- November 8, 2024
- By James Kirkpatrick
- In Heavy Equipment Tips, News
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Franna cranes, also known as pick and carry cranes, are renowned for their exceptional mobility, and impressive lifting capacity. Maintaining your Franna is not just about ensuring it runs efficiently—it’s about ensuring safety, complying with regulations, and maximising the crane’s longevity. Regular inspections and timely repairs are also vital for keeping your crane in peak
When it comes to trucks, engine trouble rarely comes without warning. Your vehicle often gives signals that something’s wrong long before it breaks down. Ignoring these signs can lead to bigger and more expensive truck repairs. So, let’s break down the most common indicators that it’s time to contact a Heavy Equipment Specialist like SuperService™.
Elevated work platforms (EWPs), despite their varying sizes and usage, all require regular inspection, service, and repair. Neglecting early warning signs can lead to breakdowns, costly delays, or even worse – accidents. SuperService™ has years of experience maintaining, repairing, and optimising access equipment. Our team of heavy equipment specialists has extensive knowledge of these machines,
Did you know that nearly 50% of an excavator’s maintenance costs can be attributed to undercarriage wear? If you’re responsible for keeping these heavy machines running smoothly, you’d be familiar with the frustration and expense that come with frequent excavator repairs. But here’s the good news: understanding the causes of excavator undercarriage wear and adopting effective
Elevated work platforms (EWPs), or aerial lifts, are mobile machines designed to lift and lower people, tools, and materials on a work site. Working at height equipment comes with strict regulations. All EWP units – from scissor lifts and boom lifts to telehandlers with EWP attachments – must be inspected regularly by a suitably qualified
At SuperService™, we understand how important it is to keep your crane in peak condition. A crane breakdown has the potential to bring an entire work site to a halt, so maintaining the optimal performance of your crane is imperative to your business. Like all forms of heavy equipment, cranes require regular maintenance and care.
A vehicle loading crane (VLC) consists of a crane which is mounted to a vehicle in order to facilitate loading and unloading. These versatile machines can lift and lower materials as well as move loads horizontally. VLCs are used for a wide range of operations, including erecting small structures and moving materials on and off
Pantech trucks, also known as pantechnicon trucks, are versatile vehicles frequently used to transport items such as furniture, white goods, pallets etc. Their unique design means that they can load any type of cargo, including heavy equipment and even cars. While at first glance they resemble a van, pantech trucks differ in their solid non-opening
Your business equipment needs optimum care if you want it to work at its best. Yet with some specialist machinery, it’s about more than care to keep it operational. Regular inspection and maintenance of your EWP equipment is a statutory requirement to ensure the machine is safe to operate as well as being essential to
Quality maintenance, servicing, and timely crane repair is essential to keep your crane or hoist running safely and efficiently. At SuperService™, we recommend that our customers have all parts and mechanisms of their cranes and hoists properly inspected by a qualified technician at least every 12 months to avoid unnecessary damage or breakdowns. Between inspections,