Rude Awakening.

[RocksnRoses]

They are a national franchise company specialising in repairing all hydraulic hoses in the field and all of the outlets are independent franchises. That may explain it, maybe this particular franchisee want's to get rich quick. Perhaps we are paying field service rates for getting the hoses made in their workshop.

Rn'R.

 

[Neil D]

What about getting your fitter to fabricate a steel guard over these pipes to stop them coming into the cab the next time they blow?

Neil

 

[RocksnRoses]

What about getting your fitter to fabricate a steel guard over these pipes to stop them coming into the cab the next time they blow?

Neil

You are right, Neil, it needs a guard or steel mesh there to protect the windscreen. It is a case of "hindsight being a wonderfull thing", I just never expected it and how often does a hose blow completely out of the fitting, they usually just burst.

Rn'R.

 

[Neil D]

Rocksn'Roses
Count the hindsight thing out -I suffer from a distinct lack of that!!!!
More the "Been there, done that, bought the tee-shirt" sort of experience

cheers
Neil

 

[tracksfan]

non operators don't know about some of the dangers like this, they think you sit on your can all day having fun, then blammo! you get an oil bath at the least or burned, injured, dead. I got a 963 track loader with an open rops and some hyd lines on the bucket cylinder that are looking a little rotten. Time to replace after reading your post. I think I have seen some loaders with a guard over the lines. seems like a good idea. Back around 1990 I was running an old 627 with an open rops. I looked back at the bowl and pulled the lever to lift the apron or raise the bowl, can't remember which, and the line blowed out on the hitch right behind the cab. It caught me full in the face, I didn't know what happened at first, I guess it stunned me. Lucky for me it was before the oil got hot. No injuries just a needed to get cleaned up. oh yeah, and fix the dang hose and get back to work!

 

[terex]

Repairing earthmovers over many years Ive had plenty of soakings with hot high pressure hydraulic oil but the worst case of injury I came across was when one of our mechanics was trying to trace a leak in the cab of a mich.275 loader. A very fine 'mist' of oil was coming up from the pilot pressure hoses beneath a cover and rather than take the cover off and have a look he tried to locate the leak by running his hand along the pipes. He found the leak alright after the oil punctured the skin on his hand. He ended up with a hydraulic version of the 'bends' and spent some time in hospital recovering.

 

[Neil D]

Terex,
Have to admit I never knew you could get poisoned with oil puncturing the skin until the first Health & Safety cards came out around 1989 this neck of the woods. I have to say the thought of the pain and suffering etc to this day when I see a hydraulic mist or leak, I step back and focus my thoughts remembering this stuff so I do not do something stupid on the spur of the moment.

Neil

 

[RocksnRoses]

the oil punctured the skin on his hand.

The same thing happened to a farmer here a few years ago. He put his finger over a leak in a hydraulic line to a seeder, just as his son pulled the lever and the oil was injected into his finger. He was very ill for a while, but his health never really recovered until he died.

Rn'R.

 

[xcavator120]

About the only real treatment of Hydro oil poisoning (injected into you), is to have a blood transfusion. That will rid most of it, however still not 100%.

 

[dozerdave]

Yes Rocksn'Roses I have.

I was operating an 18 yd. Dart loader and a tilt cyl. hose failed and shot my hard hat off and saturated me with hot oil. No air con so the side window and cab door was open. With the same loader I sent a ball of rattle snakes to the dam and the dump man on the impervious zone had to keep his eyes open for a while. I never saw the snakes go into the belly dump but there were snakes crawling around on the ground down below.

 

[RocksnRoses]

Yes Rocksn'Roses I have.

I was operating an 18 yd. Dart loader and a tilt cyl. hose failed and shot my hard hat off and saturated me with hot oil. No air con so the side window and cab door was open. With the same loader I sent a ball of rattle snakes to the dam and the dump man on the impervious zone had to keep his eyes open for a while. I never saw the snakes go into the belly dump but there were snakes crawling around on the ground down below.

I hope the oil wasn't too hot, Dave, it certainly wakes you up when it happens.
I do not know anything about rattlesnakes, I only have seen pictures of them, but here the King Brown's hibernate through winter and they like to hibernate under the piles of limestone rocks that we crush. If you are operating the feeder on the crusher, it is not unusual to see a big old King Brown wriggling his way across the scalper and the loader driver will be sitting there, waiting for a reaction, although quite often, they do not even know that the snake is in the bucket. One of the jobs is picking the sticks off the scalper and a brown snake looks very similar to a stick and occasionally you have to make a hurried retreat from the scalper. Fortunately at that time of the year, they are pretty dopey and they either finish up going through the crusher, or slithering through the scalper screen and out the scalper belt.

Rn'R.

 

[RocksnRoses]

About the only real treatment of Hydro oil poisoning (injected into you), is to have a blood transfusion. That will rid most of it, however still not 100%.

It is certainly something to be mindful of xcavator120 and as I described in my earlier post, it can happen so easily.

Rn'R.

 

[OCR]

He was very ill for a while, but his health never really recovered until he died.

Rn'R.

That's probably my fate too, Rn'R... :cool2


OCR...

 

[MrKomatsu]

bn there and done that RnR.......sorry that it happen 2 u...i hade a Komatsu PC650 bust a stick cylinder line at the jumper end from hose to pipe right next to the cab window....u know komatsu's pressure is 8000 plus psi....ouch......hot oil 3rd degree burns.......bck in 1989.......i glad you didnt get hurt......

 

[Squizzy246B]

That's probably my fate too, Rn'R... :cool2


OCR...

Ahhh...I reckon theres a coupla miles left in ya yet OCR

 

[OCR]

Ahhh...I reckon theres a coupla miles left in ya yet OCR

Ya' think.

Maybe a few, but they seem to be going by, rather fast...

And thank you...


OCR

 

[Case 580e]

it has never happen to me but my dad was on our 980c cat loader and the same hose broke but it was the other end and i just stopped for lunch and all the oil had sprayed in the the cab I was just sitting in and it was some hot oil.

 

[truecountry]

man glad youre ok .....had my share of the oil baths working on 210 , 310 appentice and barko 160 knuckle booms .....most dangerous thing i seen happened 5 years ago working at a trucking co that had thier own mobar mulch grinder and chipper dump .... the chip dump you could back a tracter trailer on it unhook truck pull up and it would pick it up almost straight up in air emptying the chips inside 2 cylinders 7 or 8 stages cant remeber .. well it had a hose leaking and we where digging the chips and dust from under it and big boss man rolled up asked what the hell are yall doing , i tolded him he laughed said its got ball valves inline pick it up and replace hose .. i said no he responsed youre fired .. i said ok ... was gathering my tools and watching him and others lift this conrete slab in air straight up hydralic fluid streaming out like a baby pissing and procede to remove hose .. he made a half turn hose blew off soaked him with 200 gallons of fluid ( he was wearing a high dollar leather coat silk shirt and slacks ) all workers under dump had to climb out as the slab came down in 30 secs ...no one hurt thankfully but 1000 in coats lol they left their truck doors open so had to redo interoir in work trucks ..... priceless ..... i was fires rehired with a rasie that nite ........ left a year later cause they stilll took to many chances .......