(audience clapping)
- Good morning.
It is great to be here with all of you,
it's great to be back at ICUEE.
This is at least my seventh,
if not eighth, consecutive
ICUEE show to attend.
This is gonna to be the warmest ICUEE.
The good news,
we've got ice cream
on the Vermeer booth this
afternoon at one o'clock.
So, thank you for being here this morning,
take some time on our booth this morning,
come back at one o'clock for ice cream.
We are extremely
excited
and proud
for the exciting, innovative products
that we have on the Vermeer booth today.
We have some tremendous new products.
We have some tremendous
updated, refurbished products,
but behind this box
is
the
most unique, innovative, exciting
product that we are excited
to share at this ICUEE.
This product will definitely
equip our customers to do more.
This is a product that
solves a specific problem
in this industry,
and
is specifically
designed with the opportunity
to be a unique solution
to something we've been
hearing about from you,
our customers, for a long time.
It cannot be contained
in this box any longer.
I'd like to thank everyone
who has been involved
in the development of this
product from the very beginning,
right up to this day.
At this point, I'd like to
invite to the stage, Doug Hundt,
to talk just a little about the problem
that this machine is gonna solve.
(audience applause)
- Thank you, Jason, and
welcome to the Vermeer booth.
We are so proud
to have all of you share this
moment with us this morning.
You know, Vermeer is a 71-year-old business.
The history of the company
is to solve problems and innovate,
and we're just so excited
to share a new innovation
with you this morning.
So, how we understand these problems:
So, many of you here standing here today
were on your jobsites,
were in your offices,
were understanding
where your problems are,
and what you've been really
clear in sharing with us
is that hydro-excavation and soft dig
is now an integral part of your business.
It's how you do underground construction
to improve the safety in our industry.
But along with that fabulous
technology comes problems,
and the problems that you
have identified for us,
is number one,
it's now hard to find places
to go dump the spoils.
Number two,
sometimes you're frustrated
because your
vac truck is off the job too long,
and it's affecting your
efficiency on the jobsite.
Your drill crews are tied up.
They're waiting.
So, we've heard you.
For the last three years,
we've put some of,
we've created a team that has done nothing
but focus on solving that problem,
and we're excited to
share that with you today.
Because our brand promise to you
is to make an impact, a real impact,
on your productivity and profitability.
So when you see this machine,
just keep that in mind,
that it's our goal to
make you more efficient,
more productive, and more
profitable on your jobsites.
So before we see the machine,
let's take a look at this video.
(machine starts)
(dramatic music)
(rock music)
- Here we go!
Ladies and gentleman,
I'd like to introduce you
to the premier XR2 vacuum excavator.
This brand new, innovative
product from Vermeer
combines the soft dig
technology of a hydro vac truck
and incorporates the separation
technology of a reclaimer.
This machine is literally a workhorse.
On the front half,
you have what we call
a traditional truck vac.
The magic really happens on
the back end of this machine,
where we incorporate vacuum excavation
with localized separation.
As our team unloads this
machine to get it ready to demo,
there's a couple things
that I really want to
highlight about this machine.
So, the material comes
up through the boom,
your traditional hydro vac material,
it'll go down to our deceleration tank,
and in through our
continuously vacuuming airlock,
which helps us prevent any loss of suction
while vacuuming.
Next thing I really want to
talk about is the massive debris
drops on to our shaker deck.
It is then conveyed
out on to our conveyor
where we can put that 180 degrees
from where you dig that pothole.
So whether you're putting it on a trailer,
or right next to the hole you just dug,
it gives you the ability
to be more effective on the jobsite.
Next cool thing about this machine,
it boasts
1500
gallons
of clean water storage
within this machine.
It allows you to be on the jobsite longer,
be more productive,
getting more holes dug
at the end of the day.
The cool thing about it is
each tank can hold freshwater
and slurry water as well.
So when we start using our freshwater
throughout the digging process,
it continues to fill up with that slurry.
So we're using an
effective use of our space
on the machine.
On top of that,
you hear this truck roaring a little bit,
we have equipped it with a hydraulic PTO,
which removes the need to
shift the power from the vac
to the truck when you're
moving around on the jobsite.
You also see my man, Andy, has
got a fully-functioning remote,
making it easy for one-man operation.
He has control of the boom,
the conveyor, the dig wand,
as well as the separation
unit and the conveyor.
There's a lot of features
that showcase this XR2,
and what it can do,
but I think I'm done talking.
I'm gonna let this XR2 show
you what it's all about,
and you'll see it for yourselves
up close and in-person.
Bill, Andy, let's get this dig tube over
and let's get this
thing rockin' and rollin'.
(machine running)
(machine vacuuming)
(machine shutting down)
There you have it, folks.
In just a matter of a couple of minutes,
we've made a stackable product
that can be conveyed
right off the machine,
right next to the pothole,
or trailered off to what you ever need.
So, to take a little bit more
of a sneak peak of this product,
look at the video monitor ahead
of a little bit of an animation
of a kind of behind the scenes
of the Vermeer XR2 vacuum excavator.
And then we want to invite you up,
take a better look for yourselves.
Also, grab one of our exclusive
"Can't Be Contained" T-shirts.
This isn't the only innovative
product here at the show.
Make sure you stick around
at the Vermeer booth
and enjoy ICUEE 2019.
Thanks, everybody.
(rock music)
- [Narrator] Introducing
a monumental innovation
from Vermeer.
The all-new XR2 vacuum excavator.
Built to keep you on the jobsite longer.
We've accomplished this feat
with a creative solution
to an age-old problem.
An onboard separation system.
The XR2 shows up to the
jobsite with three tanks
full of freshwater
and one empty tank for your slurry.
At recommended capacity,
the XR2 stays below
54,000 pounds.
Like your traditional vacuum excavator,
you use a high-pressure water
wand to break up the ground
and a vacuum to remove
material from the hole.
That's where the similarities end.
Rather than retaining all that material
and having to make
multiple disposal trips,
the XR2 separates the
solids and liquids on-board.
As the material travels up the boom,
it makes its first stop
at the separation system.
(rock music)
Here, the air is separated from
the liquids and the solids,
rerouted to the cyclonic
filtration system and expelled
from the machine.
Solids and dirty water pass
through the separation system
and exit through the rotating air lock,
which is critical to maintaining vacuum.
The material is then deposited
on to the shaker decks.
Here, the vibrating
action helps to separate
the solids from the liquids.
The solids move down the conveyor
and can be left on-site or hauled away.
The remaining dirty water
is routed from underneath
the shaker screens to the
empty tanks on the truck.
As your crew continues to work,
the XR2 will use clean
water from the tanks
in sequence from front to back,
freeing up space to
store more dirty water.
The dirty water fills the
same tanks from back to front.
The XR2 will be available in early 2020.
Visit Vermeer.com or talk
to your local Vermeer dealer
to learn more about the
XR2 vacuum excavator.
(rock music)
