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New Children’s playground lets kids play with Cat 303.5E2 CR excavator
Within a few months, a new park in Katy Mills will be opened where children will have the opportunity to safely play and operate with a Cat 303.5E2 excavator and other heavy machinery units. The park boasts 3.5 acres of land to let them explore their imagination. The park will be named Dig World and has partnered up with Mustang Cat who are enabling the park to offer the newest line of equipment such as excavators, skid steers and utility terrain vehicles.
Dig World aims to open in the coming months and offer the opportunity to anyone, with no experience, to operate heavy machinery just for the fun of it. The Park wants to provide a first-hand experience behind the controls of industry-level equipment, for both children and adults.
For a fee, anyone can visit the park all year round to operate the heavy machinery and get involved in a variety of different activities featuring a gem mining station, yard games and more. The co-founder of Dig World, Jacob Robinson said, “We want to create memorable experiences for families that last a lifetime.” The Park also offers a fruitful selection of educational material throughout the parks site that has been created by Texas A&M University. The University’s professor and department head, Dr Patrick Suermann has recently said, “The Department of Construction Science is excited to partner with Dig World to create an educational partnership, where future generations can experience and learn about the dynamic construction industry,”
Heavy machinery can be unimaginably dangerous when not correctly operated for both the individual using the machinery, but also individuals in its close vicinity. It’s fair to assume that the Park will have been strongly regulated so that each person operating these units will be heavily supervised.
It’s fair to assume, if this Park is successful and offers a safe experience to the younger generation all year round, it could potentially have a great effect on the industry in the future. Adding a positive reinforcement into the joys of operating a Cat 303.5E2 CR excavator, that must look like a crane to a 6-year-old, could be a great way to encourage them to identify the industry as a potential career when they are older!