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Hydraulics in mining: safe and reliable
Eliminating downtime and ensuring safety in mining — two benefits hydraulics provides consistently.
Josh Cosford • Contributing Editor More than almost any other industry appropriating fluid power, mining is where safety sits front and center from design to execution. Surface mining enjoys bragging rights to some of the most massive machines ever manufactured by humans. Vehicles of downright monstrous proportions possess the power to smatter a pickup truck as easily as a thumb smears a tiny red clover mite crawling up your patio furniture. Despite the destructive capacity of surface mining machinery, underground mining sits at the head of the boardroom table of jeopardy. 40
FLUID POWER WORLD
8 • 2020
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