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Maximum Life Undercarriage:Survival of the toughestSand has a voracious appetite for undercarriages and your bottom line. Worse, wear from sand is unbalanced between components — you turn the bushings and a year later the rollers go bad.
Fortunately, we’ve got your back thanks to our awesome new Maximum Life Undercarriage. This system is the very embodiment of our promise to our customers of ultimate PUL — Productivity, Uptime, and Lower daily operating costs.
After launching SC-2™ a few years back, we received many accolades from contractors who appreciated our dedication to reducing their biggest crawler maintenance expense. Of course, we enjoy a slap on the back as much as any company, so we started to work building a complete system around the SC-2 bushings that’s designed to wear longer and (this is key) more evenly.
Consider the protection you get:• SC-2-coated bushings that could save you a bushing turn.• Much larger track links, rollers, and front idlers. And the
more steel there is on a wear part, the longer it will wear.• Greatly improved seals that keep lubricants…well, sealed.
Any one of these improvements would increase undercarriage life. Put them together in a tight and well-balanced system, and you see that the Maximum Life Undercarriage could pay for itself in no time — especially for those of you who work in sandy soil. And we’ll go your Max Life investment one better with a free, fl ex-ible Wear Assurance guarantee that’s based on your own unique operating conditions.
The same peace of mind comes standard with a SC-2 track chain. And as many as 6,000 hours of additional coverage is available for any crawler with SC-2-coated bushings or the new Maximum Life Undercarriage.
In today’s economy it pays to save money with better products rather than cutting corners with existing ones. I encourage you to read about this new undercarriage, starting on the very next page.
Domenic G. RuccoloSenior Vice President, Sales and MarketingWorldwide Construction & Forestry Division
We have seen the enemy, and it is sand. It’s
underfoot right now, plotting to create
havoc with your crawler, schedule, bottom line,
and, of course, undercarriage. Anybody who
works in sandy soil will tell you the daily grind
of sand will set a contractor back days and
dollars. Fortunately, John Deere is on the case
with their new Maximum Life Undercarriage.
Think you’ve read it all before when we
announced SC-2-coated bushings a few years
back? Well, here’s the next chapter. To learn
how Deere has gone SC-2 one better with a
complete and nicely balanced Maximum Life
Undercarriage, read on. > > >
SC-2 and the al l-new Maximum Li fe Undercarr iage
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Unbalanced undercarriage wear eats up about 50 percent
of the average contractor’s maintenance budget. Surely,
any improvement over the status quo would bring relief to
our industry. Enter the Maximum Life Undercarriage. This
new system combines exclusive SC-2-coated bushings with
dramatically stronger seals and larger components to deliver
longer and more balanced wear. By extending the wear life of
undercarriage components, the Maximum Life Undercarriage
delivers on the Deere promise of more uptime and lower
daily operating costs.
This undercarriage is rugged — and then some
Now, SC-2 bushings work together with dramatically
improved seals and larger, longer-wearing components
for a Maximum Life Undercarriage engineered to deliver a
signifi cantly longer — and much more even — wear life.
This undercarriage has been designed to withstand up to
4,500 hours in wet and abrasive Central Florida soil, so
imagine how long it will hold up in your neck of the woods.
With these bushings, seals, and larger components working
together as a system, wear life is longer and occurs more
uniformly between all system components. Let’s take a look
at the improved components…
SC-2 bushings, the heart of the Maximum Life
Undercarriage
You’ve probably read about this metallurgical breakthrough
from John Deere. And judging from SC-2’s success, you may
well be a customer. This slurry-coating process creates a
tough shell around a wear part that won’t break or crack
under duress. In fact, SC-2-coated bushings can deliver up
to twice the wear to keep crawlers on the job and out of
the maintenance bay.
More steel for longer, more balanced wear
Besides SC-2 bushings, the Maximum Life Undercarriage
boasts signifi cantly larger major components like track
links and rollers, carrier rollers, and front idlers. And more
steel means longer wear in a well-balanced system like the
Maximum Life Undercarriage.
New and dramatically improved seals
As part of this well-balanced system, this longer-wearing
undercarriage has improved seals that are reinforced to
prevent deformation while retaining their structural integrity.
Perhaps better yet, these new seals retain lubrication in
track-chain joints for longer and more balanced wear.
The SC-2 coating is more durable than hardened steel or chrome.
Ready to save big time and money?
Savings are signifi cant when you opt for
the John Deere Maximum Life Undercar-
riage. In fact, tests show the combination
of SC-2 bushings, larger components, and
improved seals deliver up to 57-percent-
per-hour cost savings over standard sealed
The new seal design complements SC-2 bushings and larger components for extended undercarriage wear life.
and lubed track. With that number in mind, fi gure how much
you’ll save in money and time by running a crawler with SC-2
bushings, larger wear parts, and improved seals. ■
Estimated cost per hour in wet and highly abrasive soil conditions.*
SC-2-coated track-chain assemblies stand up to punishing fi eld tests in sand. These photos shows that the standard bushing wore 32 percent, while the bushing with SC-2 coating had no visible wear.
Here we see standard and Maximum Life Undercarriage parts fused together, as indicated by the blue area, to illustrate the increased wear-surface sizes of Maximum Life components.
PRODUCT Standard sealed and lubed track
SC-2 extended-lifetrack chain
Maximum LifeUndercarriage
Features Life – 2,000 hoursTurn at 900 hours
Life – 3,000 hoursTurn at 1,400 hours
Life – 4,500 hoursTurn at 2,200 hours
Technology NA SC-2 bushingsSC-2 bushings, new
seals, and Maximum- Life components
Cost reduction from standard sealed and lubed
NA 29% 57%
*Such as those in Central Florida.
Hardened steel Hard chrome SC-2 coating
1.00
1.86
3.42Wear life
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Located in the shadow of Stone Mountain, Georgia — an 825-foot-high
granite dome and tourist attraction — a twin-pipeline project in suburban
Atlanta presents some of the toughest digging in North America. The
lucky contractor who won the $9-million contract to build the two pipe-
lines is Garney Construction of Kansas City. > > >
Garney Construction takes on tough shot-rock assignment
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— Jason Koon, Project Manager,
Garney Construction
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The 48-inch-diameter gravity sewer and the 36-inch force
main are 15 feet apart and extend 10,900 feet through a
swampy fl oodplain underlaid with a combination of granite and
limestone that has to be drilled and blasted — sometimes twice
— before excavation can begin.
The Herculean task of digging trenches as deep as 38 feet
falls to two crews and a fl eet of John Deere excavators. The lead
digging machine for each crew is a 65-metric-ton John Deere
650D LC Excavator. Its job is to break out shot rock and either
load it to a Deere 300D Articulated Dump Truck or hand it off to
a Deere 350D LC Excavator, which pulls the rock away from the
trench. The crew we shadowed uses a Deere 270D LC Excavator
to backfi ll the trench.
“Dealing with the rock, groundwater, and soils presents the
major challenge on this job,” says Jason Koon, Garney’s project
manager. “We have found John Deere equipment to be reli-
able, easy to run, and easy to maintain. The uptime of the Deere
equipment has afforded us more hours of productivity than we
would see with other brands of equipment.”
Boosting productivity
According to Koon, the conventional way to lay the two pipe-
lines would be to work on them one at a time. One crew would
install the gravity sewer, followed by another crew laying the
force main. This technique would require 14 workers and eight
pieces of equipment.
Garney fi gured if one crew could dig the two pipelines at
once, that would boost effi ciency. To double production, Garney
added another crew to also work both pipelines.
Effi ciency is the name of the game on this project, where
each crew lays 200 to 250 feet of pipeline in a good day’s work.
“The two-crew method let us cut the number of workers from
14 to 11, and reduce the number of machines from eight to
fi ve,” says Koon.
“We viewed it as one laying operation, not two,” says Koon.
“And we used that scheme to bid the job. We eliminated the sit-
ting around and watching the 650D LC load shot rock. We took
a seven-man gravity-sewer crew and made it a big 11-man crew
that laid the force main and the gravity sewer at the same time.” > > >
“ The uptime of the Deere equipment has afforded us more hours of productivity than we would see with other brands of equipment.”
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— Steve Mertz. Crew Superintendent,
Garney Construction
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Plan of attack
One crew works the north end of the jobsite; the other attacks
from the south. First, the Deere 650D LC benches down to the
point that double-stacked trench boxes shield a 16-foot-deep
trench. The trench boxes, typically 28-feet long, were specially
designed and rated for the depth of the cut.
Sometimes, after the 650D LC has benched down for the
deep gravity sewer, dug out the trench, and laid a stick of pipe,
the other two smaller excavators backfi ll the trench. Then while
the 650D LC starts digging ahead and loading shot rock, the
other two excavators and the crew lay the parallel force-main
pipeline, generally not as deep as the gravity sewer.
Digging the rock is a challenge; some days the work goes
faster than others. “Our best day is 240 feet on each pipeline,”
says Superintendent Mike Hall.
“This is the fi rst job I’ve been on where all the equipment
is from John Deere,” says Crew Superintendent Steve Mertz.
“These excavators are smooth, strong machines.”
“It’s a powerful ’hoe,” says operator Wayne Hardegree of
the 650D LC. “The hydraulics are smooth and quick, and it’ll
pick up a 12-foot manhole and stretch it out with no problem.
Plus, it’s a very comfortable machine.”
Ronnie Hicks also operates the 650D LC. “I really like this
machine,” he says. “It’s very strong, so we get good production
with it.”
“I ran a Komatsu 300 and 400 when I worked for another
company,” the operator of the John Deere 350D LC, Jamie
Daniel, says. “The 350D LC is more powerful than a Komatsu
300. Everything is nice on this John Deere. The hydraulics
are smooth, and it’s a really powerful machine.”
“All of our operators absolutely love these John Deere
machines,” says Koon. “And when we’ve got experienced
operators like Ronnie Hicks and Wayne Hardegree running
those two 650D LC Excavators, their opinion is of primary con-
sideration when I make my equipment selection decisions.” ■
Garney Construction’s Stone Mountain project was serviced
by METRAC, Atlanta, Georgia.
“ This is the fi rst job I’ve been on where all the equipment is from John Deere. These excavators are smooth, strong machines.”
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Go from backhoe- to excavator-style controls at the push of a button. Adjusting hydraulic flow when changing attachments is also pushbutton easy.
Fatigue-beating joysticks provide smooth, intuitive control of auxiliary loader attachments, extendable dipperstick, backhoe auxiliary attachments, hammer, MFWD, and horn.
Total Machine Control (TMC) sets John Deere backhoes apart
Want maximum productivity with minimal effort? Order the TMC
package on your new 310SJ or 410J Backhoe. You’ll enjoy intuitive,
effortless fi ngertip control — and up to 20-percent faster cycle times.
Joysticks respond easily to an operator’s touch, for quicker, smoother
control of loader and backhoe functions. Controls are conveniently
located in the armrests, so you can even operate the backhoe while
facing to the side. There’s also a unique mini-joystick that lets you run
both loader and backhoe simultaneously
without removing your hands
from the controls. > > >
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Armrest-mounted controls enable TMC Backhoes to be operated with the seat rotated up to 90 degrees from the rear position — for those times when you
need to focus on the action beside you.
Backlit pushbuttons in the sealed-switch module allow fingertip control of various functions such as return-to-dig.
With auto-idle, momentarily releasing the joysticks slows engine speed, reducing fuel consumption and noise. Preset speed automatically resumes when a joystick is activated.
Joystick switch provides fingertip control of hydraulic-powered attachments. Toggle on and off, or push and hold for momentary control. Armrest-mounted switches operate the stabilizers.
Choose the backhoe hydraulic speed you need: fast for up to 20-percent quicker cycle times; medium for normal digging; or slow for craning objects, working in confined spaces, or excavating around existing util-ities. Controls deliver the same low-effort, consistent response, regardless of hydraulic speed.
Need to reposition quickly or get unstuck? Mini-joystick lets you run the loader and backhoe simultaneously without removing your hands from the joysticks or swiveling the seat.
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Interim Tier 4: Which Deere machines are certifi ed?
E m i s s i o n s u p d a t e
When it comes to meeting EPA Interim Tier 4 regulations
and upgrading to future Final Tier 4 regulations in the U.S.
and Canada, We’re on it.™ In fact, a number of John Deere
machines are already Interim Tier 4 or even Final Tier 4
certifi ed.
The John Deere 17D Compact Excavator is currently Final
Tier 4. The new 60D, 75D, and 85D Excavators, along with
the 27D, 35D, and 50D zero-tail-swing models, are Interim
Tier 4 certifi ed. The small-frame 313 and 315 Skid Steers are
Interim Tier 4, too, meaning all these models already meet
the EPA-mandated emissions levels for 2008 and beyond.
For 2013 the Interim Tier 4 machines will be upgraded to
Final Tier 4 requirements.
EPA Tier 4 regulations are not as stringent on smaller-
horsepower machines, making it possible for these units to
be at the forefront of the certifi cation process. For larger
engines, John Deere has made a company-
wide commitment to become emissions
compliant while providing equipment with
the necessary power and fuel economy for
you to successfully run your business.
To achieve compliance with the next
round of regulations on engines over 175
horsepower, due in 2011, Deere Power
Systems has announced it will start with its proven Tier 3
PowerTech™ Plus engine platform, add a diesel-oxidation
catalyst/diesel-particulate fi lter, and increase the percentage
of cooled exhaust-gas recirculation for NOx control.
But engine research and development alone is not enough.
Deere is also taking a systems approach, working to integrate
each engine with the right ultralow-sulfur fuel and exhaust
after-treatment. As one of the few companies to make engines
exclusively for off-highway applications, no other manufac-
turer has more experience with this technology.
And no other manufacturer is doing more to help
you meet emissions regulations. Stay tuned for ongoing
developments. ■
As the EPA system of tiered emission regulations has progressed and allowable exhaust-gas limits have dropped (see the percentages on the right side), the requirements have not been as stringent on lower-horsepower units. A signifi cant number of smaller Deere machines already meet Interim Tier 4 or Final Tier 4 guidelines.
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“Call me picky...”“I don’t want just anybody installing me. With a Deere certified
technician, like this guy, I know exactly what I’m getting. I know
he’s got countless hours of rigorous training under his toolbelt.
And I know his dealership had the training and tools in place
before they could even sell this machine. He’ll diagnose fast.
And fix it right the first time. Now that’s my kind of technician.”
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