CONEXPO 2011 - Vegas Mar 22 - 26 2011 - Anyone?

[Blacksmoke07]

underwhelmed isnt the word

 

[hvy 1ton]

Agreed. The first 2 were pretty cool though.

 

[cat 385]

can't wait for friday!!!!!!!

 

[928G Boy]

I'm just in San Fransisco Airport right now gettin' on the plane to Vegas... My first con expo

 

[928G Boy]

At the John Deere booth: The hybrid John Deere loaders seem pretty cool but i was personally shocked and appalled by the lack of a lever for the box controls on their new rock trucks. I think the box is one of those things you need good control of for spreading road base or in an emergency if the box starts to roll on you... I want a lever in those situations, not some stupid button!!!!!

That track converted 740 rock truck and scraper is pretty damn cool but rubber pads on the tracks? WTF? Are they planning to run the scraper on pavement more often than dirt?

 

[DGrocho]

At the John Deere booth: The hybrid John Deere loaders seem pretty cool but i was personally shocked and appalled by the lack of a lever for the box controls on their new rock trucks. I think the box is one of those things you need good control of for spreading road base or in an emergency if the box starts to roll on you... I want a lever in those situations, not some stupid button!!!!!

You can probably choose the lever or the button when ordering a machine. Their previous model had that option as well.

 

[928G Boy]

You can probably choose the lever or the button when ordering a machine. Their previous model had that option as well.

oh that's good then. Not sure why you'd ever want buttons personally.

 

[raolela]

it should be a amazing exhibition for construction machines, I 'd like to be there..... glamorous

 

[637slayer]

where are all the pics, did any one sit in the 27h, where are all the opinions, especially the pics, i seen the demo vids. the less fortunate are still waiting

 

[AmerIndependent]

I did sit in the 627H but I'm not an operator, maybe a combined 5 minutes behind the wheel of a scraper, so don't expect much out of my take on it. But wow was it comfortable! Felt like i was sitting in a luxury car, with about as many controls as an airplane cockpit. It was a huge difference compared to the 627E I last sat in. The visibility was better than what I'm used too, and the can-cam was nice too. The Cat people told me that they were going to be lowering the dash even more so visibility will be even better by the time they're actually using them.

 

[637slayer]

thanx for the reply, it looked really comfortable in the vid, it just makes me wonder why they changed so much from the g. i been running a 37g steady for a year now the position of the seat feels comfortable, but your body the way you sit sideways seems like your body is taking the pressure of the bouncing on weird angles, idk if that makes sense, thanx again

 

[cortlandj86]

here is a pretty neat article about opportunities with OEMs. it was done in the john deere chat box at conexpo http://blog.machinefinder.com/3999/conexpo-conagg-chat-voices