Prepping Heavy
Equipment for
Remote Jobs
Lost time can be prevented
by properly planning
the project, having the
recommended parts on site,
and scheduling sufficient
time for inspections and
maintenance on the equipment
One needs only to watch the television show Ice Road
Truckers – which features drivers who operate trucks
across frozen lakes, rivers and tundra in both Alaska
and Canada’s north – to get an idea of the challenges
involved when transporting equipment and supplies to remote
locations in extreme and often treacherous conditions.
These conditions also spotlight the importance of diligent
planning to help ensure that heavy equipment will perform
at peak capacity once they reach these locations. Machines
must not only be prepped and maintained prior to transport,
but inspected and maintained regularly on site.
“The key to cold weather success is having a piece of equipment
that is specifically designed for the cold,” said Bruce
Patterson, owner of Canadian Pile Driving Equipment Inc.,
located in Lacombe, Alta. (with a service office in Montreal),
an authorized dealer of Junttan equipment in Canada that
also provides a full line of service and parts that complement
pile driving equipment.
“The Junttan product that we sell is built and tested in
northern Finland – north of the 60th parallel – which has
proved to have great success in the coldest regions of the
world,” said Patterson. “The biggest part to success is to be
able to get the machine to easily start and get the engine
and hydraulics up to operating temperature as quickly as
possible.”
And while Junttan equipment is used on many remote
jobs and often equipped with an Arctic kit that heats up the
engine, batteries, hydraulics, cabin and fuel without running
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By Lisa Kopochinski
The APE 600 Super Kong vibro
installing a 12-foot-diameter pile
on the site of the Saskatchewan
power line project in October 2015
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