I am trying to understand / interpret one tip I read on a Catterpillar website for maximising excavator life:
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Never dig over final drive.
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Can anyone explain what this means? What's the "final drive" and what does digging over it mean?
Was at HD yesterday, and I saw a guy loading up a trailer with wood. The guy had the wood from the back of the trailer, all the way up into the bed of his truck. He then securely lashed it down to both the trailer and the truck.
I pointed out to him that he might have trouble turning, since the wood was attached to both the trailer and the truck.
After I drove off, I started to wonder what would have happened if he tried to drive like that.
