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Maintenance-Free Pivot Points

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A standout feature is the lack of grease zerks on the pivot points (except for track tensioning). The product manager explains that Ditch Witch uses sealed bushings, eliminating the need for daily greasing that is common on other heavy equipment. This design choice simplifies maintenance, saves time, and reduces operating costs. He also emphasizes that this feature is backed by thousands of hours of rigorous testing on prototypes to ensure durability and reliability.

Goal: Highlight the low-maintenance design of pivot points.

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ever no not ever they're not designed to be roof why don't other companies I think costs is probably the you know that goes back to we're building things our construction grade that are made to last now it's stretching I've never seen any loader not have reasonable pivot points is that it makes me question whether that's a good thing or a bad thing well we've got years and years of doing it on the other occasion they've always held up we put thousands hours on this unit and testing and they've held up just fine you do have to do your servicing on your on your track rollers whenever you change the grease out okay so that's it this is the only only Greece wizards are on the track rollers ourselves so you said something thousands and thousands of hours of testing so what does that mean I mean I really want to know sure we build three prototypes and we put at least a thousand hours of everybody goes okay so with your engineers and white lab coats that don't know how to run equipment no we have fields and Perrie that we own that we run in and we tried it we try to

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