Re: Cutting-Edge Trimble Technology Expands Earthmoving System Capability

From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:57:31 GMT

Oldbie wrote:
> 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?
>
>

  Thanks for sharing the real world application experiences with us!
-Sam

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