The  backhoe loader has been equipped with a support arm and chain cutter, mounted in place of the traditional backhoe, that offers a new ingenious, yet simple, method for cutting blocks of marble.
It was fitted with a chain cutter who are based in Carrara and specialise in supplying marble-cutting machines.

someone explains the background to the development of this new product: “This machine was created to meet the needs of our customers, who know better than anyone how to improve their business and what machines are required to best achieve it. What they were missing until now, was a machine that could operate autonomously in the quarry and cut blocks of marble insitu. To accomodate this requirement we explored the idea of combining cutting equipment with a backhoe loader.”

The prototype underwent several months of vigorous testing in the  marble quarries, in which the most expert operators in marble extraction made the marble cutting machine work at full speed and for long periods.