Thread: Excavators

The other thing to be looking for apart from track gear, slew rings and the other obvious wear points is seeing if you can find the type of work it was used for - one machine I saw spent a considerable amount of time getting the boom sections rebuilt. Was used with a vibratory hammer forcing in piles and the boom ends eventually failed with cracking, just too bloody hard on it.

Some of the operating environments are bloody hard on gear, some mining areas eat track gear and the ground contact gear just doesn't last.