Experts in Design & Engineering, Manufacturing & Repair and Field Service has been L&H Industrial’s business portfolio for many years, these service offerings have been scaled across machines and operations in a variety of industries, but L&H continues to expand offerings even more and hydraulic excavators is one of the company’s most recent market expansions…. Read more »
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Straddle Mount Front Idler Design | Patent Pending
L&H Industrial recently submitted a new innovative design for the 2nd generation Straddle Mount Front Idler for electric rope shovels. This second generation straddle mount design has now accomplished the goal of removing the inner thrust plates and moving all the thrust surfaces outside the crawler frames. It accomplishes this by utilizing a key to… Read more »
Equalizer Lug Bushing Test
L&H has historically used a heavy-duty bushing throughout their undercarriage systems with great success and extended life in excess of 30% more than the industry standard. L&H engineers explored using the heavy-duty bushing in alternative components and assemblies and recently tested the bushings in an equalizer lug on a 74yd dipper. These bushings were… Read more »
L&H designs greased track slides
Excessive roller path wear in track shoes is the main contributor to pulling an undercarriage out of service. Much of the roller path wear comes from the shoes dragging across the top of the guide rails. One way to combat the wear of steel running on steel is to grease the mating surfaces. Therefore, L&H… Read more »
Make it Count
A Canadian mine’s 2570W dragline was in need of repairs to the hoist machinery and structures. The machine’s components had reached life expectancy and needed to be replaced. General maintenance throughout the mechanical assemblies was required from replacing boom lacing and point sheaves to repairing cracks and re-machining. When the mine selected L&H Industrial for… Read more »
Maintenance Fixtures | Increasing Safety
Just as L&H focuses on safety internally, we are focused on doing the same for our customers. We know increasing safety and efficiency is important to machine maintenance and crucial our customers’ operations. L&H engineers have focused on these industry needs and designed fixtures to simplify many common maintenance hassles. These safety derived fixtures create… Read more »
New shaft design eliminates maintenance downtime for Apron Feeder in Arizona
When a customer in Arizona came to L&H to help solve failure problems with their apron feeder in their processing operations; L&H engineers knew they could design a solution for them that reduced both maintenance and downtime. The current piece of equipment was failing up to three times per year and was designed with timed… Read more »
Setting the standard
When L&H designed, engineered, and manufactured the first L&H upgraded undercarriage, our goal was to provide our customers with an assembly that would perform better and last significantly longer than industry standards, dramatically decreasing their machine downtime, as well as the total cost of ownership of their system. Now, with undercarriages operating across the globe,… Read more »
Complete gear solutions
Large gearing has become one of L&H’s core competencies over the years and can now manufacture gears up to 6 meters in diameter with AGMA 12+ surface quality. Engineers use upgraded materials and maintenance focused designs that extend life and reduce maintenance and field technicians install the assemblies in the field; providing a whole solution… Read more »
Expanded hollowbore operations
From threading new pipe to rebuilding drill steel; L&H Industrial’s hollowbore facility services truckloads of pipe that is dropped off each day. The facility holds welding and machining operations for pipe services and also houses a new state of the art CNC machine. As the hollowbore operations have become busier than ever in the past… Read more »