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Woman hit by flying buzzsaw in New York City construction accident
A three-foot buzzsaw blade became detached on a New York City road construction site Tuesday and went airborne, eventually hitting a woman walking by the site. According to a report from NBC New York, a construction crew working to fix a water main break was tearing up a section of the roadway at 48th Street and […]
May 29, 2014
Roadbuilding
Cat mini excavator travels through $40k-worth china shop, breaks nothing
While Caterpillar hit viral video status with a video focusing on a massive game of Jenga, its latest Built For It Trials video centers on one of the most impressive displays of operator skill we’ve seen. In it, Ryan Neal, a senior demonstrator instructor at Cat, hops into a 301.7 CR mini excavator and drives […]
May 27, 2014
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Construction Equipment
Caterpillar excavator tiptoes through China shop, stacks glass, somehow doesn’t break anything
While Caterpillar hit viral video status with a video focusing on a massive game of Jenga, its latest Built For It Trials video centers on one of the most impressive displays of operator skill we’ve seen. In it, Ryan Neal, a senior demonstrator instructor at Cat, hops into a 301.7 CR mini excavator and drives […]
May 27, 2014
Construction Equipment
Beautiful time-lapse captures 10-year construction of 9/11 Memorial Museum
There is an undeniable beauty and resilience to the National September 11 Memorial Museum that quietly captures how we as Americans came to terms with that awful tragedy nearly 13 years ago. It is evidence of both the will to move forward and to grow, while choosing to never ignore the undeniable impact and pain […]
May 26, 2014
Roadbuilding
Watch a bear rescue a cub from highway traffic
Ricky Forbes of TornadoHunter.com this month caught footage of what appears to be a mother bear rescuing her cub from a highway. The adult bear uses its mouth to pick up the cub, which is sitting beside a concrete barrier as traffic zooms by. The video has become popular, making its rounds on YouTube, […]
May 23, 2014
Construction Equipment
Failed demolition leaves half of a tower teetering precariously above city
Back in December 2009, crews got to work on the demolition of a 22-story residential tower in the city of Liuzhou in southern China. But things didn’t go exactly as planned. As the Daily Mail reported at the time, the implosion of the building successfully broke the building into two parts as planned—but failed to bring […]
May 22, 2014
Roadbuilding
Obama criticizes House GOP bill for major cuts to job-creating program
President Barack Obama said on Saturday that the House Republicans’ proposed budget would slash a job-creating program by 80 percent. The comment came during Obama’s weekly address at the White House, where he reiterated Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s warning that if Congress fails to pass a surface transportation reauthorization bill that addresses the nearly-insolvent Highway […]
May 19, 2014
Construction Equipment
Operator loads backhoe into a dump truck without a ramp
This video is pretty old, but thankfully the Internet has preserved it well. Having asked himself, “Why use a trailer when we have this perfectly good dump truck sitting around?” this industrious operator decides to hop his backhoe into said dump truck without a ramp. How’d he do? Watch below. [youtube 0FTAlIBJ4-0 nolink]
May 16, 2014
Construction Equipment
Yes, you can drift a 200-ton Caterpillar 789 mining truck
In the video below, famed gymkhana driver Mike Ryan hops on board a Caterpillar 789 mining truck and drifts to his heart content. While this truck has a lot of horsepower—2,000 to be exact powered by 78-liter V16 diesel—top speeds are around 40 miles per hour making it very difficult to drift a vehicle weighing […]
May 15, 2014
Construction Equipment
The 2015 Toyota Tundra will get the TRD Pro suspension option, so we put it to the test in the desert
Oil, gas, power, survey and other companies who put thousands of miles a year on their pickups driving over unimproved roads in rugged terrain know how much of a toll such conditions takes on both the work truck and the occupants. Suspensions and tires take a beating, and the stock factory components aren’t really designed […]
May 14, 2014
Roadbuilding
Illinois, Oregon DOTs aim to protect workers in highway construction zones
[Correction: This article previously reported that the Ohio DOT produced the safety video mentioned below. It has been edited to reflect the correct agency, Oregon DOT.] The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) have each implemented new strategies to improve safety in highway construction zones. Related: Did you participate […]
May 13, 2014
Construction Equipment
Mounting tires with an ether explosion looks smart but is extremely dumb
Editor’s Note: Despite abundant evidence of this crazy trick working, the process involves causing a very dangerous explosion on purpose and therefore we urge you, DO NOT try this at home. If you ignore this advice, the extremely likely injury you’ll incur is on you. You’ve been warned. Despite the Internet’s vast, collective knowledge, there’s […]
May 13, 2014
Roadbuilding
Material handler tries to destroy B15 smartphone
Watching this video of Caterpillar’s B15 smartphone put through tests – such as a 35-foot drop – made me feel like I was watching me put my iPhone through daily “tests.” [youtube mVPku-xItv8 nolink] Between my two kids handling my phone and my own, uh, “agility,” I managed to crack the screen on my phone […]
May 12, 2014
Construction Equipment
Watch a Cat 797B mining truck pancake a Land Cruser without even stopping
Short and sweet, the outcome of this video isn’t surprising. It’s the middle part that’s amazing. The Cat is moving at a pretty good click but to flatten this Land Cruiser without even so much as a twitch or pause from the Cat is just a testament to how large and powerful these trucks are. […]
May 9, 2014
Roadbuilding
Company 3-D prints 10 homes in 24 hours
With construction being a physical, hands-on industry, you might not have even considered that a computer could do your job. But a Chinese company has created technology where a 3-D printer created 10 buildings in 24 hours. Before you get worried — it’s for a good cause. WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co.’s printer created walls […]
May 8, 2014
Construction Equipment
NO SWIMMING: Why turning your truck bed into a pool is a terrible idea
Ever thought about cooling off by throwing a tarp in the bed of your truck and filling it with water? Maybe you have and maybe you haven’t. The point is, apparently truck bed swimming pools are enough of a sweeping national crisis that pickup bedliner company DualLiner had seen enough. So they put together the […]
May 8, 2014
Roadbuilding
Grad student creates waterproof concrete that could increase road, bridge life to 120 years
A new concrete developed by a graduate student and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could greatly increase the lifespan of heavily traveled roads and bridges. Related: Inflatable, just-add-water, concrete tent The formula, known as Superhydrophobic Engineered Cementitious Composite (SECC), was developed by UWM civil engineering graduate student Scott Muzenski and created in a lab with […]
May 6, 2014
Technology
Caterpillar B15 rugged smartphone tested with 35-foot high dive before being crushed by a 277D
Caterpillar today released the second in its series of Built For It videos which submit Cat machines to the ultimate tests. RELATED: Behind the B15: The design process of Caterpillar’s rugged smartphone Titled “Gravity,” the latest video focuses on the extreme durability of Caterpillar’s B15 Android smartphone. Released last year to a lot of positive […]
May 6, 2014
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