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Caterpillar 385B ME Loading Euclid R85's - Video


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A 2002 Cat 385B mass excavator loading coal refuse in R85 ton Euclid haul truck.

Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. is a United States-based corporation headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. Caterpillar is, according to their corporate website, "the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines." Caterpillar produces a wide range of heavy equipment, including the range of Caterpillar bulldozers. Caterpillar's line of vehicles range from tracked tractors to hydraulic excavators, backhoe loaders, motor graders, off-highway trucks, wheel loaders, and agricultural tractors. They are used in construction, road-building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries. Caterpillar is one of the thirty companies whose stock is tracked in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is a Fortune 500 company, ranked number 50 in 2008, and first in its industry, with more than $30 billion in assets. Source: Wikipedia, Caterpillar.

Caterpillar 385B
The Caterpillar 385B hydraulic excavator was introduced in 2001 in Belgium. Production began in the USA and Japan in 2002. The 85-metric ton class excavator is designed for sustained high production in trenching, pipelaying, excavating and truck loading. A Cat 3456 engine powers the 385B and produces 382kW (513 horsepower).

Euclid Truck
The Euclid Company of Ohio was a company specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving, namely dump trucks and wheel tractor-scrapers, that operated from the United States of America from the 1920s to the 1950s, then it was purchased and converted into a section of General Motors and later on by Hitachi, Ltd. Source: Wikipedia: Euclid Trucks.

Between 1985 and 1998 the Euclid rigid hauler product line were a part of Volvo Construction Equipment: CH120, CH150, R25, R32, R35, R36, R40, R40C, R50, R60, R60C, R65, R65C, R85, R85B, R90, R90C, R100, R120E, R130, R130M, R130B, R150, R170, R190, R220, R260. Source: VolvoCE.com
 

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