Farmers across Canada and in some parts of the U.S. experienced similar GPS blackouts and malfunctions on their equipment during the weekend. With more solar storms on the horizon and an ...

"No GPS," he added. "We’re right in the middle ... Landmark Implement, which sells John Deere farming equipment across parts of the Midwest, said in a statement that the storm was an "historic ...

Out there somewhere could be an earthmoving contractor who has invested in GPS and, for some reason, is not happy with his decision. But it's unlikely. Construction Equipment has talked to a fair ...

Shantui has used the BICES exhibition in Beijing, China to unveil its first ever GPS machine controlled dozer, the DH17R. The 19.3 tonne, 127 kW machine was demonstrated using a Leica iCON GPS 60 ...

Retrofitting Topcon 3D-MCmax to an existing dozer may prove to be more of a challenge than traditional GPS with slope sensors. Due to the necessary machine integration, it is not a generic bolt-on ...

Tiger Contracting is using GPS technology on a new motor grader and a new dozer to complete site work on a 178,000-square-foot Lowes Home Improvement Center project in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. The ...

Sargent Corp. typically lays 2-in. gravel to grade prior to the paving operation. “Say the GPS dozer is off an inch vertically and we put down an extra inch of material over the entire site.

GPS has been a fantastic tool for us." Basically, the use of GPS on earthmoving sites falls into two categories: "machine-control" and "grade-control." Machine-control systems, as the term implies, ...

Topcon Positioning Group has released an indicate dozer machine control system — the i-53. The new system comes with the latest Topcon GNSS receiver, a graphical user interface and machine-control ...