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DOZERS REDEFINED: How electronics and machine control made mid-size dozers smarter
There’s a direct correlation between power and fuel consumption; more power requires more fuel. Higher injection pressures, careful design of the piston and combustion chamber, turbocharging and other mechanical ploys improve combustion efficiency and help ensure maximum power is extracted from each unit of fuel, but they don’t change the fundamentals. More power still requires […]
July 1, 2014
Construction Equipment
How bulldozers and heroic operators helped demolish Hitler’s Atlantic wall in the D-Day invasion (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
[imagebrowser id=88] “Hitler’s Atlantic wall cracked in the first hour under tempestuous allied assault. As I write, deeply dug into a beachhead of northwestern France, German prisoners, mostly wounded, are streaming back. … Shells are exploding all over the beach and out at sea as wave after wave of allied ships, as far as I can […]
June 6, 2014
Construction Equipment
Caterpillar updates D9T dozer with new engine, cooling package and powertrain control (PHOTOS)
No. 8 Story in 2014 « No. 9 No. 7 »  [imagebrowser id=64] Caterpillar has announced updates to the D9T that bring the large dozer in line with the latest emission standards, improve performance, operator comfort and machine monitoring capabilities. The new dozer features the Cat C18 ACERT, a Tier 4 Final engine pushing 436 net […]
April 18, 2014
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
Watch a 10-week Cat D11R powertrain rebuild in just a few minutes in this time-lapse
The folks at Arkansas-based Riggs Caterpillar put together an awesome video that chronicles the complete 10-week rebuild of a D11R powertrain. The dealer says that the transmission rebuild was done at its Little Rock location while the engine rebuild was done at its Fort Smith location. The final reassembly is always done at the customer’s […]
October 22, 2013
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
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