Competition Complicates Excavator Choices.
Construction Equipment, March, 2005
By Larry Stewart, Executive Editor Universal adoption of high-tech features boosts performance across the board, and differences between many brands might only be felt through the joysticks Construction Equipment's 2003 Universe Study indicates that only skid-steer loaders, backhoe-loaders, and wheel loaders are more populous than crawler excavators in the United States.
And only the articulated-truck population is growing faster. The 40,000- to 60,000-pound size range is the largest segment of the hydraulic-excavator universe, and equipment marketers eager to cut themselves a piece of this pie have brought some of the industry's most refined technologies to its machines. The computerizing of engine and hydraulic-system control is nearly...
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