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Pickups

Editor's Note

What has struck me in the days since this devastating twister turned lives upside down is how resilient and caring we are as a community.

June 8, 2011

Safety

2011 Attachments

Our 11 categories of attachments are designed to help you zero in on what it will take to help you complete whatever the task at hand. Whether you’re going to rip, shred, break, crush, cut, dig, grab, grind, move, measure, mulch, flatten, sweep or control, there’s an attachment that’s perfect for the job. CLEANUP PLOW […]

May 30, 2011

Construction Equipment

Woodco Machinery acquires certain assets from Volvo Construction Equipment & Services

Volvo Construction Equipment dealer Woodco Machinery (Woodco) has acquired certain assets from the Volvo Construction Equipment & Services (VCES) Southborough, Massachusetts location. Woodco has now added Volvo compaction, paving and milling products to its existing portfolio, which includes wheel loaders, excavators, articulated haulers, motor graders, compact wheel loaders and excavators, skid steer and backhoe loaders. […]

May 17, 2011

Business

CONEXPO/CONAGG 2011

CONEXPO-CON/AGG What it means to you and the future of the industry Staff Reports With a backdrop of 20-percent construction unemployment and two years of abysmal machine sales, the tri-annual heavy equipment trade show CONEXPO-CON/AGG opened on March 22nd, in Las Vegas – ground zero in the housing bust and a town still reeling from […]

May 4, 2011

ConExpo-Con/Agg

New Holland launches Super Boom Road Show

LAS VEGAS—New Holland Construction launched its Super Boom Road Show, an open house customer event held at New Holland dealerships across North America, on March 23 during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011 in Las Vegas. The event included a skid steer challenge featuring New Holland’s new 200 Series skid steer loaders. The Super Boom Road Show will take […]

March 25, 2011

ConExpo-Con/Agg

New Holland’s new 7 skid steer loaders: ‘Bigger, badder and better’

LAS VEGAS—New Holland Construction introduced seven skid steer loaders in its new 200 Series, the result of five years customer research, design and engineering improvements. Rolled out on March 23 during ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011, New Holland says it maintains the best-in-class forward dump height and reach with the Super Boom loader vertical lift design – and […]

March 25, 2011

Safety

Marketplace

By Amy Materson   EDITOR’S PICK Creature Comforts Boost performance with Hyundai’s R60CR-9 compact radius excavator, which has a range of features aimed at improving productivity. The 13,010-pound machine’s Yanmar 4TNV98 engine delivers 56 net horsepower at 2,400 rpm, and includes heavy duty rings, pistons and bearings manufactured from high strength alloys. An advanced hydraulic […]

March 24, 2011

ConExpo-Con/Agg

Mustang brand to remain under Manitou

By Mike Anderson LAS VEGAS – There’s no truth to the rumor that, under Manitou Group, the Mustang brand will quietly go away. At a press conference on the opening morning of CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011, Manitou company officials confirmed 123-year-old Mustang is “here to stay” along with its big sister Gehl – a message backed up […]

March 22, 2011

Roadbuilding

Special Report

Backhoes By Tom Jackson, executive editor, Equipment World   Contractors extend trade-in times, rely on used equipment As with just about every other category of equipment, the sales of both new and used backhoes plunged between 2006 and 2010. What’s a little less obvious until you do the math is the ratio of new to […]

March 4, 2011

Roadbuilding

Special Report: EQUIPMENT’S BRAVE NEW WORLD

Where we are, how we got here and what happens next. by Kirk Landers, editor emeritus, Better Roads   A recovery is coming for the U.S. construction industry. It will be long and slow. It will be different than other recoveries. And it will require planning. Even in the early stages, it is likely to […]

March 4, 2011

Maintenance

The owning and operating costs of compact wheel loaders

Depending on applications and usage patterns, many sharp-pencil contractors have found a lot of value in compact wheel loaders. To find out how these machines add up we asked David Steger, product manager at Takeuchi Manufacturing to run some numbers and tell us what contractors need to know when considering one. Steger recommended we base […]

March 2, 2011

Maintenance

Case launches nine skid steers at Rental Show

Case Construction Equipment unveiled their Alpha Series skid steers at the Rental Show, with nine models ranging from 46 to 90 horsepower. The skid steers offer between 1,300 and 3,000 pounds rated operating capacity, and a bucket breakout force of up to 8,585 pounds. The Alpha Series includes both radial and vertical lift models, designated respectively […]

March 2, 2011