Extended wear life bucket edges are guaranteed by following the right maintenance tips.
Maintenance Tips for Buckets
A bare bucket should never be operated
The bucket’s structural strength and integral part are directly affected by its base edge. The machine’s lifespan is extended with the use of wear plates. It is also seen as the most cost-effective way of prolonging the machine’s life and productivity. Half-arrow edges can be welded or bolted on if the application does not need teeth or bucket teeth edges.
Timely replacement of worn base edges
Wearing out until it becomes too thin is not the proper way of maintaining the base edges of buckets. Buckets are likely to fail when its base edges become too thin. Structural damage to the bucket and unscheduled downtime are the things that are likely to happen when the machine fails to do its work. Pre-drilled bolt holes bucket edges or base edges are the best things to use to maintain the integrity of the bucket’s base edges.
Rotating bucket tips to distribute wear
Turning over or rotating bucket tips from the centre to ends and vice versa maintains its sharpness, extend wear life, and distribute wear. Segment wear is also distributed when end segments are rotated at turn time toward the centre.
Running tips, bolt-on edges, and segments
Maximising full service of bolt-on edges, tips, and segments are to run them full-on but not beyond. The structural components of the bucket are compromised when wear life is exceeded. This also spells expensive repair costs.
Using the proper adjustment in maintaining the bucket positioner
Uneven wear on the bucket’s bottom is eliminated when the proper adjustment in maintaining the bucket positioner brings it level to the ground. Placing tips at the right angle is achieved with the proper positioning of the bucket. This position also allows maximum penetration.
Daily bucket linkage pins lubrication checks
Consider installing sealed linkage pins on machines that do not feature it. The installation of sealed linkage pins reduces maintenance time as well as extends the intervals for lubrication.
Minimal ground contact of the bucket
Entering the stockpile should be the only time a bucket should be lowered to the ground. The GET consumption increases and ground wear of the bottom of the bucket happen with unnecessary ground contacts.
Bolt-on Cutting Edges for Corner Guard
Stockpiling or clean-up work that does not demand penetration needs only the use of corner guard cutting edges. The benefits of using this system include:
- Increases the capacity of the bucket
- The life expectancy of the base edge is extended five times more compared to an unprotected base edge
- Provides a smoother floor maintenance upkeep
- Easy and fast replacement
Bolt-on cutting edges are corner protectors that are designed to protect wear on the bucket corners. The use of bolt-on cutting edges provides better penetration with corner guard bucket system applications such as bank loading, stockpiling, and light excavations.
Bolt-on Edge Segments
Segments that are directly bolted to the base edge bottom of buckets provide benefits, such as:
- Maintaining a smoother work surface
- Eliminate scalloping with the between teeth base edge protection
- Increased bucket capacity
- Increased lifespan of base edge
Wearing and chipping happen even to the best machinery components.