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SlatTrax Road Building System Demonstration

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What happens here

This segment highlights the SlatTrax road building system. The video shows a Bobcat skid steer loader deploying two parallel tracks of a durable, roll-out mat system. The presenter emphasizes its ability to quickly lay down a temporary road (100 feet in under 60 seconds) that can support heavy vehicles like dump trucks, even on soft, wet ground, preventing equipment from sinking and protecting the underlying terrain.

Goal: Demonstrate the rapid deployment and heavy-duty load-bearing capacity of the SlatTrax system

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat S185 Skid-Steer Loader Bobcat — Deploying and retrieving the SlatTrax system
  • Dump Truck Freightliner — Testing the load-bearing capacity of the SlatTrax road
  • SlatTrax System SlatTrax Property Props — Creating temporary heavy-duty roads

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I've never seen any. [Music] Now, this next one I found at a show, but it was so cool and innovative, I had to bring it out into one of my own job sites. And this is actually a road building system. I've used plywood for I can't tell you how long. And this thing will lay out 100 ft of road that you can drive a dump truck on in under 60 seconds. Watch how easily this works. This thing is amazing. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] So, I seen that it could build a road pretty fast and easy, but can that road withstand the weight of heavy equipment? Here's my loaded dump truck. It comes in right at around 58,000 lbs fully loaded. Driving all the way down the road with no problems. In fact, this yard that you're seeing us drive over, there is no way I could have taken my truck down this yard without this road. My truck would have sank immediately because that ground is soft and wet. This road worked pretty good. Now, the next thing I want to show you is something that I think is really innovative, and that is their new four- stroke equipment, which can literally run upside down. Yes, four-stroke equipment running upside down without burning cylinder heads. But let's not just talk about it. Let's show it to you. Okay, we're looking at Makita's four- stroke concrete saw. This is the only

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