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    Trimble or Topcon?

    i have to ask you how you check the readings over the stake ?? do you just raise your blade and put it on top of the stake?? (this only works if you have installed a pitch sensor) if you do not have a pict sensor you have to proceed like this 1.create a new plane high enough to clear the stake...
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    Trimble GCSFlex

    it is a great system placed in the big gap between 3D and 2D the biggest advantage in the GCSflex is that you can creat alignments with allmost within a square km and then create a profile and attach to the alignment and after that you can dig and grade anywhere on the alignment without having...
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    Trimble or Topcon?

    it seems you have got a high price,but again if your price is with a basestation it might be acceptable anyway.we would sell a dozer system for around 75000 usd and i think that would be the excact same system for a scraper with dual gps our price without base station but with modem for...
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    Trimble or Topcon?

    what do you mean by "tractor and bucket" ? here in denmark we sell a complete 3D system for a excavator with dual antennas and modem for vrs and two way data for around 330000 danish kroner which is around 55000 usd and this includes basic operator training
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    Trimble or Topcon?

    yes i have and it works incredible good you can set your valve speed while you are going in automatic so you can see imediate result and the valve speed has five different settings now over the older versions two we are on our way to upgrade all the CB460 in denmark to this and there is good...
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    Trimble or Topcon?

    sorry but thats not the case :) the two antenna setup is by far the most accurate system and faster in the way that when you change direction the system allways know excactly where your blade is where the one antenna system (doesnt matter if it is 3DMC2)will first have to calculate positions of...
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    Tier 4 Dozers

    her is a link to the new D6T with tier 4 technology and you do not have any downtime when the regeneration is set to automatic you can even set it to regenerate when you leave the machine and after it has finished it will shut off by itself http://xml.catmms.com/servlet/ImageServlet?imageId=C639671
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    warning be careful with gps right now

    you have to be very careful with checking your gps on your fixpoints several times a day right now there is some solar eruptions and solar storms that do disturb the gps signal and f.... everything up i had a incident the other day where i suddenly did not get near the finished surface we had...
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    Trimble or Topcon?

    i would not reccommend to use the topcon base with trimble our experience here with common base stations are not good at all
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    Grading a pad with my D4H XL

    okay i take it ill be one of those two operators well let me explain it for you first of all i have 20+ years experience in everything from roadbuilding quarrywork golfcourse building/shaping rairoadbuilding you name it now to the backblading when you backblade dirt will roll under your...
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    Grading a pad with my D4H XL

    if you grade something properly you can just roll it over with a roller then the trackmarks will be gone allright i might have been a little to hard on my comment before sorry about that but grading backwards and backdragging is just as bad for the machine as runnning it in 3rd gear all the...
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    Grading a pad with my D4H XL

    come on you cant be serious that you are grading with a dozer in reverse???? must be a f.... joke !!!!!!!!! go forward and show you are made off when backdragging you are wearing out the machine..you can buy a pro single laser setup from trimble that has auto grading for 10-13000 and then you...
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    Any of you got experience with real big buckets on EC700C?

    i think you will be just fine it will handle that weight easy i had an liebherr 954 with mass excavating boom and stick and equipped with a 5 cubicmeters sand bucket and used it for everything from sand to heavy clay we weighed a full bucket in medium clayfilled dirt and the content of the...
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    Hit a rock with this!!!

    if the tracks on this thing is just as bad as the ones on a quad it will ruin you before it has runned 400 hours i had a buddy renting a quad and all 4 tracks had to be replaced once every 800-100 hours!!! personally i dont think they would be worth anything except for maintaining haul roads...
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    Will a quick attach 10' dozer 6-way blade work on a 953C trackloader?

    you will probably need some kind of valve that can override the usual functions and you will have to have the extra hydraulic for an 4 in one bucket a normal machine only have two funtion bucket lift and bucket tilt/dump you will need a 3rd one one for blade up down one for tilt left right...
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    Operators confirm Topcon's claim of 200% faster dozer fine grading

    thats excactly why i say it will just **** up your undercarriageif you go that fast i wolud kick a guy the hell out of my machine if i saw him running it in third gear period
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    cat or komatsu

    sorry but komtrax has nothing to do with gps machine control it is just a tool to watch your machine and manage it from home or from the dealer
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    Trimble or Topcon?

    dont know the prices in us but i think here in europe it will cost from 30-47000 euros depending on whether you want lightbarguidance only or with automatic blade control and if you want it with one or two antennas ?? take my advise and go for auto and two antennas and pay the extra money for...
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    Trimble or Topcon?

    it will depend on if the dozer is factory gps ready or not? if it is all cables plugs and valves are allready mounted and in that case it will cost a topcon guy a hour or so to mount and calibrate otherwise it will take a couple off days :Banghead
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    D10R pic...

    maybe you need a experienced guy ??
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