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    Why don’t Americans GET high reach excavators…?

    ...163 feet (50m) is nothing to get too excited about, it's not really pushing the boundaries of technology is it?
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    Why don’t Americans GET high reach excavators…?

    ... and many thanks for the great photos of one of your jobs. To illustrate the difference in thinking on either side of the pond, I don’t think that any Western-European demolition contractor would have attempted to deconstruct such a structure with something as small as a Cat 385. At...
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    Hydrogen Fuel as an Alternative Energy

    OK, I know it is an agricultural tractor, but fuel cell powered off road vehicles are on the horizon; http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2009/02/12/114257/now-in-video-new-hollands-fuel-cell-tractor.html
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    Hydrogen Fuel as an Alternative Energy

    An excellent topic, particularly for those of us who live in a Country where diesel for road-going vehicles is over US$5.00 a gallon (I hope I've got my sums correct, it is a UK Pound per litre). I see a limited future for Hydrogen-burning internal-combustion engines, perhaps only as a way to...
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    Questions about Cat from an investor's perspective

    I 100% agree with you, it is the out-of-phase cycles of agricultural and construction equipment demand that is a big plus point for Deere and the old Case (pre-CNH) business. But, to go back to the posters original question, Caterpillar is in a different boat, but they have done well to...
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    Questions about Cat from an investor's perspective

    I think that you have proven my point on Deere, they may be very strong in their home construction market, but a minor player in the global construction equipment market. As regards Deere's Dozer range, I didn't say that they didn't produce dozers, but now that you have raised this point, how...
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    Questions about Cat from an investor's perspective

    Caterpillar would suffer if the 'made in America' rules were imposed. Fair enough, they may get some short-term gains from an increase in demand from American customers for products that they make in the USA, but this will be balanced against them loosing out to competitors who make certain...
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    Differnce between Hitachi EX and FH models?

    I’m not 100% sure, but…. FH model numbers refers to the time where Hitachi was supplying Fiat with excavators (Fiat-Hitachi, before New Holland got into bed with Kobelco). When Hitachi went it alone in Europe, some of the old FH models simply got EX designations, but I suspect the majority...
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    Questions about Cat from an investor's perspective

    The trouble is that Caterpillar is first in the firing line for the global backlash against the 'Buy Americian' provisions within the stimulus package. ...this is how our Grandparents generation turned a economic downturn into the great depresion of the 1930s.
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    Questions about Cat from an investor's perspective

    With respect, I disagree. The global agricultural equipment market suffers from less extremes in overall demand than construction equipment, the nature of the business results in slow increases during the good times and slow decreases in bad times. The demand for agricultural machinery is...
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    Looking For a New Compact Track Loader

    My understanding is that the new 279C, 289C and 299C models are exactly the same as the existing 277C, 287C and 297C models, except that they use a Cat undercarriage instead of an ASV design. Cat are selling both ranges of tracked skid steer loader concurrently, and for good reason. If you...
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    First hydraulic excavator was?

    Thanks for the link to the early history of Gradall truck-mounted excavators. As to the world’s first hydraulic excavator… many would say that that these early truck-mounted machines were just attachments, no-one produced a complete hydraulic excavator until the Italians produced a prototype...
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    Terex/Doosan excavators

    In the UK Doosan excavators (and wheel loaders for that matter) and gaining popularity. The takeover of Daewoo by Doosan in 2005 led to some significant quality improvements and the latest DX series of excavators are thought by many to be up to Japanese build standards. From what I’ve seen and...
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    Kobelco BladeRunner 195

    In Europe, the New Holland-branded Bladerunners are just about to get an upgrade; basically the new Mitsubishi engine and all its electronic trickery from the Kobelco/New Holalnd E135B conventional excavator.
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    Who makes the best Quick Connect for an Excavator

    Many thanks for the welcome. I have a vague recollection of being involved in the sidelines, when the first thoughts of specifying hydraulic quick couplers for 'normal' excavators and wheel loaders was being considered. At first, the hitch designers thought that they could do the job using...
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    Who makes the best Quick Connect for an Excavator

    I'm sorry if my first posting on this forum is a bit of a rant, but I feel strongly that I ought to put the other side of the case for banning semi-automatic hitches in the UK. These circumstances may also hold true in other parts of the world. Rob; May I start by saying that you are one of...
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