"Our customers work hard, but they also play hard,” said Archie Lyons, Creative Director of Global Brand Marketing for Caterpillar Inc. to explain the crazy site of watching a golf course move around on the backs of several of CAT’s heavy machines. After watching the video below, it seems like the perfect encapsulation of that phrase and a whole lot of fun to try out.
Golf is a frustrating game, it seems like it should be a piece of cake. The ball just lays on the ground asking to be hit, yet it seldom goes where you mean it to go, without years of practice. So when a golf course moves around, you can imagine how much harder that might be to conquer. That’s exactly what women’s professional golfers Erimo and Marimo Ikeuchi found out when they undertook the challenge.
Constructed on the backs of 5 different CAT machines:
- CAT 772G – 90 ton off-road truck
- CAT 775G – 123 ton off-road truck
- CAT 793F – 250 ton mining truck
- You can actually watch a timelapse video of this gigantic truck being built from start to finish here
- CAT 982M – 40 ton wheel loader
- CAT CT660 – 550HP on-highway truck
The stunt only took a total of 3 days to build the course, a standard golf course typically takes 2 years to complete. In the videos below you can see the final product, but perhaps even more interesting is the behind the scenes video and timelapse videos that follow it. They’re all three extremely fun to watch.
Final Product: CAT Driving Range
Behind the Scenes
Timelapse Video of Construction of Driving Range
On Tuesday morning, February 23, the Syracuse Fire Department responded to a call about a collapsed crane on a construction site near the university. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.