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 ...

Installation Issues. Retrofitting Topcon 3D-MCmax to an existing dozer may prove to be more of a challenge than traditional GPS with slope sensors.

GPS grade-management systems, as do GPS machine-control systems, work by essentially combining a "GPS segment" and a "control segment." With machine-control, the GPS segment does the locating (such as ...

Farmers across Canada and in some parts of the U.S. experienced GPS blackouts and malfunctions on their equipment during the weekend. With more solar storms on the horizon and an increasing ...

The geomagnetic storm that has been cascading down on Earth caused serious technological headaches for farmers across the U.S. and Canada by disrupting GPS on their vehicles.

The overall performance of a satellite-based positioning system is affected by the number of satellites the receiver "sees" and by the angles (geometry) between the satellites and receiver. Poor ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steel Green Manufacturing added Razor Tracking GPS Fleet Coordination to all new 2025 equipment - installed at the factory.