How to Get a Cat 395 into a Hall

As we all prepare to walk around the vast halls at the Messe Munchen Exhibition Centre, I am always amazed at how they set everything up, and just how they get the massive machines inside in what must take many weeks of preparation. The Cat stand is always an amazing place to visit during the show and its one place I return to on numerous occasions during the event.

At Bauma 2022 Caterpillar will display its broad range of technology, services and sustainability solutions under the theme “Let’s Do The Work” in their regular location of Hall B6 and Hall A4. This time around Cat will be solely represented by their German dealer Zeppelin and they will display no less than 70 machines. 

Photos from the Digger Man Blog archives of the Cat stand during Bauma 2016 

The Caterpillar Building Construction Products (BCP) division exhibition will include nine next generation Cat mini hydraulic excavators (1- to 10-tonne models) that offer common features and consistent controls layout to simplify training and operator adaptation. The 3.5- to 10-tonne next generation models can now be equipped with Cat Grade technologies as an aftermarket option.

Nearly 30 displayed Caterpillar Global Construction & Infrastructure (GCI) models will be anchored by nine tracked and four wheeled next generation excavators ranging in capacity from 15 to 95 tonnes, a rail-road excavator and three material handlers.

As we walk around the carpeted floor space of the completed exhibition, its almost unimaginable to think of how they get a 95-tonne excavator into the hall without damaging the floor, and one assumes it must all be planned with military style precision.

Over the weekend I came across this video courtesy of the BrecherTaxi You Tube channel, which shows the Cat 395 being delivered into the hall and manoeuvred into position, its really interesting to see how its all done, and I look forward to seeing this very machine in the metal during Bauma.