[VIDEO] RJ Zavoral & Sons Takes New Cat D6 XE to the Extremes

RJ Zavoral & Sons took part in a customer trial program as part of the development process for Caterpillar’s D6 XE crawler dozer

Dec 14, 2018

RJ Zavoral & Sons took part in a customer trial program as part of the development process for Caterpillar’s D6 XE crawler dozer. David Zavoral describes how his operators put the dozer to the test in extreme applications and environments in northern Minnesota, as well as just what they had to say about the new machine.

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