Hydraulics

Hydraulics Understanding the cost of burst hydraulic hoses

FOR the past seven years BOA Hydraulics has been determined to bring about change to the hydraulic hose industry.

Helping customers to understand the true cost of their burst hydraulic hose and machine downtime and giving them the ability to undertake their own repair and maintenance work, using their own tools and inventory.

McDougall Logging in New Zealand was an early adopter of the BOA’s World Fastest Hydraulic Hose Repair Solution, having the hose repair trailer onsite for more than three years.

“The main reason we went to the onsite BOApod trailer with BOA is, they’re on the job, they’re onsite. You blow a hose that you don’t have a spare for and you’re up and running in 15 minutes. It certainly has been well worth its weight in gold,” says Raymond McDougall, the owner of McDougall Logging.

“We could be waiting anywhere from an hour to an hour-and-a-half for a hose doctor to get out to site,” he said.

“So straight away there is an hour-and-half that you are waiting to be up and running again. Where with this BOApod onsite, we are up and running in 15 to 30 minutes max.

“If you weigh that up out of a week, you virtually have saved two hours, maybe two-and-a-half hours in a week, which is definitely a savings.”

Keeping on top of machines with preventive measures is the best approach to avoid larger issues later. With the BOApod, McDougall Logging have the control to preform hydraulic hose maintenance, changing hoses before they blow.

Mr McDougall says the three key benefits of preventative maintenance are:

“You haven’t got the downtime onsite.”

“You are not pouring oil into the ground.”

“You’re not holding the crew or a truck up because you can get it sorted before it blows to pieces.”

BOA is certainly challenging, the way things have always been and customers will look back on this time before they invested in a BOApod and ask why did it take so long to change our operating model. “The money that they save you in downtime, and pouring oil on the ground, outweigh the cost of the trailers,” McDougall says.

“If you look at it overall, the BOA solution is certainly beneficial for what we are doing out here. If you are remote, I can’t see why you don’t have one. I would recommend to anyone that is 30-40 minutes out of town - you will save money.”

● The BOA Hydraulics onsite BOApod trailer.

THE WORLD’S FASTEST HYDRAULIC HOSE REPAIR