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Giant P&H Electric Rope Shovel Travels to New Home for Komatsu Monument
Weighing over 1 million pounds and standing five-stories tall, the P&H 2100BL was among the most sought-after large mining shovels of its day.
October 17, 2025
Vintage Equipment
New $2M Museum to Display HCEA’s Vintage Construction Equipment
The new National Construction Equipment Museum building spans 20,000 square feet – more than twice the size of the current indoor exhibit area.
September 11, 2025
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Vintage Equipment
“The Great Tractor Race” – Cat’s 1931 Film Reveals its Early Crawlers in Zany Event
Watch Caterpillar Ten, Twenty, Thirty and Sixty track-type tractors traverse rugged, hilly terrain and crash through buildings.
September 9, 2025
Vintage Equipment
Hundreds of Vintage Construction Machines on Display – and at Work – Sept. 18-20 at HCEA Show
The convention site has more than 200 construction machines from the 19th and 20th centuries and will pay tribute to Cat’s 100th anniversary.
August 29, 2025
Vintage Equipment
The 1950s Cat “Twin D8” – 2 Joined Dozers, 1 Big Blade, Double the Power
In the late 1940s, Buster Peterson decided two Cats were better than one and created the “Twin D8” – a great idea until the D9 debuted in 1954.
August 6, 2025
Vintage Equipment
Remembering “Big Muskie” – The Largest Dragline Ever Built (Video)
The 27-million-pound Bucyrus-Erie 4250W could move 325 tons of earth with one bucketful.
June 24, 2025
Vintage Equipment
Watch an Antique Steam Tractor Power an Old-Time Sawmill
In our final video of the Ederville series, a Frick Eclipse steam tractor saws logs into lumber much as it would have done a century ago.
June 10, 2025
Vintage Equipment
Watch Vintage Tractors Use Belt Power to Run 1940s Farm Tools at Ederville Show
A 1935 Deere Model B, a 1948 Farmall M and a 1949 Oliver 77 Row Crop power an 80-plus-year-old sileage cutter, strip saw and corn sheller.
May 5, 2025
Dozers
1925 Holt 10-Ton vs. 2025 Cat D3 – Cat Holt Shows 100 Years of Progress
The dealer rolled out the antique Holt tractor with its new Centennial Grey dozer for a celebration of Caterpillar's 100-year anniversary.
April 9, 2025
Vintage Equipment
Video: The Wonderful Quirkiness of Antique Hit & Miss Engines
Hear and see these mechanical works of art of the early 1900s – each with its own rhythm and unique whirling, bobbing and snapping parts.
March 24, 2025
Videos
Watch Classic Caterpillars, International Dozer Show Off at Ederville
A ca. 1925-31 Caterpillar Sixty, a 1936 Cat Forty with a 1940 Terracer, a 1945 Cat D7 dozer, a 1952 International TD24 show they can still work.
February 18, 2025
Vintage Equipment
Awesome Steam Machines! 100-Year-Old Tractors Can Still Plow a Field (Video)
Watch massive fire-burning iron beasts from the early 20th century come back to life to blow off some steam and pull big plows.
January 21, 2025
Vintage Equipment
Where Old Machines Never Die: Top 5 Vintage Equipment Stories of 2024
Rare Traxcavators, "Sugar Baby" Cats and finding Grandpa's long-lost Allis-Chalmers HD-15 dozer are among the year's top vintage equipment stories.
December 23, 2024
Collectors Corner
Finding Grandpa’s Dozer: The Long-Lost 1954 Allis-Chalmers HD-15
John Engstrom bought the dozer back in 1960 to start his business and sold it in 1965. He and his grandson tracked it down before John passed away.
November 21, 2024
Collectors Corner
His Rare Traxcavators are for Show – His Vintage Cats are for Work
This collector/contractor restored rare machines that inspired Cat's track loaders and runs vintage Cat dozers, scrapers and motor grader on the job.
September 18, 2024
Vintage Equipment
Construction in Miniature: 26-Foot Diorama Tells Contractor’s 98-Year History
“It’s the largest one I've ever built,” says the project manager whose realistic dioramas of mini construction scenes have gone viral on social media.
September 5, 2024
Vintage Equipment
Saving a 1918 Holt WWI Tractor & Other Teenage Equipment Adventures
Two brothers, ages 16 and 19, video their lives with vintage construction machinery as fourth-generation antique-equipment lovers.
July 31, 2024
Collectors Corner
Stuck on Struck Mini Dozers – Big Collection Focuses on Small Machines
Since its first ads in Popular Mechanics in 1967, Struck has been churning out mini dozers for DIYers like Jeff Malmberg, its largest collector.
May 21, 2024
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