Grader
A blade placed between the axles, and a surface that at last takes the required slope.
It grades.
It does not do earthworks:
the earthworks have to be done before it.
Other names for this machine: grader, 'the grader'.
- Category
- CACES R.482A category C3
- Status
- Does not carry interchangeable attachments
What it does
the blade is UNDER the chassis, not in front of it — that is what gives it its grading accuracy.
Diagrammatic silhouette, without dimensions and not to scale.
Grading a surface to the required slope with a blade placed between the axles.
Haul roads, platforms, capping layers.
What it does not do. It grades, it does not move volume.
It needs the earthworks to have been done already.
it follows the design, not the bumps in the ground.
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.
- Operating weight
- 17,390 kg, standard configuration
- Net power
- 131 kW, that is 176 hp, up to 147 kW at peak
- Standard blade width
- 3.7 m, 4.3 m optional
- Blade height
- 509 mm
Caveat. A data sheet intended for markets outside Europe.
Source. Caterpillar technical data sheet, reference AFXQ2498-03,
document of March 2021, 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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