Power shovels used to excavate the earth have proved essential to the mining industry, including open-pit and coal mining in the United States, for 150 years. Made up of a boom, dipper stick and ...

Also, the 2-piece bucket is lighter than conventional buckets, yet it features high wear resistance. Caterpillar now offers an innovative 2-piece bucket for Cat® hydraulic mining shovels.

The cable-operated Quick-Way handled a ½-cubic-yard bucket, and it could crane 5.5 tons at a 10-foot radius. Its mechanical clutches were operated hydraulically ... Then in 1961, the company was sold ...

In the Northeast pavers generally use long-handled shovels with smaller buckets or square, pointed buckets. Handles are generally 5-ft. long and buckets are 2 ft., so they can hold quite a bit of mix.

The electric rope shovel order, valued at $2.5 million, was produced at Austin Chile’s facility in La Negra. A dipper bucket ...

Big Brutus is the world's largest electric shovel, standing 16 stories in the fields of southeast Kansas. The coal mine it helped dig has long been shut down, and Brutus has been turned into a museum.

Hearing an at times steady vroom-vroom and ding-ding-ding, I wondered about the ubiquitous power shovels and backhoes. How long have they been around? William S. Otis (1813-1839), a distant cousin of ...