Basically, the use of GPS on earthmoving sites falls into two categories: "machine-control" and "grade-control." Machine-control systems, as the term implies, are designed to assist such machines as ...

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 ...

The GPS equipment has reduced the amount of staking required. “If we didn’t have this GPS equipment, I would probably need three or four more crews to keep up.” The dozer operator knows ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...