Equipment World Digital Magazine
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March 2018 | EquipmentWorld.com 50 earthmoving attachments | continued Grade by laser with flip of switch Bobcat's box blade attachments are designed for rough grading and landscaping applications. The 84-inch-wide box blades come in either standard or laser models. They are con- trolled from the operator's seat of a Toolcat 5600 utility work machine, a skid-steer, an all-wheel-steer or a compact-track loader, with the center switch on the right control lever. The laser system provides grade accuracy within a quarter inch and can be turned on or off with the flip of a switch, the company says. Two foam-filled tires help guide the box blade. Able to dig into abrasive material Doosan's severe-duty buckets for crawler excavators can handle abrasive materials in heavy digging and loading applications. The buckets are made of abrasive-resistant material, including the side butters, shell bottom and side plates, and a weld-on wear shroud. Front wear pads provide additional protection from rocks and irregular materials, and an abrasive-resistant wear strap on the bottom prevents wear when working in harsh materials. The bucket's machine-fitting joint is strengthened by reinforcing gussets. A blade to subgrade Manitou designed its Edge grader blade for subgrading and blacktop preparation. It features in-cab controls for angle and tilt functions and a proportional current valve to gradually adjust blade height, angle and tilt. The 96-inch blade has a reversible and replaceable cutting edge. It comes with all hoses and flat-face couplers needed and can accept laser control for grading. It is compatible with Gehl and Mustang radial skid, vertical skid, and track loaders. The blade weighs 1,200 pounds and requires 45 horsepower to operate. Buckets with longer reach, higher dump height John Deere says its new rollout buckets – RB72, RB84 and RB96 – provide an additional 34 inches of dump reach when fully extended. They are made for the company's G-Series com- pact track loaders and K-Series compact wheel loaders and use the host machine's auxiliary hydraulics, which allows for higher dump height. The buckets also provide 114 degrees of roll-out to control material spillage. The model numbers coincide with the bucket's width, as in the RB72 is 72 inches wide. Deere also included its self-cleaning Quik-Tatch system.