SAFER, FASTER 777 BALL STUD REMOVAL

BUILT WITH SAFETY, EFFICIENCY AND POWER IN MIND, GEOGRAPHE HAS RETHOUGHT HOW MAINTENANCE TEAMS REMOVE SEIZED CATERPILLAR 777 BALL STUDS.

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There are a handful of common methods for removing seized ball studs. Some use sledgehammers, while others rely on hot works or grinders. But what if there was a safer, faster solution? Building on the global success of the Ball Stud Removal Tool (BSRT) to suit Caterpillar 785, 789 and 793 haul trucks, Geographe has now introduced a BSRT to suit 777 haul trucks.

“Using traditional practices, a customer had been trying to remove a ball stud from their truck for over two hours when we arrived on-site,” draftsperson Siva Thasappan told Australian Mining.

“They had allocated a 12-hour shift to remove it. Once we deployed the prototype 777 BSRT, the stud was released in three minutes.”

Planner and estimator Andre Duckitt took Australian Mining through the process of deploying the new tool.

“One of Geographe’s core values is ‘work it out’, so it was business as usual when we were asked to develop a solution for the Caterpillar 777 trucks,” Duckitt said.