Not positive but I think it photo shop. Cat has the patent on the elicited sprocket....and the under carriage and rest of machine look reminiscent of a d10t.

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The Caterpillar patent for high drive was filed back in the '70s so I have to wonder if it's still valid.

If it's photoshop, it's damned good photoshop!

hello

the patend of the high drive is finished for cat some years ago.
you can get high drive machines also from two chines companies.

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I cannot say its a real machine with a straight face.

It is definitely fake.

Here's why I came to that conclusion.




1. Those a Caterpillar mounts for the cylinders. Liebherr mounts their cylinders on the side not the front.

2.Notice how the mountings are exactly the same. Also note how on the front the below the radiator they both have the same bolts.

3.The front idler and idler mounts are the same, as are the castings on the front track frame are the same.

4.The track frame mounting point is the same with the slope on the track frames and mounting for the top carrier roller.

5.The bottom roller frames are the same, as are the rollers themselves.

6.As with the front idler the rear are the same.

7.Notice on the slanted edge how the perforations are cut off.

8.Not Highlighted but look how the angle of the tracks on the rear are the same as the D10's.

9.This is a common sense one. I would seriously doubt that Liebherr would be stupid enough to copy a design a machine that closely from a company who has one of the larger intellectual property teams that I know of.

Now this machine could be real and just a prototype using a cat undercarriage to see if a high drive version would be advantageous, But I have my doubts. Anyways If it was a prototype I doubt they would have it painted in Liebherr colors, It would attract too much attention, I would think they would paint it like a Caterpillar. Thats just my 2 cents.

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Kerst,

Do you have a more specific link? I don't see the 776? Or maybe I missed it?

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I respect your opinion and evaluation, but can only agree with your assessment to a small degree. To your points;

1: While I have no doubt that the cylinder mounting point was once a Caterpillar patent, it's as old as the high-drive patent and is long expired.

2: Please look closely again? They are not the same.

3: Ditto

3: agreed; identical from photos at least.

4: Please look closely again? They are not the same.

5: Not even close.

6: This holds no merit at all as there are a variety of aftermarket companies that produce these for less than OEM like Berco, etc..

7: This is where I'm completely in agreement with you! There's no way this gets out of the factory at Telfs looking like that.

8 and 9 are have been addressed.

Just my opinion.

Here is a link(hopefully) of a translated page from baumachinesomething and the PR 776 murmurs had been floating about from the beginning of 2013

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baumaschinenbilder.de%2Fforum%2Fthread.php%3Fpostid%3D599306

To me it smacks of photo shop,way too similar,not 100% but a lot closer to than not to a Cat,in saying that I'll sit firmly on the fence,splinters n all,the fun part comes now,the waiting game

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I found that out this morning, I would have never guessed that Liebherr was actually making a high drive hydrostatic dozer. That photo still looks like something that some one would have photoshopped. I guess i can't be right all the time.

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Its a hydrostatic? Never thought about it before but what are Komatsu 375/475s?

Please share with us what you found?