Modern Mining October 2016

COVER STORY

Rebuilt Cat 777 trucks more than

Barloworld Equipment made history in the Southern African mining industry in August 2005 with the rebuilds of four Cat® 777B off-highway trucks under the Cat Certified Rebuild (CCR) programme. These machines had been operating at a manganese mine in the Northern Cape for the initial 45 000 hours of their lives.

T he trucks have completed a further 56 000 hours since the rebuilds. They will be retired at the end of 2016 with more than 100 000 hours each on the clock. Machine availabilities still remain at an acceptable level having completed these relatively high hours. The retiring trucks have been replaced with new Cat trucks ordered from Barloworld Equipment. Although Barloworld Equipment has suc- cessfully overhauled many Cat 777B trucks, these were the first to undergo the new Cat Certified Rebuild process. On completion of the rebuilds at Barloworld Equipment’s

Following the Cat Certified Rebuild, this truck was returned to the customer with a ‘like new’ machine warranty, testifying to the second life built into Cat mining machines and avoiding the risk of inflated maintenance costs over the second life of the machine.

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