Komatsu HB215LC-3, Operation & Maintenance Manual

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Loading: Loading of dry and loose earth.
HORIZONTAL PIN TYPE TOOTH
Heavy-duty digging: Digging and hammering work on hard soil, soil with rocks, scraping or other heavy-duty
work
• The heavy-duty bucket is of a horizontal pin type and as such, use it for heavy duty-digging.
LONG-LIFE TOOTH
• Jobsites where long wear life is required, such as when loading hard rocks.
• Jobsites where no penetration is needed, such as when working with crushed rocks after blasting or rip-
ping.
• Jobsites where heavy-duty operations are performed, such as hitting or pulling up rocks with the tips of the
teeth.
SELF-SHARPENING TOOTH (HORIZONTAL PIN TYPE, VERTICAL PIN TYPE)
• Jobsites requiring penetration such as digging and loading sandy or clayey soil.
SELECTION GUIDE FOR VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL PIN TYPE TOOTH
Applicable work site
Rock Crushed stone
Clayey soil, De-
compressed gran-
ite soil
Sand
Typ
e of
op-
era-
tion
Hea
vy
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Light
Digging with hammer-
ing work
Horizontal pin type teeth Vertical pin type teeth
Scraping down Horizontal pin type teeth Vertical pin type teeth
General excavation Vertical pin type teeth
Loading Vertical pin type teeth
ATTACHMENTS AND OPTIONS ATTACHMENTS AND OPTIONS
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