Various brands of heavy duty vehicles such as John Deere, Komatsu, Bobcat, and Caterpillar offer a number of machines that farms and construction crews will need to get their work done, and such vehicles, like any other, will sometimes need repair jobs or maintenance if they break down or if operators suspect a problem with their John Deere tractor or a Komatsu. Sometimes, the final drive motor may be the issue, and drive motors, if not repaired, can render an entire vehicle unusable, and no John Deere tractor owner or construction manager would want that. Various symptoms can help a vehicle owner diagnose a problem with a bulldozer or tractor and get repair crews to fix it, and some such vehicles will even have a ready-made trailer so that they can be delivered to a repair site.
Construction and Farm Equipment Today
John Deere tractors and Bobcat bulldozers are no ordinary vehicles; they are more like equipment than a vehicle like a car is, and the market for them is solid across the United States. As of 2009, for example, the total revenue of machinery maintenance and heavy equipment repair services came out to $29 billion, and this may be even higher now. After all, the construction equipment industry has been predicted to grow about 12% from 2016 to 2026, and this means more jobs for building, repairing, and operating these vehicles all over the nation. As of 2016, for example, about 426,000 American jobs existed to support the construction equipment operation industry, and this total may grow as the industry itself does. Something similar may be said for farm tractors and combines; these heavy-duty pieces of equipment need specialized repair and maintenance done by experienced workers, and their tires represent a large share of the tire market today, and some brands such as Firestone and Goodyear are heavily involved in selling tire and combine wheels to farmers who need them after a tire has been rupture or worn out during work.
The inner workings of these pieces of equipment, from a John Deere tractor to a Caterpillar, may sometimes break down or have issues, and this means knowing how to diagnose a problem and hire the right crews to fix it. The travel motors or final drive motors, or even the transmission, may become worn out, jammed, or otherwise rendered inoperable, and this can make the entire vehicle come to a halt until it is fixed. Someone operating a tractor or a bulldozer or a backhoe may find themselves stuck when the equipment refuses to drive forwards or backwards, or if it stalls or if strange rattling or smoke make themselves apparent. The gearbox may be the issue, or fluids in the engine may be leaking. This can slow down farm work and complicate a construction job for as long as the equipment is afflicted.
Regular inspections can help prevent a John Deere or Komatsu from breaking down suddenly, and owners of such equipment are urged to have regular checkups on them by experienced crews so that problems can be predicted and fixed before they become too serious. And since some parts of the engine or machine may be difficult to see with the naked eye, crews can use special, flexible tubes with cameras or temperature sensors on the end and thread them through a vehicle to inspect hard-to-reach places. This can be used either in routine inspections or when looking for the cause of a problem with the vehicle.
Getting a John Deere tractor or a bulldozer fixed means taking it to the right repair facility, and fortunately for owners, these pieces of equipment can be bought as a package deal. This means that, for an added price, the tractor or construction equipment is purchased alongside a trailer that is the right size for it, and can bear its weight. This allows an owner to get the tractor or bulldozer onto the trailer, and a powerful truck can tow it and take it to a repair site whenever needed. Such large pieces of equipment are awkward to operate on public roads even in the best of times, so delivering them to a repair site on board a trailer is the best route to take.
