PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-628
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 628
MARCH 2005
PS 628
MAR 05
27
PS 628
MAR 05
26
DEUCE…
HYEX…
No Steering While Dozing!
Turning the wheel while dozing puts so much stress on the track that it can be
thrown. Thrown track can crack road wheels, bend road arms and rip actuators from
the hull.
And forget about sharp turns during other operations. You can throw a track that
way, too.
If you have to make a turn while pushing a load, use the excavator’s tilt cylinders,
but not the steering wheel. That’s hands off!
O
perators, easy does it when
you “walk” the excavator’s
hydraulic tool hoses away from
or back to the vehicle.
Do not yank on the hoses or
let them snap back into the
recoil spool. Sooner or later
this yo-yo treatment breaks
the spring inside the recoil
spool. Then you can’t rewind
the hoses.
To make the hoses and recoil
spool last longer, walk the
hoses back—every time.
Walk the Hoses
Walk
the
hoses back!
Don’t yank
‘em!
operators!
Read and
heed the
words on
Page
7
3 of
TM 5-2430-
200-10.
Never
steer the
earthmover
during
dozing
operations!
good evening,
one and all!
welcome to
extreme
makeover:
pmcs
edition
as you know, we select
one soldier each week
and do a
complete
pmcs makeover
on
his equipment.
we bring the soldier’s equip-
ment up to 10/20 standard and,
hopefully, teach him a thing or
two about the importance of
preventive maintenance.
let’s
take a
look at
what his
fellow
soldiers
have to
say…
this week’s subject
is pfc sy bennington
of the 5/912th armor,
ft whozit, montana.
628.26-27(C)
1/27/05
5:53 PM
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