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Construction Equipment

Link-Belt launches X4 series excavators with new hydraulics system (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=146] Launched to dealers Wednesday evening at an event held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, the X4 series of excavators from Link-Belt Excavators delivers improvements across the board compared to the company’s previous excavators. Currently available in four models—the 250X4, 250X4LF, 300X4 and 350X4—the machines achieve Tier 4 final compliance through an […]

November 14, 2014

Construction Equipment

Volvo transitions backhoe, motor grader manufacturing to Chinese division SDLG; machines will no longer have Volvo brand

Volvo Construction Equipment announced today its Chinese SDLG division will now manufacture its backhoes and motor graders, and the Volvo brand would be discontinued for both products. Volvo says it will discontinue product development and production of these products in both North America and Europe, resulting in a workforce reduction of 1,000 employees in Shippensburg, […]

November 14, 2014

Construction Equipment

Motor grader operator crosses swift river using rope bridge barely wider than the machine

When confronted with a rope bridge today, most people would be terrified to walk across one, let alone drive a piece of heavy equipment across it. But not this motor grader operator. This is either a stupid, brave or very confident person. Maybe a bit of all three. But because we don’t know the context […]

November 13, 2014

Construction Equipment

Drunk guy arrested after taking wheel loader out for a spin in the middle of the night because he thought it was snowing

I’m not sure what’s more disconcerting about this story, that this guy has access to a wheel loader in the first place or that he’s likely operated it more than a few times while intoxicated. According to a report from CBS Minnesota, a man was arrested early Sunday morning near Minneapolis after police pulled him […]

November 11, 2014

Safety

Excavator operator drowns after machine slides into Iowa lake

A worker operating an excavator on the bank of a lake in Iowa drowned last week after his machine slid into the water. According to a report from KWQC TV, the worker, whose name was not released, was operating the excavator on the bank of Lake Mathes in Middletown, Iowa on November 4 when the […]

November 10, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar’s new AP1000F asphalt paver uses an integrated generator to cut screed heat time in half (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

[imagebrowser id=143] Number one on the “paving by the numbers” handout Caterpillar gives to contractors is “heat the screed.” That start-up process just got faster with the integrated generator and screed heating system on Cat’s new AP1000F asphalt paver. “With this generator, which runs directly off the engine, you can heat up a standard screed […]

November 10, 2014

Roadbuilding

Looking for the best of the best in equipment and products: Deadline Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. CT

The Better Roads staff has been going through the hundreds of products and equipment we’ve covered or received press releases about throughout 2014. It’s a massive undertaking the staff goes through each year. The sheer volume of introductions is overwhelming. Better Roads covers numerous products each year in its New Road Products department in product […]

November 10, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator stuck boom-deep in mud spins as operator works to free it from flooded cab

This is one of the few “stuck videos” that we’ve come across that doesn’t appear to have a happy ending. It’s also one of the more stuck excavators we’ve ever seen caught on video. This thing is boom-deep in thick, soupy mud. And yet, its operator, like the captain of the Titanic, is going down […]

November 6, 2014

Workforce

Bulldozer operator helps police bust thief after finding him hiding under machine while hauling it away

Sean Welch almost got away with his crime scot-free. He just chose the wrong getaway vehicle. According to a report from The Daily Ardmoreite, the 23-year-old was arrested for stealing $800 in quarters from a vending machine at a laundromat in Ardmore, Oklahoma last week. However, Welch managed to escape from a police car and decided […]

November 6, 2014

Technology

PHOTOS: A tour of Trimble’s connected jobsite: Network of dozers, workers and the office removes chaos from construction

[imagebrowser id=142] When Trimble president and CEO Steve Berglund opened the company’s 2014 Dimensions user conference Monday, he mentioned how, from a technology standpoint, not much has changed for the company over the last several years. On a slide he showed three categories the company offers solutions for: 1) Modeling, analytics and decisions support; 2) […]

November 6, 2014

Workforce

Wheel loader operator drives his machine for coffee, bathroom breaks; residents of NY town not amused

A wheel loader operator’s use of his machine to go on coffee and bathroom breaks has upset several residents in a New York town. Residents of New Rochelle, New York issued complaints to City Hall after seeing a wheel loader rumble through city streets several times a day on what appeared to be routine errands, […]

November 6, 2014

Construction Equipment

How telematics is reshaping the future for equipment managers

The Association of Equipment Management Professionals’ 2014 Asset Management Symposium kicked off Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, with a record-breaking crowd packed into a standing-room-only ballroom at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. This year’s symposium was dedicated to a single subject–off-road telematics–and began with a panel discussion from three of the industry’s leading practitioners. In a […]

November 5, 2014