My current employer runs a fleet of 631s. We have been loosing a lot of tires. Nearly 100% of the rock in the aggregate we are working in is rounded with exception of the ones busted up by cutting edges and dozer tracks. I was running a 631 the other day that was being top loaded by an excavator. After being loaded I took off and the excavator operator noticed that I was loosing air in my right rear tire. He called my cell phone. I noticed my phone ringing right when it went to voice mail. I had to do a 180 degree turn before I dumped and then noticed something was amiss when spreading my dump my cutting edge was lower on the right. I probably debeaded the tire on that turn. by the time I got dumped and realized what was going on the carcass was shredded.
More recently I was grade checking and heard a rear tire on a scraper losing air on its way to the cut. I flagged down the next scraper to catch that scraper and I also called the push dozer operator. That tire was saved to be repaired. I think we lost one tire yesterday and 3 or 4 today. Probably only one is a complete loss. Many of the tires have heavy weathering cracks.
My question, is there a tire monitoring system that a person can install on machines with high dollar tires that would alert operators with an alarm of not only low tire pressure but rapid pressure loss? These tire losses have to be a major expense to my employer. The one I lost was a Michelin that was not in very bad shape before the loss.
621_Rocker
More recently I was grade checking and heard a rear tire on a scraper losing air on its way to the cut. I flagged down the next scraper to catch that scraper and I also called the push dozer operator. That tire was saved to be repaired. I think we lost one tire yesterday and 3 or 4 today. Probably only one is a complete loss. Many of the tires have heavy weathering cracks.
My question, is there a tire monitoring system that a person can install on machines with high dollar tires that would alert operators with an alarm of not only low tire pressure but rapid pressure loss? These tire losses have to be a major expense to my employer. The one I lost was a Michelin that was not in very bad shape before the loss.
621_Rocker