Watch a massive heavy-duty excavator performing impressive rock-handling operations along a coastal construction site. This ...

Watch an incredible rock crushing and quarry operation featuring a powerful crawler excavator, a massive mobile rock crusher, ...

The Hopto 1900 weighed 103 tons and carried a standard bucket of 5 cubic yards heaped capacity. Throughout the 1960s, hydraulic excavators had gradually been gaining ground over their cable-operated ...

On a wide open highway, the traffic slows to a patient crawl. A flashing escort truck blocks the fast lane up ahead. Ahead of it, a flatbed rig inches along under a towering yellow machine. Drivers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caltrans has a pair of big, new remote-control tools in its road-repair kit, and they're being used for the first time as the ...

Building a wall by precisely stacking randomly shaped boulders could almost be the definition of hard work – both physically and mentally. It's the sort of thing we might want robots to do one day, so ...

Many of us adored big construction machinery as children. Once we got past the cute, tiny age, it became uncool to gasp with shock and awe at diggers and bulldozers for some reason . [Ivan Miranda] ...

DUESSELDORF, Sept 30 (Reuters) - RWE (RWEG.DE), opens new tab has received 45 bids for one of its giant bucket-wheel excavators used in mining that it put up for sale in an online auction earlier this ...

As hydraulic excavators gained industry acceptance in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the market for the small cable-operated excavators that had been produced by the thousands since the 1920s rapidly ...

Caltrans has a pair of big, new remote-control tools in its road-repair kit, and they’re being used for the first time as the agency works to clear a stubborn landslide that closed Highway 1 near Big ...