Video: New Linkage Brings Power, Parallelism and Visibility to Cat Small Loaders

Check out the new view to the bucket through Caterpillar's new Optimized Z-Bar linkage for 906 through 982-sized loaders

Oct 13, 2014

The optimized Z bar's cross tube has a much smaller profile to open up the operator's view to the bucket cutting edge when dumping into low and high trucks.

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