Howzit, legends. Ralph here from the Benoni yard. Right now I’ve got three final drives on the bench: one that came in yesterday completely seized, one that’s leaking like a politician’s promise, and one that’s perfect inside despite 14 000 hours. All three are from 30–40 tonne machines. All three could have been saved for pocket money. In the last 18 months we’ve sold 87 final drives out of these two yards. Every single failure story starts with one (or more) of the same sev

Howzit, grease monkeys, site foremen and anyone who’s ever stared at a R280 000 quote for a new valve bank and felt physically sick. Ralph and Justin here from Vikfin – one of us is in Benoni stripping in the Gauteng dust, the other is in Cato Ridge doing the same under KZN humidity. Between us we’ve pulled more than 600 valve banks out of 20–45 tonne machines in the last ten years and sold every single one without owning a single test bench. We’re going to give you the full,

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