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Onsite, the Cat 352 LRE was put to
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work filling in the area with building
rubble, concrete and soil from other
sites. This task is more complicated
Thomas Schär, product manager at Avesco, was than it would first appear, as the land
surprised that the first Cat 352 LRE excavator was needs to be built up in layers. The
sold to a Swiss company. “The LRE excavators thickness of which is heavily regulated
have long been used in the Netherlands and and controlled. However, the onboard
northern Germany, where they are used for ditch GPS system on the excavator makes
clearing, which isn’t something that happens in light work of building these layers
Switzerland, but it goes to show just how versatile to get the job done very quickly.
a machine it is and how suited it is to other tasks.”

Another key feature of the sale was the maintenance
contract, Thomas Schär expands, “As the largest
dealer of construction machines in Switzerland
with more than double the technicians in the
field than anyone else. This, coupled with the
availability of parts from Cat makes us faster
than anyone else in the area. None of the
competition can come close to our service.” ■