Bagger Simulation

Take the seat in a real crawler excavator. The ground is not a picture: every scoop lowers the terrain exactly where the teeth pass, loose soil slides down to its angle of repose, spoil heaps grow where you dump it and a truck bed fills tonne by tonne. Comfort control guides the bucket tip with one stick while the arm follows; pro control gives you the ISO layout with swing, stick, boom and bucket on separate axes.

Twelve career jobs across six sites await: a garden pond and a cable trench in a residential area, a house connection with a power cable and a water main buried right where you dig, a foundation pit with two truckloads to leave, a lumpy pad to grade within five centimetres, gravel to load into a queue of tippers, a sewer trench along a gas pipe, concrete slabs to break with the hydraulic breaker and sort with the grapple into the right skips, a silted creek for the long-reach machine, stumps on a slippery slope and a quarry where rock begins half a metre down. Five daily challenges add a spot-on 10-tonne load, a ruler-straight trench, a sorting race, ten stumps beside a gas pipe and a night shift in the rain.

Six machines from the 1.8-tonne mini excavator to the 41-tonne demolition rig, six attachments and all jobs are open from the first minute; there is nothing to unlock. Beginner mode smooths the hydraulics and protects you from tipping, simulation mode adds centre of gravity, wear, fuel and real repair costs. The sandbox lets you dig any site at any time of day in any weather with no clock at all.