To guide and protect

摘要

Choosing the right hose or cable carrier for your equipment can help prevent kinks, tangles, and other damage as machine parts extend and retract. This prevents downtime and repair costs. Justin Leonard looks into how such solutions perform under the harshest of conditions When hydraulic or pneumatic lines connect to a moving machine component, such as a backhoe loader, telescoping hoist platform, excavator or drilling rig, there are several ways to accommodate the motion. While the easiest is simply to allow slack hose, this method can lead to excess flexing, premature hose wear, and damage from pinching or catching on the equipment or working area. The use of hose reels is another possibility, but generally they are useful only for single lines and offer no physical protection for the hose.