Reach for Rent: Let’s Learn How to Borrow a Telehandler and What’s Popular on the Lot
For decades, telescoping material handlers or telehandlers have been working in high lift and extend applications — feedlots, factories, construction sites, orchards and rental yards. In fact, telehandlers are popular rental choices because they’re so…
Boom Lifts: Let’s Learn the Ins and Outs of Articulated and Telescopic Booms
Getting from ground-level to a warehouse shelf or to a dirty foyer window or a burned-out streetlight used to mean hauling out ladders or erecting a scaffold. Then along came hydraulics and reaching out-of-reach workstations became as simple as working a…
Land Clearing Tractors vs. Forestry Track Loaders, Grinding through the Price, Power and Application Differences
VS Over the last few years, compact track loaders have been finding more and more work in vegetation management applications. Aided by their dedicated track undercarriage (as opposed to wheels on a skid steer), track loaders can spearhead brush cutting…
Crush and Screen: Specialty Buckets That Can Transform Waste into Reusable Material
Processing lumpy soil, crushing brick debris, filtering rocks from compost material — such tasks are abrasive and difficult. Instead of dealing with the hassle, small contractors often shove aside clumped soil, fill landfills with broken debris and…
Concrete Ideas: A Rock-Solid Trio of Attachments Aimed at Transporting Cement
Handling concrete on a jobsite is simple when a truck can be driven to the edge of a form and wet concrete sluiced out the rear. Easy. Not so easy is the transfer of concrete to a site inaccessible to a big, heavy truck or the hauling of a small batch of…
The Rise of Hybrids: Technologies and Trends in Electric, Bi-Energy and Variously Styled Mobile Elevating Work Platforms
Aerial lifts were introduced 70 years ago as an alternative to erecting scaffolding and working from ladders. Known today as mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs), articulated booms, scissor lifts, compact crawler spider lifts and so on, they are…
Electric Excavators: Detailing the Variety of Diesel Alternative Units in the Marketplace
The electric-powered mini excavator market is still in its infancy, but it’s growing up quickly. A variety of models and technologies have entered the market over the last few years. In late 2018, Volvo Construction Equipment announced it was aiming to…
Let’s Learn to Rent a Skid Steer or Track Loader like a Pro
Renting compact machinery and other equipment is here to stay. It has been an option for decades but became a virtual necessity for construction contractors when the 2008 recession struck. Now it is a habit no one is interested in kicking. “Equipment…
Today’s Breakers: The Latest Hammer Models and Evolutions in the Market
They are called breakers or hammers and are, in effect, vertical battering rams that pound and pound until rock or concrete shatters or splits under the pressure. It’s a tough job and breaker attachments mounted on compact equipment do it with increasing…
Stand Alone Loaders: Here Are Some of the Most Unique Skid Steer and Track Loader Choices on the Market
Skid steers and compact track loaders — they’re building them bigger, smaller and more unique and nichey than ever before. The market today is enormous, but here’s an interesting list of specialty skid steer and track loader models that stick out from…
The Big Chill: Prepare Your Utility Tractor for the Upcoming Winter Work Season
People who buy utility tractors usually aren’t fair-weather hobbyists of one kind or another — weekend dabblers in the great outdoors. They are serious about crawling on their tractors in all kinds of weather conditions, including wintry. “Farmers with…
Don’t Want to Break the Bank? Tips for Buying the Right Sized and Priced Compact Track Loader
You want a compact track loader for your business or property — no, you need it — but it will be a budget-buster unless you can find a good deal on a durable machine. The usual consideration of a machine’s features, functional capability and productivity…