The folks at Delta Machinery are true CAT people. Just like in previous years, they put their Scania-Faymonville couple on display at the truck show in the southeast of the Netherlands, as always loaded with interesting Caterpillar construction equipment.
This year’s edition, held earlier this month, featured two vibratory soil compactors. A 12.7 tonnes (operating weight) CS12 GC compactor is standing ahead of a 10.5 tonnes CS10 GC.
For clarification, here’s a what bigrentz.com says: ‘Soil compaction tools flatten the ground with either static or vibratory force. Static compaction uses a machine’s weight to flatten the earth below it, while vibratory tools produce impacts and vibrations that compress the soil’.
Carrying these machines is a low-stress job for the 2019 Faymonville quad-axle semi-trailer, as its registered payload capacity is 46,300 kg (102,000 lbs).
And just as before, a potent, 2016 Scania R730 V8 6×4 tractor was in charge of the whole operation.
Two years ago, this D6T XL dozer/ripper made an appearance…
…and last year a 140M grader. In all cases, the Faymonville’s bed was made completely flat by bridging the wheel wells.
See, that’s where wheel wells are for. The CAT in the cradle is a 980H wheel loader, weighing around 30 tonnes (66,000 lbs).
Nice truck, those Scanias are set up so the truck knows when it needs the whole 730hp, the Volvo 700 I drove was the same,
Great photos, of a topic I have always loved, since childhood. Road building, and road building equipment. Thank you for sharing these!
I am blessed there is a website, that documents all the highways and their history, here in Ontario, Canada. Many thousands of photos, including showing highways being built. With vintage road construction, and maintenance equipment.
One of my favourites sites. As the author regularly adds new historical images. 16,000 images on the site, and growing.
http://www.thekingshighway.ca/photographs.html
(Fresh blacktop on the Trans-Canada Highway, east of Kenora, 1947.)
Yes, road building is a fascinating world. The wide variety of the light and (very) heavy equipment involved and the whole process itself. Thanks for the link, that’s quite a photo database!
I remain fascinated by the endless configurations of trailers you see in Europe that are (literally) foreign to me.