How do I estimate and state service life in working hours for my excavator undercarriage parts?
Undercarriage costs often eat up half of your total maintenance budget. I see many buyers guessing at replacement times, which leads to costly downtime 1 or wasted parts. Let’s fix this uncertainty. To estimate service life, combine bench test data with specific field coefficients. Multiply the theoretical limit—often 4,000 hours for links—by a factor reflecting …