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Construction Equipment

300-ton crane rescues an excavator from a bog before having some fun with it

Last week, we showed you an excavator doing a bit of rescuing when two dozers got a bit stuck while doing some road building. This week, it’s an excavator that needs saving. This Hitachi ZX110 has gotten stuck in a bog, so the crew brings in a 300-metric-ton Liebherr LTM 1300 to get it out. […]

October 29, 2013

Construction Equipment

Excavator operator puts on clinic, rescues 2 bogged down dozers from a flooded ditch

Thanks to YouTube uploader Adam Petroff we’re able to share with you a pretty awesome example of excavator operation this morning. In the video’s description, Petroff explains that he and his crew were finish grading the slopes along a new highway when their John Deere 650H slid into the “canal” below and got stuck. And […]

October 25, 2013

Construction Equipment

Watch a 10-week Cat D11R powertrain rebuild in just a few minutes in this time-lapse

The folks at Arkansas-based Riggs Caterpillar put together an awesome video that chronicles the complete 10-week rebuild of a D11R powertrain. The dealer says that the transmission rebuild was done at its Little Rock location while the engine rebuild was done at its Fort Smith location. The final reassembly is always done at the customer’s […]

October 22, 2013

Construction Equipment

First look inside and out of Case’s brand new M Series crawler dozers

Last week, we got a chance to spend some quality time with Case’s brand new M Series lineup of crawler dozers. As our in-depth report on the machines detailed, the lineup features between a 5- and 14-percent increase in horsepower over the L Series along with substantial durability, cab and fuel economy improvements—all of which […]

October 21, 2013

Construction Equipment

Genius doesn’t secure payload of concrete slabs, slings them at nearby cars

First, we’d like to thank Russia for another sterling example of how not to do things. The video below might not be as flashy as Dump Truck Inferno Guy, but just as dangerous to everyone on the road with this genius. This guy apparently thought the weight of the slabs was enough to keep them […]

October 17, 2013

Construction Equipment

Watch an excavator demo a house in 40 seconds in this stop-motion-like time-lapse

The premise of this video is pretty simple. It shows an excavator demo a house all by its lonesome. But the way that the footage is sped up makes it look like stop motion animation. The sounds of the house cracking beneath the pressure of the excavator sound more like brittle snaps and the whole […]

October 10, 2013

Construction Equipment

Ditch Witch’s 850-hp Super Witch pops wheelies as well as it trenches

As it has done since 1978, Ditch Witch drew in the crowds at the ICUEE show in Louisville this year with its super-loud Franken-trencher known as Super Witch. Now on its fifth iteration of the hot rod trencher, Ditch Witch has modified its RT5 trencher with a 502-cubic-inch, 850 horsepower Chevrolet engine. As you’ll see […]

October 8, 2013

Construction Equipment

Ditch Witch intros JT60 HDD, FXT50 Truck Vac at ICUEE

In preparation for a release in December, Ditch Witch gave attendees at the ICUEE 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky a chance to see the new JT60 horizontal directional drill in person. [youtube eVGqX56PV-c nolink] The new machine addresses the gap between its JT40 and JT100 HDDs offering 60,000 pounds of thrust and pullback. The company says […]

October 4, 2013

Construction Equipment

14-ton excavator hops off a silage pile using a step ladder of tires

So, your 14-ton excavator’s on top of a silage pile, and it’s time to get down. Seems pretty simple. Find a low exit point and roll on down. But not this operator. No. He decides to hop off as if he were going for the gold in high diving. At least he put some tires […]

October 4, 2013

Construction Equipment

First look at the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD (photos too)

With no announcement of its presence and nary a bit of evidence outside of the General Motors commercial vehicles booth here at ICUEE, we were more than a bit surprised to find a sparkling new 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD on display here in Louisville. After all, this truck was only announced last week. We […]

October 2, 2013

Construction Equipment

Excavator demos brick chimney while hanging from a crane

We’d say we’ve seen crazier things…but nothing’s really coming to mind in light of this. Titled “Der fliegende Bagger,” or “The Flying Excavator”, this is a video of a few crazy Germans demoing what looks like a brick chimney with a mini excavator… all while hanging from a crane. If there’s a better Darwin Award […]

September 25, 2013

Construction Equipment

Slow motion implosion of Houston department store

Built in 1945, the life of the downtown Houston Macy’s department store came to an explosive end on Monday. According to KHOU 11, the implosion had been planned for nine months with nearby buildings taking safety precautions and rail service to the area suspended since Friday last week. Judging by some of the photos and […]

September 24, 2013