Brief encounter with Water Sprinkler!
It was around noon that as I entered SCCL’s Manuguru OCP, I felt a blanket of dust enveloping the mines. A series of large-size Komatsu Mining Trucks was making way on haul roads transporting OB. Behind this convoy, a giant Komatsu Water Sprinkler WT 80KL caught my attention. This was the first time that I saw such a huge sprinkler in action! The sprinkler was moving on the haul roads throwing water in a symmetric style to suppress the rising dust in the mines. As a result, we could feel the fall in the heat and the smell of the moist mud caught my nostrils making me feel delighted! I learnt that this large-size sprinkler model has been developed as a retro-fitment on a used dumper HD785-7 , manufactured by Komatsu India Pvt. Ltd. at its Chennai plant. This will enhance the life of used dumpers, which otherwise would have been surveyed off. The sprinkling device, fitted on the back of the machine, holds a spraying capacity of 18 m wide and 9.5 m away. Thi...