How does the “Next Generation” 395 Caterpillar excavator perform? We asked Todd Shreves and Mike High, operator/instructors from the Independent Union of Operator Engineers Local 649 in Bartonville, ...

For many homeowners, the monthly mortgage payment is by far their biggest investment, and it’s generally considered a safe one. But what happens if their home starts to crumble? Sue Toomey paid 20 ...

Making an excavator may be not rocket science, but for a man with only a middle school education, it is truly impressive. A 25-year-old man spent three months to design and three days to make an ...

Currently, when the rubble at disaster sites is being moved, ordinary construction equipment is used. Scientists at several Japanese universities, however, are working on something more task-specific.

Ubiquitous on mini-excavators, dozer blades for backfilling and grading have crept up to the medium 20,000- to 40,000-pound excavator size class. As in other machine categories, operators have been ...

For the past two years a conglomerate of trade associations, industry, government and academia have been collaborating on the world’s first operational 3D printed excavator. That project made a giant ...

Engcon, a Sweden-based provider of Tiltrotator technology, has integrated its Tiltrotator products with two new Develon excavator models, the DX230LC-9 and DX260LC-9. The new 9 Series excavators made ...