Scraper
Loading on the move, carrying, spreading on the move.
Mass earthmoving over long distances — a trade that no longer exists in town.
Other names for this machine: scraper, 'the scrap'.
- Category
- Grouped with reciprocating extraction machines
- Status
- Does not carry interchangeable attachments
What it does
it loads on the move — no excavator, no lorry, a single machine does all three actions.
Diagrammatic silhouette, without dimensions and not to scale.
Loading on the move, carrying, spreading on the move.
Mass earthmoving over long distances.
What it does not do. It needs room and volume.
On an urban site, it makes no sense.
that is what makes it unbeatable over large areas, and useless anywhere else.
Synthetic image.
What decides its use
- The volume and the distance They are what decide whether this machine has a place on the site, or whether another will do the same work for less.
- The room available A machine that cannot manoeuvre does not produce, whatever its capacity.
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The rate of the neighbouring machines
It is rarely calculated and often costs more than the hire:
a machine that waits costs as much as a machine that works. - Transport to the worksite It governs what can actually be sent, and it is settled before everything else.
One model, as a reference point
The values below hold for this model only.
They are there to give an order of magnitude to anyone who has none, not to serve as a reference.
- Bowl capacity
- 24.5 and 33.6 m³ depending on the method of measurement
- Payload
- 47 174 kg
- Net power
- 436 kW, that is 585 hp at 2,000 rpm
- Unladen weight
- 74,253 kg, tanks full, without a driver
Caveat. The source consulted swaps the labels “struck” and “heaped”:
it announces 24.5 m³ heaped and 33.6 m³ struck, which is impossible.
I give both figures without settling the matter:
to be checked against the original sheet.
Source. Caterpillar technical data sheet, reference AFXQ3297-01,
document of November 2022, recorded on 1 September 2026.
These values are those of one precise model, at one precise date. They do not describe a category:
there are no characteristics of a compact loader in general, there are those of the model you have.
They change from one year to the next and never replace the data sheet of your machine.
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