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The work profile of heavy equipment mechanics includes repair and maintenance of backhoes, graders, loaders, tipping trucks loading shovels, etc. Heavy trucks, used by logging companies, need to travel long distances on bumpy forest roads away from towns and cities. Anyone who has traveled these trails is well aware of the difficulty of driving a logging truck on these roads. During their normal use, logging trucks have to travel over steep elevations, and on narrow serpentine roads winding along mountainsides.
This puts the truck engine under tremendous strain, causing excessive engine wear and tear. The strain also has a deleterious effect on the clutch, brakes, and suspension system, and other parts as well. This leads to frequent breakdowns at far out, inaccessible places, and most times requiring on site repairs. The heavy equipment mechanic needs to carry out these repairs on the spot, with the tools at his disposal.
The job of heavy equipment mechanics involves repairs of all types of construction and logging machines, and similar machines used by other industries. They also require to regularly maintaining these machines, to ensure they operate safely without snags and breakdowns. When breakdowns occur, heavy equipment mechanics are required to examine equipment, and trace the reasons for defects that led to the breakdown.
Nowadays, with advanced technological aids to help them, heavy equipment mechanics use various gauges, meters, and even make use of hand held computers for diagnosing faults in components that need repairs. They may need to dismantle complete systems in heavy equipment machines to examine and repair damaged parts or sub-assemblies. Being extremely heavy, moving such systems, assemblies, or sub-assemblies is difficult, and requires jacks or hoists to lift and move them.
Heavy equipment mechanics need to check parts for damage and wear using various gauges and meters. They need to clean parts by spraying or soaking the parts in cleaning agents or solvents. They oil and grease various parts as per the lubrication schedule, or as required. They need to be proficient in the use of hand and power tools for dismantling and assembling machine parts and components. Wherever necessary, they require welding broken frames or other components. After completing reassembly, repair, or service of the equipment, mechanics test them for optimum performance and safe operation.
Heavy equipment mechanics working in large equipment repair shops undertake jobs that are more complex. They may be required to rebuild engines, repair electrical faults, service or repair hydraulic equipment, including hydraulic motors and pumps that operate under high fluid pressures. Large workshops have a specialized work force, and the mechanics working there are usually specialists in specific type of repairs. For example, there may be specialist mechanics for working on transmissions, and others for major repairs on engines or electrical systems etc.
Job prospects for heavy equipment mechanics are good. The job pays well and as per the data available with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics pertaining to the first quarter of 2008, the National average of hourly wages for heavy equipment mechanics, except engine mechanics was $21.08.
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Description"Metal Detecting for the Beginner" is a how-to guide for anyone interested in the sport of metal detecting. Get a feel for a typical hunt; learn key terminology, and how to buy your first detector. This book guides you through the technical concepts you will need to make intelligent choices on the equipment you buy. It includes an ample list of manufacturers, suppliers, and online resources. Welcome to the wonderful world of metal detecting! Expanded 2nd edition now available. |
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DescriptionHow to find the treasures that hit the headlines. Updated and expanded, the classic guide to treasure hunting with a metal detector. Sixteen chapters of practical advice and theory. From coin shooting to hoard hunting, all for less than one issue of a monthly magazine! Introductory Kindle price. How to find the treasures that hit the headlines. Updated and expanded, the classic guide to treasure hunting with a metal detector. Sixteen chapters of practical advice and theory. From coin shooting to hoard hunting, all for less than one issue of a monthly magazine! Introductory Kindle price. |
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DescriptionHunting for pirates’ hidden gold and silver in the golden sands of a palm-fringed, exotic tropical island was the daydream of many of us when we were school kids. Unfortunately it is a fantasy that almost nobody can ever fulfill.This unusual and completely original book will tell you how anyone can embark on the next best thing though, and will take you on a layman’s treasure hunt under tropical moons and blazing sunrises; sharing a few of the secrets of how to recover some of the millions of lost items of jewelry and coins that lie buried beneath the surface of many beaches around the world.Peter Jaggs spent six months searching the seashore of a Thai tourist town without previously ever having had any experience of beach metal detecting, and the diary he wrote whilst learning how to do so provides a humorous, enlightening and entertaining read. Whether you are a novice or an expert, or even if you have never picked up a metal detector before, you will find that ‘Discovering Metal Detecting on a Thailand Beach’ is very much more than a technical guide to amateur treasure hunting and the stories and incidents recounted in this book will amuse and surprise followers of the hobby as well as those who are merely curious. Join Peter Jaggs and share in the sights, meet some of the characters and unearth some of the treasure he found during the time he passed using a C-Scope CS4PI metal detector on the sands of an engaging beach resort in Thailand. Hunting for pirates’ hidden gold and silver in the golden sands of a palm-fringed, exotic tropical island was the daydream of many of us when we were school kids. Unfortunately it is a fantasy that almost nobody can ever fulfill.This unusual and completely original book will tell you how anyone can embark on the next best thing though, and will take you on a layman’s treasure hunt under tropical moons and blazing sunrises; sharing a few of the secrets of how to recover some of the millions of lost items of jewelry and coins that lie buried beneath the surface of many beaches around the world.Peter Jaggs spent six months searching the seashore of a Thai tourist town without previously ever having had any experience of beach metal detecting, and the diary he wrote whilst learning how to do so provides a humorous, enlightening and entertaining read. Whether you are a novice or an expert, or even if you have never picked up a metal detector before, you will find that ‘Discovering Metal Detecting on a Thailand Beach’ is very much more than a technical guide to amateur treasure hunting and the stories and incidents recounted in this book will amuse and surprise followers of the hobby as well as those who are merely curious. Join Peter Jaggs and share in the sights, meet some of the characters and unearth some of the treasure he found during the time he passed using a C-Scope CS4PI metal detector on the sands of an engaging beach resort in Thailand. |
