A digger derrick is a piece of equipment used to dig holes, set poles and work with a variety of materials. These machines typically handle anything from transformers to cross arms and backfill material such as dirt or rock. While digger derricks are known as the workhorse of the utility industry, they are also often used to complete construction and telecom jobs. Altec’s digger derricks come in a variety of models and sizes to meet a wide range of work applications for these industries. Altec’s line of digger derricks are: Hydraulically operated outfitted with a fiberglass third … [Read more...]
Five Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Altec Digger Derrick
Altec engineers our digger derricks with the equipment and systems that make the work you do easier, like digging holes at an angle or lifting maximum loads. Here is a list of ways to maximize the performance and safety of your Altec Digger Derrick. Perform Full Range of Motion Checks The American National Standards Institute (ANSI A10.31) requires digger derrick users to perform a test of all functions through the complete range of motion prior to each work shift. Without this simple rule, there is no other way to ensure the unit is fully functional before it’s put to work. An added side … [Read more...]
Trick or Treating … Bucket Truck Style
And you thought the wind uprooted this tree when your bucket truck was called into take care of it!!!! :twisted: The bucket truck business can be pretty spooky as evidenced by some of the blogs we have written! So just in time for Halloween 2020, let us show you what we mean: Spiders and Buckets and Lifts, Oh My! This one conjures up visions of Halloween and spider webs, but then we remembered another one of our blogs about maintaining your bucket truck and pre-op checks. No spider webs on trucks allowed! Airing It Out … How to Bleed the System This is too easy. Bela Lugosi comes … [Read more...]
Auger Bits & Pieces
A quick chat with Robert Frost of Frost Auger Tooling The UEP Guys sat down with Robert Frost of Frost Auger Tooling, Inc. If we did podcasts, this would have been a good one. But alas, we thought having a blog for you to read at your leisure was even better than a podcast! Frost Auger is proud of their product, and they deserve to be – they use only quality, American-made steel. No shortcuts – their auger shafts are heavy duty DOM tubes, not piping. For you steel geeks out there, you know that DOM (Drawn over Mandrel) tubing is very high quality. You won’t see this little dinky … [Read more...]
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