skills · teach

Machines

Hours, care due, the right machine on the day's plan — RazeForce. Seat time is still a school.

Study notes. Not a certificate. Not a licence. Not NEBOSH, PESO, ISEE, or IDE. We never design the charge, spacing, or the cut. Site hours and statutory papers have no video substitute.

1. Machine families: excavators, high-reach, wheel loaders, skid steers, dozers, cranes, crushers, screens.

   Name the carrier class for this structure. Brochure horsepower is not a plan.

   8 h · teach

2. Attachments: hydraulic breakers, pulverisers, concrete/steel shears, grapples, magnets, buckets, drum cutters.

   Breaker, shear, pulveriser, grapple — matched to material and to the carrier flow and weight class.

   8 h · teach

3. Matching attachment to structure and to carrier — flow, pressure, weight class.

   Over-weight attachment on a light carrier is a tip. Under-flow shear is a long day. Write both numbers.

   8 h · teach

4. Hydraulic systems: pumps, valves, circuits, accumulators; reading a hydraulic schematic.

   Read the schematic far enough to know which circuit is live. Heat and contamination kill plant.

   12 h · teach

5. Stability: load charts, reach diagrams, tipping, ground bearing pressure, mat/crib design.

   Load chart, reach, mats. Ground that held last week may not hold 80 t today.

   10 h · teach

6. High-reach demolition specifics — working height classes, structural awareness while dismantling, exclusion under boom.

   Height class, wind, exclusion under the stick, and what you have already taken down.

   10 h · teach

7. Engines, drivetrains, undercarriages — wear, cost per hour.

   Wear is money. Hours and idle from telematics beat a guess.

   8 h · teach

8. Maintenance and diagnostics; oil analysis; planned vs breakdown.

   Planned care vs breakdown. Oil analysis is a sentence in the week, not a sticker.

   8 h · teach

9. Seat time. Actually operate machines. You will never manage operators well without it.

   You will not manage operators well without hours in the seat. We do not issue a plant ticket.

   12 h · teach

10. Telematics and machine data — utilisation, idle time, fuel burn.

    Utilisation, idle, fuel. The day's plan in RazeForce should match the hours the machine actually ran.

    8 h · teach

11. Cost-per-hour modelling per machine (feeds Block P).

    Build it from your hours, fuel, wear, and finance — not a hire brochure.

    8 h · teach