Agricultural mods, Flu, Wash plant's, Bearings, Rollers! This one has it all! Chronicles Ch #026

Summary

The video follows a construction equipment service team as they troubleshoot issues with crushing machines at various job sites. They discover a jaw crusher hasn't been properly greased, causing a failed bearing, and make repairs. They emphasize the importance of proper maintenance procedures and training operators on grease points to prevent unnecessary breakdowns. Though they face some health setbacks, the team persists in sourcing parts, making repairs, and resolving problems to keep projects and clients on track.

Takeaways

• 😊 The video follows bz on maintenance jobs for heavy machinery like crushers and log washers
• 😮 A tail drum bearing has failed on a fairly new crusher due to lack of greasing
• 👨‍🔧 They lift the crusher and pull the belt aside to access and replace the bearing
• 🤔 The operator was not trained on all grease points, highlighting a need for better procedures
• ⛽ A bent guard plate is also replaced to avoid belt damage
• 🔧 A threaded sleeve is installed in a damaged block on an excavator track frame
• ⚙ The old bearing housing from the log washer is kept to reuse parts and save money
• 🔨 The damaged excavator part is reinstalled after being repaired
• 😊 Despite health issues, bz persists in completing the needed maintenance jobs
• 👍 Good maintenance prevents more costly breakdowns and keeps machines running

Q & A

What machine has the failed tail drum bearing?

A JCB JS45 excavator in Liverpool.

What is the cause of the bearing failure?

Lack of proper greasing over an extended period.

What process will they follow to replace the bearing?

They will lift the machine, drop the tail drum, pull the belt across, remove the old bearing, install a new one, reposition the belt and test.

What other maintenance issues did they find?

Lack of jaw tightening, material buildup inside the chassis, damaged belt, bent guard plate.

What will they do about the bent guard plate?

Remove it and remake at the correct 45 degree angle.

What was the other job they went to?

Replacing broken bolts and fixing threads on a top roller block from a CX210.

How did they fix the damaged threads?

By inserting a threaded metal sleeve and using Loctite.

What happened with the CX210 job?

The machine got returned so they will complete the repair back at the workshop.

What will they reuse from the old assembly?

The stub end piece, just needing a new bearing installed.

How did they weld on the new top roller block?

With low hydrogen electrodes, grounding to the track frame, using a stitch and 3 passes.

Outlines

00:00

😀 Introducing the video and upcoming repairs

The narrator introduces himself, explains it's part of an ongoing video series, and outlines the planned repairs for the day - inspecting a bearing at Jackson's plant, fixing a bucket, and picking up some farming equipment.

05:01

😮 Inspecting the bad bearing at the Jackson plant

They arrive at the Jackson plant to inspect a questionable bearing. After struggling to remove the cover, they find the bearing has failed badly and may have damaged the shaft and housing. They decide the full assembly likely needs replacement.

10:06

🤔 Deciding whether to replace bearing or full assembly

They debate whether just the bearing can be replaced or if the full assembly is needed. They contact Dave to order the full assembly, which has just arrived on site. They need to determine if further damage occurred when the bearing failed before deciding how to proceed.

15:07

🛠️ Preparing for bearing replacement job on Sunday

They determine the bearing replacement will be done on Sunday. They gather new bolts and make plans to use either an excavator or telehandler to lift the heavy shaft during the repair. The rest of the day's jobs proceed as normal.

20:09

🚜 Picking up rollers for farm equipment

They borrow a trailer and drive to a machinery dealer to pick up some rollers that were purchased for farm equipment repairs. The dealer provides some additional parts for free that may be needed to fit the longer rollers once installed.

25:11

🔨 Installing picked-up rollers in the workshop

After returning to the yard with the rollers, brief footage shows them installed in the workshop along with an explanation that gaps in footage exist due to illness. They mention a new piece of equipment has arrived to potentially showcase next week.

30:14

🧰 Inspecting and repairing crusher tail drum bearing

Arriving at a depot in Liverpool, they inspect a new crusher found to have a failed tail drum bearing due to lack of greasing. After discussion and training with the operator on proper grease points, they replace the bearing and a damaged belt guard.

35:15

⚙️ Repairing excavator top roller mount

They pick up a repaired top roller mount block for an excavator from a machine shop and learn it's no longer needed on site so they will weld it at their own workshop when the machine arrives back.

40:17

👷 Welding repaired mount back onto returned excavator

The excavator arrives back at their yard on a truck. They weld the repaired top roller mount back onto the machine, explaining why proper isolation and earthing is important for ensuring a sound weld.

45:19

🛠️ Saving bearing assembly stub for reuse

Showing the stub shaft from the previous bearing replacement, they explain it can be reused with a new bearing and seals, saving money compared to replacing the entire assembly again in the future if needed.

50:20

🎬 Wrapping up the video

The narrator concludes the video, acknowledging gaps in footage due to illness but hoping viewers still enjoyed it. He reminds viewers to like, subscribe and share, and says see you next time.

Keywords

💡crusher

A crusher is a large machine used to crush rocks and other hard materials at quarries and construction sites. Crushers like the Sandvik J45 featured in the video are critical pieces of equipment in the quarrying and construction industries. The video focuses on maintaining and repairing a faulty bearing in the crusher's tail drum, essential for ensuring continual production of crushed material.

💡bearing

A bearing is a machine component that allows rotating parts to move smoothly against each other, reducing friction. Bearings need regular greasing and maintenance. The crusher's damaged tail drum bearing is the main mechanical issue tackled in the video, requiring disassembly and replacement to avoid further wear on the shaft.

💡grease

Grease is a thick lubricant used to lubricate the moving parts of machinery like the crusher. The video emphasizes the need to regularly grease the crusher's bearings as per the manufacturer's recommendations to prevent premature wear and failure.

💡maintenance

Regular preventative maintenance is critical for complex machinery like crushers to remain productive and avoid breakdowns. The video stresses the importance of thorough operator training in correct maintenance procedures like greasing schedules.

💡production

Keeping the crusher fully operational is key to maximum production of crushed aggregate material. The video notes that one hour of downtime can cost thousands in lost revenue due to halted production.

💡repair

Damaged machine components like the crusher's tail drum bearing need prompt repair to avoid further deterioration and costlier problems. The video shows the full repair process, from initial inspection to bearing replacement.

💡safety

Strict safety procedures like machine isolation and lockout prevent injury when performing hazardous repairs. The video emphasizes safety steps before working on the energized crusher.

💡training

Insufficient operator training caused the bearing damage, indicating proper training's importance. The video stresses enforcing thorough maintenance procedures and crusher greasing schedules through training.

💡cost

The video examines both the costs of replacing components like the bearing as well as lost revenue from production shutdowns. It notes that expedited repairs are most cost-effective.

💡preventative

Regular maintenance prevents more serious breakdowns in complex machinery. The video indicates the crusher damage resulted from lack of basic preventative care like bearing greasing.

Highlights

The bearing on the log wash plant has failed and needs urgent repair

The operator was not trained on proper greasing of the conveyor bearings, leading to early failure

Always lift the conveyor and check for 4 grease points on each side of the conveyor

The tail drum bearing has completely failed due to lack of greasing

The belt rubbing has damaged the frame, so the guard plate needs remaking

On crusher repairs, put the welding ground clamp on the track frame, not the pads

Damaged top roller block on excavator repaired by sleeving and rethreading holes

Always isolate and lock out machines before doing repairs

Misalignment and lack of grease destroyed a new tail drum bearing in 6 months

Bent guard plate needs remaking to prevent belt damage

Putting grease nipples on bearing for now until proper lines installed later

Cleaning chassis frequently prevents jamming when lifting conveyor

Check jaw clamp bolts weekly for looseness to prevent damage

Always check proper belt tension and alignment after repairs

Saved money by sleeving damaged block instead of full replacement

Transcripts

all right guys welcome back to the

channel I'm bz and today we're going to

go back up to Jackson's to take another

look at that bearing uh Dave's R me last

night and he is uh very concerned if

that bearing fails so today is Friday it

is the day after the last chapter right

now then that buring is a lot more

expensive than we thought so

uh we're going to go and take the cap

off in a minute just to see what has

actually failed with inside the buring

housing if something has failed and it's

major then we're going to do it this

weekend right this Sunday so today is

Friday these chapters are continuously

rolling on yeah so you can see the story

as it goes along um so we've got Callen

on with another bucket here this is just

a little 13 T ditcher

Bucket that he's put a new bottom in and

he's going to put a new turnable ledge

on all right

straightforward in and out when we do

buckets for ourselves to go back into

our own higher Fleet yeah we only use

mild steel right it's got mild steel 10

mil floor in it it's got mild steel 15

mil flat bars on it and then if we're

doing it for a customer we only do

buckets to the what the customer

requires so if they're not very often

we're do them for other people I'll be

honest we because we're busy enough

doing our own buckets you know we've got

we've got way over 500 buckets that

we've got look after ourselves and it's

a full-time job for two men really just

doing their own buckets so yeah Call's

doing that in and out new Edge on it

this is the uh the spike thing that Andy

brought farm farm we're going to put a a

q fit attachment on it for a t Handler

so we're just going to weld some flat

bars in there we're going to weld

another flat bar on the front edge here

yeah and then we'll put the qit bracket

on the

outside so it gets hold of this box

section we need to we need to get all of

that box section there it'll be a major

weak point if we don't you see like

they've done it with the original hanger

well basically we're doing that there in

that position so we just opened the

hangers up

yeah so the lads are just getting a

trailer in now um we have got a BMI

trailer that's

just uh going back on or we just off it

should we say we've had it on higher for

2 years so uh if we damage anything like

we damage the back door there you see

got a hole in it so that's the back

door of the BMI trailer Cal just a

little patch over that all right just a

little patch over that hole Yeah Yeah

there's a Jackson's trailer in it needs

a center strap put a new strap on that

so their priority or anything else yeah

get them out at way first I'm going to

go back up to Jackson look at that

buring can you work Sunday or not

possibly I'll find it know need next

hour all right um if this needs doing on

Sunday it's a has to be done job oh yeah

right so when these

machines and we have a problem with a

machine especially a wash Plant like

this if you think about the tonnies that

run through it per hour and the money

that it's it's going to lose if it's

down yeah then we have to jump if it's

even if we have to work all through the

night to get it running that's what

we'll do but this particular time we

could do it this Sunday yeah right right

director let's have a have a ride up

there take the cover off and we'll make

a decision there and then

okay so this is the Jackson's

wagon that needs the strap on

it so if you look at that M to there you

see how it's got two pulley system on it

well that bottom strap there if we walk

along the trailer

director should have another strap there

going over the center of the trailer so

if you look there if you see where it's

frayed and come away from it

so the sheet is actually only being

pulled over front and back where it

needs to be pulled over from the center

as well so they'll have to replace that

strap with a two strap basically another

strap attached to that

one and then tension it up on the pulley

and it all pulls over at the same time

dead easy to do all you do is pull a

bolt out on that

pulley rip one of the bolts out that's

fasten the STP so put a new strap in tie

it to the pole at the other side and uh

that'll be good to

go let's get up

here right so we're at Jackson now we'll

go to the top and uh whip this cover off

this bearing

housing all right so we're just going to

check this cover off just to see what's

actually going on inside

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here

on what we're thinking it's a failure in

here

now where you can job or I take day oh

yeah I'll take it

there definitely uh definitely

work

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all right so we're struggling getting

the spanner on the on the nut of the

back of this bolt right cuz of this uh

frame here when you put your spanner in

it's touching the housing so you can't

get

on touching that if you will what I'm

going to do I'm going to have to cut

that off cut this off so we here to uh

have to take these little alen keys out

there's some little alen keys there you

see that one there one there and then we

can wind the bolt in there to pull this

cover

off so

uh worse than expected just to get a

cover off so how much we talking D if

this machine's down for a couple hours

big money yeah it costed us over C two 2

and a half 3,000 an hour down just in

loss of sales cuz we're tight on 10 mil

we're low on it's going out as fast as

it's coming off the belt exactly yeah

the L of the sales team are selling it

as fast as we can make

it yeah which is what we want yeah so

down time is a premium at the moment so

when it when it comes to looking at

parts and uh downtime on machines we've

got to we got to take into account how

much uh we'll lose in uh in Revenue from

the material yeah so yeah it's going to

be cheaper just changing the bearing but

sometimes cheaper just changing the

whole thing to get it done quicker and

pce of mind as well as Braes you're not

going to be down again in a couple of

weeks but the price of that um I am

going to look at changing the bearing if

we can see what the

damage let's go get some more spanners

out it

man

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so that's a 16 mil

thread

yeah so couple of 16 M volts to a 24 mil

head but these are same volt as we used

on that screen box down in

Wales

good

it oh yeah hey

major major

major right

director so

now this gives us a bit of a dilemma

because this is a Friday

morning so the perfect time to do this

will be this

Sunday so I'll get on to CD Now or Dave

should I say and just see how quick that

we can get this assembly here because uh

we cannot be leaving it like that as you

can

see the next thing it'll wear the shaft

and then you're into a lot more

money you can see here

now to be fair I would I they want to

run it today I wouldn't even recommend

running it today

but uh

I'll have to let that Dave make that

decision okay so

that cap is bolted onto the end of the

shaft you look here got three little

bolts that's actually coming

out right and then you've got a

nut that's wound onto the

shaft see this not here this will wind

off then we'll be able to get the inner

B of the bearing off

now Dave do you reckon do you reckon did

sell that bearing I don't reckon they

will will they I don't reckon they'll

sell the bearing in that alter casing

will they on their own no I can uh make

phone call now yeah if you can make a

phone call now because what I'm thinking

de if you look at this yeah I reckon

this will come out yeah this is one if

we if we put a beam across the Box CH

block it up take the weight of the shaft

take this nut off pull the inner race

off slide a new bearing on put a new

cover on job done I'm saying it sounds

easy like that yeah but you might not be

able to get them bits like that or if

you buy the full assembly I can set them

bits

out right I'll just get but it's not

worth paying all that money for the full

assembly CD Now on FaceTime yeah show

what we're thinking if you can talk him

through and then we'll

see that's a good idea so he's going to

ring the supplier up at CD and I'll talk

to him on

forone so if we just take a look in the

box directory I'll there meic call look

at the size of the

box and then the the shaft that goes

from one end to the

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other so you can imagine how much

weight's in that

shaft Okay so

this is the full

assembly now then my only worry is where

it's brought so we've just took that cap

off the end there and the shaft has

dropped hasn't it cuz the ball bearings

have dropped out

so I was thinking we could just replace

the bearing within this housing which

may still be possible yet but Dave did

order this full thing yesterday and it

has actually just landed on site so

we'll get it down here next at wash

Plant we'll

get my own eyes on it so I can see

what's going on at back end here so if

there's some seals in that back side

there um and they're all damaged which

it probably will be if that's dropped

yeah we better just take in unbolt in it

here get all the the shaft like I said

we'll put a beam down and put a beam

there and get a chain block around it uh

take the weight unbolt it unbolt it here

where it bolts to the frame of the

machine and then pull that whole thing

out but that weighs 250 kilos just that

alone

so that's telling me we probably going

to need a t Handler or uh if I can't get

an excavator to reach it have to get a t

Handler up to lift it up there because

it's just too heavy to man handle up

there that so we want to get the uh this

full assembly down here now I'll have a

look at it if it's if it does look like

it's damaged something from behind then

they could run it today and we'll do it

another day and we do it now I'm pretty

sure devil want us to attack it now so

let's go see

him right so the plan is

now we're going to get D's machine down

here see if it'll actually reach up here

to get a hold of this

shaft I bet there's about 5 ton in that

we're not 100% sure but I'll uh I'll

give uh I'll give n than a ring you know

only let see how much weight's in

that um and if the machine won't lift it

to hold it for it to take the bearing

off the end cuz what we're going to do

we're going to replace the full assembly

now we're not going to bother messing

about because there's uh seals and stuff

at the back end that are damaged so we

might as well take the whole lot out

whilst it's here and uh and replace it

but this is going to be an episode on

its own this we're going to do it on

Sunday the lads have got a lot of work

to do on the machine night you day so um

we'll do this this Sunday as an a

separate episode

yeah

director we don't need to touch that now

we'll go and uh have a look at the new

assembly up at the uh at the

workshop okay so there are the bolts

that we've just taken out to take this

cover plate

off so we took that ring of bolts out

now then if you look at the back side of

this now this weighs 250 kilos that

shaft has actually dropped about 40 mil

so all this housing will be damaged no

doubt about it

so it's a good job

Dave's got this because we would have

had uh big issues if we we took it apart

and and didn't have that back end dread

thing yeah yeah so what we're doing now

we're just sourcing some new bolts

because all the bolts are rounded off at

the other end so we're going to put all

new bols in this St end and uh so

basically the hardest part about this

job is getting that up there and into

position holding the shaft up it's just

all heavy lifting you know what I mean

so we're going to need some chain blocks

if the tell and will reach up there

might not reach that I we'll use the

Volvo 380 use Volvo 380 get that up and

even all the shaft up with that yeah

yeah so if you let me know if that reach

if it doesn't reach we'll put a beamer

got to go and take the lids off this

afternoon yeah prep up ready for Sunday

yeah so get it all cleaned out ready to

go play today so we'll we'll leave this

one that director we'll this will be

episode 15 out so look out for that

one hey watch this

you do there oh Tom bit that Tom it's

uh is it fairly

new last year last year yeah

hey I look after it don't have for me

I'm going to uh it'll have a few

scratches on

it huh it'll be all right I won't wor to

you so we're going to pick these parah

Harrow up is that what they're called

Tom what the rollers yeah they call is

that what they called parah Harrow

yeah over in donc cter

so I'm borrowing Tom's

Trail little F right your T that's right

loves he loves his farming yeah we'll

check all lights on yeah go

on

hey BR

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light that's

great

Great Sound it's a good it's a good left

is it yeah this a good how long is it to

16

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16t slot in it might you might have to

put some zip ties on it what do you mean

zip ties I don't know you have a

laugh there's me thinking you bought a

proper trailer

hey yeah we'll have to put some zip ties

around all

right

right so we borrowed the trailer off Tom

cuz we're going to pick the harah haros

up if that's what they're called like I

say I know nothing about farm machinery

or I know a lot of farmers follow me and

uh they probably screaming at me

sometimes when I talk about Farm stuff

but I don't really know much about this

but the lad who works for me Luke he

knows a lot about farm machinery so once

we've picked him up and got him back

here um he can come in tomorrow which

will be Saturday to uh try and fit him

but we might even need to shorten him

yet I'm not too sure but yeah let's get

over to donc cast again pick it up it's

a company called ajw Machinery I think

they're called and um loads of people

messaged me saying you need to go to

these guys so that's where we're

going all right so here we are in a JW F

machinery for the pararo so it looks

like uh they sell all kinds of bits for

this farming tackle that we need few

tractors in there

look I don't think they'll be for sale

director well anyway look it looks like

we need a couple of these brackets as

well I'd

there

yeah we'll definitely need a couple of

them for the hars if we have a look over

here that's one that we bought

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there

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don't want to dab his Tom's Trailer do

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we

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all right so here we are all loaded up

now they've actually give us these for

free very kindly of them because uh they

think we might need these at the other

end when we come to fit these pack of

rollers cuz these rollers

are uh 100 Mil longer than what we

actually need so it's either extend the

frame at the other end or cut these down

um I don't know which one we're going to

do yet but we'll sort it over next

couple of days one way or the other so

here's Liam l who's just loaded us just

tell us a little bit about what you doam

uh basically we buy the power power

hars uh we do like them broken really so

we can uh break them down and strip them

foot Parts but we do we do buy them

fully fully working so that's what you

deal with these all time yeah mainly I

know nothing about these that's why he

said I needed them bits you know what I

mean yeah yeah it's mainly but we

do uh we do tend tend to look at a bit

of everything yeah yeah bit of All Sorts

yeah so yeah I'll put a link in the

description to these guys yeah because

we've helped us out a little bit here

and it was somebody on uh on social who

who pointed these guys out to me from

their Facebook page so whoever that was

cheers for that

all right director we'll get back thank

you right so we've just landed back in

yard we're just about to uh pull this

into the the workshop

itself so let's just find a good place

to hook it up K what's that

um just probably just try it on here

just on one L see if it picks up all

right come closer

Tom how much weight you re in that

to keep it close to it keep it

close all right keep it low to the

ground then just try

it I don't know how'll pick up this

we'll just TR

it Tom I'll tell you

what uh yeah go on try it

I think you'll put in two chain on it

but go on it keep it

straight easy work easy work what are

you worried about spin it round Tom spit

down oh no get C than

that

right Cal we that that'll have to come

out at Workshop that we're going to be

out of

room

yeah So the plan

is it's Friday night now by the way so

I'm going to get Luke in tomorrow to uh

to crack on with this cuz he's more into

the farming tackle and and um obviously

we're going to uh go do that job on

Sunday so I just basically want to get

this in the workshop for him uh so he's

got the crane to

use well Tom you all

right taking that out

yeah we just get a few bits out at

Workshop

now I'll wait for

minute go to Lad in fact direct you

might as well get yourself off now and

I'll uh we'll carry this chapter on next

week but we will be filming uh a Sunday

episode swing it around so slute it

right

now we will be uh filming a Sunday

episode for you guys so look out for

that one director I'll see you at 6:00

Sunday morning

yeah

so here we got the parah Harrow

done all buttoned up we're just waiting

on uh one of these box your legs to come

in here to adjust from this side

especially from this side just waiting

for that to come off uh off the off the

supply I'm not sure where we got it from

Charlie um but yeah I thought I'd uh

there's a little bit of a skip here in

the chapter because um I've been ill and

the director's ill and he's still ill

now but he's just coming just get bit of

footage of this before it actually goes

back to sight where it's come from but

it actually turned out all right but all

we had to do really just put spacers in

here as you can see let get that roller

in now for some reason luk was that 30

mil bigger than other of it yeah so what

this this one was actually 30 mil bigger

than that one I'm not sure quite

why but look at all the work that we

saved there by uh buying them it really

good money like you know so Luke's done

all this work good lad Luke or should I

say esab Luke es Luke isab Luke oh yeah

you done a good job there L yeah it h

saved me a bit of Ed anywhere you know

what I mean as you can see I'm

absolutely full of flu uh so I apologize

for that um but yeah I just thought we'd

show you that just before it goes back

to

farm director should we uh should we

show that over there or

not no Something new's Turned Up in the

yard yeah which will uh we'll probably

show you next

week are you going to come in in

morning yeah all right so normal

business resumes at 6:00

a.m.

no 8:00 you see 8:00

then right luk all right guys so we're

back I've had a few days off had a bit

of a bit of an illness there uh so did

the director and so did a few other Lads

here but um yeah it's one of them where

you try and work through it where you

think you're invincible and you can work

through it but this one you just

couldn't work through it I'm still not

right now I'm 50% better but um we're

good to go so uh this chapter is a

little bit of a few gaps in it should we

say but but uh the bearing on the log

wash that was at the start of this

chapter has been done we did film that

on a Sunday if you look up here now if

you're watching on a PC that's the link

to it other than that it'll be in the

description

below um today we're going to uh go

inspector j45 that apparently has got a

tail drum bearing that's uh blown on it

over in Liverpool uh we've got a top

roller block uh that needs uh sorting

out on a

cx210 over in sha Manchester way uh but

this bug

um now then you know that you can work

through bugs don't you I'm always like

oh get your cell in when you're old you

know but there was no working through

this man I'm tell I had to get the

director on the phone I rung him to come

down to mine and I was

basically shivering and he's like you

need to get some vitamins in you so like

a good brother does he went and got me

some uh some good vitamins and uh some

medicine that I needed to trans recover

anyway I was off work for 3 Days that's

how bad it was so yeah today is another

day like a week ahead should we say so

this chapter I don't know when the

director is going to put this chapter

out but uh uh we like to keep it uh

running in line if you will so just to

let the viewers know that's what's

actually happened all right so now we're

going to head over to Liverpool me and

calmer going out today on the road and

um we'll take a look at this

45

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all right so here we are at Liverpool

our Newton Road Depot this used to be

the old T Mar

Depot uh foxy took it over last year at

some point well here we got a

j45 fairly new machine this is a 2023

machine uh so we will do a full

inspection on it whilst we're is today

but um there has a tail drum bearing gun

on

it but we show you shortly what we'll do

we'll lift it up on the jack legs put

the pins in and uh get underneath and

take a closer look but the first thing

I'm going to look

at is if it's been getting grease now

there's no way on this Earth should we

be changing the tail drum burn on a 2023

machine all right so I'll tell straight

away now all we need to do is lift the

conveyor up and look for the grease

points and's see if there's any grease

on

them

now

right so we going have way T here a

minute we been looking after the machine

now then T is a really good

lad

but if he hasn't been shown where the

grease points are then it falls back

onto uh

us because

uh when people get a j45 all they see is

them and think oh that's it that's all

we need to grease up I no they're just

your jaw bearings all right now then you

other be the conveyor bearings are in a

SE separate spot which are

here behind

there uh and as you can

see there's no way in

hell because they don't know they're

there that's the

thing yeah so I'm just hoping now people

that are watching it work for

us if you get them a clusty 45 or a 40

these are your grease

pointts these two if you're tail drum

bearings these two if you're Head drum

bearings all right now they only need

grease in every 40

hours as you can see there 40 hours so

like a there once a

week so I don't know how long this

machine's been on higher here we'll find

out but just looking at that you can

tell all rocket scientist tells you that

they've not been getting any

grease so I'll have a we with Tony in a

minute I'll put it on camera for you

guys to see and I'm just going to say to

him Tony show me how you uh GRE this

machine see what it

says all right so this is toy you you

pretty much do most of the work here

don't you TR yeah yeah try to so he's a

good lad yeah um so you just tell me now

how to G this machine and show me how to

grease it yeah yeah obviously we've got

got a couple of points here yeah go

around greases couple of points here

yeah we've got the mag belt yeah we've

got two two points on the mag belt on

each side yeah know about them ones walk

around the

machine these these are your main ones

obviously do do these every day ideally

yeah got the see him again on this side

got the two two points

here and on four sides of this belt here

yeah got the got greas nipples here I I

was I got how how are you greasing the

man conveyor this I got told that on the

on the bottom bear and underneath on the

right hand side there's a grease nipple

there but it is a bit it is a bit what

about head Dr it I've never been sure

that one guys never been sure that one

this is where we're going wrong here now

I'll show you something now yeah

right you lift the conveyor

up you're on the conveyor all the way up

always remember on each conveyor yeah

you're going to have four grease points

okay right you should never need to

climb underneath the machine I knew some

was knew was right have a look down

here

yeah so B dry so have you ever put

grease there no no and how long's this

machine been on here say 6 month even

even before I was sort of looking after

these they've never been touched them

they've never been never ever been

touched I've never ever been shown them

right so you've never been sh so it's

not your fault because you've never been

shown them that's the problem no you

know what I mean so it's not your fault

yeah so people will see this now and

think I I've never been shown them ones

it was all the ones have just shown you

the only ones I've been shown yeah right

so we need to put more procedures in

place within the company yeah whenever a

machine goes out on higher especially to

our guys who work for us we need to know

it's a brand new machine with a tail

with a bearing on you know what I mean

so not only that all the other bearings

have had no grease do you know what I

mean um so what we'll do now we'll lift

it up on the jack legs at the back we'll

drop the tail the uh tail drum down and

uh we'll have to pull the belt across

pull the tail drum back take the bearing

off and put a new bearing on all right

well there your points now so once a

week yeah put about four or five pumps

in it I've got plenty say I've got a few

didn't I so you know what I mean so I

didn't think you'd know but obviously

I'm not trying to make you look B on

camera I just want people to know is

what it

is they the only want I've being short

to do L yeah obviously I got it all the

time there big problem all the time you

know we got we got a lot of crushes

about us now so we need to need to let

people realize this keep on top of this

try up your now but obviously any other

issues with it none at all no none at

all has the uh jaw ever been checked

been tight no no not jaw has never been

that's another one that needs checking

once a week right okay right so if you

see that one if you see these lcks here

yeah but it's crushing yes if you see

any movement in them at all right you

just see them like moving just slightly

you I mean if they're moving just

slightly they just need talking up a

little bit so what I mean by talking up

he's getting a spanner and if he ain't

got a spanner then you need we need to

come

out as as tight as you can get them with

your foot no worries just nip them up

yeah just nip them up

yeah um but yeah other than that I'll

get me alls on we'll get cracking on all

right director so what we're going to do

here now we're going to drop the rear

tail drum down here we pull that lever

we drop down at the back

end so that's as low as it'll go now

we're going to lift the Jack legs drop

the Jack legs to lift the back end of

the machine

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off P the pending

go L it up to the

pins

yeah let go run the belt a little

bit

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now then directory if you go around that

side another thing to look for on these

machines is when they Crush are a lot of

quaries you see how it builds up with

inside the

chassis down there and at this

side if you get some hard material in

there and lift the belt up oh we got a

big riet belt

here that's an

issue what could happen there get if you

get if you on

uh demolition you got the steel going in

there it'll just rip that belt clean off

the mag belt pull it up pulls off the

mag belt here but what I'm trying to say

is if material builds up within the

chassis and you lift the belt up on

these Rams these Rams alone can twist

the

conveyor so that I'd say every week

every couple of weeks uh lower the belt

Swit the machine off isolate it climb

inside and clean all the chassis frame

out and then lift the belt back up so

we'll shut the machine down now isolate

it we go and have a look at the

buing I'll just isolate it there's only

me and Callum and Tony on site so

there's no issues but on some sites if

you're working on your

own see how it's got a little hole there

within the

isolator that's to put a padlock so

nobody can come along and uh fire the

machine whilst anybody's working

especially inside the

jawbox

all right so let's take a look

underneath torch

Cal

okay that that bearing managed to

survive so as you can see the

belt is way over to that

side CH the bur at this

side oh

yes she's well gone so what we want to

do I'm just going to put a a chain block

on

there onto the belt here try and pull

the belt across this way just to get

give us a bit of room to get into this

bearing pull the Chell run back probably

have to release the belt slightly but uh

let's just see if it'll move without

releasing the belt now then because the

belt has come over so far as you can see

up there where it's it's actually

touching the

frame there's no grease line on this

bearing so at some point the grease

Line's been pulled off it but even if

they were to be greasing it it won't be

getting any

grease so that uh that's another problem

that we'll have to

sort else we you

today and

also I've just

noticed it's this here this plate should

not be bent like

that so that is that's all bent there

will take that up in a bit and show you

a closer look at that but that shouldn't

be like that that should be down here

that's like a little guard if you will

so uh Cal got a couple of uh chain

blocks out let's uh let's start with

pulling the belt

over get

uh get the Jack out got the 202 Jack out

put the compressor

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on does it start moving off the slaping

the

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belt pretty tight there at the

moment okay so that little chain B's

pretty tight there so we will have to

slack in the

belt we're actually quite lucky that

we've uh We've not damaged the shaft

there it's that far

gone all right so Call's just going to

slacken the belt off before we slacking

the belt off we always take a

measurement from

there to there so we're under 185 mil

there yeah and when we'll we'll take it

back out to that once we got the new

bearing on and then we'll set the belt

right up in the air and uh see if it's

centralized that's on

it so now we SL the belt off

slightly get the uh the belt well over

this way and then we'll get another

chair block on to pull the

uh tail Dr back

okay actually just release this Cham but

now now we've got the belt pulled by

over all I'm doing here is uh just

checking the weight of the tail drum

before we pull it back and then we'll

release the bolts on the

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housing here we go

okay you check the right

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out so we got it hooked up to the

chassis there at the back and uh

try tell the way of the drum you see the

drum moving back slowly they

know yeah that's nice and easy up y

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on oh look

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that

it's

cracked get

it

back you on

there Dr turn

L on

my

whoa yeah

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yeah

crazy so we're very lucky to uh got gone

through the in race and WN the shaft we

made a lot more expense but we started

to wear into the the main frame of the

machine itself can you see

so that how in there we'll take these

little grub screws out in fact I'm just

going to gas that off i e you first of

all I'm going to W my fingers up because

the're Frozen to

B all right so we're just going to uh

put the in R off

now how

cut

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a

okay so that's the end race off you can

see how I blew into the the uh to the

race but didn't actually touch the

shaft you see how there's no damage to

the

shaft nice and easy just blow with the

gun nice and

steady that just kned off nice and easy

with your bar coming off that way all

right so we'll just clean the shaft up

now we bit of em cloth wherever that is

here we go we got a bit of Emer C so

we'll just put around the

shaft

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clean up before we put the new bearing

on believe

that's I love doing this kind of work on

uh on crushes and stuff uh it's just not

particularly nice when it's raining and

at the moment this last few months we've

had constant rain haven't we constant

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rain all right so the new bear in uh as

you can see they have two points where

you can put a grease nipple or a grease

line that is so you can put the bearing

either

way or you could either take the bearing

out the insert and turn it around

but because there's no grease line on

the machine the belts worm through the

grease

line what we're going to do we're just

going to put two grease nipples in it

for

now and uh we'll thr a little bit of

grease in it now before we put it

on and the Machine is actually coming

off higher uh next week so like I said

they can go for a

week with uh 40 hours basically we just

uh reing in these fire that fire bit

into that car uh when this comes back

into the

yard we'll just take the bleet

number and uh put a new grease line on

it when it goes back into the yard so

we're just pumping some grease into it

now you got to be careful not to put too

much in it cuz you'll blow this seal

off all it down be going in nicely that

anyway these called the G

coupler really good Grease end if you're

looking for a new grease

end we just see if Cal

uh slide that bearing back on the shaft

and I'll uh I'll just have a

coffee we're just changing the position

now the uh of how we're pulling the T

tail we pulling it up before now we need

to pull it back down a

bit if we come too far down it's easy

easier for us to put the Jack underneath

and lift it

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up come down now yeah that's good pull

it pull it pull it fa back matter just

get Slide the bearing on as it is yeah

then we'll Jack it

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up something that's very preventable

this uh if the right trainings in

place for The

Operators which I

will I will make a bit of noise and make

it

happen yeah

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yeah

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down a bit

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more

what was

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that

it 15t in

I

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go

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okay just release the uh release it a

little bit

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go oh there

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go car yeah there's other uh there M16

not

we uh all them threads off and uh

another washer all right so that's all

lined up now I'll just tighten the

little grub screws up uh in the uh in

the inner just got another bulb to put

in the top there tighten that up we'll

release the chain block and then we'll

take this guard off that's all bed uh

above the uh tail drum

here I'm going to I'm going to keep that

guard off because

have nothing but issues with them to be

fair okay so we're taking this guard off

here can see this guard's all bent over

as you'll see in a minute there's also a

loose pipe here on this uh tail

Ram we'll just take these four bolts out

as we're doing here at gun now and uh

take a closer look at

this got inside on the

spanner right so as you can see your

director

see how that's completely folded back on

itself that's at risk of uh damaging the

belt see how sharp it is

there so what we're going to do I'm

going to take that back to the workshop

with us we'll remake that it should be

on about I don't know say 45° or

something that but it's actually compl

completely bent right around so it's uh

pointless leaving it on like that uh if

you look at the back of the uh this

little shoot

here it comes down here and down here

all the

Bel so it does need it on well they've

only got like a day's crushing left here

before it uh actually comes back to the

workshop time this little fire up

now and uh and yeah we'll sort the

grease lines out on this plate when it

gets back to the workshop as you look

there you can see

where the belts rubbing into the frame

here I just warn that

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away but yeah I'm a little bit

disappointed we it being a fairly new

machine but these things happen and uh

hopefully other people will learn from

it yeah that looks good Cal has put it

back to the position where it was when

we first came here so I you see how it's

Central in the Head drum

there and then the belt has got a nasty

uh nasty gash in

it so again what I'll do when it comes

back to the shot we'll put a patch in

the

belt is it okay at back end c yeah right

that sound

that right let's clean all tools wrap up

get on to the next

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job right so we just arrived at our vins

at horch my little father as I like to

say um so this is a a little block that

goes onto the track frame that bolts the

top roller on now then this is actually

off a CX 250 so that's a case 25 ton um

that one of the lads went to last week

and what had happened was the uh the

bolts had snapped halfway in and ripped

the threads out at the top end so what

ain's actually done is actually um put a

threaded sleeve in there can you

see extracted the ball out of there and

rethreaded it all the way down and put a

sleeve in there so I mean what I could

have done there is basically filled them

up with well and redrilled it and

retapped it but my pillar drills down so

we got the B one on it here didn't we

you're not getting camera

no not really not getting camera size

you know that's me so what what size

have you g up to on that that's M27 to

M20 yeah so you got full insert it's not

like helic coil no just just like a

threaded sleeve threaded sleeve so you

can't come out I put lock tight yeah

he's not going to come

outes just buying a new block you know

what I mean not much work into that is

it you know

um like I said this mon can do anything

so and he helps me out all the time

don't you try at the drop of a h

try people go on sick you do the job but

you can't come back come on it that's it

day and breed day and breed you know

what I mean there's not many shops about

like this anymore and

uh you know if anybody uh does want to

get in contact with Arin he's in he's in

horch laworks what's left of it not much

left of it now is it that's it they

clearing the Slate across the road on

the

building it's a bit last building

standing and this is this will be your

retirement won't it when you sell this

we'll try so we was going to go over to

Shaw now which is other side of

Manchester to weld this back weld this

on but I've just had a call to say the

machines com back to the yard they've

off hired it and hired a 210 so um which

is good for us cuz it can get washed off

back at yard and we'll weld it on back

at yard so we'll uh we'll get back to

the shop eh cheers be father

yeah hey

what what we

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say all right so we'll just landed back

at Workshop uh the machine is actually

on its way back from Al them on a low

loader for this so we'll bang that on

shortly but this is the uh this is the

stub end that we took out of the log

wash

um I don't know where we're up to

director with the

uh this episode's already been out

hasn't it

so if you remember we bought the uh the

sub end with all the buing assembly and

everything on it but we can use this

piece again only to do is slider buring

on

it and probably buy a couple of new uh

protector

ples a b bit worn and

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damaged yeah we'll save a good lump of

money there by using that

so if the uh if the one next to it was

to go we could have this pre-built up

ready to to fit so I'll uh I'll speak

today and see if who want to order a

bearing for

that all right we'll just wait for that

machine to get back direct to and then

we'll go B that

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on

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a

I'm just going to slack in the chair off

just to

touch 19 mil on the grease valve we see

the track drop in a

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second that track guard looks well

worn prob the uh

getting close for a set of chains

this check all the bottom

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rollers all

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right

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he

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right so now we've got a couple of

sleepers in between the chain

there clean the uh track frame off that

want to be set to 25 mil

back from

there around there should be

fine a tack on it

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okay so we're going to use a 4 mil 7018

low

hydrogen Lincoln

electrode the Earth's on the track frame

yeah so if you're weld into the track

frame put the Earth on the track frame

don't put the Earth to the track pad or

anything like that and because it's wet

we're isolating the machine anyway have

you isolated c yeah yeah it's yeah so we

just get four tax on this

now

so what I'm going to do now I'm going to

put a just a little Stitch at the back

and then we'll weld the front yeah if it

wasn't to put any anything on the back

it if them tacks were weak should we say

at the back side there you put a weld on

there it'll crack them tacks and it pull

it this way it'll always pull towards

where the heat

is

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okay what we're going to do we're going

to put three passes on so we're going to

put one

there one

underneath right so we've got the first

pass in we've just ground

back took all the uh all the slag away

and we're going to put another running

in the bottom there and then we put

another run over the

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top

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oh

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oh

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p

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good pry sure

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okay that's good to

go

right guys I think we'll call it on this

one bit of a mixed bag because there's

been a few gaps in between because and a

few uh health issues should we say and I

ain't feeling the best right now but uh

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