DirtJockey Weekly Digest - Friday, April 15th

Volvo unveils the A60H: their largest articulated hauler to date

The new 60-ton capacity A60H is Volvo Construction Equipment’s largest articulated hauler to date – and is always ready to work. Designed for heavy hauling in severe off-road operations, including quarries, opencast mines and large earthmoving operations, the A60H’s long service life, quality, reliability and durability are everything you’d expect from a Volvo, making hauling easier and more efficient. Read More

Caterpillar’s drone integration will substantially deepen telematics data

Earlier this year, Caterpillar announced their partnership with French drone company Redbird. Little was said about the collaboration other than that they had plans to use drone technology to increase data collection. At the Bauma trade show in Munich, however, Cat unveiled their plans for Redbird technology in an expansive display of the drone’s data collecting abilities. Read More

The Bauma trade show awarded 6 companies and research facilities with awards in innovation this week

The winner in the Machinery Category was Kramer-Werke GmbH. The company received the award for developing its fully electric four-wheel-drive wheel loader 5055e. Being emissions-free, the machine is ideally suited for use in buildings and tunnels, in particular. There is no longer any need for costly ventilation or exhaust gas removal. Read More

Grade Control Technology Takes the Masts Off Dozers

Topcon has developed Dynamic Performance, a dual IMU system that mounts one IMU on the blade and another on the dozer body. “Dynamic Performance knows at all times the difference in relationship between those two pieces of the dozer,” says Lodge. “It has a reference to where the blade is, whether it is straight or whether it is rotated.” Read More