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3rd Day of Construction Gifts: Keen Utility Milwaukee WP work boots

Our own Tom Jackson called these 6-inch, mid-height, steel-toed boots “the most comfortable and rugged pair of boots I’ve ever owned,” when he reviewed them earlier this year. The Milwaukee WP feature a distinctive look with serious comfort right out of the box, “as good as any running shoe,” as Tom put it. They feature […]

December 9, 2015

Safety

Dozer operator survives being run over by his own machine on Florida jobsite

Just two weeks after another Florida man miraculously survived being impaled through the chest on a construction site, a bulldozer operator has survived being run over by his machine. According to a report from the Orlando Sentinel, 70-year-old Tullie R. Jones fell out of the dozer after driving over a mound of dirt on a jobsite […]

December 9, 2015

Workforce

Vermeer launches HDD Circuit training program to meet demand for skilled drill operators

A shortage of skilled drill operators is not something Vermeer is taking lying down. Following the announcement of a partnership with its primary competitor, Ditch Witch, to recruit, train and deploy trenchless crews across the U.S., Vermeer has announced what it calls an “intensive” horizontal direction drill operator training program. Dubbed HDD Circuit, the tuition-based, two-week […]

December 9, 2015

Construction Equipment

Volvo lets 4-year-old drive RC dump truck, absolute chaos ensues

To prove the toughness of its FMX line of vocational trucks, Volvo recently filmed an ad starring a 4-year-old girl named Sophie at the controls of a dump truck. Remote controls, that is. Things start out smooth enough for Sophie, but quickly turn chaotic as the truck veers through a water pit before careening over […]

December 8, 2015

Technology

Daqri collabortating with Topcon on development of Smart Helmet augmented reality hard hat

Topcon has announced a new collaboration on a hard hat equipped with augmented reality for construction. And you might remember the hard hat in question here. Last year, we reported on the Smart Helmet, a new piece of wearable technology designed with construction and other industrial uses in mind. Made by augmented reality company Daqri, […]

December 8, 2015

Construction Equipment

12 Days of Construction Gifts, Tools & Toys 2015 (Win a Cat Android phone!)

If your Christmas tree is up, but it’s looking pretty bare as you fret over what to get the construction professional in your life, worry no more. Nearly each day over the next two and a half weeks, we’ll be unwrapping a killer suggestion list, one gift at a time. And just as we did […]

December 7, 2015

Construction Equipment

China-made Caterpillar 307E2 compact excavator debuts in U.S., fills gap in lineup

The new Cat 307E2 7.2-metric-ton compact excavator is positioned to fill the gap between the company’s 5.5-metric-ton 305.5E2 and 8-metric-ton 308E2 machine, says Sherrie Williams, product application specialist. At a Cat press conference in November, she announced that 150 of the models, which are manufactured at Caterpillar’s plant in Wujiang, China, were expected to be […]

December 7, 2015

Construction Equipment

Doosan unveils DL200-5 wheel loader with hydrostatic drive, improved cab (PHOTOS)

Replacing the Dash-3 models, Doosan has launched the DL200-5 wheel loader and DL200TC-5 tool carrier as the company’s first with a hydrostatic drive system. Both DL200 models are powered by a Tier 4 Final-compliant, 142-horsepower engine and have a 2.6 cubic-yard bucket capacity. The wheel loader model weighs in at 25,795 pounds and has a […]

December 4, 2015

Technology

Caterpillar’s online fleet management quiz is quick way to get acquainted with telematics

Much of Caterpillar’s focus as of late, beyond its corporate focus of drastically reducing costs, has been on technology. Specifically, outfitting machines with more technology and sensors so that Cat customers are able to mine the most minute operation data possible from their equipment, and thus being able to make better decisions when it comes […]

December 4, 2015

Roadbuilding

Motor grader operator killed when machine is hit by train in Oklahoma

A worker for Nowata County in Oklahoma died Wednesday after the motor grader he was operating was hit by a train. The Tulsa World reported that 71-year-old Cleo Standefield was driving his machine from one worksite to another when a 43-car train barreled into the grader at 41 mph. Standefield was pronounced dead at the scene. It’s […]

December 4, 2015

Construction Equipment

Backhoe operator climbs machine into stream, waddles on through

No. 4 Video of 2015 « No. 5 No. 3 »   While this video is far from amazing, it is quite interesting from the standpoint that I have no idea what the point of it all is. It’s cool, though not entirely novel, that the operator can lower the machine down into this stream, […]

December 3, 2015

Technology

John Deere launches WorkSight Fuel Advantage with consumption target “10% lower than Caterpillar”

John Deere has joined the fuel guarantee fray, with a WorkSight Fuel Advantage program that takes direct aim at the Cat Pays You Back program. “We’ve set aggressive fuel targets that are 10 percent lower than Caterpillar,” says Mark Favetti, Deere global tactical marketing manager. Deere says it will also offer North American customers registered […]

December 3, 2015