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April 2017 | EquipmentWorld.com 30 and attachment positioning will also be available soon. Another focus has been the operator station with comfort and conve- nience as main considerations. Examples include courtesy lighting that stays on for a few minutes after shutdown and an avail- able rear-view camera. Jorge De Hoyos, senior product manager for skid steers and CTLs at Kubota, says changes to the operator's compartment and to operator comfort are more common than exterior changes. He says the slide- up door on Kubota skid steers is a good example: "The door can be locked in the open position so the operator can continue to work without removing and storing the door. And the door can be opened with the loader arm at any point in its range of movement." Heated, air-suspension seats and sealed, pressurized cabs are obviously built for comfort. Ride control gets credit for reduc- ing spillage on rough terrain, but it's also a comfort feature. By damping loader-arm and bucket oscillations, ride quality is im- proved by the same mechanism that keeps material in the bucket. "With the electrohydraulic system monitoring the machine's travel speed, the Speed Sensitive Ride Control system on Cat machine matters | continued The ASV VS-75 has an operating weight of 8,740 pounds and is powered by a Deutz TD2.9L4 engine rated at 74 gross horsepower. Peak torque is 192 pound-feet. Powering the Takeuchi TS80V2 is a Deutz TD2.9L4 rated at 74 horsepower and 192 pound-feet of torque. Standard hydraulic flow is 26.0 gallons per minute; the high-flow options boost this to 31.0 gpm. Operating weight is 8,965 pounds and ROC is 3,005 pounds at 50 percent of tipping load.