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Protect your heavy equipment during winter

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Winter has often caused enormous problems for heavy equipment owners. Construction companies have at times suffered huge losses as they were unable to get the machine to operate. This is therefore very crucial to protect your heavy equipment during this time of the year when there is heavy snow on the road and the weather out is absolutely chilled. One of the prime reasons why heavy equipment fail to work during winters is lack of maintenance. You have to make it a point to service the heavy equipment regularly or else it is bound to give problems at some point or the other and winters can be really vulnerable.

Heavy equipment like graders that are used to get snow off the road should be really well maintained. Right from the engine to its blades every part of the heavy equipment plays an important role in removing snow. Just before winter arrives, you should do some tests with the machine and check if everything is in order. If it gives slightest of indication of any issues, you should get it resolved from a mechanic. If at all you have the skill to fix heavy equipment reading the user manual you can try that out as well.

Read user manual to protect heavy equipment during winter:-

The user manual of particular heavy equipment is quite a crucial book and one should always keep it handy. It speaks in volumes about the way and methods that one can adopt to keep the machine active and running during any weather of the year. So just before the onset of winter the heavy equipment owner should check the manual and see what care has been advised by the book. Try to follow the user guide as much as you can. It will really help you to lengthen the overall life of the machine and also protect it during winter.

Keep your heavy equipment parts well lubricated:-

Start with the engine oil and end to the various crucial parts of the heavy equipment which require oil to stay lubricated. The oil that you use for the engine should match the outside temperature and try to use low viscosity oil that flows faster. Changing engine oil is most crucial and probably the most neglected part in this business. People have to compensate it with changing the engine or other vital parts which are damn expensive. Coolant is another thing that you must apply on the machine. Try to keep a mixture of 70% coolant and 30% water during the winters and in other seasons, it should be 50:50. Also you must ensure that the radiator is filled to the cap. This should be done before the start of the winter.

Apply tire chains so that it does not skid:-

While the heavy equipment is busy removing snow, there is a high possibility that it skids off from the road and hit the other lane. This could be dangerous and therefore applying tire chains is of utter importance. It will protect the tires from skidding and will ensure the safety of the operator and the machine.

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During Summer Give Your Machine the Coolant It Requires

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A construction site when it is in full swing is full of dust that forms a layer up to certain height. These dust particles enters the small pores which are left uncovered in the machine and when the dust gets accumulated in there, it causes problems to the machine. Therefore, there are various tools available which helps to take off the dust from the pores and keep the stuff working. Another major challenge which construction equipment has to experience is the scorching summer heat and on top of that, it is expected to work round the clock. This results in the machine becoming hot in no time and that eventually affects the life of the machine in a number of ways.

It is evident that we can’t do much about the summer heat but we can definitely fight it out to give more strength to our machine. There are number coolants available which if applied in the machine can help the engine to become cool faster and will thus help it to work for long hours. It will also prevent the equipment from getting shut every now and then which ideally happens when the engine becomes excessively hot and can’t take the heat anymore. Initially, not much mechanism was there to cool off the engine. However, the case is not the same any longer. The engineers of various heavy equipment manufacturing companies are producing machines where a set of coolants can be installed which will help the machine to cool off without interrupting the flow of the work.

We would also be discussing the various reasons why different coolants are required on heavy equipments.

To increase the life of the machine:-  Heavy equipments are highly priced items and it takes a good deal of money to buy a new branded equipment. Suppose, you have multiple projects in hand and for that you have allocated construction equipments accordingly at different locations. You would not want them to give up just because it does not have sufficient cooling systems in it. That would perhaps the last thing you would want to happen with your ongoing projects and that really hurts. Therefore, you might want to do everything possible to ensure that your equipment has the coolants to keep the engine buzzing and also that it continue to perform with the same intensity in the future.

Keep the atmosphere cool inside the cabin:-  Other than the engine, there is one more important place which always needs to remain cool and that is place in the cabin which is meant for the operator. Heat in the summer is killing and it can take its toll on the poor chap sitting inside the box operating the big gun. It is very important to ensure that there is proper cooling system installed inside the cabin which keeps the environment cool and workable. That will also lower the risk of accidents happening in the construction site.

A proper coolant can make life very simple both for the machine as well as for the one operating it.