Industrial equipment — skid-steer loaders, wheel loaders, excavators and backhoes — has become agriculture’s mechanical equivalent of a utility player. Planters, combines and sprayers are ...

A Bucyrus 14-B shovel perched on timbers digs a trench from the front with long-stick shovel.Photo: Bucyrus International A Bucyrus 30C steam shovel is shown with sewer shovel attachement.Photo: ...

Under the mid-July sun, parents looked on with expressions of joy Saturday as their children, some of whom are cancer survivors, climbed in and operated excavators and boom and scissor lifts in the ...

Backhoe-loaders have been a time-honored tradition on construction sites for many years. But with the introduction of specialized equipment for digging and a greater diversity of attachments for ...

Did you play with toy tractors and cranes when you were a kid? Construction equipment operators get to work with the real things and earn more money as they master each piece of equipment. But this ...

World of Training and the Dig BIG equipment show was held June 26-27 at Planet Underground in Manteno, Ill. Numerous equipment demonstrations were held, and 14 short courses were offered covering a ...

On this episode of Digging Deeper, ForConstructionPros’ Wayne Grayson is joined by Caterpillar Product Specialist Alan Pumklin to go in-depth on remote equipment operation. Alan and Wayne discuss the ...

Stricter digging laws go into effect Thursday and state leaders are reminding excavators, contract locators, facility operators and property owners to call South Carolina 811 before digging to avoid ...

It is not every day a person gets the chance to operate heavy construction equipment just for fun — while also fighting cancer. Starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, the second annual Big Dig of Northern ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The Dorchester County Coroner’s Office said an 81-year-old man was killed in an accident involving equipment used to dig holes. Coroner Paul J. Brouthers said Harold ...