Vacuum-excavating systems, whether using high-pressure water or compressed air as the digging medium, have a wide range of application. For example, Bill Petrole, vice president, Vacall, Gradall ...

LEIMERT PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A retirement party was held Friday morning for the massive piece of machinery that helped bore two tunnels for the Crenshaw-LAX Line. The 950-ton machine, nicknamed ...

Trimble's SiteVision GPS system has a new variant designed for excavating equipment, SiteVision Excavator. The system uses an in-cab digital site plan in conjunction with its GPS capability to provide ...

The GX-55 is a control box for Topcon’s 2D and 3D excavation-control systems. Designed to work with Topcon’s SiteLink 3D software package, the GX-55 can be used as a part of 2D, 3D or 3D-indicate ...

Archaeologists have seen enough 19th-century shell deposits that they can let heavy excavation resume at Seattle’s Pioneer Square waterfront, where workers are digging an access pit to reach buried ...

The largest vehicles in the world won't fit on any highway. They are the enormous bucket-chain and bucket-wheel excavators used in strip mining operations. These giant machines weigh thousands of tons ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— The question of what to do with two huge tunnel boring machines that will dig the hole for the Central Subway project in San Francisco is generating more controversy. On ...

The X-53x maximizes the output of your excavator up to 30% more than machines without a 3D system Topcon Positioning Group announces a new 3D machine control system designed to offer a faster, modular ...

A worker for the Fayetteville Public Works Commission died Tuesday after the excavating machine he was operating toppled into McFadyen Lake. The body of James Ivey, known to co-workers as J.W., was ...