Scrap is hard on iron. Stay ahead of the wear.
A yard works its machines harder than anywhere else — full-reach grapple cycles all shift, contamination in everything, and hours that pile up faster than the calendar suggests. The walkaround catches it; the meter proves it.
Forklifts · wheel loaders · excavators · skid steers
Scrap yard wear. Same machines. Much harder life.
What a walkaround is looking for in a scrap yard isn’t what it’s looking for on a dirt job — and neither is the service schedule.
The duty cycle never lets up
An excavator on a grapple cycles at full reach all shift, every shift. Hours accumulate far faster than on a job site, and service intervals come due on hours — so a calendar-based schedule is always behind.
Everything is abrasive, and some of it is sharp
Torn steel, rebar ends, and contamination in every pile. Hydraulic hoses, grapple pins, and cylinder rods are the wear items that put a machine down, and they are exactly what a walkaround can catch first.
Hours are the argument
Machines move between operators and between piles all day. The meter is the only honest record of what each one actually did, and tap-in/tap-out puts real hours behind the service schedule, so it no longer depends on someone remembering to write them down.
What it handles.
Built around what a yard actually runs. If something you own isn’t here, ask us before you start — we’d rather tell you no than have you find out in week two.
Field guides for this work.
Excavator daily inspection checklist
The daily walkaround for full-size, mini, and grapple excavators — undercarriage, front end, coupler, controls, and the ground around the machine.
Forklift daily inspection checklist
The daily examination a forklift owes before it works, in walkaround order — key off, the power source, key on, and what to do when something fails.
Telehandler pre-use inspection checklist
The boom, the attachment and the chart that goes with it, the steering modes, and the stability system — a telehandler’s walkaround before the shift.
Skid steer daily inspection checklist
The daily walkaround for skid steers and compact track loaders — tracks or tires, lift arms, quick-attach, interlocks, and getting in and out safely.
Scrap and recycling questions.
Our machines are filthy. Will the crew really do this on a phone?
Every screen has one dominant action sized for gloves, and the whole walkaround is a short list of taps — OK, Issue, or N/A. It runs in the browser on the phone already in the operator’s pocket; nothing gets bolted to a machine and nothing new goes in the cab.
Half our fleet is older iron with a dead or swapped hour meter. Does that break it?
Only part of it. Utilization builds from tap-in and tap-out sessions, meter or no meter. Service scheduling does need a working meter: it runs off the reading the operator enters at every tap-out. After a meter swap, an owner or manager resets the machine’s hours, with the reason on record. On a dead meter, fix the gauge before you lean on the service forecast.
Can it catch a hydraulic leak before a hose lets go?
It flags a probable leak when a machine’s top-ups of one fluid over a week run at three times its own 30-day norm. The crew logs top-ups as they happen, so the pattern can show up before the failure does. It tells you which machine to look at; it doesn’t diagnose the hose.
Operators move between machines all shift. Does that get messy?
That’s the normal case, not the exception. An operator taps in on whatever they’re running and taps out when they’re done, so hours land on the right machine and the per-machine record stays straight even when nobody stayed on one unit all day.
See it on your yard’s machines.
Start a free trial and walk your first machine today — or have us load the yard’s fleet and build your checklists for you.