Tag: Caterpillar D11

Business

PHOTOS: Caterpillar unveils new 3-tower HQ campus spanning 6 city blocks in Peoria

[imagebrowser id=199] Caterpillar will make major, but very welcome, changes to the Peoria skyline with the construction of a three-tower company headquarters building along the city’s riverfront. RELATED: PHOTOS: Tour the Caterpillar Visitors Center, a walk through the history of yellow iron The plans are the result of a multiyear study with the aim of creating […]

February 23, 2015

Construction Equipment

Watch this Caterpillar D11T annihilate an old pickup truck because of hockey

Gotta love Canada. As you’ll see in their half-hearted play before the good stuff actually begins, this particular group of Canucks was heartbroken that the start of hockey season had been delayed. So, they decided to take their aggression out on the poor old Chevy pickup that happened to be nearest them. What did the […]

February 27, 2014

Construction Equipment

This incredible Caterpillar D11 R/C model moving dirt will make you question what’s real

No. 2 Video in 2014 « NO. 3 NO. 1 »   The genius of this video is that when it starts out you’re thinking so what? It’s a D11 moving dirt. However, depending on what visual cue sets you off (the grass in the background in the first few minutes did it for us), […]

January 31, 2014

Construction Equipment

Watch a Caterpillar D11R shove a massive 20-foot boulder into a pit

In the construction industry, just as in life, it’s the simple things, really. Nothing too complicated about this video, Just an awesome machine pushing a really big rock around and eventually over into a pretty deep pit. Our favorite part of the video though is at around the 1 minute mark when the angle changes […]

September 12, 2013

Construction Equipment

Behind the scenes: Ritchie Bros. auctions $176 million in equipment in Orlando

When the last gavel fell at Ritchie Bros.’ annual big auction last week the company had sold more than 9,400 items, mostly construction equipment and trucks, totalling $176 million. This year the company invited us to observe how the big auction works. If nothing else, the sheer spectacle, size and scale of the event, and […]

February 27, 2013

Construction Equipment

Inside Caterpillar’s proving ground: $8 million a day in R&D

For the first time in the company’s history, Caterpillar allowed cameras inside its proving grounds for a Bloomberg TV piece on how the company spends its research and development dollars. In the video, we get a good look at the D11, Cat’s largest dozer, being driven remotely. Some very interesting figures are explained as well. […]

January 30, 2013