Pre-Operation Visual Inspection

but nope that's a mini loader today we're going to be running an asv 75 rt max series cab with joystick controls first thing that we always do is before we ever jump in a piece of equipment start it up is we check the oil and we do a visual inspection so we do a walk around we've got oil but we've got to make sure that the machine has oil so as i walk around i look i'm looking for oil leaks i'm looking for anything broken this is not an oil leak this is the fuel and this shows me that somebody's been sloppy filling up the fuel tank okay i look for any loose hoses these are hoses right here i look for broken glass i look for dents i look for any impairments on the machine now this is a tract machine so i'm also looking the tracks here they're nice and tight that means this machine's in good shape but we've only looked at half of it so we want to do a walk around and as we look at it we're also getting familiar with the machine and what its potential limitations may be so if it's broken in any way shape or form it doesn't mean it's not operable it just may mean that we need to operate it in a different way to get around whatever happens to be broken and the reason i bring that up is a lot of times equipment can still operate but it may not be 100 fully functional