Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Excavators 2011-upgraded to make it safe and comfortable

It is the sign of the time and excavators not excepted. The new range of excavators has design features that put many car manufacturers to shame. Just for starters, the new range of excavators has air conditioned cabins and roll over protective cages. Can you find a car that is designed with roll over protection? Yes, safety has caught up with excavator designs. In some countries, it is even mandatory because safety come first before profit. You don’t send out a machine that is dangerous to use. Accidents do happen, even with these huge machines. On uneven grounds, and they do work in them quite often, the machine can easily tip over. Unlike a car, excavators do have accessories like long swing arms that when put to use do often change the machine’s center of gravity. They do often tip over when some of the arms dig into the ground. Sometimes, they do encounter hard materials underground and they could easily roll over especially with inexperience drivers. So for safety sake, a roll over safety cage designed to ISO 12117-2: 2008 standards. It is coming so maybe all those old machines without the standard cage might have to retrofit or be demobilized to the scrape yards!

There are also other features that might make its way to the excavators of the future. One of the more appropriate items is the retractable seat belt. If the machine rolls over, the driver must be secured in its seat, otherwise there is no point to have a roll over cage. Like cars, it would soon be mandatory to even have airbags. Again, if it does roll over, at least the driver could escape being injured by the deployment of the airbags. You would probably need a few of them since some machines do have a high mounted cabin and the bags would be useful when there is a toppling of the cabin. Another of the new feature is the dashboard. If the cabin is air conditioned, then you can afford a more decent type of monitoring meters like those you have in commercial aircraft! With a pressurized cabin, you don’t hear much of the noise outside. But to be able to hear a feedback noise when you extend an arm digging into the earth is something vital for the driver, so sound detectors and cctv should be incorporated into the machines. And with all these features incorporated, it would be obvious that the price will shoot upwards. Again, safety first, profit probably only comes second! Booking for your new excavator? Why not try amphibious excavator manufacturer ?

Thursday, February 10, 2011

When you are faced with a problem, you either succumb or you …......

become victorious. For most ordinary people, when they are faced with a big problem, like getting into insolvency, they most likely succumb to being declared bankrupt. That it seems is the easy way out. Be honorable and face bankruptcy. You don't have to die, do you? Unfortunately, we can't encourage people to take that view because that would be a defeatist path and no honorable people can accept it. Instead, if you are faced with adversity, you should take it as a challenge. You should treat it as unjustified and fight on, no matter what, until you can break away from the morass. Of course it takes strength and strong spirits. One element that helps is a strong mind. Building a strong mind needs time and the right environment. Upbringing can make the difference. Richness can make you weak in mind and poverty can spurt you to great heights. When there is a need, there is a way. However, if fighting spirit is lacking, then failure ensures.

Have you met anyone who succeeds and had never tasted failures? It would be rare and unbelievable if people says they succeeded the fist time. It would most probably be a sugar coated case. It is important to taste failures as they can be a great teacher. Every time you fail, you learn of a way where things don't work. When you have that many experiences of failures, you will learn of the many ways that don't work out and you will try new ways. But some people just find it an excuse to give up easily. They usually don't have any pride at all and they have that flaw character of enjoying in defeat. Indeed, some are proud of failing. It is a form of mental disease; that thing that tells you not to fight on.

Successful people usually have an inner voice that tells them to get up and run, after they have fallen. Be it self motivation or a survival instinct, the inner voice can do wonders. Failures also have an inner voice, but they tell them to just give up! No matter whether you are a born failure or a born again success, you must learn how to do self motivation. Who else can tell you to get up and run again, except that mind of yours that resides in your head. It is there guiding you twenty four hours and for free as well. Use it often or you loose it. Speak to your mind constantly. Ask it to pressure you into getting results. Motivate yourself and you will also motivate others. When you get results, you would want others to also get results. And when they gets results, it will further motivate you to excel. If however your spirit is lacking, you can either remain where you are, or seek the advice of a Success Mentor .