Visionary Implements: We Pick the Best New Attachments Released in 2019
Wielding hydraulic tools like a breaker, backhoe, bucket or broom, a tool carrier can be the ultimate do-everything machine on a project site, but a tool carrier is nothing without its attachments. Compact Equipment is a magazine dedicated to tool…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: A Set of Five Personal Favorites that I Couldn’t Fit Anywhere Else
When we choose which equipment to highlight and honor in our Innovative Iron Awards, inevitably other machines and manufacturers get left out. Out of those not chosen, there’s always a batch that almost made it. Units and ideas that were included in the…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: Impressive Loader Additions from ASV (VT-70), Kubota (SVL65-2), Wacker Neuson (Series II) and Gehl (RT135 and RT105)
In the off-highway equipment industry, most of the machine options are already pretty fantastic. Skid steers that boast insane hydraulic power to the attachment, zero-turn nimbleness and automation as sophisticated as giant loaders. Micro excavators with…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: Power Players Hatz and Kohler Offer High-Technology and Hybrids
In the off-highway equipment industry, most of the machine options are already pretty fantastic. Skid steers that boast insane hydraulic power to the attachment, zero-turn nimbleness and automation as sophisticated as giant loaders. Micro excavators with…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: Great Lifts from JLG Industries (the 3246R), Hy-Brid Lifts (ZT-1630) and Genie (GS-1330m)
In the off-highway equipment industry, most of the machine options are already pretty fantastic. Skid steers that boast insane hydraulic power to the attachment, zero-turn nimbleness and automation as sophisticated as giant loaders. Micro excavators with…
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…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: JCB’s 504-13 and Manitou’s MT 420 Telescopic Handlers Reach New Levels for Compacts
In the off-highway equipment industry, most of the machine options are already pretty fantastic. Skid steers that boast insane hydraulic power to the attachment, zero-turn nimbleness and automation as sophisticated as giant loaders. Micro excavators with…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: Cat’s 299D3 XE Land Management Unit
In the off-highway equipment industry, most of the machine options are already pretty fantastic. Skid steers that boast insane hydraulic power to the attachment, zero-turn nimbleness and automation as sophisticated as giant loaders. Micro excavators with…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: Bobcat MaxControl and Toro’s TRX-250, TRX-300 Trenchers Employ Cool Tech
In the off-highway equipment industry, most of the machine options are already pretty fantastic. Skid steers that boast insane hydraulic power to the attachment, zero-turn nimbleness and automation as sophisticated as giant loaders. Micro excavators with…
Pioneer to Futurist: Bobcat Plans Its Largest and Maybe Most Innovative Product Launch in Its History
Doosan Bobcat North America invited us out to Aurora, Colo., to check out its impressive new Bobcat Training Center, and then proceeded to unveil some of the most cutting-edge ideas in off-highway construction equipment. What I saw and heard during the…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: Michelin’s Tweel Airless Skid Steer Tires
In the off-highway equipment industry, most of the machine options are already pretty fantastic. Skid steers that boast insane hydraulic power to the attachment, zero-turn nimbleness and automation as sophisticated as giant loaders. Micro excavators with…
Innovative Iron Awards 2019: SMI Compact’s New Crushers and Screening Plants
In the off-highway equipment industry, most of the machine options are already pretty fantastic. Skid steers that boast insane hydraulic power to the attachment, zero-turn nimbleness and automation as sophisticated as giant loaders. Micro excavators with…