Two skilled welders work together to rebuild a heavily worn excavator bucket, carrying out structural welding and hardfacing ...

A heavily worn excavator bucket is secured to a trailer before being transported for specialist welding and fabrication ...

There is much more to selecting the most appropriate excavator bucket than meets the eye. Tip radius, width, heel depth, weight, ground-engaging tools (GET) and the type of coupler all have a major ...

This is the first of a two-parter in which ESAB’s Mick Andrews takes Andrew Pearce through the finer points of hardfacing, piercing and gouging. Sounds painful… Hardfacing is something of a mystery.

The NanoSteel Company (www.nanosteelco.com), a producer of nano-structured steel alloys for industrial applications, has commercialized a line of alloys that use the company’s patented Super Hard ...

In the second part of our series on hardfacing, ESAB’s Mick Andrews walks Andrew Pearce through gouging. In part 1 we covered a lot of ground – rod selection, buffering layers, pre-heating and cooling ...