Welcome to Canada's Athabasca oil sands, one of the world's largest petroleum resource basins — and quite possibly the worst place on the face of the earth to put a skid steer loader. "To be realistic, nobody should take any piece of equipment into this environment — but there's a job to do," says Dave Scragg, Manager, Carmacks Construction, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. "And John Deere is the only machine that can withstand this kind of punishment."
This article shows the new range Zaxis-3 excavators from Hitachi Construction Machinery for the Construction Industry.