Volvo Gives Instruction on Wheeled Excavators (Video)
When Joe Contractor needs a dedicated digging machine, he turns to an excavator. It’s a tool devoted to putting precise holes in the ground. But what if Joe needs a digging machine that can also quickly travel from jobsite to jobsite? In the past, construction professionals would settle for a less productive digger like a backhoe loader or a tractor with a digging attachment, because wheels increased cycle times over the slow and steady march of an excavator’s dedicated track undercarriage. But today there is another option rarely explored by North American contractors — the excavator that rolls from job to job using tires.
The wheeled excavator is a niche machine in America, so a lot of contractors don’t even know about these machines. Volvo Construction Equipment has a 16 part series explaining its Volvo C-Series wheeled excavator, and how it should be operated. To watch an intro video, just click play below. To view the rest of the videos, visit Volvo Construction Equipment’s global video site on YouTube.
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