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Vintage Cat DD9G gave single operator power of 2 dozers in tandem
While we pause at the beginning of each year to honor the innovations that hold the promise of shaping the future of construction, it’s also fun to look back from time to time at machines that made a huge impact on the industry’s past. The video below of a Caterpillar DD9G still getting work done […]
October 13, 2016
93-year-old bridge survives explosion, several hours of demolition attempts in Arkansas
The demolition of a nearly 100-year-old bridge in Little Rock that should have taken less than a minute ended up taking Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) crews more than five hours to bring down Tuesday. According to a report from KATV 7, the Broadway Bridge was decommissioned in September after it was deemed structurally deficient. “It […]
October 13, 2016
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Guy manages to impale his F-350 while loading it onto a trailer
If there ever was a truck fail video that begs the question, ‘What were they thinking?’ this is it. The driver of an F-350 starts at the top of a steep driveway and—well, you’ll see the rest below as he attempts to drive the truck onto a flatbed trailer. Note to driver: While you can […]
October 11, 2016
Roadbuilding
Last piece of world’s highest bridge set in place in China
The CCTV News video below shows the last section of the Beipanjiang Bridge being set in place. Suspended 565 meters (1,854 feet) above the Nizhu River Canyon in China where the Yunnan and Guizhou provinces meet, the bridge will be the highest in the world. The bridge, which was officially completed on September 3 took as many as […]
October 4, 2016
Roadbuilding
Time-lapse captures 6-month construction of Cass Road Bridge in Michigan
The time-lapse video below, by Team Elmer’s TV, shows the six-month-long construction of the Cass Road Bridge in Traverse County, Michigan. The new, two-lane bridge reopened to traffic after a ribbon cutting ceremony September 21. Grand Traverse County Road Commission Manager Jim Cook told the Traverse City Record-Eagle that traffic would be able to cross the new bridge within an […]
October 3, 2016
Construction Equipment
Komatsu unveils Autonomous Haulage Vehicle, a mining truck that doesn’t even have a cab
Though it offers autonomous operation on its 830E and 930E haul trucks, Komatsu has unveiled at the MINExpo show in Las Vegas a mining truck designed specifically for unmanned operation. Typically, the only difference you can spot between manned and unmanned mining trucks is the lack of an operator inside the cab. But Komatsu’s aptly-named […]
September 29, 2016
Roadbuilding
Kansas Turnpike Authority raising 10 bridges over Turnpike/I-35
The Kansas Turnpike Authority awarded a contract of close to $3.7 million to Burns & McDonnell of Kansas City to begin work on increasing the clearance level of 10 bridges crossing over the Turnpike/Interstate 35 between south Wichita and the Oklahoma border, ksn.com reports. Each bridge will be lifted to provide at least 15 feet, 9 inches of […]
September 29, 2016
Trucks
With nuptials atop a 930E haul truck, Komatsu hosts ultimate Vegas wedding
Not everyone who gets married in Las Vegas remembers much of it. Or wants to. But if memorable does happen to be what you’re going for in a Vegas wedding, having them take place two stories high aboard a giant haul truck is certainly one way to go about it. At the MINExpo show Tuesday, […]
September 28, 2016
Roadbuilding
RIDOT demolishes, installs East Shore Expy. Bridge in just 80 hours (Time-lapse)
Over the span of just 80 hours, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation carried out a rapid bridge replacement of the East Shore Expressway Bridge in East Providence. Between September 9 and 13 the department demolished the old bridge—classified as functionally obsolete with significant concrete cracking—and installed a new span which was built in temporary […]
September 27, 2016
Pickups
2017 Ford F-150 Raptor more capable, versatile thanks to new shocks developed with FOX
In the run-up to the fall release of the redesigned F-150 Raptor, Ford has released details of the truck’s new shocks, developed with FOX suspension, along with a video demonstrating their capabilities. RELATED >> VIDEO: 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor shreds smarter with 6 new terrain modes Ford says these new shocks are larger than those found […]
September 16, 2016
Roadbuilding
Hauler invents the GTII, a rear truck blade that spreads gravel as it dumps
Tim Hudson, a North Dakota farmer and gravel hauler, has developed a new and better way to spread gravel, The Dickinson Press reports. “Started getting into some jobs where we couldn’t dump at high speeds,” Hudson told the news agency. “Needed to be able to spread at low speeds, so that’s where I came up with […]
September 14, 2016
Construction Equipment
Test Drive: Backing a Mack Granite with 70k-lb. load uphill no problem with new 14-speed mDrive HD AMT
I learned how to drive on a stick shift. I like driving with a stick. But not in a Class 8 truck, which is where I found myself two weeks ago, standing on the brakes of a Mack Granite dump truck, nose pointed downhill, holding 70,000 pounds of gravel against the law of gravity. My […]
September 13, 2016
Vocational
Volvo demos FMX autonomous truck in a dark mine by placing CTO in its path
The safety debate over autonomous truck driving just got a lot more interesting thanks to a new video from Volvo which shows one of the company’s top executives daring to stand in the path of one its autonomous FMX truck. During the roughly two-minute long video, the FMX cab-over concept truck is shown traversing […]
September 12, 2016
Workforce
Iron Workers stand atop LA in 1,100-foot viral photo of spire installation
A group of iron workers celebrating the completion of a spire installation at Los Angeles’s newest high rise has gone viral as people across the country shared a photo of the men standing at the spire’s tip top. According to a report from KTLA, on September 3, crews completed installation of a 294-foot, 9-inch spire […]
September 12, 2016
Construction Equipment
Three large dozers join forces to create one giant wall of dirt
This video is a pretty pure example of why a job in construction and heavy equipment operation can be so much dang fun. Not much to say about this one other than sit back and enjoy the power of these machines. Near the end, you even get a look at the size of that wall […]
September 8, 2016
Roadbuilding
Last piece of East End Bridge spanning Ohio River set in place
The video below, released by the Ohio River Bridges Project, shows time-lapse footage of the last three months of construction on the East End Bridge that began in the summer of 2013. The final bridge piece was lifted into place by a crane on Monday, August 29. The 2,500-foot, cable-stayed bridge, which stretches across the Ohio River between Kentucky […]
September 6, 2016
Construction Equipment
Excavator operator realizes error, grasps for shore, sinks boat anyway
At absolutely no point in the video below, fittingly accompanied by Yakety Sax, does it appear that this excavator is going to successfully board that boat. It looks like a bad idea, goes wrong almost immediately and quickly transforms into a frantic scramble to get the excavator off of the boat. With the boat lost, the […]
September 1, 2016
Roadbuilding
Excavators eat away one bridge, cranes build another in CDOT replacement time-lapse
The fascinating video below, filmed by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT), might be our new favorite construction time-lapse. From several different angles, the video shows how Manafort Construction Co. demolished and replaced the Lindley Street bridge on the southbound side of Route 8/25. The CtPost reports that the video shows design/build construction that allowed […]
August 31, 2016
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