Something to keep your skills fresh across the holidays

This week we wanted to share our 10 favourite lessons that we have created across the years that continue to help tradies to this day. They are only 5-10 minutes long and give you bite-sized pieces of information to help refresh your knowledge or help you be safe on site.

1. ?How To Choose The Right Hydraulic Hose - We run you through how to choose the right hose for the job. After all, having the right hose is absolutely crucial to running a system.??
2. How To Recognise Closed Loop Hydraulic Systems - To make sure everyone has a more basic understanding and then can go back and look at the more specific stuff with fresh eyes, here's a quick rundown of how closed loop systems look.?
3. How To Set A Hydraulics Relief Valve - We run through everything you need to know about setting hydraulics relief valves and some of the common pitfalls engineers and techs fall into when setting them for the first time.?
4. How to measure pressure in a Hydraulic System - what’s the easiest way to measure or check pressure? And why is each part of this method so important? This might be a really simple task, but for those of you who are just starting out you’ll find this information really useful.
5. How To Dissipate Stored Pressure In An Excavator - Now we don’t want you or any of your teammates to experience what it’s like to receive high pressure injuries, so that’s why I created this 5 minute video that runs through how to dissipate trapped pressure, and also in what situations certain methods do and don’t work.?
6. How To Set Cartridge Valves - We’ve created a quick 5 minute training running through the basics on cartridge valves and how to identify them.
7. How To Inspect Hydraulic Systems - For your safety and the safety of others you should always do an operator’s check before you start using equipment.?
8. How To Work With A Hydraulic Load Sense System - How does it control flow? What if pressure changes in one component of the system? What are the extremes we can take this to before losing performance across the system? We run you through our entire setup, the pressure and the gauges used and also what changes you should be expecting to see across the load gauge in this demo.?
9. Servo Pressure And Control Pressure In Closed Loop Systems - This is vital information that will help you grow in your career as you are able to diversify the type of systems you work on.
10. ?How To Read Symbols and Schematics (Hydraulics) - Making sure you can correctly read schematics is what can help keep you and your team safe on site.

If you have any topics that you would love us to cover in videos in 2025 let us know in the comments so that we can offer the training you need the most.?