Wear Story

Every customer of R & H Machine has his own wear story. Thousands of farmers have seen for themselves the advantages of using Chrome Alloy wear parts. Each farmer's soil is different with varying degrees of abrasion, but all have seen a reduction in wear when using our parts. Below are just a few examples of the results that some of our customers have seen when running our parts on their equipment.

R & H Chrome Alloy
Points - R & H Chrome Alloy
4,000 Acres
 
R & H
Standard
Points - Acre for Acre Comparison
600 Acres
Acre for Acre

The examples above were run on two Southwest Idaho farms, and show the comparison between standard steel S-tine points and our Chrome Alloy points. The parts on the left show a new R & H Chrome Alloy point and one that has run 4,000 acres. The parts on the right ran 600 acres in a one-to-one comparison between standard steel and R & H Chrome Alloy points. Also shown are the new parts to the outside of each worn point. You can see the much longer life of the R & H Chrome Alloy point, as it eventually outwore 44 of the steel parts without changing the bolt.

R & H Chrome Alloy
Potato Digger - R & H Chrome Alloy
Standard
Potato Digger - Standard Wear
Run side by side for thirty days -- Warden, Washington

The potato-digger parts shown above ran for thirty days at Warden, Washington. The standard cone shows a deep groove cut by the chain, while the R & H Chrome Alloy cone is merely polished where the chain ran over it.

Standard / R & H
Chisels - Acre for Acre Comparison
Acre for Acre
R & H / Standard
 
Chisels - Acre for Acre Comparison
Acre for Acre

The examples above show two sets of chisel points run side-by-side and acre-for-acre. The ones on the left side were run at Condon, Oregon; the ones on the right were run at Arbuckle, California. In both areas the soil was extremely abrasive.

Standard
Shovel - Standard Wear
New
150 Acres
R & H Chrome Alloy
Shove - R & H Chrome Alloy
New
150 Acres

The four-inch incorporating shovels shown above are before and after photos of a standard hardfaced shovel and R & H Chrome Alloy run side by side in Hanford, California. The standard hardfaced shovel was completely worn out after 150 acres. The R & H Chrome Alloy shovel was polished, but still the original size after 2,500 acres. The standard shovel would have had to be replaced 17 times.

WHICH ONE IS MORE EXPENSIVE? If you have the time to replace worn parts ~ ~ ~ you have the time to figure your savings!