[Energy savings] 10 essential Kubota excavator fuel saving tips!

The higher the fuel consumption, the tighter the profits of excavator users, the less profitable they will be. How to save fuel without reducing the task rate and the service life of the machine is the most important concern of your aircraft owners. The following excavator operation fuel saving tips are the results of long-term practical work. They are shared with you and are based on daily construction conditions.

1．Avoid idling the engine

Even when idle, the hydraulic pump still has oil circulating and consumes fuel. Suppose that 1 hour of 10 hours in a day is idle. So, if you can avoid idling, you can save about 230 liters of fuel per year. So, when you can stop for a long time halfway through the daily loading or excavation process, try not to drive the machine at idle speed "wait."

2．Avoid overload dropout
When the sand or rock excavated is overloaded, the excavation may fall into decompression mode. Assuming that 6 minutes out of 10 hours in a day is decompression mode, If the down pressure can be avoided, then about 840 liters of diesel can be saved each year. Problems that cannot be handled with a shovel can be divided into two, otherwise it will cost both machine and oil, and the small loss will be greater.

3．Decrease engine speed
Placing the engine throttle in the economical position, although reducing the engine speed will affect the amount of work, it can greatly reduce fuel consumption and improve fuel efficiency.

4．Decrease Spin Angle
Reducing the circling angle during loading to the dump truck can shorten the operation cycle time, increase the amount of work per unit time, and then improve the fuel efficiency, which is the most useful way to save fuel.

5．Reduce engine speed when driving
The faster the engine goes, the more fuel it consumes while walking.

6．Performing high-level excavation
The excavator's operating platform is most efficient when it is the same as or slightly higher than the truck.
7 .When the bucket cylinder and the connecting rod, the bucket cylinder and the bucket are 90 degrees , the force of each cylinder pushing the excavator is maximum . When digging at the beginning , do not extend the bucket to the maximum working range , and the effect is best from about 80 % .

8 .Boom digging range
The angle of the pole from 45 degrees on the far side to 30 degrees inside varies slightly depending on the depth of the excavation, but arms and shovels should be operated roughly within that range and should not be operated to the end of the cylinder journey.

9 .When carrying out trenching operations
First dig the sides of the chute and then dig the middle part. This will save a lot of work and effort when digging the middle.

10 .The smaller the digging depth , the better the economy when digging
Try to use the method of digging in stages. It is divided into three layers: top, middle and bottom. If a hand digs from low to top, firstly, the range of the operation is increased, and secondly, the power of the excavator is reduced because of the increase in range, reducing the work efficiency, which takes a lot of oil.