Their Cat Trucks are getting an amazing 20,000 to 24,000 operating hrs to overhaul. KUDOS to the Mine operators & maintenance crews, That's like 3 straight years of day in day out operation.
Having to hone a multi-thousand dollar part right out of the box? Did the machinist even read the print when they produced the part or were they trying to stuff a Toyota part in to a Lexus car? Blimey.
I am a auto mechanic and I have these same issues with manufactured parts right out of the box. some parts get machined to the wrong dimensions and there is nothing Absolutely nothing wrong with adjusting them "in the field" of shop in most cases.
@@ooelectronoo I understand your sentiment and have also had my share of parts that needed 'field engineering' to fit, but the margin of error between a car or a rock crusher is way different than an aluminum tube rocketing through the air at 500+mph at 30,000 feet. Precision is the name of the game with airlines (or should be.)
ooelectronoo exactly. I was also just throttled when I saw them opening the crate the pin showed up in and it looked like it had been rattling loose in the box all over Australia! If you’re going to store it, at least wrap the threads in plastic! As for the assembly pin on the pintle, it looks like they have a pressed-in bushing that gets replaced perhaps they put the wrong bushing in. But still, they should have caught that on a load-bearing component.
This is such bull shit made for TV . Why would they only order the pin and not a new nut ? And as for the broken material handler . Why not loosen the hydraulic lines and pull the stabilizers up ???
Love these shows, just a shame they are about coal. Our governments need to do more to ensure these hardworking men and women have other opportunities when inevitably we have to quit burning things to survive. Much of this coal goes to China where there is absolutely no way of knowing if it is even burned in a safe and responsible manner or if harmful oxides and particulates are just ejected into the atmosphere we all share. Its the atmospheric equivalent of having a peeing section in a swimming pool...
Whoever made that pin for the landing gear that they kept having trouble with must've had a bad day, that company needs to work on quality control or maybe it was supposed to go in the trash but accidentally got sent out
Tyler c look at the way it was shipped...it looked like it was loose in the box, possibly getting tossed all over the place. What amazes me is that it takes 4 or 5 people to figure out something that I was screaming at the screen from the beginning!
What do you expect when you have equipment that is assembled from parts made in every country in the European union. Airbus seems to be more of a parts assembler than a manufacturer. QA seems spotty too since one part had multiple problems.
I really dislike the documentary trend over the past 20 years to interleave three stories piece by piece. Tell ONE story, then the NEXT story, then the NEXT story...
How would the plans landing gear take half the weight of the aircraft? haha It obviously takes all the weight once it’s in the ground.. unless he means per individual gear.
16:21 that absolutely doesn’t have the capability of a crane. Not even close. It’s a forklift with a telescopic boom . You can’t rig to it without a special fork adapter. It has no cable , it’s can’t swing left or right. It’s just a forklift with tires . I work with cranes and also those RT forklifts .. 100% difference .
derek Rohan what I couldn’t figure out is why, after taking one look at the fucked squid inside the back of the boom the head guy didn’t immediately say “get the crane, this thing needs to GO!!”? They wasted (according to the show) 5 HOURS!!
Good team to work with n I'm also a heavy duty n light duty mechanic looking for a new job .I would like to be in yr workshop if u give me the opportunity. Kindly help me to get a job in yr workshop
bucket wheel excavators exist almost entirely/solely to mine lignite, the dirtiest, lowest-energy-content coal there is. Germany is a huge consumer of it, after China.
If you skip like 10 seconds before the end of the viedo and let it play out. Then click the reply button the adds should disappear. This should work on almost any RU-vid viedo
The only difference I see in this mine shop vs ones in US is safety/PPE the difference is hard hats US is required to wear hard hats by OSHA. My first day on the job that I had a guy was working on something and the hydraulic line came off and hit him in the hard hat 99.0% sure he would have died if he didn't have the hard hat on. It cracked it half the way on the left side of the hard hat. (Front of the hard hat to the middle of it.) So wear all PPE.
Heather Bergstad especially around charged yet static systems like pressurized lines, wires/cables with electrical potential, loads with kinetic potential, etc.