Terex AWP has sent three teams to travel throughout Texas to assess Genie equipment in customers’ rental fleets following flooding from Hurricane Harvey and help them get back up and running.
The company has also issued water damage repair checklists for Genie booms, scissors and telehandlers to all customers in the area, as well as for the Deutz engines that power the machines.
The product support teams are working with the company’s sales team in Texas to make sure Genie customers are assisted as quickly as possible. Bartley also indicated that similar strategies will be used in Florida, once flooding from Hurricane Irma has diminished and it’s safe for the teams to be in the area.
Genie released the following guidelines for dealing with flood-damaged machinery and engines:
In the event your Genie or Terex machine experiences water damage due to submersion or other water exposure, the following guidelines may be useful in attempting to repair your unit. You are responsible for any repairs made and for the maintenance and safe operation of your machine.
It is impossible for anyone to know the full extent of damage to a machine that has been fully or partially submerged in water without a complete disassembly, thorough visual inspection, repair, and function test of the affected components and/or systems. Depending largely on the depth and duration of submersion, some obvious areas of concern are:
List of Minimum Repairs Needed:
