Bradken is keeping the details of the GET system – the second released this year – until AIMEX opens.
But Bradken GET and buckets business sales and marketing manager Jason Lunn said the system was designed to enable mines to make significant safety improvements in managing and handling GET, while increasing production and reducing downtime.
“Our new GET system will have its first public showing at AIMEX, so we are not letting anything out at the moment as to what it is,” he said last month.
Bradken will also be showing the latest additions in its recently expanded cast-lip GET system, Penetratormax.
The additions fit onto Bradken’s Penetrator nose or an OEM nose, using a Bradken-designed and manufactured adapter, point and hammerless locking pin system, which was designed to reduce the risk of injury.
Braden crawler systems business development manager Fraser Batts said the UltiRoller excavator undercarriage load roller range was designed for use on Caterpillar excavators with operating weights of 285-1080 tonnes.
“This has been designed to help excavators attain maximum undercarriage life with lower operating temperatures – it features a self-contained assembly with the roller shell split into two stand-alone (shell and axle) pieces,” he said.
Batts said an optional automatic lubrication system made use of the carrier machine’s auto-lubrication system, feeding lubricant through the end block into a specially designed axle so it was supplied directly to the area of contact.
“Contact between the bush and axle occurs at the base and this area is permanently submerged in lubricant, which aids in decreasing wear rates,” he said.
He added that when under loads, the Ultiroller’s design meant less bending occurred in the axle, resulting in a uniform area of contact.
On stand 2011 at AIMEX, Bradken will also be showing GET, dragline rigging and wear technology aimed at reducing inventory, while assisting safety and production, a fixed plant skirt liner system to promote quick and safe changeout, a web-based fixed plant wear liner monitoring system that supplies email alerts, an Evolution shoe for use on Caterpillar excavators with a patented continuous roller path, as well as advances in mineral processing grinding mill liner technology to help promote operational efficiency and reduce costs.
