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Vermeer names Derrick Pursley the “Ultimate HDD Operator”
Following a year-long social media campaign, Vermeer named Derrick Pursley the “Ultimate Operator” of horizontal directional drilling at ICUEE 2013. Pursley submitted the winning video to Vermeer’s Navigator Nation operator appreciation campaign, beating out more than 100 videos entered. “We pride ourselves that we don’t leave until the job is done,” said Pursley in the […]
October 2, 2013
Construction Equipment
Enter the underground: Toro debuts its first horizontal directional drills at ICUEE 2013
This morning at ICUEE 2013, Toro made its full official entrance into the underground utility market, debuting its very first horizontal directional drills. (The company also debuted its new ride-on trenchers which you can read about by clicking here.) [youtube wadZJ_W3xws nolink] And while HDD is certainly new territory for the nearly century-old company, Toro […]
October 1, 2013
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Construction Equipment
FAE intros PT-175 prime mover to the U.S. at ICUEE
FAE introduced its smallest prime mover, the PT-175, to American users at ICUEE today. Featuring a 160-horsepower Cummins engine, the unit has a 61-gpm Sauer Danfloss hydrostatic mulcher transmission and standard Berco MF200 tracks. “A computerized system prevents the operator from damaging the engine or hydraulics, gradually shutting the engine down,” says Lee Smith with […]
October 1, 2013
Construction Equipment
Excavator demos brick chimney while hanging from a crane
We’d say we’ve seen crazier things…but nothing’s really coming to mind in light of this. Titled “Der fliegende Bagger,” or “The Flying Excavator”, this is a video of a few crazy Germans demoing what looks like a brick chimney with a mini excavator… all while hanging from a crane. If there’s a better Darwin Award […]
September 25, 2013
Construction Equipment
Slow motion implosion of Houston department store
Built in 1945, the life of the downtown Houston Macy’s department store came to an explosive end on Monday. According to KHOU 11, the implosion had been planned for nine months with nearby buildings taking safety precautions and rail service to the area suspended since Friday last week. Judging by some of the photos and […]
September 24, 2013
Construction Equipment
Volvo engineer risks his own head in testing truck’s ground clearance
Volvo is really on a roll recently with its new series of viral ads for its FMX truck. Last week we showed you a pretty complex stunt in which a a hamster drives the FMX up a quarry to show off the truck’s steering. But this week have a very simple one meant to show […]
September 23, 2013
Construction Equipment
Supercharged VelociRaptor pickup smokes Ford SVT Raptor in street race
Ford’s SVT Raptor has quickly turned into one of its more popular vehicles. The combination of its phenomenal styling and huge power have increased demand so much that Ford recently increased production of the off-road pickup by 67 percent. However, the folks at Hennessey felt they could get a little more out of the pickup […]
September 20, 2013
Roadbuilding
Case launches infrastructure-advocacy national tour
Case Construction Equipment today announced the launch of a national tour that aims to increase awareness and identify solutions for America’s infrastructure. The tour, Dire States: The Drive to Revive America’s Ailing Infrastructure, is a joint effort between Case and Dan McNichol, an author and infrastructure expert. During the tour, McNichol will travel across the […]
September 19, 2013
Workforce
What are your favorite sights, smells and sounds of the construction jobsite?
“Sounds of progress and achievement.” That’s how Lou Marraffino—while working Philadelphia-based Urban Engineers’ reconstruction of Interstate 95—described his favorite sounds of the construction jobsite. Recently, UE spent some time asking its workers on various jobsites around Pennsylvania what their favorite sights, smells and sounds on are. The answers vary widely. Some are thoughtful and insightful […]
September 19, 2013
Roadbuilding
Flood waters cause $500 million in damage to Colorado roads
Residents and officials in Colorado are finally able to see the damage flooding has caused to their roads. For the first time since flooding began in Colorado last week, rain in the state stopped Tuesday, The Denver Post reported.  [youtube p_voEYbM5e8 nolink] The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) noted Tuesday that flooding has subsided in […]
September 18, 2013
Construction Equipment
Hamster drives a Volvo FMX dump truck up the side of a quarry
Wanting to demonstrate the ease in steering its latest FMX dump truck, Volvo Trucks decided to set up a funny stunt with serious consequences. So they strapped a hamster wheel to the steering wheel of one of these trucks and, with the aid of a carrot and Volvo Dynamic Steering technology, brought in a precision […]
September 17, 2013
Roadbuilding
Crews move I-5 permanent replacement span into place
[Correction: The article previously noted that WSDOT expects work to be completed in early October. It has been edited to reflect the correct time frame, in mid November.) The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) announced Sunday that the permanent replacement bridge for the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge opened to traffic over the weekend. […]
September 16, 2013
Construction Equipment
Unholy union of a 1929 Ford Model A and 1973 Ford Bronco results in an off-roader’s dream
Folks who see Tim Lenig’s Model A slinging dirt for the first time have to be a bit perplexed. “How is a car from 1929 still running, let alone sprinting around through the mud and terrain like that?” Maybe (hopefully) they’re not that naive, but you have to admit seeing a Model A perform off-road […]
September 13, 2013
Roadbuilding
Rep. Shuster explains water infrastructure bill with a whiteboard
Prior to the House Republicans’ introduction of their version of a water infrastructure bill, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) used a whiteboard Tuesday to explain to Americans why the new bill had been crafted, according to a report from The Hill. The Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA), which was […]
September 12, 2013
Construction Equipment
Watch a Caterpillar D11R shove a massive 20-foot boulder into a pit
In the construction industry, just as in life, it’s the simple things, really. Nothing too complicated about this video, Just an awesome machine pushing a really big rock around and eventually over into a pretty deep pit. Our favorite part of the video though is at around the 1 minute mark when the angle changes […]
September 12, 2013
Safety
Sims Crane & Equipment safety films are tributes to “Lost” and “Citizen Cane”
Back in February of this year, Sims Crane & Equipment, a dealer and equipment rental company with locations across Florida, began posting some really well done safety videos to their YouTube channel. The videos, titled “Sims Crane Minute” are based on a 2012 report from the Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association that identified the top 10 the […]
September 11, 2013
Construction Equipment
Beautiful Bay Bridge time-lapse compresses 42k hours of construction into 4 mintues
Recently, construction was completed on the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The $6.4 billion bridge replaced a structure damaged in a 1989 earthquake and last week opened to traffic. Since then, EarthCam has released its time-lapse footage of all 42,000 hours of construction that took place on the bridge. The footage is […]
September 9, 2013
Safety
1938 Labor Dept. film warns of deadly silica dust, explains how Silicosis can be prevented
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced plans to update 40-year-old standards for lowering worker exposure to crystalline silica. Workers involved in the cutting, sawing, drilling and crushing of concrete, brick, block and other stone products are exposed to the dust. Exposure can cause the condition silicosis, an inflammation and scarring of the lungs, as well as lung cancer, chronic […]
September 5, 2013
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