Earthmoving equipment speeds up civil engineering or building projects and reduces the amount of manpower needed. Servicing and maintaining these machines is vital to their optimum performance. BS 6913-4 is an International Standard that discusses the operation and maintenance of earth-moving machinery.
BS 6913-4 is the fourth part of the multi-series that sets forth, for guidance, a list of diagnostic instruments to check earth-moving machinery at the worksite.
BS 6913-4 applies to crawler and wheel tractors, crawler and wheel loaders, and hydraulic excavators; but can be easily extended to apply to other basic earth-moving machines such as graders, tractors scrapers, and dumpers.
Note: Service instruments use of which involve major machine disassemblies or which are more suitable for use in the workshop are purposely excluded from this list.
BS 6913-4 on service instrumentation for earth-moving machinery is useful for:
On-site maintenance and testing of earth-moving machinery is a key aspect of keeping it in top-condition. BS 6913-4 ensures that earth-moving machines are designed with proper accessibility and necessary connections in order to make it possible to perform these checks in an easy way, using portable instruments.
BS 6913-4 helps to keep earth-moving machinery serviced during the operations, ensuring that projects proceed smoothly and without delays.
ISO 6012:1997