Komatsu 785-7

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20 March 2008

Among many new machines, Komatsu showed its new HD 785-7 rigid dumptruck. With a maximum gross vehicle weight of 166 tonnes, the new generation model has an 879 kW engine and can carry a heaped load of 60 m3. It features a Variable Horsepower Control (VHC) system, which provides two working modes - Power or Economy - tailoring the truck's performance to the conditions

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