Trimble highlights next generation machine control
March 10, 2017
The manufacturer’s Android platform for excavators and dozers automates the boom and bucket, offering a 30% boost to productivity while reducing operator fatigue.
Minnich Manufacturing said that its machine-mounted drills are now available with a number of features engineered to increase safety and productivity in dowel-pin drilling applications, and are available in both hydraulic and pneumatic options. Primarily used for full-depth repair, Minnich Manufacturing offers excavator or backhoe or skid steer-mounted units that suit horizontal patchwork jobs with a relatively long distance between the areas to be drilled. Apart from increased portability, the dowel-pin dr
Canadian contractor MB Ford Construction recently built a massive car sales facility in Canada. Meanwhile the highly specialised site preparation job was sub-contracted to another local firm, Rabb Construction.
The new Dilawri Auto Mall was a sizeable, heavy civil project on a 6ha site. Rabb needed to level and grade the site for the four car dealer elevated building pads and their surrounding inventory lots and customer parking. The contract included excavating three storm water runoff retention ponds, wh
The world’s first use of 3-D printed steel in an excavator will be on show at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE exhibition in Las Vegas next year, according to the organisers. The excavator will be designed by engineering students and constructed – in a process known as additive manufacturing – for the event 2017 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, from March 7-11, 2017.
Simex is marking its 25th anniversary with the introduction of several new attachment products for screening, crushing and cutting. Aimed at the screening market the firm is offering the versatile VSE 20 and VSE 30 buckets, which share patented technology and other features with the existing VSE 40 model. Like the VSE 40, these have the patented system able to hydraulically adjust the output size of the screened material. These size changes can be made from the cab of the carrier machine. Both models are co
