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In The Dirt

By: Mack Plovie
  • Summary

  • Join Mack Plovie In The Dirt with featured industry guests as they discuss, dissect, and explain trending topics in the construction & mining industries. If you like learning about new technology, industry hot topics, business, heavy equipment, and anything dirt related for that matter. This podcast is worth a listen. Find Mack on social media @earthmovers_media and check out our website for more! https://earthmoversmedia.com

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Episodes
  • Autonomy, AI, & Heavy Equipment. The Jobsite of the Future w/ Bibhrajit Halder
    Apr 30 2024

    Autonomous equipment operation has been widely used in Mining since the 2000's, whether on haul trucks or dozers, its become a popular business practice to help miners be better miners. Lately, autonomous technology has been deployed in the construction industry to help contractors/companies be safer, more efficient, and more productive in certain applications.

    Mack sits down with Bibhrajit Halder, founder & CEO of SafeAI, a company that developed an autonomous technology retrofittable to equipment both large and small. They talk all about how the autonomous technology works, how AI is integrated, how it is retrofitted to the machines, and where in the world this technology is being used currently to move dirt.

    Learn more about SafeAI on their website https://www.safeai.ai/

    Find Mack on social media @earthmovers_media or visit the website to get some swag! https://earthmoversmedia.com/

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    42 mins
  • Komatsu Surface Mining Hybrid Wheel Loaders w/ Michael Fleet
    Feb 27 2024

    The history of the Le Tourneau large wheel loader product is well known in the global mining industry, today the Le Tourneau product is now Komatsu's surface mining wheel loader product line. Mack sits down with Michael Fleet, product manager for Komatsu electric wheel loader (EWL) line to discuss everything large Komatsu/Le Tourneau wheel loaders! They cover how the product has evolved over last few decades, application for wheel loaders in mining, advantage of mechanical vs electric drive machines, technology on these new wheel loaders, and more!

    Find Mack on social media @earthmovers_media and check out our website https://earthmoversmedia.com/

    Learn more about Komatsu EWL product here https://www.komatsu.com/en/products/wheel-loaders/surface-mining-wheel-loaders/

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Deploying Technology in Landfill Applications w/ Shaun MacIntosh
    Nov 28 2023

    Landfills are an important part of modern day society, and successfully managing a landfill comes down to optimizing equipment in the field and managing the flow of waste materials. Mack sits down with Shaun MacIntosh of Propeller to talk about how propeller is helping landfills with technology, from measuring compaction to maximize density (minimize airspace in waste materials), machine telematics to optimize your fleet, to site wide aerial surveys for measuring quantities for short term and long term planning. We cover everything you need to know about landfills and how technology is being utilized in that industry.

    Learn more about Propeller here https://www.propelleraero.com/ or find them on social media @propeller_aero

    Find Mack on social media @earthmovers_media or check out their website https://earthmoversmedia.com/

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    51 mins

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