Heavy Machinery
Heavy Machinery Manson Dredge - Frederick Paup aerial

Manson Construction’s Frederick Paup hopper dredger is the largest self-propelled hopper dredge ever built in the United States

JUL 28 · 4 MIN
Heavy Machinery close low angle view of a giant haul truck tire cost visible on a Caterpillar 797F mining truck, caterpillar 797f haul

A Caterpillar 797F haul truck costs up to $6 million before it moves a single pound of rock, and the $50,000 secret hiding on each of its six wheels is the number almost nobody outside a mine ever thinks about

JUL 28 · 4 MIN
Heavy Machinery Komatsu 930E autonomous haul truck operating in a Nevada open-pit gold mine

Komatsu’s 1,000th autonomous haul truck goes to work at Barrick’s Nevada Gold Mines

JUL 27 · 4 MIN
Heavy Machinery The heaviest vehicle on Earth crawling on wide steel tracks

A machine as heavy as 6 million pounds crawls across Florida at barely 1 mile per hour, and the priceless load it carries so slowly is the reason it has to be the heaviest vehicle ever built

JUL 27 · 4 MIN
Heavy Machinery A massive crawler crane lifting a huge reactor vessel at an industrial site

A crawler crane lifted 3,037 tons in six days in China and broke two world records at once, and the hidden move that made it possible is something almost no engineer outside the pit expected

JUL 26 · 4 MIN
Heavy Machinery massive dragline boom loaded on a trailer on a Texas highway at night, 9 1 million

A 9.1 million pound dragline was hauled across Texas in 27 loads in 2024, and the giant pit it left behind is becoming something almost nobody in the mining business expected

JUL 25 · 5 MIN
Heavy Machinery The largest crane on Earth lifting a steel section

To build Britain’s newest nuclear plant, engineers brought in the largest crane on Earth, a 250 meter giant that can hoist 5,000 tons and lifts the reactor into place one huge steel ring at a time

JUL 24 · 4 MIN