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Construction Equipment

Volvo engineer risks his own head in testing truck’s ground clearance

Volvo is really on a roll recently with its new series of viral ads for its FMX truck. Last week we showed you a pretty complex stunt in which a a hamster drives the FMX up a quarry to show off the truck’s steering. But this week have a very simple one meant to show […]

September 23, 2013

Business

Dire States: Former road builder drives rust bucket across America to demonstrate the sorry state of infrastructure

What do a 1949 Hudson Commodore and America’s infrastructure have in common? They’re both old, neglected and in need of refurbishment. Inspired by the D+ grade given to America’s infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Case Construction Equipment and infrastructure author Dan McNichol have decided to set out on a tour across the […]

September 20, 2013

Workforce

What are your favorite sights, smells and sounds of the construction jobsite?

“Sounds of progress and achievement.” That’s how Lou Marraffino—while working Philadelphia-based Urban Engineers’ reconstruction of Interstate 95—described his favorite sounds of the construction jobsite. Recently, UE spent some time asking its workers on various jobsites around Pennsylvania what their favorite sights, smells and sounds on are. The answers vary widely. Some are thoughtful and insightful […]

September 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Hamster drives a Volvo FMX dump truck up the side of a quarry

Wanting to demonstrate the ease in steering its latest FMX dump truck, Volvo Trucks decided to set up a funny stunt with serious consequences. So they strapped a hamster wheel to the steering wheel of one of these trucks and, with the aid of a carrot and Volvo Dynamic Steering technology, brought in a precision […]

September 17, 2013

Construction Equipment

Unholy union of a 1929 Ford Model A and 1973 Ford Bronco results in an off-roader’s dream

Folks who see Tim Lenig’s Model A slinging dirt for the first time have to be a bit perplexed. “How is a car from 1929 still running, let alone sprinting around through the mud and terrain like that?” Maybe (hopefully) they’re not that naive, but you have to admit seeing a Model A perform off-road […]

September 13, 2013

Construction Equipment

Watch a Caterpillar D11R shove a massive 20-foot boulder into a pit

In the construction industry, just as in life, it’s the simple things, really. Nothing too complicated about this video, Just an awesome machine pushing a really big rock around and eventually over into a pretty deep pit. Our favorite part of the video though is at around the 1 minute mark when the angle changes […]

September 12, 2013

Construction Equipment

Beautiful Bay Bridge time-lapse compresses 42k hours of construction into 4 mintues

Recently, construction was completed on the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The $6.4 billion bridge replaced a structure damaged in a 1989 earthquake and last week opened to traffic. Since then, EarthCam has released its time-lapse footage of all 42,000 hours of construction that took place on the bridge. The footage is […]

September 9, 2013

Construction Equipment

Press explodes 800-lb. concrete cylinder with sheer force

At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the engineering department has a pretty cool toy. It’s a giant mechanical press that can apply up to 3 million pounds of pressure on a given object. To show its strength at an open house, the engineers placed an 800-pound, 18-inches-wide concrete cylinder beneath the press and started applying […]

September 4, 2013

Construction Equipment

Volvo equipment demo/dance showcases nimble giants

It takes a lot of skill to run construction machines. Being able to run them in a choreographed sequence at high speed in a crowded field–that’s taking it to the next level. As part of its Innovation Days festivities in Eskilstuna, Sweden last week, Volvo Construction Equipment treated the press to this high octane equipment […]

September 2, 2013

Construction Equipment

Why cutting off a concrete truck is always a bad idea

This one’s not too complicated, folks. While the thought “Oh hey, a concrete truck is approaching but I think I can sneak in ahead of him,” could occur to you, as a general rule you should never act on it for obvious reasons. The importance of this rule is multiplied by a thousand fold when […]

August 29, 2013

Construction Equipment

How to wreck one truck while attempting to haul another

Just in case you’re interested in learning how to manage nearly flipping a pickup truck by loading another onto the trailer attached to it, look no further than the video below. [youtube anBwMhiYeTk nolink]

August 27, 2013

Workforce

GM’s FIRST Competition teaches kids to build, battle robots to build interest in STEM careers

What do you do with kids who think math and science are boring? Give them a pile of parts, some software and computers, and let them build a robot. That in a nutshell is the FIRST Competition, a nationwide program put together by General Motors that’s meant to fire up the imaginations of kids and […]

August 23, 2013