Here are the pics if you some close ups of anything let me know. First/Second: 300 with shear mounted 3rd member has a FOGS guard and the view from inside This is what the view is like out most of our hoes. I lot of guy don't like it but you get use to it and my safety is more important to me. Third/Fourth: 200 with a guard built like most of ours are but with every other bar cut out of the center of view. The view is a bit better and it is still plenty strong for most hazards. On our guards like this the flat stock brackets are the weak point. They will crush long before the guard bends. Fifth: our 330 LB with a expanded metal guard This machine is mostly for breaking so it has a finer "screen" guard. It won't take much abuse outside the small objects flying off the hammer. Its also not quite small enough screen to stop the windows from getting broke out by flying concrete.
First: our new 330 with a shear mounted 2nd member This machine should have a FOGS... Guards built out of this type of material are my favorite. The best view and pretty strong, but not as strong as the others since its only 3/8"s rod. It did stop a 6" chunk of rail road rail that flew off the shear and hit it. The only damage was a little paint off the guard. Second: is the hinge It has bolts on the other side that hold it closed. Kind of a PITA to have to remove the bolts to clean the window though. Third: is the view
Thanks Dozerboy, that helps give me some ideas. The view from the inside helps a lot, as that is very important.
Looking decent. My only concern is some of those machine dont seem to have any additional overhead protection. Maybe its just the type of demo I used to do, but every machine always had a chance of working in the shadow of something overhead. It also adds a lot of extra support for your front screen.
Thanks for posting your pictures. I need something for trees so I'm looking for something stronger but you gave me some ideas. thanks pointrow
Yes your right a FOGS is a much safer guard, but they cost more. We only had a guard on the one machine up until the last year. Which is the norm here. We don't demo much anything over 2 stories and aren't in tight quarters normally. It comes down to the operator needing to watch his own rear and not let himself get put into trouble. I have done lots of land clearing and normally don't have any type of guard. It all depends on the circumstance your working under though. We where clearing acres of flat land so could give ourselves plenty of room.
guards thanks db.. it is nice to see different types of guards. we will put one on that is on hinges and can be taken off. 7000 hours on that 225 and i finally broke the windshield. i can say that fatigue played a part in the accident as well as the youngsters yapping on the radio every 15 seconds, merry x mas regards, cd
We have guards on our 336's that lock down with hooks but can pivot and raise with 2 gas struts so you can get behind them and clear the windshield or work on the wiper system. We had 2 options to choose from, the mesh or the flat bars. We ended up getting the bars as they are a bit stouter and resist impact better. The attached is not really a true representation, there are more bars and they are closer together than they are made to look in the drawing.
nige, i was just running a 330 with that guard. quite frankly, i hated it. the guard will not open far enough to be able to clean the window and the locks at the bottom would rattle open.
On our one machine at work we got the same thing as in the second picture. We did a home made job on it with the same material. Road grating. I to am not crazy about it, but it has saved me more than a few time with things I have sheared and had pieces go flying . The old riveted steel beams are a big culprit of making pieces go flying at times. It took a while to get use to but after a while you don’t even notice it. Well worth it.
We had some at another company that where hinged at the bottom and had stops so they didn't open to far. they worked good