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 ...

Mini excavators have become a part of many job sites and a staple in most OEM’s offerings due to customers recognizing good production for their size, their maneuverability, and transportability. The ...

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.

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 ...

Most excavator manufacturers offer a choice of boom and arm configurations to tailor excavators for specific applications. Most often these include a short, standard and long arm. Each of these has ...

The buzz around electrification is clearly audible at any construction equipment trade show nowadays, especially with smaller equipment. And for good reason: there seems to be a strong and growing ...

Buckets, brush cutters, hammers, and more add to wheeled excavator productivity. Although wheeled excavators have yet to proliferate in North America the way they have in Europe, manufacturers have ...