Once a month, we invite you to take a look at what’s going on at H&R and to see what happened last month from the small celebrations we had to the big projects we completed. Ever wanted to get an inside look at H&R? This is your chance. These are our Big Shots from January.
Look Up! In the warehouse, a gaze upwards will often unveil the workhorse beasts of the warehouse's past lives slumbering above your head.When rebuilding smaller parts, sometimes a parts tech can rebuild more than one at once. But though you see three swing motors disassembled in this image, only two were able to be rebuilt.Even once off the machine, handling the tracks from a large machine can be a real job — an assist from a wheel loader helps."Used thumbs for sale. Good condition." is a sentence that is absolutely normal to read on a construction equipment website, but much less so on a lot of other websites.Getting an excavator through Teardown is seldom a one-person job. It takes teamwork and communication.Part of a week this month was spent doing inventory in the Buffalo warehouse. And, if you've seen the warehouse, you can probably guess that it takes awhile.The overhead bridge cranes in Teardown aren't just helpful, they're a requirement for taking off a large, heavy boom.In Teardown, sometimes you need to make the sparks fly to remove an overworn or fully-seized part.Four feet of snow quickly turned into a mess of mud and puddles in the machine yard. But when life gives you puddles ... take overly artistic upside down shots of the machine's reflections in the puddles?Another puddle shot? Yep, but this one has an articulated truck and a really big leaf in it.
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This article is part of the Inside H&R Construction Equipment Parts series, designed to give readers and viewers an opportunity to go inside H&R, see all parts of our company in action, and learn more about our company, our team, and our processes.
