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Buy The Most Reliable Hydraulic Excavators From Kobelco Construction Equipment

Let’s start this with an assumption where we assume 2 companies selling dish cleaners. The company “A” manufactures and sells only dish cleaners but the company “B” apart from manufacturing and selling dish cleaners, they also have their hands into other household goods. This means that the company “B” is not able to give its 100% to the core product whereas the company “A” invests all its time and energy in researching what the customer wants and what innovative measures they can take to make the product more user friendly and thereby only manufactures dish cleaners. Using this example, from which company would you like to buy your dish cleaner? I suppose, it would be certainly company “A” that you would buy the stuff from.

Similarly, this is what we would do when it comes to buying heavy equipment and when it comes to buying hydraulic excavators, you may not want to rely on any brand other than Kobelco. Kobelco is one of the few companies which exclusively produce hydraulic excavators and hence their end product is finer and superior than the ones produced by other branded heavy equipment manufacturing companies that manufactures all kinds of construction equipment.

They are into production of full range hydraulic excavators that ranges between 3000 lb to 180,000 lb. They also produce excavators used for specific purposes like landscape or that works in a construction site, or the ones used in road building. Kobelco is widely known as a perfectionist in producing excavators which also helps them to sell their stuff with a premium. You may find their excavators to be slightly expensive than the equipment of other companies. They are installed with advanced mechanisms like system that can reduce noise and dust, advanced hydraulic circuitry that helps to reduce loss of pressure and also minimize the consumption of fuel making the equipment fuel efficient.

You can buy an excavator directly from Kobelco sales office either by visiting them in person or through a dealer. Precisely, buying it either way doesn’t make any difference as the buyer would get all the benefits like after sales service, warranty of the equipment and things that are related to the stuff after you done buying them. So if you’ve an authorized dealer closer to your place, then it makes more sense to place the order through the dealer rather than hunting for their shop.

If we talk about their after sales service, you may find it better than brands who claim to be the best in the industry. In case you see a problem in the equipment, you only need to register a complaint by calling them on their customer service number. They will register your complaint and within few hours, you’ll have an engineer at your place to fix it up.

Kobelco has its presence in many countries as it wants to spread it wings and reach out to as many customers as it can. It no longer is a domestic heavy equipment manufacturing company but has turned into a might player in the construction equipment segment.

What One Needs To Do To Become An Authorized Dealer Of Heavy Equipment

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Construction business is considered to be one of the most profits making business of the century and businesses that are associated with this industry has also made good deal of money. Businesses like heavy equipment manufacturing companies are just multiplying their profits year after year and the entire credit goes to this profitable industry. However, not every person can own company that manufactures heavy equipment. Therefore a person who wants to make it big by selling heavy equipment would have to seek some other avenues by which they can make decent income from this business. One such option that one can opt for is to become a dealer of heavy equipment and sell the machines to the companies earning some commissions. Well, for people who think that earning commissions would get them nothing, they would be surprised to know that earning commissions by being a dealer means you are dealing with a good chunk of money. We all know that heavy equipment are highly expensive and if at all they get 2% as commission, they make good money out of the transaction. Alternatively, the dealer is not only going to sell heavy equipments but will sell other equipment which are not necessarily heavy equipments but are of much needed commodity in a construction site.

Therefore, it’s just not that you have to depend on your sales of heavy equipments. You can sell something that is cheaper but equally needed and can make money out of it. There are few credentials that one has to meet to become an authorized dealer of heavy equipment.

Having knowledge of this business;-  A heavy equipment manufacturing company is not going to give the dealership to any person as long as they are sure that the person knows which equipment is needed for what purpose. The person should also have knowledge about the business or have some kind of experience which will prove his credential to the company. Also, if the person has prior experience in selling heavy equipment to construction companies may be given some preference. In many cases, people working in top positions preferably with selling equipment in some equipment manufacturing company takes up the dealership. The companies on the other hand do not shy away to give them the job as they are sure that these men know what they are dealing with. In this fashion, they set up their shop and become the dealer of the company they were working with.

Having good contacts with construction companies:-  A person is given the dealership if he has good contacts with construction companies. His contacts will make the work look simpler as he can easily reach people in the company and check if they have any requirement for heavy equipment. A person without any contacts may have a hard time to even get in touch with the concerned official. It is because of this, that many dealers take multiple dealerships and try to sell equipments of the company that matches the requirement of the buyer

Don’t Go For Any Track Loader – Be Brand Conscious Go For Caterpillar

When you buy things that can either make your career or break it, it is recommended that you buy the best stuff. Similarly when it comes to buying heavy equipment for your construction project, don’t just trust any company. Select the best out of the lot and buy the one that is user friendly and will last longer than others. Undoubtedly there are several brands available in the market and it may often confuse us to determine the one that we should go for. That is indeed a tricky moment and only an expert advice may come handy to get you off the dilemma. Experts who have been in this industry for years trust Caterpillar products over other heavy equipment manufacturing companies. The reasons can be many including excellent reviews from the consumers, intrinsic market research and analysis done by its engineers and the reliability of the machines along with high end performance.

We would be covering why one should be buying a Caterpillar track loader, the features of the machine and intrinsic values that makes it different and unique from the rest in the crowd.

Before you buy a track loader, it is critical to understand its requirement in your business. There are various models of caterpillar loaders available and one need to realize what model is he looking for which largely depends on the use of it and the kind of project he has with him. We would be discussing about Caterpillar 953 track loader which has a net power of 110 horsepower.  It has an operating weight of 31080 lb and has a fuel capacity of 50.7 gallon. Research has disclosed that mostly all Caterpillar Track loaders consume less fuel which makes them more reliable and cost effective. Consumers want machines that they can rely on and also something that does not burn their pocket by just paying for the fuel. This machine has a maximum speed of 6.4 mile per hour which is steady if not very fast. Overall, it is an ideal machine to meet everybody’s needs.

Caterpillar track loaders can be best bought directly from the company itself. You only have to get in touch with them over the phone or visit their office and select the model you want to buy. You may as well disclose your situation to them so that you leave them to analyze what they have to suggest you.  If you feel that they have something good to suggest and you should go by what they say, then you better go for it or else you stick to your plan and buy what you feel is the best for you. Buying the track loader directly from the manufacturing company may get you some discounts which you otherwise may not get it elsewhere.

More to this, you can get service guarantee and warranty from the company that ensures to replace any part of the machine that goes faulty within the guarantee period. By and large, it will be a deal that will keep you happy for long.

 

How to operate an excavator?

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One of the most useful vehicles for construction site is excavator. It is the strongest vehicle that can perform any difficult task. This type of vehicle is made in a different way so that it can move on muddy or rocky places. It also can carry huge loads that a usual or normal vehicle cannot take. In any difficult condition it can move smoothly as it has the perfect frame that helps it to move easily. By taking the help of an oscillating hitch you can separate it from the cab. This is very important as it helps the body and the cab to run separately. This system actually helps it to work comfortably.

If you want to know the process of using this vehicle then you have to know the details of its different parts. There are some steps that will definitely help you to operate this system.

Steps:

You have to select a machine at first. Excavator comes in a number of sizes. There is super compact size which weighs 4000 pounds. If you want to have a bigger sized excavator then also you will get it in a standard size. Now you have to consider the project that you are going to do with this machine. If you are going to dig a small project like DIY irrigation or you have limited space for work then you definitely should choose the small excavator for your work purpose. However you can go with the 3 and 3.5 ton machine such as Bobcat 336 for large projects.

You have to check the ranges of the machine before buying it. You can talk to any rental business service provider and ask their opinion. All the large equipment requires a proper maintenance. If you cannot maintain your machine at a regular basis it will stop working. Then you have to pay some extra fees to repair it.

Now you have to check the manual in order to know and be familiar with its parts as well as controls. There are different types of manufacturer that produce this machine and each of them is slightly different than others. So you should check the manual carefully and apply it in a way so that your machine can give you its best performance.

You should check the controls, operator’s restraint system and gauges. On the right side you will find the ignition key and remember you have to be careful about the engine temperature, oil pressure and fuel of the machine during operating it.

Hold the joysticks very carefully and move it for using the machine.

Through these steps you will be able to operate an excavator. Though it is not difficult to rum an excavator but still you should learn all the process of moving it or operating it.

Caterpillar Inc. is about to bring their latest discovery, the M series of wheel loader to the market by 2014

Caterpillar Inc. is going to launch its most awaited wheel loader in the next year. This wheel loader from its latest “M series”, which as an extended and updated model of the “XE series”, contains all the features of the XE models, as well as many additional ones. The features that will be additional in the M model are: an increased and spacious size of the cab section, a modified and improved 12-ton 982M engine capacity, and all the other features of the 962, 950, 966, 980 and 972 models of wheel loaders.

As the company has understood the immense need for the equipment in any construction industry, there has been a tremendous trial for developing and increasing the qualities and features of all its wheel loaders. The company had started producing the wheel loaders as the G series, with a Tier 1 working principle. Since then, the Caterpillar Inc. has moved on to making its fifth generation machine, the M series wheel loaders. Before the M series came into the news or in front of the world, there was the K series of wheel loaders which was the most common among the users. As per the cost of the wheel loader, the fuel efficiency of the equipment was 25%. The company claims that this time, in the M series of the equipment, it has increased fuel efficiency.  The split flow oil system and the use of multi viscosity oil has made this fuel efficiency possible. What makes this new series of wheel loaders different from the rest of the wheel loaders is that it has a standard lock-up clutch torque converter. This matches the engine power and the hydraulic system of the equipment as designed by the company

By the beginning of the year 2014, the Caterpillar Inc. will offer the users with their first set of heavy equipment designed as the models 966M and the model 972M. However, during the middle of the next year, the company will have to meet the expectations of the users by providing the other two models namely the 980M and 982M. But the highlight or the most talked about models of the M series wheel loaders from the house of the Caterpillar Inc., will be available in the market by the end of the year 2014.

Caterpillar Inc. always comes up with innovative ideas and they keep renovating and modifying their equipment. The M series wheel loaders that the company is about to launch very soon is the Tier 4 or the latest engines from the house of the company. The most amazing feature that these engines have is that they are run by the Cat Regeneration System, a system that Caterpillar Inc. claims to allow those engines which have a horsepower of 175 and can be sold in the countries that are without any modification and are considered as lower regulated.

Importance of Contingency Plan at Construction Business

You cannot predict your future. But taking some risk on your planning you can be profitable. By developing your risk management properly you can reduce your business interruption. This is called contingency planning by which you can minimize bad effect in your trade. It’s a fact that you can’t predict future but by contingency planning you can secure your trade future.

 

Contingency planning:

In construction business contingency plan is very necessary. When owner faces some troubles or get interrupted in his normal process, then he comes with alternative plans to pull out his business from interruption quickly. Contingency planning is often use for risk management to avoid or minimize exceptional or unwanted incident. Suppose, you use one shipping company for supplying things and if it went bankrupt then your business process will stop. To avoid this situation you should use more than one shipping lines for your product supplying.

Consider Before Planning:

  • Industrial strikes.
  • Failures in power, telephones,      internet, computers, gas.
  • Bad debt and finances
  • Safety and health
  • Legal issues and insurances
  • Dependence on key personnel / management
  • Depend on supplies and limited supplier
  • Depend on small customer or limited customer
  • Applying new technology
  • Repairs, maintenance and replacement of equipment
  • Competition and opposition
  • Accessibility of roads, footpath
  • Weather
  • Government legislation,      regulation

Anticipating Risks:

You have to be pessimist to anticipate the risk factor of your business. You have to be aware of all the risks that can harm your trade. Suppose, something bad happened to your main supplier or the shipping company went bankrupt or any major or minor accident at your work station. You have to think about your retail location, office, warehouse and people associated with your trade. If, for some reason, you don’t have this location anymore, then it would be a big trouble for business so you should always make a plan B. Maybe it is hard to think and arrange many things, but you should have everything in your mind to make good and effective contingency plan, especially if you are involved in construction business.

Strategy Developing:

This thing will help your business grow. You have to think about each risk factor and have to make alternative plans for it. Alternating strategy developing is called alleviating risk. If you make a plan for your safety then you can apply it if crisis comes. But you also have to plan how fast you can recover from it. For example, if any natural calamities take place then you can’t stop it, so you should always make insurance for your trade. Therefore plan B is very essential as it not only recovers you from bad situation but also fast forward your business.

Opportunity Planning:

You have to be optimist as a business owner to swipe it, when opportunity comes. You should also have plans, thereby you can deal with anything and if big client or huge contract or other opportunity comes in your way, you can utilize them. To get this kind of opportunity you need proper plan, because you have to face competition with other parties.

How to buy a used excavator?

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In mining fields, or in construction sites, excavators are always very much in demand. For removing the ruins and wastes from the work site, or to load the construction materials to the site, excavators are the only vehicles that can help. However, buying a brand new excavators can burn a whole into the pocket, moreover, there is no specific necessity of a new one, as it serves no other purpose than what a second hand or used excavator does. Therefore, buying a suitable and good conditioned excavator is quite an intelligent task to do. This however needs a detailed survey of the used excavator, before buying it.

  • Inspect the physical condition of the excavator:

The first thing that the buyer should do is to carefully inspect the physical condition of the used excavator.  This includes everything from whether each and every part of the excavator like, the boom, the stick, the bucket, the cab etc. are in proper working condition or not. It should also be checked whether the engine starts smoothly or not. One of the most important factors that must be made sure is that there is no oil leakage from the engine of the excavator as it would mean that the excavator was not serviced properly or was not taken care of. If there is any visible damage on the used excavator, then it is very obvious that, that particular excavator should be removed from your wish list.

  • Make sure that the undercarriage is in proper condition:

Most of the buyers fail to inspect the undercarriage of the used excavators. However, it is very important to inspect that. It is very obvious that due to the usage of the excavator, the undercarriage would be a little scratched or a few other damages would be there. But it should be made sure that the undercarriage is in a repairable condition and it does not cost too much.

  • Check the papers:

The papers of the heavy mechanical vehicle are the most important thing. Without papers, the vehicle will have no further servicing. From the papers of the vehicle, it can also be inferred that when the vehicle was manufactured or how old it is. Thus you can take your decision, whether to invest on this used excavator or not.

  • Fuel consumption:

Before taking your final decision, start the engine of the excavator that you wish to buy and check its fuel consumption rate. If it is not satisfactory, then do not buy the excavator and look out for other options.

When you start a construction business or any other heavy business, it is very important that you are equipped with all the machines and equipment. This however burns a large hole in the pocket. Therefore, going to buy branded new machines or other equipment, then the cost automatically goes higher. A good conditioned, second hand equipment, especially a used excavator, comes at a much cheaper cost, but provide you with all the services that you require.

Heavy Equipment Is Not Only Needed In Construction Sites But Also In Oilfields

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Many people have this preconceived notion that heavy equipment are meant to perform only in construction sites and is hardly required in any other place. However, heavy equipment play a crucial role in mining industry as well as in oilfields. It requires real strong and big machines to excavate deep into the earth to remove the dirt and sneak in further down to extract resources. If not without these machines, it would be unimaginable to portray a human doing it all by himself. The reason why people think that heavy equipment are only used in construction areas is because they see a lot of construction happening in and around their vicinity but hardly see a mining site or an oilfield nearby. For them to see how things work in a mining site or an oilfield, they have to visit a destined location where they can get to see all.

In a nutshell, heavy equipment are an essential component to extract oil from an oilfield or for that matter extracting any useful resources from the crust of the earth.

We would be discussing the need and utility of heavy equipment in an oilfield and how without them it would be vulnerable for people to bring out the much needed resources.

In a construction site, you may have seen people timing their work well as they have specialized in doing this thing for years. In the same way, it requires specialized men to drill an oil rig. You can’t just start extracting oil by employing men who have experiences working in construction sites. They may not be of any good to you and you should be looking for men who have worked in oilfields before and that lot of guys can prove to be beneficial to you.

You would definitely need equipment to dig rigs but you can’t have the operator working in a construction project to do the same job for you. You may need specialized men for that who has experiences in digging oil rigs and knows how to proceed further under any given situation. Ideally, you will come across 2 types of drilling rigs. One would be water based and the other land based. In case of land based rigs, you need equipment that have the potential to drill in deep in the ground and also suck in the mud as it goes deeper and then with the help of other machine, extract the oil from the earth. It is not always that the equipment used in a construction site can also be used here for this purpose. They may have some special equipment which are exclusively used for digging and still may not use an excavator to excavate the earth.

In order to dig deeper, they need more advanced equipment than having to dig for few meters. Therefore, the costing of such advanced equipment would definitely be higher as compared to the ordinary ones. An oilfield is not all about digging in and sucking the oil out but it has more involved with it.

Want To Sell Your Used Heavy Equipment – Auction It

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If you think that selling used heavy equipment is a big pain, then you should reconsider your thought because it has become lot simpler to sell it off with a good price. There are many buyers who are on a hunt for used heavy equipment at affordable rates may find your deal as a very good opportunity and may look forward to buy it. Nevertheless, something that is of real importance is how do you market your stuff and what platform you use to market it. If you have already decided the price of the machine and you want to sell it at nothing less than that, then you may give an ad and quote that price. Interested buyers who find that rate reasonable will flock in to check your stuff and if they like it, may close the deal. But if you are not certain about the price you want to sell the equipment and want to leave it for the buyers to decide, you may simply auction it. It leaves you with very good chance of selling the item with a price which is way above your expectation and higher than what you have imagined.

It is of due importance to select the right platform to auction the item as you need visitors who will come and check out the equipment. You can think of two most convenient ways to auction it. The first would be to post it on the internet (Bidramp.com) and the second is to leave an ad in a local newspaper and arrange the auction at your place or rent a suitable place for auction.

Few things that you should keep in mind before you put up your equipment in an auction. The first would be to ensure that your equipment is up to the mark and that you do everything to make it look new. Paint the stuff, put some stickers, change old or obsolete parts, and get it checked from a mechanic who is an expert in dealing with things like these. Once you are done with these things, the next would be to put it on a website (Bidramp.com) which is known to people and which also has good number of visitors flocking in to check stuffs on the site on a daily basis. Once you have identified such a site, you need to register yourself there and check the charges of the site. The charges ideally depend upon the kind of item you’re auctioning on the site or the bare minimum amount you keep on the item.

It is recommended that you keep the bare minimum price as the price you expect to get on the equipment so that once the auction begins and people starts placing their bids, the price of the stuff keeps moving up on its own and you end up making good money at the end of the auction.

The second option of auctioning the item at your place also has its own significance. There you’ll see the kind of bidders coming in and also see how they increase the price of the item by placing bids on it. Overall, both the options would turn out to be a wonderful way to sell the used equipment.

Used Equipments – Is There A Market For Them

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Not all are blessed with a father who is filthy rich to fulfil all the dreams of his children and therefore people who want to try their luck in the construction segment has to arrange for funds needed all on their own.  As long as you don’t get a man who is ready to adopt you as your son and ready to spend a portion of his wealth to give you a start-up in your business, you got to arrange things on your own and make a way out of it. Jokes apart, construction segment can generate good profits if you know how to extract profits from it. However, in order to get into this industry, one needs to have sufficient fund to support his business. There have been several instances where people were out of projects and eventually had to close their shops. They simply were not able to bear any more expenses which led to dump their dreams in the bin.

Other than making arrangements to take care of the operational costs even if you do not have any projects in hand, you also got to ensure that the heavy equipments you own are in order and have to spend regularly to keep it well maintained. Further to this, if you seek to buy brand new equipments, it will definitely cost you a fortune. So let us assume a person has managed to bag in a project but does not have sufficient funds to buy new equipments, his chances to complete the project becomes dimmer. One would certainly not like to lose business for a silly reason like not having the much needed construction equipment to start the work. Well, as most of the problem has a solution, this problem too has one.

The most economical way to save your business is to buy used equipment. They may not be at par with the brand new machines fitted with sophisticated gadgets but will of course help you serve your purpose. The question arise here is “Do we have a market from where we can buy used construction equipments?” Well, we have a huge market for them and the ways one can procure used equipments are plenty.

Spread of word:- You can just allow people to know that you are in hunt for used construction equipments. This will spread out and people who would like to sell off their used stuff may get in touch with you. You simply have to check the deal they are ready to offer and if all goes your way, you can strike the deal.

Check classifieds:-  Many have found this to be really useful. You need to check the classifieds where people sell used equipments. If at all you find something that meets your requirement, you can contact them and ask for an appointment. Go and check the stuff and if you feel it’s worth buying, go for it. (i.e. Machinery Trader)

Check on internet:-  People list their items on internet. You need to google and check if the net has something to offer you. Most of the time, you’ll find sellers that are selling the stuff you want to buy. You can email them and schedule a meeting. In this way, you can easily buy used equipment and give a good start to your business.