Workers in Conroe were gearing up Tuesday to haul a colossal, 63.4-metric ton dragline excavator - essentially, a giant shovel - overnight to a coal mine near Austin. The 130-mile trip to Elgin was to ...

REGINA—The time has come for Brandt Engineered Products Ltd. to deliver one of the largest projects it has ever undertaken. Indeed, moving the 300 ton, 330 foot long replacement main boom for a coal ...

An excavator at an open-cut coal mine struck an overhead powerline and caused an electrical discharge over the cab.

Nine times out of 10, the arm/boom never changes on an excavator," says Michael Boyle, product consultant - excavators, John Deere. Yet, there are situations where added reach is needed, and switching ...

During the era of steam power, the earliest excavators and cranes were purpose-built machines. You ordered a crane, a shovel, a dragline, a skimmer, or a primordial backhoe, and that was that. As one ...