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Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: This monster Liebherr excavator is single-handedly digging a tunnel for Europe’s biggest infrastructure project

No. 13 Story in 2015 « No. 14 No. 12 » [imagebrowser id=165] While Americans fuss and fume over our crumbling infrastructure, the Germans are forging ahead with Stuttgart 21, the largest infrastructure project currently under construction in Europe. And as is typical with German infrastructure builds, the project is ahead of schedule and under […]

January 7, 2015

Dealers

Terex Construction launches new website and app, plus new locations for Liebherr and JCB in this week’s Dealer News Roundup

Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. This week’s edition includes a redesigned Terex website and app, along with new locations for Liebherr and JCB. Terex launches distributor support app and responsive website Terex Construction has launched a new Distributor Support […]

December 1, 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

Roadbuilding

PHOTOS: Liebherr shows off two new Generation 6 dozers

[imagebrowser id=20] Liebherr has expanded its Generation 6 dozer line to include two new models in the 30 to 40 ton class, the PR 746  and PR 756 Litronic. If you were at the 2013 Bauma, the big construction trade fair in Germany, you saw some of Generation 6 improvements with the introduction of the […]

November 4, 2014

Construction Equipment

Sneak Preview: Liebherr’s new 7-meter telehandlers: the TL 432-7, TL-436-7 and TL-441-7

Although they won’t show up in the United States until 2016, Liebherr gave us an early look last week at the three new telehandlers it is debuting in Europe in 2015. And not to disparage European “football,” but these machines are built like an NFL running back: wide, low center of gravity and hard to […]

October 30, 2014

Construction Equipment

Liebherr debuts 2 new dozers: PR 746 and PR 756 Litronic (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=140] Liebherr has expanded its Generation 6 dozer line to include two new models in the 30 to 40 ton class, the PR 746  and PR 756 Litronic. If you were at the 2013 Bauma, the big construction trade fair in Germany, you saw some of Generation 6 improvements with the introduction of the […]

October 29, 2014

Dealers

Case names Diamond Dealer winners; Liebherr continues restructuring; Bobcat, Terex add dealers in this week’s Dealer News Roundup

Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. This week’s edition includes expansions from several major manufacturers. Case names Diamond Dealer award winners Case Construction Equipment has recognized 13 dealers for excellence in sales and support as the 2014 Diamond Dealer recipients. […]

October 3, 2014

Construction Equipment

Why are new wheel loaders seeing more fuel efficiency gains than other Tier 4 machines?

For most machines, Tier 4 Final fuel efficiency gains are around 5 percent. Yet fuel efficiency for wheel loaders is up 20 percent and more. How is that possible? There’s not some magical technology applied to wheel loaders that’s yet to be rolled out to other machines. In fact, every technological advance on wheel […]

October 1, 2014

Equipment Experts

DOZERS REDEFINED: How electronics and machine control made mid-size dozers smarter

There’s a direct correlation between power and fuel consumption; more power requires more fuel. Higher injection pressures, careful design of the piston and combustion chamber, turbocharging and other mechanical ploys improve combustion efficiency and help ensure maximum power is extracted from each unit of fuel, but they don’t change the fundamentals. More power still requires […]

July 1, 2014

Machine Matters

DOZERS REDEFINED: How electronics and machine control made mid-size dozers smarter

There’s a direct correlation between power and fuel consumption; more power requires more fuel. Higher injection pressures, careful design of the piston and combustion chamber, turbocharging and other mechanical ploys improve combustion efficiency and help ensure maximum power is extracted from each unit of fuel, but they don’t change the fundamentals. More power still requires […]

July 1, 2014

Construction Equipment

How to wash a car with a 385-ton excavator (and destroy it in the process)

NO. 9 » No. 10 Video in 2014 This one’s pretty simple. Bunch of guys with some time and what looks to be a Liebherr R9400 mining excavator on their hands decide to have a little fun with a useless car. (At least we hope it was useless.) The results are pretty impressive. Then again, […]

April 4, 2014

Construction Equipment

Watch this excavator climb a 100-foot tower before doing a handstand

No. 8 Video in 2014 « NO. 9 NO. 7 »   This one is a classic. Some might call it “obligatory” viewing for anyone who’s watched videos on the internet, let alone those who love equipment. The stunt, supposedly occurring in 1997, appeared on the long-running German/Austrian/Swiss variety show Wetten Dass…? (Wanna Bet That…?). The Liebherr […]

March 14, 2014