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THE COST OF NEGLECT • A vehicle service being deferred

27th April 2000, Page 36
27th April 2000
Page 36
Page 36, 27th April 2000 — THE COST OF NEGLECT • A vehicle service being deferred
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or simply omitted altogether: Component wear rate speeds up. When vital adjustments are not carried out, items like king post bushes, which cost £200 a set, wear out through a lack of grease. In use and in transit accelerated wear continues until eventually a new king past and base housing is needed. This will put the vehicle off the road for up to four days with a total bill of up to £7,000.

• Driving off with the legs down or safe locks not secured: This is Common enough: it leads to bent support legs and housings. A new leg beam costs more than YAM but the bill gets serious when mountings are also damaged. Should a leg fly out in transit, expensive claims for damaged vehicles or property will follow—and if anyone is killed the legal penalties could be extreme.

• Interference with the throttle speed controls: This may boost the speed of operation on older cranes but it's always bad practice. More recent models have preset pressure reduction valves so all it will do is waste fuel.

• Rams damaged by loading over the headboard: Instead of repositioning the vehicle or articulating the jibs, the rams strike the top of the headboard, bending the cylinder. Continued use will cause additional damage and heavy wear to the seal, gland nut and outer sleeve.

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