Routine maintenance of your production loaders helps ensure high productivity, keeps operating costs down, and promotes long machine life.

by Todd Tuntland

Production loaders set the pace for putting rock in the box. Keeping them digging and loading efficiently is largely a function of routine maintenance. Proper routine maintenance, coupled with good operating practices, delivers the lowest cost per ton.

Production loaders, which set the pace for putting rocks in the box, need to be maintained properly to ensure lowest cost per ton.

Following the inspection guidelines and maintenance intervals detailed in your wheel loader operation and maintenance manual is the best way to keep operating costs down, and it’s the main way to avoid mechanical failures that result in costly unplanned downtime and lost production. Additionally, routine inspection and maintenance — with emphasis on repair before failure — enable components to achieve their full design lives. Worn components taken out of service before they fail also have a greater likelihood of providing valuable cores for remanufacturing.