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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...