Join me for a day in the life of a heavy plant mechanic working in construction, forestry and quarries ! I work for Scotlands only dealer of Develon construction equipment we do diggers, dozers, shovels and dump trucks ! In this episode I’ll be in the yard with a customers DX140LCR-5 for an intermittent fault with the exhaust brake but I come accross more than I expected!
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Ali, if you were to purchase a 13t. Would you go for the standard or zero
Hope you got the holes sorted for time being…..nightmare
Sounds like we escaped the worst of the wind in Orkney. Was a lot windier for us before Christmas with the “Storm with no name”. Hope you got the roof sorted.
Cheers Ali, life is full of obstacles but you’re doing alright 🤙 all the best for now.
Try working on site Plenmellor up top of Haltwhistle or Pica out west on coal job🥶back in the day..or Shap 😳
Yeah I know,you get up in the forrests 😃👍
Ali, I hope you got your roof sorted – totally agree about it being hard to speak to a real person at insurance companies, it needs to be raised through complaints and maybe, just maybe they'll do something about it. That counterweight on the non tailswing machine really needs to come with lifting hooks attached. That was a claas bit of work on the telehandler … See what I did there 😂 hope you and yours stay well 👌🏻
Sorry to hear about your roof nothing worse, I hope you get it sorted. As for the DX 140 as I`ve said before these modern machines are far too complicated. When you take into the account of all the ancillaries etc the materials and time to manufacture them its zero gain. Good old school injector pump with minimum engine info (temps pressure etc) is all you need.
Machine will keep running. Its getting beyond ridiculous. A good engine running constant will produce very little polution.
Give me 4 foot of snow over wind any day!
Our roof got hit in 2021 with storm Arwen. It rained concrete roof tiles for 2 hours, and by some miracle, everyone of them missed the glass conservatory roof!
Shed at the bottom of the garden got dented, neighbours were finding tiles in their gardens.
We ended up paying a roofer just over £2.5k to fix it 3 days later because the insurance was such a carry on! Basically told to get 3 written quotes and submit them so they could decide who to use.
Trying to find a roofer to quote was virtually impossible as every 10th house in the area had some sort of roof damage and there was more heavy rain forecast.
We ended up just paying the first guy to do the job as he had 7 more quotes to do that day alone. The work took 3 days.
The woman 4 doors down did use her insurance and it took 7.5 weeks to get hers fixed. By that time she also had internal damage as the water had leaked in and trashed the ceilings in 2 bedrooms.
First of all , hope your house is ok Ali,secondly I wondered if you load tested the cables rather than using the ohm meter, I was always taught to load test as it’s a better method, maybe you did and didn’t film it but thought I’d ask.
Ali I hope everything is OK at home
Ha ha…….so not just me then, had similar fault….
Counter weight off like you.
I found one wire had broken inside the plastic coating, not even trapped or waving about…….so it was intermediate too.
Was from ecu to tmaf…..so much work for one crappy wire !!!!!!
O heck hope you get your roof sorted out Ali 😯😯.
A very careful job taking that back weight off .easy does it 😐.
Makes sense to check for any faulty parts in the engine before the weight goes back on ..
Hi Ali, I'm in Carlisle and have a couple contacts of some roofers if you still need someone