operator would like to work on a machine that is so primitive.

You may have the finance to buy new machines but the real challenge would be to do something with the old stuff. Since they are so old that you can’t put it on rent or sell it off to someone who is also on the look of used machines, you are not left with many options. Well, there is certainly something left for you that you can do to get rid of the old hag. There are some companies that deal with very old machines. They buy them by giving a decent price and dismantle it. They pick up the important components from it and using their engineering skills try to develop a new machine. They may not have a band but they also find customers for the machines they have built.

So the first thing that you got to be doing is check out such companies in your area or in your city who buys outdated heavy equipment. You may find some within your city. The next thing that you should do is show them the machine and check how much they can offer you. Try to negotiate with them and see the best price that you can get. You have to try this with all the companies and then sell it off to the highest bidder. If you see problem is ferrying the machine from your place to theirs, you can ask them to come and pick it up. They can even dismantle the machine and pick everything. You take the money and that is it.

One more option that you can take is sell the machine to a scrap dealer but that is not a suitable one and should be only used if you are not finding any company who can buy your machine. If your machine is way too old and none of its parts is in order, it may become a real challenge to sell it off to these companies. They also look for some quality in your machine and if they do not see any they will refrain from buying it. Then you are left with selling the stuff to a scrap dealer who will pay you a meager amount which will not be something delightful.

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Different Types of Concrete Crusher Excavators

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Concrete Crusher Excavator is an amalgamation of excavator and concrete crushing equipment. It is the perfect tool which finds its application for harsh purposes such as recovering and destroying roads, buildings, pillars and foundations. A concrete crusher excavator is also used in gravel crushing since it cleans up gravel in a very environment friendly manner. It is simple and cost effective heavy equipment.

There are a variety of advantages in recycling concrete instead of removing it in a landfill.

  • Storing concrete debris out of landfills helps in saving the landfill space
  • By utilising recycled material as gravel decreases the requirement for gravel mining.
  • Using recycled concrete for road reduces the menace of contamination engaged in truck material.

The different types of Concrete Crusher Excavators are:

The Crusher Bucket-It provides the most innovative and effective solution to a construction site by fulfilling all the crushing requirements. The crusher bucket can be attached to several excavators. Due to the efficiency of crusher buckets in crushing any immovable material contractors are depending heavily on it. Instead of opting for mechanical equipment they have started investing on the crusher buckets. This enables them to reduce their transportation dumpsite and management costs.

The Hydraulic Cutters– The hydraulic cutter is an effective device which serves the purpose for cutting through metal. The cutting is done by the Jaws of Life, The jaws are made up of blades. Sometimes particularly to its capacity to cut a hard spherical steel bar, these are mainly and generally used to slice through a vehicle’s structure during an extraction procedure. Cutter blades are disposable and the blade is developed in such a way that it is able to deal with the innovative car safety technology.

It offers elevated crushing of any material in just one bite with high breaking force. This means it saves fuel and consumes less time. It mainly finds application in cutting of brick, stone, sandstone, granite and other masonry purposes.

The main characteristics and benefits of hydraulic cutter are cutting jaws made up of steel, hydraulic rotation which can rotate up to 360 degree, push able cylinders and replaceable blades and teeth.

Screening Bucket-Screening Bucket is a concrete crusher that is compatible with any excavator. It is a perfect tool for crushing innate materials. The screening bucket is easy to maintain due to its simple structural design and guarantees good ability even with that materials that are wet. Most of the material load is borne by the screen combs situated at the top reducing the burden on drums and bearings.

Hydraulic Pulveriser-It is a type of Concrete Crusher Excavator that is beneficial in secondary demolition purposes. It has the following technical advantages:

  • Offers good resistance to wear and tear
  • Have longer life span
  • Broad jaws which makes the working surface large
  • The Hydraulic Cylinder is fully shielded
  • Endowed with removable and exchangeable tooth.
  • Lower jaws which are flat scooping for easily collecting building blocks from land.
  • Easy to maintain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depend on online websites to sell your heavy equipment

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Selling is a skill and if you are not good in that skill then you may have a hard time in selling stuff that you have used to some other person. It is not that everybody uses brand new items but as a matter of fact, you will find several people who like to use more of used stuffs than going for new things. The reason is pretty simple. Used items cost less and then they do not have to shell more to buy them. So they get the technology at a reduced price and in this process save some money.

However, in order to sell your used item to people, you got to sound very convincing and if you feel that it is too hard for you to sound convincing then you have to sell the stuff at a dirt cheap price. People will at least flock in hearing that you are selling it for real cheap. They may then not consider how latest the technology you were using. They might just go for it if they really need it. But in this entire process, the one who loses is you as you had the chance of making good money but just because you lack the skill of putting things in a presentable manner to convince people to pay a good price, you succumbed for a shoddy sale.

Now consider that you were trying to sell your heavy equipment and you were not able to present it the way you should have for a good deal. You will make heavy loss in the transaction. Therefore it is quite important for you to know the right platform from where you can sell your heavy equipment and can still expect to get a good price for it.

With the advent of internet and various businesses happening on websites, you can also make money in there. All you have to do is know which site is good for selling heavy equipment and what people does to sell their machines at a good price. For this, you should be watching other’s listing for a few days and check what different are they using on the website that helps them to fetch a high price for their items. This is the first and the most crucial step that will change the way of selling that you have adopted and have been practicing for a long time. Once you are done with checking other’s listing and got the idea, you have to work on your skills to put up your item in a similar fashion.

Most of the websites selling heavy equipment gives you the option of selecting a fixed price which means that you can put the price of the machine that you feel is suitable and let the buyers decide if they should be going for the purchase. However, what you should add on the listing is information that people will find helpful to know about your machine. If they feel the stuff you are selling meets their requirement, Bingo. You have made a sale.

Long Reach Excavator

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An excavator is normally used to dig deep inside the earth and extract the dirt out so that it can make way for a strong foundation for the building. Therefore, an excavator has a lot of importance when it comes to the construction or mining sector. Construction companies are ready to pay large sum of money to buy excavators that are best in fuel efficiency, productivity and reliability. On the other hand, heavy equipment producing companies also pay heed to the demands of their customers making it a point that they manufacture world class products after doing some extensive research work. When the construction companies felt the need of a long reach excavator, they had one probably during the 1970’s by MHJ Ltd. The long reach excavator was designed specifically to work on waterways. Now what is important in long reach excavators is the hydraulic fittings that needs to be of top notch quality and that gave way to companies like Hitachi and Komatsu who were said to be the leaders of producing quality machines in their zones.

A long reach excavator is needed to remove large quantities of stuff from water surface which is not possible by the normal type of excavators that we all know. Caterpillar was soon to join the race and became one of the most splendid manufacturers giving stiff competition to the ones who were holding the market for a long time. We will be speaking in brief about the specs of 345B L Series II Long Reach Hydraulic Excavator that became famous after it was introduced in the heavy equipment market.

Starting with the boom/stick of the machine, the shipping length and height of the unit is 49 ft in and 18.4 ft in respectively. The maximum cutting height and loading height is 47.4 ft in and 38.2 ft in while the maximum reach along ground and the digging depth is 57.7 ft in and 40.1 ft in respectively. Moving to the dimension of the machine, the width to outside of tracks is 14.2 ft in and the length of track on ground is also of the same measurement. The ground clearance of the machine is 2.3 ft in and the height to the top of the cab is 12 ft in and the tail swing radius is also 12 ft in. The track gauge is 12.2 ft in and the shoe size is 23.6in.

The 345B L Series long reach excavator has been gifted with high power to perform. The gross and net power of the machine is 345 hp and 321 hp with a displacement of 628.5 cu in. The operational weight of the machine is 51300 kg with a fuel capacity of 720 liters. The cooling system fluid capacity, hydraulic system fluid capacity and engine oil capacity is 66 liters, 520 liters and 30 liters respectively. The minimum bucket capacity is 1.4m3 and the maximum capacity is 1.7m3. It can travel at a maximum speed of 2.7 mph keeping it pretty stable.

 

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Laying proper strategy can change the face of your company

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The one who can lay down concrete strategy and can walk on it will be able to reach the pinnacle. Setting up concrete strategies by foreseeing the obstacles and opportunities is an art that not many can master but the one who can anticipate and work accordingly can reach new heights. If we see what it took for owners of huge conglomerates to come to the place where they are, they will credit it to the fact that they could envisage things. They were able to foresee the threats the company could encounter and on the basis of that they worked things out. They chalked out plans keep the threats into consideration and made sure that all of them stick to the plan.

This kind of an approach is very important in an industry like construction. People belonging to the construction industry often encounter stiff competition from their business rivals and in such a situation it is quite essential that they anticipate the risks well in advance and take necessary steps to get over them. Now once you have anticipated the risk, the second important step would be to formulate plans that have the potential to mitigate the risk and bail the company out of any misadventure.

Setting up of appropriate plans and success goes hand in hand:-

As long as you do not have the right strategy in place, it is very difficult to find success. You may try every possible thing and work very hard to attain success but it only comes when you have a set plan in front of you. You got to think what should be your next step, what you need to achieve next and keep pursuing it unless and until you get it through. Success comes to those who have a set vision and have laid concrete plans to get what they want. It absolutely goes hand in hand with a real tangible strategy.

It boosts the confidence of the investors:-

Construction industry is heavily dependent on investors. You can’t take a big project alone and finance it completely on your own. You need people to fund you at regular intervals. Investors are a big requirement as far as the construction industry is concerned and you have their attention only if you have a tangible strategy in place. You can discuss your plans with the investors and see how they feel about it. It is not necessary that they will always appreciate your plan. It may have certain loopholes that you may have probably missed. Do not get dejected in case your plan is not liked. Try to customize your strategy based on the likings of the investors but make sure that they go in sync with the business requirements. You do not have to compromise to please people to fund you. Ideally if your strategy makes sense, it will definitely boost the confidence of the investors in investing their money in your project. Once they taste success, they will trust you way forward.

Excavator Track Repair

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Repairing of heavy equipment can turn out to be an expensive affair as some parts of the machine may need to be replaced and they must be costing very high which can become unaffordable for many in the construction business. However, when it comes to the repair of equipment that are of utmost importance to the project and without which you will not be able to proceed any further then you are left with no other choice but to get it replaced or repaired. One of the most critical parts of the heavy machinery is the undercarriage. It is primarily that part which carries the entire load of the machine and if that has any issues working, then there is a possibility that the machine might take a halt. So whenever you come across any problem that is related to the undercarriage of the machine, you got to ensure that you fixed it as soon as you can before things move out of your control.

We will be discussing how important it is to make sure that the track of the excavator is well in place and in case if it has problems how to get it repaired.

The track of an excavator is considered to be one of the strongest parts of the machine. It has to go through unaccountable frictions on a daily basis. The excavator works in a muddy ditch as well as on snow. It has to work on rough terrain most of the times which is why the chances of its tracks getting ruined are much higher. Well, what one needs to do is pay good enough attention to the tracks whenever they seem to experience things are not good down on the tracks. Due to the horrendous friction that it goes through, there are chances that the rubber of the track will tear off.

There are numerous companies that have come out with repair kit that can be applied on excavator tracks repairing the tear that has been caused due to friction. If there is any major cut injuries on the body of the track that can be dealt with the help of this rubber kit. You have to first loosen up the nut on the front end of the undercarriage. That will in turn loosen the track rubber out of its place and you can then pull it out. Take help of the rubber kit and fix the part that had trouble and then put it back in place.

The rubber kits are not at all expensive and one can easily find it within his budget. Ideally most of the operators are trained in fixing the excavator’s track. So just in case you do not know how to do it, you have someone to do it for you. Moreover, it is no rocket science that you can’t learn to repair the excavator track. You can pretty well watch the guy doing it and try your hands. This is probably the best way you’ll learn to do things.

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The right way to repo heavy equipment

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Heavy equipment are usually expensive materials and not many can afford to buy them by paying hard cash. The small contractors or small construction companies usually find it very difficult to arrange money to buy equipment but if they have no other option they approach a bank or some financial institution that lends them the money to buy the stuff. Now that they have possessed the machine, the next difficult task for them is to keep on with the monthly payments and any defaults with the payments may cost them the machine. Well, the loan system works this way. You borrow money from the lender and promise to pay the entire sum along with interest at regular intervals. Till the time you do not clear off the debt, the lender holds lien on the equipment. This means that if you fail to pay money to the bank, then it has complete right and authority to take possession of your equipment.

This really sounds harsh but people all across the United States have to go through this phase in some or the other time in their lives. Having said that, no lender ever wants to repo heavy equipment and they use this as the last resort. Lenders simply want their money back with the interest amount that the borrower has committed to pay. Just in case, if they find the borrower is unable to pay the installments they try to establish contact with the borrower to check if he is going through any financial turbulence. They try to sort things out with the borrower and if they find that he is unable or just unwilling to pay then they go for the repo; which means they send the guys to tow the machine from the borrower’s place so that it can be sold a dirt cheap price to someone else and in this process they can get their money back.

The process is quite simple. If the borrower is unable or unwilling to pay the loan, the lender brings the repo guys in the picture and then they got everything to do from there. They will track the item give the notice to the borrower where it will clearly state that they are taking away the machine since he was not able to pay the debts in time and after repeated reminders when he failed to show up with the money, the lender which has the first lien on the item is finally forced to take it back. The repo guys get some money based on the kind of stuff they would be towing. For instance, if they tow heavy equipment, then they get their fee based on the weight of the machine.

Before the repo guys can tow the machine, they got to be careful that they are towing the right equipment and not the one that belongs to somebody else’s. They need to check the Serial Number and accordingly tow the machine. They also need to inform the local police so that if the owner of the machine gives a call to the police, the authorities could explain him the matter. Once they repo the equipment, they keep the stuff in their storage facility or simply hand it over to their clients.

 

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Do not let winter eat away your heavy equipment

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Winter is a major cause of concern for both heavy equipment manufacturing companies as well as construction companies. Once it starts snowing, things become very difficult for them to carry on. The ongoing projects come to a standstill and there are high chances that the construction companies may not be able to deliver the work in time and due to this they may incur heavy losses. No business would ever like to make losses just because the weather condition is hostile and it did not allow the men to work. Other than that, the construction companies are also at risk as far as their equipment are concerned. Most of the equipment during winters just do not want to start. So the operators also face a tough time in getting the equipment started. A lot needs to be done to take care of the machine during the winters. Heavy equipment are at their worst during this chill season and if proper care is not taken then there may be lot of complications which will ultimately result in a bigger mess.

Check if the engine oil is in order:-

We tend to remain so busy with our work that we fail to give the required attention to the machines. Changing the engine oil at least once in 2 months should be done without fail. However especially winters, they should be checked more frequently and made sure that the engine oil is in good shape. In case, if the oil becomes thick then it is time to change the oil. Any delay in that situation will only cause problem to the machine reducing its longevity.

Get the equipment serviced by an expert mechanic:-

Just when the winter is knocking the door, it is advisable to get the equipment serviced by an expert mechanic. It would be prudent if you do not get the machine serviced by anybody other than an expert. Just when the winter is at the corner, a lot of things need to be checked in the machine which may often get skipped by a routine mechanic but may hardly skip the eye of an expert.

Painting the machine will be a good alternative:-

If you have an old machine and it needs urgent attention of the mechanic, get it checked first and then get it paint for once. Painting the machine will give a new look to the machine. You can also put some stickers or logos especially in areas where it is slightly dented and has scratch marks on it. Painting the equipment may also protect it from getting rusted during the chilled season. It acts as a good alternative when you are short of money.

Get the faulty parts replaced:-

Just in case if any part of the machine (attachable or not) goes faulty, it should be replaced as soon as possible. Just in case, if it is not replaced in time then severe cold may cause further problem which may become irreparable.

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