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Technical resource

hints to maintaining and operating your excavator

Technical Hints
​for Excavator Owners & Operators

With these notes we give hints to guide you in maintaining and operating your excavator. These are meant to augment, not replace, instructions given in your handbook and parts book which are supplied with each new excavator.
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Our notes are short and may not be comprehensive. They do, however, answer most of the common questions that we at DIGBITS are asked on a regular basis.
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The Basics

operating
maintenance & servicing
know your Machine

Buckets

buckets - buying & using
buckets - repairs
buckets - changing buckets & attachments

Rubber Tracks

rubber tracks - ground conditions & use
rubber tracks - sizes
rubber tracks - changing a track
rubber tracks - tensioning

Everything else!

undercarriage components
boom pins, bushes, seals & shims
transportation
lifting
hydraulic ram repairs
hydraulic hoses
slew ring & pinion problems
buying your excavator
contacting your excavator dealer or manufacturer

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​ - Rubber Tracks - Ground Conditions & Use
 - Rubber Tracks - Sizes
 - Rubber Tracks - Changing a Track
​ - Rubber Tracks - Tensioning
 - Undercarriage Components 
 - Boom Pins, Bushes, Seals & Shims
 - Transportation
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 - Slew Ring & Pinion Problems
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Staffordshire
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  • Home
  • Shop
  • Products
    • Buy Now
    • Excavator Buckets >
      • Digging & Trenching Buckets
      • Ditching & Grading Buckets
      • XHD Buckets
      • V Ditchers
      • Riddle Buckets
      • Clayspades
      • Taper Tile Buckets
      • Micro Trench Buckets
      • Concrete Pouring Buckets
      • Tilt Rotator Buckets
      • Bucket Teeth
    • Excavator Attachments >
      • Heavy Duty Ripper Teeth
      • Tilt Ditchers
      • Rakes
      • General Purpose Rakes
      • Grapples
      • Grip Talon
      • Rotating Grabs
      • Augers & Trenchers
      • Hedge Cutters
      • Hydraulic Hammers
      • Boom Broom
      • Block Grabs
      • Grading Beam
      • Tree Shears
      • Mulchers
      • Mechanical Pulverisors
      • Compaction Wheels
    • Crushers
    • Quick Hitches
    • Rubber Tracks >
      • Camoplast Rubber Tracks
    • Spare Parts >
      • Undercarriage Parts
      • Pins, Bushes, Seals, Shims
      • Bucket & Tipping Linkages
      • Bucket Teeth
      • Cutting Edges
      • General Spares
    • Construction Tyres
  • Technical
    • Operating
    • Maintenance & Servicing
    • Know your machine
    • Buckets - Buying and using
    • Buckets - Changing buckets & attachments
    • Buckets - Repairs
    • Buckets - Teeth
    • Rubber Tracks - Ground Conditions & Use
    • Rubber Tracks - Sizes
    • Rubber Tracks - Changing a rubber track
    • Rubber Tracks - Tensioning
    • Undercarriage Components
    • Boom Pins, Bushes, Seals & Shims
    • Transportation
    • Lifting
    • Hydraulic Ram Repairs
    • Hydraulic Hoses
    • Slew Ring & Pinion Problems
    • Buying your excavator
    • Contacting your excavator manufacturer or dealer
  • Engineering
    • Plant List
  • Used
  • News
  • About
  • Contact
    • Careers