covering exhaust or stack on equipment ?

I always cover the stack..CYA

Last excavator I hauled they came out and inspected while I was unchaining..

I detatched and they came back to unload it..
He said I see the exhaust wasn't covered when you got here.
BS,pal,take a look on the top of the engine cover and you will see the wad of duct tape I left up there,that was removed from stack.
He say's,I could have just put that there..
Ok,then,you got me..
Let me get my digital camera and you can look at the pics I took at the shipper with the stack covered...
A-hole tells his buddy,"I guess we're not getting this one hauled for free...

 

I use duct tape..
Had a real nice stack boot,but someone in Billings,decided they needed it more then I did...

 

Some places (Keen) won't even give your bills unless the exhaust is covered. I just normally tape every piece of equipment. Duct tape is cheap, and it only takes an extra minute to do, so why not?

 

Komatsu here learnt the hard way they were shipping excavators on the train from Sydney to Perth. It took a while for them to work out why turbos were failing not long after delivery. Constant spin with no oil they reckoned in the end.

 

They make you do that so water and rodents do get in there. It can mess engines up. when we haul our excavators or loaders we cover them for that reason.

 

I was told because of the turbo. As mentioned above. When I hauled cats.

 

One of the best covers I have ever seen is a round jug on a pole. He hooked it over the stack and took a bungie cord and wrapped it around the pipe and pole, He ran two trucks loaded to his drop then loaded one of them on the other truck and drove back with the truck backed onto the B and the trailors stacked on the A.
When in dought Duct tape does the job perfectly, the jug on a stick workes especially well on high stacks, we had customers that parked there truck in our yard, that used then while parked to keep the rain out.
Just a thought

 

I'd like to see a rodent shimmy up an exhaust pipe.
And then proceed to ruin the engine.