The importance of a motor grader can never be ruled out in a big construction site. You will get to see a lot of debris lying all around the site and it becomes difficult for workers to move around the site amid of those debris. In situation like this, it becomes crucial for the construction company to deploy machines that are capable of moving the debris and load them on a truck. If the debris is lying at a place for good number of days it becomes all the more difficult for heavy equipment to move it. This is where the role of a motor grader comes into picture. With the help of the blade that is attached at the bottom of the machine it can break away the hard mud and carry it to the truck. Moreover it has those claws that are attached to the end of the machine and it exclusively used to break down the mud.
Introducing the M series Motor grader, Cat has brought in a revolution in the construction and heavy equipment manufacturing industry. People who were not CAT brand lovers moved to CAT as they found the extra bit what was missing in graders of other companies. The M-series Motor Grader is not only excellent in terms of performance but is also quite a reliable one and consumes comparatively less fuel. Other features are more or less similar to graders of other companies. The price of the machine is what sets it apart from the graders of other heavy equipment companies. CAT being a branded company also believes in providing quality machines at affordable price. This is perhaps the reason why they are still such a big name in the heavy equipment market. Other companies are already taking the beating due to intense competition but CAT is giving fierce challenge to other domestic as well as international players.
Moving to the specification of most of 140 M Motor Grader which is a part of the M-series grader, the model engine is C7 ACERT VHP. It has 6 cylinders in all and net power with gears 7 and 8 is 183 hp. The operational weight of the front and the rear axle is 8123 and 14950 kilograms and its total operational weight is 23077 kgs. Moving to the fuel capacity of the machine, the total fuel capacity is 416 liters which includes cooling system fluid capacity of 47 liters, hydraulic system fluid capacity of 60 liters, final drive fluid capacity of 65 liters and tandem case fluid capacity of 64 liters.
The total number of gears available is 8 (forward) and 6 (reverse) and has a maximum speed of 29 mph (forward) and 23 mph (reverse). Moving to the dimension of the grader, the height of the machine to the top of the cab is 11 ft in and its overall length is 28.6 ft in. The wheel and blade base is 20.1 ft in and 8.4 ft in. he front and rear ground clearance is 1.9 and 1.1 ft in respectively.
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