Let’s say a struggling home builder in Florida puts a bulldozer or forklift on the auction block. The heavy equipment often ends up in Dubai or some other far-flung place where it’s needed.
Often, the buyer and seller connect through the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.
Analysts say this type of scenario, played […]

Steep hourly cost makes operating efficiently more important to crawler dozers than most other construction equipment. The cost is largely associated with undercarriage wear, so the best dozer operators make every move count whether they’re doing production earthmoving, finishing or clearing land.Some of the best ideas for improving dozer productivity defy operators’ assumptions.
“A lot of […]

The leasing company contracts the construction company  to lease the equipment and pay for it monthly over a fixed time frame of typically two to five years. The lessee will sign the contract for the type of lease that caters to their financial capabilities. The lease can also depend on whether the lessee wants to […]

The construction and mining machinery/equipment market is in the midst of a consolidation phase, as acquisitions and strategic partnerships are still continuing after a spurt in the consolidation wave of the nineties. The highly competitive industry has maintained price levels in the moderate range with slight fluctuations, over the last few years.
Nearly 4.8% growth is […]

A West Australian man has died after being crushed by a piece of machinery on his farm.
The 48-year-old man from Carabooda, north of Perth, died on Sunday afternoon, apparently crushed by a slasher connected to his tractor.
A WorkSafe WA inspector travelled to the farm on Sunday to investigate the circumstances of the farmer’s death.

A celebration went awry for Pathan family of Juhapura on Wednesday when their eldest daughter was run over by a dumper near Nehru Foundation on Drive-in road.
Satellite police have registered an accident death case and are inquiring about its owner as the driver fled after the incident.
According to the police, Asma Ayub Khan Pathan, 23, […]

The programme features the North/South OSCA Super Saloon battle, the North/South Pro 7 clash, the Trucks South Trans-Tasman Super Trucks plus Kumho Sport Saloons, Super Six Saloons and a one-hour saloon car race.
A big field of OSCA Super Saloons will line up for the second round of their New Zealand Championship. This brings the top […]

Well, that is not unlikely with the trucks from Pittman Machine Service in Leslie, when they are out making deliveries and servicing various machinery. Owner Gil Pittman — also an instructor in Machine Tool Technology at South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) — has developed a distilling method of refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel. He […]

KITTITAS — If plans go as expected, the first paving of existing residential streets in the city of Kittitas will occur this spring, thanks to a state grant and donated labor and machinery from a heavy equipment operation school east of the city.
Kittitas Councilwoman Linda Huber, also mayor pro tem, said the only streets that […]

Strong from his 20 years experience in mobile crushing and from his original Lokotrack concept, Metso Minerals introduce his new Jaw Crushers line: The Lokotrack LT116 Crusher.

  Lokotrack LT116 Jaw Crusher from Metso Minerals.
The Lokotrack LT116 Crusher combine high and constant crushing capacity, many processing options and excellent operator comfort, thanks to the dust […]