Mon February 22, 2016
Hitachi Introduces ZX130-6, ZX160LC-6, ZX180LC-6 Utility Excavators With FT4 Engine
Hitachi Construction Machinery – Americas has upgraded three models of its successful utility-class excavator line to meet EPA Final Tier IV (FT4)/EU Stage IV emission standards. The three excavators – the ZX130-6, ZX160LC-6 and ZX180LC-6 — are equipped with a powerful EPA FT4/EU Stage IV Isuzu engine complete with integrated, effective engine technologies and do not require a diesel particulate filter....
Mon February 22, 2016
Cat Grade With Assist Makes Accurate Grading Fast and Easy
Cat grade with assist delivers efficiency and productivity gains to the Cat 323F L hydraulic excavator. This system is the first operator assist feature with semi-autonomous grade control available on Cat excavators....
Fri February 19, 2016
Takeuchi Iron Makes Life on the Farm More Comfortable
When Spartan Construction started working on a job at a large dairy farm in Manitowoc, Wis., the company knew they would have to turn the project around quickly — the farmer depended on it with his heifers scattered sporadically throughout the farm....
Fri February 19, 2016
Cat F Series Excavators Are Built for Unique Business Needs
The introduction of the 313F, 315F, 316F, and 318F completes Caterpillar's launch of its U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final/EU Stage IV 11- to 90-ton tracked excavator family. “Customers choose Cat excavators because they make more money with our products,” said Brian Abbott, worldwide product manager for Caterpillar's small excavator platform....
Fri February 12, 2016
Video: Worker Miraculously Escapes Harm During Demolition Collapse
The website the Guardian is reporting that the demolition of a parking garage in Houston, Texas took a dangerous turn when the structure collapsed on a worker operating an excavator on the site. An eyewitness video catches the moment when the building topples on to the machine and the person inside, prompting a colleague in another excavator to rush the person's aid....
Thu February 11, 2016
Doosan Equipment Makes Impossible Mission Possible
What do you do when faced with an insurmountable challenge of completing a construction project on the highest peak in the Northeast? Some would shy away from such an endeavor, but not the team at the Mount Washington Cog Railway....
Thu June 12, 2014
JCB 100C-1 to Be Featured in Unique Dance Experience
JCB North America and the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) will be hosting two performances of “Exceptional Transport: duet for a dancer and an excavator,” a unique alternative dance experience featuring the award-winning JCB 100C-1 and a dancer from the acclaimed French dance company Beau Geste....
Thu February 04, 2016
Program Created to Expose More Women to Construction Work
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Stevie Medina might have felt as if she were building a new world. She may yet. The seat she occupied rumbled and jerked, as she worked the controls of a virtual excavator. "It does shake," she said, half-smiling as she maneuvered levers on either side of her chair....
Mon January 18, 2016
Power Tilting Coupler Allows for 180 Degrees of Movement
Doosan's new power tilting coupler, provides increased excavator flexibility, versatility and precision when digging trenches, general excavation applications and final grading tasks. The new power tilting coupler is approved for Doosan excavators: the DX63-3 compact model; DX140LC-5 through DX255LC-5 crawler models; and DX140W-5 through DX210W-5 wheel models....
Wed October 14, 2015
Contractor Puts 30,000 Hours on His Favorite Attachment
Chute Construction, based out of Brantford, Ontario, has put approximately 30,000 hours on the company's original RT60 Rototilt tiltrotator. “That Rototilt never comes off the machine; it stays on 365 days a year,” said company co-owner, Tyler Chute....
