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Skid Steer Inspection and Maintenance

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Grading with a Crippled machine

What happens here

The presenter prepares his Bobcat S185 skid steer for the grading task. This involves checking the tire pressure on one of the large tires, which is found to be at 21 PSI instead of the required 80 PSI. He uses a Milwaukee M12 Compact Inflator to address this. While the tire inflates, he performs visual inspections under the hood, checking the oil filter, oil dipstick to ensure proper oil levels, and removing both the inner and outer air filters for inspection and gentle cleaning by tapping them. He notes the maintenance log on the oil filter, indicating the last service was at 1725 hours.

Goal: Ensure the skid steer is in good working condition and ready for operation

Tools and materials

  • 4-in-1 Bucket — Attached to the skid steer for moving and scooping dirt. The presenter states he uses it as a regular bucket
  • Bobcat S185 Skid Steer Bobcat — The primary heavy machinery for grading
  • Milwaukee M12 Compact Inflator Milwaukee — Inflating the skid steer tires to the correct pressure
  • Work Pants Kujo — Comfort and protection while operating machinery

What they say

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this is what i'm going to be using it's a four in one but these hoses got pulled and when they got pulled that's right where she leaks see she ain't supposed to do that so she pulled apart so technically i only need that part but we're just going to see what we can do with her the way she is the work before the work begins i'm gonna fix that tire yeah yeah fix that tire all right you guys if you ever are wondering if you should get one of these little inflators i think milwaukee sells them skill cells a lot of places sell them they're definitely worth it so i got hooked up to the tire it'll burn through an entire battery just doing one skid loader tire but that means i can be checking over the rest of the machine i can grease it i can do everything i need to do while this tire is inflating and not sit and mess with it once you hook it up it'll tell you how many pounds you're at right now and then when you it'll you just go where you want to go this tire is supposed to have 80 pounds so we are pretty flat we're gonna go up to probably said i didn't forget it it's going to take about 10 minutes to get there but i'll do the rest of what i got to do with this machine while that does everything it needs to do so we're going to do the pre-machine fire up walk around this should be pretty standard you guys that run equipment know this probably do your own i'd love to hear what you guys do [Music] so we've got which when on the back of the machines you see these numbers if you're not familiar with heavy equipment those numbers represent the hours and date that the last service was done on it so 1725 hours so when i jump in the machine that means i can look at how many hours on it if it's got 1800 1900 hours that means i've got 50 100 hours on that oil now this machine is looking a little dirty in the back i'm not worried about the dirt this dirt and dust that doesn't bother me as much as oil so i'm looking for oil combined in the bottom looking in the bottom of the drip pan also removing anything from some of the last jobs which i should have already done i don't see any broken hoses that one's a little loose they of course do the courtesy dipstick oil check if you ever have your oil blowing out the back of your engine on some machines you may not have stuck your dipstick all the way in i know that's a stupid thing to say but i actually had an operator a veteran operator call me up the engine's blowing oil what's going on and i came out and i went to the back of…

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