Repairing or replacing a broken piece of construction equipment can be both time-consuming and incredibly expensive. As such, it's important to take steps to prevent your equipment from sustaining damage. Read on to find out what these steps are. 

Don't use it for anything other than its intended purpose

Using a piece of equipment for anything other than its intended purpose is likely to lead to it being damaged.

For example, if you decide to use a bulldozer (a machine which is designed to push rubble, soil and construction scraps from one area to another) to knock down a tall tree on a building site, there could be disastrous consequences.

If, after the blade strikes and cuts the tree, the trunk falls towards the equipment, instead of away from it, it could end up landing on the roof of the bulldozer's cab.

The impact could crush this section of the equipment which could, in turn, render the entire machine unusable. It could also result in the operator inside the cab being severely injured.

Be careful when transporting it

Transporting a large and very heavy piece of construction equipment to a new building site can be very challenging. Any mistakes you make during this process could easily result in the equipment being damaged beyond repair.

If for instance, the trailer you choose to rent from a trailer hire company is a flatbed model, with no guarding around its edges, and you then fail to properly secure the machinery to the trailer's platform with ropes or straps, the equipment could fall off the trailer whilst you are driving it to the next building site.

In addition to potentially endangering the lives of nearby drivers, this type of accident could also result in the equipment being completely destroyed, due to the force with which it would hit the road surface.

Likewise, disaster could strike if you rent a trailer without first checking its dimensions and then later discover that it is not as wide or as long as the equipment you intend to transport on it.

This could result in part of the equipment hanging off the edge of the trailer, which could, in turn, affect both the equipment and the trailer's stability.

This instability could increase the likelihood of the machinery toppling off the trailer's platform midway through the journey to the building site. Much like the above-mentioned scenario, the impact of this fall would almost certainly lead to the total destruction of the equipment. 

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