Video: What Cat Grade Control for Hydraulic Excavators Can Do

Caterpillar video (1:30 min.) explains how the integrated Cat Grade Control Depth and Slope system can help improve productivity in a range of depth and slope cutting applications

Jul 10, 2013

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