The CAT Range of Ground Engaging Tools Provides Added Versatility
If asked, almost anyone who is blessed with reasonable eyesight, a halfway-good memory and whose interests extend beyond designer footwear, will almost certainly associate a mention of the CAT brand name with some form of heavy lifting, digging, or specialised transportation equipment, even if only as a result of its unmistakable bright yellow paint job. On the other hand, if one were to include the term GET in the same sentence, it would probably be mistaken for an invitation to purchase one of the above items.
In practice, it is a three-letter acronym that stands for ground engaging tools and is commonly used to refer to those parts of a machine or vehicle that, due to the excessive wear and tear experienced during use, must be regarded as expendable and, which therefore tend to need frequent replacement. To a lesser degree the term is sometimes applied also to the various accessory attachments that have been designed as a means to extend the functionality possible with certain types of Caterpillar equipment beyond the purpose for which they were originally supplied. Such accessory products provide the means to enable end-users to tailor the configuration of their equipment in order to meet the specific demands of their particular applications more effectively
If one considers just the range of required replacement items alone, the list of CAT GET products is a substantial one. In the mining industry alone it includes essential wear parts for crushers, dozers, draglines, excavators, graders, haulers, and loaders. In turn, the forestry industry often requires replacements for grapples, swing booms, and bunching heads, while in order for the highway maintenance and construction companies to keep their excavators, scrapers, graders, and backhoes in action, the need to ensure that buckets, blades, ripper systems, and other parts are replaced with as little delay as possible is also crucial in order to maintain productivity and, with it, a company’s profitability.
Caterpillar is so confident with regard to the superior quality of its industry-leading products that it is prepared to warrant most of the items in the CAT GET range against the possibility that a breakage may occur during the course of normal operation. In the event that such an item should actually break under these conditions, according to the terms of the manufacturer’s unusually generous warranty, Caterpillar agrees to provide a brand-new replacement item at no charge. More details of this offer and other warranty aspects can be obtained from the local Caterpillar supplier.
In South Africa, that supplier is Kanu Equipment, a prominent subsidiary of the nation’s listed Torre Industries Group. The company specialises in the supply of heavy machinery and vehicles to the agricultural, construction, forestry and mining sectors, among others, and is widely acknowledged as the local leader in its field. In addition to supplying CAT machinery and GET parts locally and to a growing number of other countries in Africa, Kanu Equipment also handles products for a number of other prestigious brands including Bell, Liebherr, Terex Finlay, and Deutz, supplying and supporting them all with the same professionalism and efficiency that has earned us the trust and loyalty of Caterpillar users throughout the continent.
