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Oct 14, 2024About a year ago, Aspen-based contractor Shay Stutsman was looking for a better, more efficient way to use his fleet of track loaders.
He had achieved success with reducing the amount of machinery on jobsites with quick-attach couplers – in which all the links and hydraulic hoses are connected automatically from the cab – on Stutsman Gerbaz Earthmoving’s excavators. With the coupling system, operators can line up all the attachments they need for a job and switch tools on the go within seconds – buckets, hammers, compactors – whatever they need. The excavator essentially becomes a toolcarrier, doing the work of multiple machines.
Stutsman wondered if he could do the same with a Cat 963 track loader.
“I reached out to AMI Attachments, about a year ago and came up with this crazy idea when we were initially buying a new track loader,” he says.
After collaborating with AMI Attachments, OilQuick, Caterpillar and Trimble, he can now say he has the first 963 track loader with a six-way dozer blade – one that can be connected and disconnected without leaving the cab and is equipped with 3D machine control.
“It's a completely new design. It is a one-of-a-kind design,” Stutsman says. “It is designed specifically to go on to a track loader, but the blade itself is the equivalent of the D5 or what I would call the D6N.
“It’s the only one in the world.”