Material Transport Comparison

[Applause] [Music] so now for this next one the guys have to take soil for cubic yards from the stockpile and move it to the opposite end of the trench now I'm gonna guess most of you guys can assume who's going to win this battle but what more importantly I really want to show you is how Travis on the cat excavator is doing it some guys may automatically grab a scoop and then transport it all the way down to the end similar to what the skid steer is doing but doing it with the excavator when you operate like that you're doing a lot of unnecessary wear and tear on the tracks of that excavator so what you see Travis doing here is he is getting the amount of soil necessary that he needs to move to the end in one spot then he simply swings the excavator around to the other end and he's going to grab it we call this the double move basically you're handling the material more than once anytime you're working on a jobsite guys and you need to handle material more than one time you're operating inefficiently and you're going to actually see this side by each with this caterpillar skid steer and this cat excavator going head to head right here you can see how much faster the cats get steer gets this job done and then Phil's got to throw a little salt in the wound when he's done and come over and help out out Travis on the [Music] so moving material over a short distance the excavator can still do it but it's not efficient now this were a longer run the excavator pretty much becomes useless because it's got a not just double boom quadruped ability by that time you better off calling in a different piece of equipment that's exactly what Phil's trying to prove by coming in on - Travis inside of the stockpile and started to let's talk to the guy [Music] alright you knew it I knew it but we had to show him talk about this anyway [Music] you were doing the double move are you doing the double move you were you were doing the handle it twice to get it 30 feet across the site and if we had to go 80 feet I'd have had to move I'd have to use a different machine yeah we're just taking my time with it you just you can do it you can do it you can switch your bucket - you got a bigger bucket go with a bigger bucket now we do have a trenching bucket on and of course Phil you had to rub a little salt in the wound by coming over and giving them a hand like all Skip guys you messed up the site [Laughter] let's get guys this is true the excavators for the contractor with some…