Loading with Hitachi EX3600 & Cat 994F, that's why 789s were picked. Product is gold/silver/copper.What are they loading with Nige? And what are they mining? I can't remember.
Gav, the thing is that if you lift the body using the 2 lugs underneath the side section (a change from what the photos on Page 2 show) it won't quite go vertical enough to roll over. What we've evolved as a procedure is to lift the body clear of the ground using those lugs so it's almost vertical then place about 40cm (8") of cribbing at 2 points under the sidewall - basically under the same places as the holes either side of the load placement arrow are located. As you let the body down slowly on to the cribbing it naturally tends to roll over and lands flat on its back. We then grab it with 4 legs using the lugs in the floor and put it where we want it in the shop. With the overhead crane it's quite simple really.Great thread Nige and interesting to hear your comments as always. It,s amazing what you can do in another part of the world, i worked for an international gold miner in Australia and would have been run off site to even suggest rolling dump bodies like that, we actually had some used DS bodies that turned out to be thin on the sides where that std Cat lifting lug is and they would not let us use the assembly lugs (which were the same size) on the underside of the body as the slings then had to pass 90 degrees, held a trucky up for 2 days untill i crafted an email!!
Mind you the day i saw an email come through with an attachement titled "procedure to right a procedure" that explained it all, what a pack of idiots!
Loading with Hitachi EX3600 & Cat 994F, that's why 789s were picked. Product is gold/silver/copper.
We have one of each. Sorry, my experience is they're a POS. I'd drench 'em in diesel and burn the barstewards to the ground just to collect the insurance money if they were mine. ...... there are much better hydraulics around than Hitachi IMHO. When they were bought the mine was given no choice in what brand was purchased, which I think is wrong because everyone's particular circumstances are different, especially when it comes to the service provided by the local dealer who can range from tremendous to terrible.The EX 3600-6 is a fine machine, backhoe or shovel config? At work here they're getting rid of the 3600 shovel, even though if they used it properly, it'd be one of the most productive diggers on site.
The 854 is a D11 on wheels. I love them.