ar 3, heavy equipment of

een gaining added service: life: eee
worn. rollers: by adding. layers of hard
metal through both manual. and. auto:

rebuilding. techniques, the new: method
does not: require: finishing by :machin-~
ing.’or: “gritiding. This means. that ‘the:
most wear-resistant’ part: of: the over:
Jay—the surface layer—remains. intact,
providing many extra hours of: profit-
“able: operating time..Both: flange’ ‘and
_ tread surfaces are restored to. near-new
dimensions. - os

nes ‘inthe Caterpillar. wheel load
ate ‘working at’ open: ‘pit copper
mines on Babine Lake. in B.C.'s north:
erninterior. ©. ¥. .
Noranda Mines Ltd, Bell Copper
-Division,: and Granisle Copper Ltd: are
using the’ big. 550. h.p. 992s with thei
10: cubic. yard buckets..as ‘back-ups: far
electric and. diesel-powéred shovels, .
and: for tehandling stockpile. materials .
at-the' mine: all pr

i down for repair or. maintenance, and m8
will | rehandie Stockpile,” said Kalmet.

65: ton ‘trucks—four buckets full fo the.
Adad—in, two minutes: per truck.

“§ ze. It had. to clear the 13°1" ” high sides .
of. the 65-ton. dumps. :Price, of course, : :
was: important, too. ietion in we pre

shovels’. working benches” simultan..
‘eously we need a machine with mobil-.
ity,:hence the rubber-tired dozer over
the: track-type machine: to: handle the.
half:'mile trips ‘between benches..:The: .
“dozer. has other work to do as well,-
like tidying up the dumps and pelping_
maintain roads," said Kalmet.

~The company also uses two Cat DB a a
tractors. for removing overburden and — _ = | ING NJ E NIG
“other: heavy preparatory work. — ee oe .
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