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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

Construction Equipment

Land Rover developing invisible truck technology to give driver better view of terrain

For years, researchers and the military have been working toward perfecting cloaking technology that would give a person, vehicle or aircraft the ability to become invisible at the press of a button. The benefits of being invisible to the outside world are pretty obvious especially when it comes to the battlefield or stealth missions. But what […]

April 17, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar excavators stack 600-lb. blocks in the biggest game of Jenga you’ve ever seen

We have a feeling that after seeing this, equipment operators everywhere are going to try to get their hands on their own 8.1-ton Jenga set. As the first in its new “Built for It” series of trials showing off the capabilities of its heavy machines, Caterpillar posted a video called “Stack” to YouTube today, calling […]

April 15, 2014

Construction Equipment

Toppled concrete truck hurtles head-on into van in terrifying dashcam footage

This has to be the most intense, heart attack-inducing dashcam footage we’ve ever seen. And perhaps the craziest part of it is that it doesn’t even come from Russia. On Wednesday, Guan Zhu, a veterinary professor at Texas A&M University was driving along in College Station when a concrete truck ran a red light attempting […]

April 11, 2014

Construction Equipment

Meet the 31 million-pound bucket wheel excavator. The largest land vehicle ever built

No. 3 Video in 2014 « NO. 4 NO. 2 »   Deemed the largest land vehicle in history by the Guinness Book of World Records, the Bagger 293 is the single best digging machine man has ever built. Built in 1995, this bucket wheel excavator is 315 feet tall—dwarfing the Statue of Liberty—738 feet […]

April 9, 2014

Construction Equipment

How to wash a car with a 385-ton excavator (and destroy it in the process)

NO. 9 » No. 10 Video in 2014 This one’s pretty simple. Bunch of guys with some time and what looks to be a Liebherr R9400 mining excavator on their hands decide to have a little fun with a useless car. (At least we hope it was useless.) The results are pretty impressive. Then again, […]

April 4, 2014

Construction Equipment

Watch the 1,000-person process of building a Ford F-150

Considering the fact that a Ford F-Series pickup is sold every 38 seconds in the U.S., Ford has to churn them out pretty quickly. Recently, Bloomberg TV visited Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Michigan to see how the automaker is able to meet that demand. Each week about 7,000 F-Series trucks roll off the […]

April 3, 2014

Construction Equipment

The ConExpo 2014 Experience: Tour the largest heavy equipment show in North America

In the weeks since we were in the middle of ConExpo 2014, we’ve had some time to go through all of our coverage and all of the video we shot during our stay and compile a video that we feel sums up the experience of the largest trade show in North America. There’s a bit […]

March 26, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator bucket-scoots out-of-gas hauler down the road while still on the trailer

On the jobsite, dozers come in handy every once in a while to give stuck or out-of-fuel equipment a push. But excavators? Not so much. Apparently no one told this guy that. We’ve all been there. Out of gas on the highway. But not many of us had an excavator in tow. And if we […]

March 21, 2014

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: Construction crew discovers ancient graveyard of whales, sloths and fish killed by algae

[imagebrowser id=44] Scientists have solved the mystery surrounding a mass graveyard of ancient sea life discovered by a Chilean highway construction crew more than three years ago. During the widening of the Pan-American Highway in northern Chile, road workers uncovered more than 40 fossilized skeletons preserved in sandstone. Most of the skeletons were that of baleen […]

March 18, 2014

Construction Equipment

Watch this excavator climb a 100-foot tower before doing a handstand

No. 8 Video in 2014 « NO. 9 NO. 7 »   This one is a classic. Some might call it “obligatory” viewing for anyone who’s watched videos on the internet, let alone those who love equipment. The stunt, supposedly occurring in 1997, appeared on the long-running German/Austrian/Swiss variety show Wetten Dass…? (Wanna Bet That…?). The Liebherr […]

March 14, 2014

Business

Mike Rowe opens up about opera, skilled trades and Dirty Jobs (EXCLUSIVE)

All of the new machines are obviously the star of a show like ConExpo. But one of the highlights for the Equipment World team last week at the show was getting to sit down with TV host and newly-minted author Mike Rowe for a conversation on the importance of skilled trades and vocational education. Just […]

March 11, 2014