Did you know that there are excavators out there that rely on telescopic and tilting booms instead of conventional knuckle booms? The American manufacturer Gradall Industries is making this kind of ...

D&Ri discovers that a potentially groundbreaking boom change system from Komatsu and a range of new mini excavators from Caterpillar are among the latest product developments. A key individual behind ...

The Link-Belt HTC-8675 Series II telescopic-boom truck crane has a rated lift capacity of 75 tons and is fitted with a 127-foot telescopic boom that employs Link-Belt’s latching technology. The boom ...

The swing boom on the Hitachi ZX85USB-3 excavator enables digging parallel to walls with an “ultra-short-swing” machine that's still sized at 8.5 metric tons. That is beyond the official ...

As with so many other types of modern machines, the compact hydraulic excavators that are widely used today are not a new concept. While the physics of cable-operated excavators made the design of a ...