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I've been searching pictures and reading through threads and every time I see a mining bucket on an excavator or drag line or a dozer ripper it has green teeth on it? What is the significance of this?
Also what do the terms LC or ME mean on excavators?
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KyleS wrote:I've been searching pictures and reading through threads and every time I see a mining bucket on an excavator or drag line or a dozer ripper it has green teeth on it? What is the significance of this?
Also what do the terms LC or ME mean on excavators?
Thank you! Someone please correct me if I'm wrong before this post receives 400 lookies and no one comments. The green teeth might have something to do with either the type of earth or just a brand color. Dunno for sure. Good question though. LC = Long Carriage ME ???= Mining Excavator
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The Green Teeth most likely represent an ESCO product. ESCO is a well known manufacturer of engineered metal wearparts and components for industrial applications. They also make buckets. http://www.escocorp.com/EN/Products/Pages/product-lines.aspxME - Mass Excavation, it's just a stick configuration on an excavator that is shorter, but more heavy duty. You can also run heavier and larger attachments as well. For example most ME excavators are used to load ADTs, or off highway trucks. Some are also used for demolition, and can run large hammers, shears, or crushers.
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Thank you both of you!
That makes perfect sense about the teeth since the first time I noticed it was the Esco Drag line bucket. I will check the bucket I saw in the picture and see if I can read the name on it.
I was thinking of painting the teeth on my Gaz Evans bucket green because it looks cool. GE has a few pictures of one of his buckets painted with green teeth and it looked cool.
I was wondering what the benefit of the shorter boom and stick was, that makes sense now for those purposes.
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From my sightings here in Aus.
Green/Red is Esco product.
Blue/Grey is Bradken product.
Komatsu use blue and great aswell.
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I agree on the green being esco, the company I work for use esco bucket teeth and they are green. And am I right in thinking ME is Mass Excavation? Short boom and stick for higher breakout force (ie bigger bucket/heavier attachment)
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The Cat "ME" designation on excavators stands for mass excavation or mass excavator. We've had them in the fleets with which I've been involved. The option package includes a heavier boom and stick thought this is offset by a shorter reach (length). The combination allows use of larger attachments as mentioned. In normal dirt work this is a larger bucket. One can load an articulated dump truck quickly with these. Likewise, they will make fast work of an on road dump truck when working off a bench. We had a Hitachi EX550 mass excavator for a while. While a terror to legally move, we could load a tri-axle dump with a 17 foot bed in two buckets and the latter could be struck. The truck needed to be well positioned as the bucket if lowered into the bed cleared by only inches on each side.
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I have seen photos of Liebherr shovels with wear plates and teeth this colour. 
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Liebherr have Ground Engaging Tools in a gold colour also...from the PDF on their site. I recieved my 9400 shovel yesterday and will do the teeth in Gold ..looks good.
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Liebherr introduced their line of GET in 2012 in Las Vegas, but only for the R9100-R9400, and three years later it's not changed.
Regardless of the color, they look nice when new!
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I know you didn't ask this directly, but thought I would add a little more information. When it comes to the cat hoes, L=Long Undercarriage, N=Narrow Undercarriage. So a 320BLN, is a long, narrow undercarriage machine. The Komatsu equivalent to ME is SP, so a machine such as a PC1250SP is a PC1250 Mass Excavator. Also, the current liebherr equivalent to ME is SME, Super Mass Excavator. Hope this helps some!
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Just to add another, we ran a D7HXR which had longer track frames and an extra lower roller (trick for young players when ordering a new undercarriage kit!)
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Thank you everyone. This was all awesome information! If you don't ask you'll never know and now I know!
One last question, since I'm buying a Hitachi ZX870 (hopefully 2 so I can paint one in John Deere 870G scheme) what does LCH on the Hitachi stand for and what are the Hitachi/JD equivalent of ME? I have not been able to find this on their sites, I know Gaz Evans makes ME booms and tools for them and just calls them ME.
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