A skip hire and waste management company has been fined heavily after one of its workers was hit by a reversing loading shovel and suffered life changing injuries. The Easy Load Ltd employee had been ...

True, the cold season’s competitive-sports options for big-boned fellows with a fondness for hops is limited. No shinnying into a skin suit and bashing slalom gates for this crew. But thankfully, ...

Marion Steam Shovel introduced the 4160 4-yard mine and quarry loading shovel in 1927. It was the first crawler mounted, fully revolving shovel designed specifically for this type of work; until this ...

JCB might be the dominant force in the loading shovel market, but New Holland is intent on muscling in. We get the lowdown on the W170D loading shovel run by Yorkshire business Starfitts Farms. See ...

German construction specialist Liebherr was showing off its latest ag-spec loading shovel. The updated L538 has been given a 4.5-litre Deere engine with a diesel particulate filter and exhaust gas ...

JCB is celebrating its milestone 50th year of manufacturing wheeled loading shovels. The manufacturer entered the wheeled loader market in 1969 after acquiring United Kingdom-based company Chaseside ...

Shovels are designed for digging, scooping, pushing, and tossing, though not every shovel is equally suited to each of these tasks. For instance, a snow shovel isn’t the best option to dig up a flower ...

Bucyrus-Erie 120-B removes overburden for coal for contractor A.E. Dick Construction in Pennsylvania In the 1920s, quarries and hard-rock mines were expanding their use of shovels to load haulage ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today issued a safety notice on the use of wheeled shovels, widely used in the waste sector, following nine pedestrian deaths in four years. In the HSE ...