Bodine Mfg. General Product
Guidelines
Common Sense is the key!
Always use certified personnel...
- Only highly trained and
experienced certified heavy equipment mechanics, welders and operators are
qualified to install, maintain and use our products.
- Inspect the product prior to
assembly to confirm that it is complete and free of defects.
- After reading and understanding any
information provided by the manufacturer, qualified personnel can proceed with
the installation of our product (observe all appropriate safety precautions
required by industry experts or governing regulatory bodies).
- If any difficulty is experienced
while installing, maintaining or using our products, immediately stop and seek
the assistance from the manufacturer and the appropriate qualified technician/s
in your industry.
General Installation &
Maintanance Tips
- Always place the product on a
work-suitable, stabilized surface, working safely, prior to its installation or
removal to prevent any risk of bodily injury.
- Lubricate your product at all the
grease fitting locations prior to using any newly purchased product. Apply
grease to zerks until excess seepage appears visually around external
areas.
- Visually inspect your product
before daily use for weld cracking, missing tine tips or any loose parts, pins
or bolts, etc...
- If general maintenance is
required, do so immediately, do not continue to operate your
equipment.
- Do not operate a damaged product or
a product requiring general maintenance....Major structural damages could
occur.
- Do not attempt to alter the
physical or mechanical structure of any product. This could cause damage to the
product, injury to personnel, or void the warranty claim.
- Grease your product every four to
eight hours depending on the amount of usage.
- Always check all connecting pins,
collars and fasteners to ensure that they are in-tact and secure proir to using
the product.
- To install or remove pins that are
held in place with inserts, always loosen every fastener on all of the inserts
to allow the pin to float while you are driving the pin in or out, after
reinstallation, retorque the fasteners as required. Remember to lubricate all
inserts and pin surfaces prior to assembly.
- Use a pin the same or smaller in
diameter to drive out product pins, do not hammer directly on the end of the
pin so as to avoid unnecessary damage to the pins and bearings.
- Install mounting plates or
hydraulic cylinders according to any information supplied by the
manufacturer.
- Check installation to insure all
linkages and hydraulic cylinders are properly aligned and can operate without
any binding or hyper-extension, etc...
Safe Operation Tips
- Only use the power supplied by the
hydraulic circuitry to operate such product attachments.
- Do not over-exert force (that of
the weight exceeding the weight of the hosting machinery.) to pry, twist or
hammer any of our products; premature wear and tear damaging will occur,
voiding your warranty claim.
- Do not use our attachment equipment
to leverage the hosting machinery on or off of trailers, etc...
- Do not use our attachment equipment
to twist or pry the hosting machinery from frost or mud entrapment,
etc...
- Do not use our attachment
equipment as a wrecking ball.
Remember...Common Sense is the
key!
........If you are experiencing premature wear & tear damages, it
is likely that you are doing something you should not be...stop, get some
professional advice before proceeding.
........Bodine products are built
with the best, most appropriate quality materials for the intended application
of the tool, and are designed to give you many years of service when properly
used and maintained.
........Many of the attachments we have built more than ten years ago
are still in service to date, and are being used by professionals who have the
knowledge and understanding of how to prevent avoidable costs; indicating that
common sense procedures have proven to be the most cost-effective means of
achieving the best end results.
........We strongly rely on
feedback through our qualified dealers and customers to improve on our
knowledge base with respect to proper installation, maintanence and the safe
and effective operation of our products. We are pleased to share this
information with you.
If we can be of further
assistance, please give us a call.
Bodine Technical Dept. Ext.
#32 |
