Medium Excavators Prove Versatile Workhorses

摘要

"These machines [crawler excavators weighing 60,000 to 80,000 pounds] are used across a wide range of applications, across a number of industries, and can be found working most everywhere, from heavy infrastructure projects, to underground utilities, road construction, pipeline, commercial site prep, demolition-you name it," says Brian Stellbrink, Caterpillar excavator market professional. "These machines strike a critical balance of being big enough to complete large scale work, yet are easy to transport from job to job." According to John Bauer, brand marketing manager, Case Construction Equipment, "these are strong earth-movers-not quite your mass-excavation-sized machine, but large enough to move lots of earth on large projects." Among the largest buying segments in this size category, says Bauer, is the rental industry, given that contractors using these machines often are decentralized and find it easier to rent close to their work, rather than own machines and to pay to transport them three or four states away.