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COVER STORY
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MODERN MINING
October 2016
T
he trucks have completed a further
56 000 hours since the rebuilds.
They will be retired at the end
of 2016 with more than 100 000
hours each on the clock. Machine
availabilities still remain at an acceptable level
having completed these relatively high hours.
The retiring trucks have been replaced
with new Cat trucks ordered from Barloworld
Equipment.
Although Barloworld Equipment has suc-
cessfully overhauled many Cat 777B trucks,
these were the first to undergo the new Cat
Certified Rebuild process. On completion
of the rebuilds at Barloworld Equipment’s
Rebuilt Cat 777 trucks
more than
Following the Cat Certified
Rebuild, this truck was
returned to the customer
with a ‘like new’ machine
warranty, testifying to the
second life built into Cat
mining machines and
avoiding the risk of inflated
maintenance costs over the
second life of the machine.
Barloworld Equipment made history in the Southern
African mining industry in August 2005 with the rebuilds
of four Cat® 777B off-highway trucks under the Cat
Certified Rebuild (CCR) programme. These machines had
been operating at a manganese mine in the Northern
Cape for the initial 45 000 hours of their lives.