Re: Cutting-Edge Trimble Technology Expands Earthmoving System Capability

From: Oldbie (nomorecrap_at_myplace.com)
Date: 11/27/04

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    Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:10:11 -0500

    On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:19:42 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com>
    wrote:

    >Cutting-Edge Trimble Technology Expands Earthmoving System Capability
    > http://www.trimble.com/news/111904a.htm

    High technology meets big dirt.

    It's a good system and (on the dozer anyway) it works.

    I just did bulk excavation and all material grading right up to final
    grade on a big parking lot with a Deere 750 Bulldozer using this
    system. One afternoon a guy with 2 hours operating experience spread
    250 mm of crushed rock perfectly onto the exact design slopes without
    wasting a pebble.

    It's kinda fun pushing dirt absentmindedly to the loader, and looking
    behind you to see perfectly graded surfaces, sloping down the catch
    basins, just popping up outta the dust.

    Antenna posts not very good for pushing trucks, mind you.

    What the Trimble rep. won't tell you though is the enormous up front
    investment you'll have to make to learn how to prepare the drawings
    for surface elevation DTM's, display linework, alignments, and site
    calibration in order to display on the operator's computer and guide
    the system precisely. Not to mention having a somewhat computer
    literate operator. And lots more work if you can't get digital
    drawings from your client's engineering design consultant.

    I just took the dozer antennas and put them on the D9 ripper frame so
    the computer literate operator we got can rip shale to the precise
    depth we need for an underpass road we are building. "Watch me run
    right along the (proposed) curb line!" he shouted from the wheelhouse.

    You really need 2 operators for this - one to watch where he's going
    and one to act as "winch man", hahaha!. Oh poop - now it needs a
    dual display!

    Our company runs a few of the dump trucks on snow plow duty in the off
    season -I'm thinking of adapting this system to a couple of the trucks
    and approaching Pearson Airport Mtce. Hey George in New Brunswick -
    you reading this?

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