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Elliott Equipment Celebrates 70 Years

HCEA's 30th Annual Show to be Held Labor Day Weekend

HCEA Opens New Offices

Articles

The Rise and Fall of International Harvester

Various and Unlikely Origins of Construction Equipment

Tandem 631 Stomper and Push-Loader

Draglines on the Bonneville Spillway Dam

Large Draglines in Construction

The Last New Shovels?

St. Lawrence Seaway’s Construction Grandeur

World’s Largest Cable Backhoe Loads Rare Haulers

Huge Scraper Fleet Builds Michigan Power Plant

Truck Crane-Carriers Evolve

Blogs

Tariffs Ripple Effect

Big Iron

Just as equipment fleet managers gear up purchase plans, politics is applying more pressure to machine prices. That pressure is coming from President...

Are You Using Tech to Its Fullest? OEMs Say Yes... and No

Big Iron

For an upcoming Buying File feature on excavators, we asked OEMs if they thought you were properly using all the technology provided. What we heard...

Technology Side Effects

Big Iron

Technology that enables collection and integration of machine data for production and fleet management may also allow an organization to reap rewards...

Tech, Low and High, Has Its Place

Big Iron

Financial pushback to high-tech advancements has been the impetus behind the return to simpler technology.

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Evaluations

Skid steers continue to be favored for pavement work.

Big Skid Steers Not...

Large loaders still see demand—and buyers who want to go bigger—...

Steep angles, soft underfoot conditions, wet material, large bucket, heavy coupler, long stick—factors that could diminish performance, but the Volvo EC220E showed balance and power.

Pros Assess Volvo...

Veteran operators, Local 649’s Terry Slater and Jeff Braun, push the...

SuperDuty pickups went with aluminum bodies from the F-150 series for the 2017 model year and have been well received by customers

Prosperity Pushes...

Lightweight materials, more diesels for the half-ton segment...

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