Reduced-tail excavators usually pay for their tidy swing circle in lifting capacity: shorten the counterweight and the machine gets tippy over the side. Corran's new CX130 takes the other route and widens the base instead.
The undercarriage stretches to 2.55 metres, roughly 200 millimetres wider than the model it replaces, which moves the tipping line outward and recovers most of what the trimmed tail gives up. Corran quotes 2,900 kilograms over the side at a five-metre radius, within a few percent of its conventional 13-tonne machine.
The trade is transport
The cost lands on the float. At 2.55 metres the machine is still legal on a standard trailer in most jurisdictions, but it leaves less room for error and for chaining, and contractors moving several machines on one deck will notice.
Corran is targeting utility contractors working inside traffic lanes, where a 95-millimetre tail overhang keeps the counterweight inside the cone line through a full rotation. Deliveries begin in March.