It’s fair to say that compact excavators have received the lion’s share of press attention in recent years – largely due to the sudden proliferation of zero-local-emission machines being introduced to ...

The arable farming closed-season is all about keeping busy, and having a digger in the back of your machinery shed opens up a whole world of opportunities. Unless you’re growing paddy rice, sorting ...

Image caption, Pin-ups for JCB changed through the years. In 2009 a calendar featured a woman using a JCB dumpster as a bubble bath. In a more conventional pose, JCB employee John Wheeldon is pictured ...

Woman dubbed ‘Excavator Empress’ says garish construction vehicle takes monotony out of ‘extremely boring’ job; brings ...

In a parking lot at an industrial and office park just outside Baltimore, I took an excavator for a spin. I pushed around some cinder blocks with a leveling blade, nosed them around with the excavator ...

'Land-grabbing' travellers were lucky not to have caused a catastrophic train crash after using huge diggers to build an 'illegal' camp feet away from a major high-speed railway line, an expert has ...

Hitachi has four excavators in its next generation Zaxis-7 range, each with a Stage V-compliant engine. According to the company, fuel savings of up to 20% over predecessor models can be achieved with ...