The partnership between Liebherr and Leica Geosystems allows Liebherr customers to purchase generation-6 and 8 crawler excavators and wheeled excavators with a factory-fitted 2D and 3D machine control system as an option. The first customer to benefit from this arrangement is a British company, Brad-Pave.
The R 934 crawler excavator is the first Liebherr machine with a factory-fitted Leica Geosystems control system. The generation-8 R 934 excavator will be updated with a semi-automatic system featuring an automatic inclination/rotation function.
On its first construction site job in the UK, the R 934 was mainly used to dig a large drainage trench across a field. The 7.1 tonne counterweight and 800 mm pads ensure good stability in all conditions. The machine has run up 350 hours on the clock since delivery.