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I agree, the media refers to everything as a bulldozer. I saw that advertisment, and although the point was clear that they were illustrating that the midwest is closer to the coast due to the flights offered, or frequency of the same, anyone who knows about agricultural equipment is left asking the same question, what is this guy doing, it does not make any sense, except to the producer, to him/her, they made the image/sound appear believable to the common layperson watching the ad. They could care less about the correctness or logic behind the scene itself, just the impact of it, it does work. However, my interpretation is look at how outdated the equipment is and what is the guy doing, makes no logical sense and if one were to believe it, you are led to believe this is how corn is harvested in the modern world. Not to say there are not a lot of people using older equipment, just not the mass producers, maybe the point was to show a small time farmer, just gettin by, hard to say, but I certainly asked the same questions, was an odd commercial. When the media refers to any piece of equipment as a bulldozer, in a written or filmed story, it really demonstrates their lack of knowledge, and or intelligence on the subject. It would not take a person who knows nothing about earthmoving or construction equipment, to learn a little history about it and also learn the correct nomenclature. A bulldozer is acutally an attachment, for earthmoving, 1st designed by people/companies like R.G. LeTourneau and LaPlante-Choate and so many others, then attached to a crawler/track type tractor. Crawler tractors were initially designed for agricultural work for the most part, then became popular in construction. When the media refers to an excavator as a bulldozer, it just does not fit the description at all, and they don't even realize how incorrect that description is by todays industry standards. They could easily learn to distinguish the differences. It is funny, probably annoying to some seen it mentioned and discussed quite a bit.
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