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Construction Equipment
Park nearly complete, construction equipment rides begin arriving at Diggerland USA
[imagebrowser id=69] With an expected grand opening of June 14th, Diggerland USA is gradually piecing together the first construction equipment theme park in the country. Officials broke ground on the site in March and since then Diggerland has been posting photos of the machines-turned-rides as they come in to the Berlin Township, New Jersey site […]
April 28, 2014
Construction Equipment
PHOTOS: Construction workers unearth E.T. in the New Mexico Desert
[imagebrowser id=68] A long-standing legend was confirmed at last over the weekend when a crew of construction workers finally dug deep enough to uncover the remains of “E.T” in a New Mexico desert landfill. Remains of the video game, that is. In 1983 famed video game maker Atari acquired the rights to make the official […]
April 28, 2014
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CNH Industrial to build Sumitomo crawler excavators under new agreement
CNH Industrial, maker of the Case Construction and New Holland equipment brands, announced today that it has secured the rights to manufacture crawler excavators under the Sumitomo name. CNH Industrial CEO Richard Tobin said the move completes the company’s transition away from a “dual source excavator strategy to a single global partner” in Sumitomo. In December […]
April 28, 2014
Construction Equipment
Hyundai releases R35Z-9 compact excavator
Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas has released its R35Z-9 compact excavator, designed for use in tight work spaces. A 26.5-horsepower Tier 4 Certified Yanmar 3TNV88 engine powers the 8,050-pound machine. The excavator has a dig depth of 10 feet, 4 inches; a bucket digging force of 7,050 pounds; a bucket capacity of 3.78 feet; and a tail […]
April 28, 2014
Business
CARB approves compliance extensions for contractors, small fleets in work truck powertrain upgrade regulations
The California Air Resources Board voted April 25 to amend some of its emissions regulations deadlines, giving new alternatives to owner-operators and small fleets who were unable financially to comply with the original rule. The amendments passed 11-1, though with some additional changes requested by the Board. Final versions of the amendments will be produced within […]
April 25, 2014
Business
Sales jump boosts Volvo CE operating income 29% in 1Q
Following a tough 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment saw a positive start to 2014, reporting a growth in sales and a big boost in earnings. During the first quarter of the year ending March 31, Volvo CE sales jumped to $2.035 billion (SEK 13.371 billion), an increase of 10 percent over the same period last year. As a […]
April 25, 2014
Construction Equipment
Dozer towing a truck, towing a mining excavator goes predictably wrong, rips off truck’s front end
No. 5 Video in 2014 « NO. 6 NO. 4 »  We can’t figure exactly how these guys thought this system would work out, but what they’ve accomplished has to be the highest number of bad ideas ever caught on tape. With the huge load of that mining excavator sinking that tiny trailer and […]
April 25, 2014
Dealers
In a digital age, survey shows contractors still value personal interactions with equipment dealers
So how do contractors want to interact with equipment dealers today? A joint Associated Equipment Distributors/Randall-Reilly research project, conducted by our Equipment Data Associates division and tapping the opinions of Equipment World readers, delves into this topic. While technology advances and societal changes are pushing certain approaches to the fore, there are plenty of indications […]
April 25, 2014
Dealers
New leadership at Holt Cat, new dealers for Bobcat, Takeuchi, SDLG and more in this week’s Dealer News Roundup
Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. We post a new edition just about every week with news on hires, promotions, new locations and expansions. Check back for a new edition every week! Holt Cat names new executive leadership positions Holt […]
April 25, 2014
Construction Equipment
A blatant Ford F-150 knockoff with a diesel, the Kawei K1 will only run you $16,000 (PHOTOS)
[imagebrowser id=67] Is this Ford’s rumored diesel F-150 project, codenamed “Lion”? Absolutely not. But it is a diesel pickup that looks an awful lot like an F-150—and it’s not a coincidence. Here’s what the folks at China’s Kawei Auto say in a brochure (seen below) about their new K1 pickup, as first reported by CarNewsChina. “Stem from the pure […]
April 24, 2014
Technology
How Caterpillar uses iPads to build 700-ton trucks faster
While looking for ways to increase productivity on its assembly line in Decatur, Illinois, Caterpillar saw workers climbing up and down countless times from the massive 797F mining trucks it assembles there. As Randy Krotowski, Cat’s vice president of global information services, explains in the video below, those workers were checking assembly instructions for the […]
April 23, 2014
Construction Equipment
Is Big Bertha too big? Tunnel-boring machine won’t get back to digging below Seattle for nearly a year
In a slight change in plans, officials with the Washington State Department of Transportation have announced Big Bertha, the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, won’t get back to work below Seattle for nearly a year. Big Bertha has been out of commission since late January when the machine’s cutterhead openings became clogged with dirt, damaging seals around the machine’s main […]
April 22, 2014
Business
Watch our 2014 Contractor of the Year box a guy who outweighs him by 100 lbs. in the Golden Gloves
You don’t get very far in the construction business without a competitive spirit, the ability to duke it out, to hang in there for the count, give as good as you get. In the case of Equipment World’s 2014 Contractor of the Year, Jeremy Hiltz, of Ashland, New Hampshire, those words are more than metaphors. […]
April 22, 2014
Business
The top 5 best-selling new and used construction equipment during 1Q 2014
Almost 28,725 new and used machines in the top 11 types of construction equipment* were financed during the first quarter of 2014, according to Equipment Data Associates. This compares to the 30,260 new and used machines in these categories financed during the same quarter of 2013, a 5-percent decline. Compact units with their lower prices […]
April 22, 2014
Business
February brings typical downturn for number of new, used construction machines sold
As is typical during the month of February, financed sales of new and used equipment took a dip from January figures, according to information released by Equipment Data Associates. EDA, a division of Randall-Reilly, which produces Equipment World, tracks and reports Uniform Commercial Code-1 filings on financed equipment. There were 4,286 new financed units sold […]
April 21, 2014
Construction Equipment
Caterpillar updates D9T dozer with new engine, cooling package and powertrain control (PHOTOS)
No. 8 Story in 2014 « No. 9 No. 7 »  [imagebrowser id=64] Caterpillar has announced updates to the D9T that bring the large dozer in line with the latest emission standards, improve performance, operator comfort and machine monitoring capabilities. The new dozer features the Cat C18 ACERT, a Tier 4 Final engine pushing 436 net […]
April 18, 2014
Construction Equipment
Excavator pushes dozer up steep grade before clawing its own way up to escape loose terrain
Steep grades and loose terrain can be formidable foes for heavy machinery on their own. So it’s no surprise that combining the two with both an excavator and dozer needing to reach the top creates quite the puzzle for all involved. The video below is a bit long but provides a pretty interesting watch. We’d […]
April 18, 2014
Business
Why Cummins is bringing next-gen engine, truck technology to China before the U.S.
I hate math. And math hates me. But I’m going to put aside my loathing of this particular discipline for a moment to illustrate why it seems like every company on the planet today is obsessed with China. Cummins Engine has been a national player in China since the late 1970s and reaffirmed its commitment […]
April 18, 2014
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