When a piece of equipment breaks down on site, rental agreements, subcontractor contracts and other arrangements generally make it clear who gets to open the hood and start tinkering. But heavy ...

Fleet managers with the largest crawler excavators in the sampling, those from 35 to 66 metric tons, actually have a smaller percentage of their machines in the core 25- to 49-percent expenditure ...

This video shows onsite welding and repair work on an excavator. It highlights inspection, alignment, and fabrication steps ...

Jake Lieb stands by his John Deere planter March 18 on his farm near Monticello, Ill. Deere signed a memorandum of understanding last year that should help farmers like Lieb and independent repair ...

Welding creates problems for fleet managers because construction equipment does not fall into a neat category. A welder cannot qualify a hard-facing procedure to a structural steel welding code, for ...

A heavy equipment operator uses a remote control to maneuver an excavator while working at the site of the Regent’s Slide on Highway 1. The innovative technology can both improve productivity and ...

Gold Rush star Rick Ness and the Ness Crew repair a failed 750 excavator at Lightning Creek, restoring operations to access ...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is suing farm equipment maker John Deere, accusing the company of forcing farmers to use its dealers to repair equipment. The company, headquartered in Moline, ...