Earth Max Construction, a contracting company sitting atop Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada, is gaining ground in a niche earthmoving market working for rural municipalities’ public works departments.

Elevating scrapers such as this Cat 623G have the advantage of being able to load themselves without the help of a pusher. To the casual observer, the scraper market may seem to be shrinking. But a ...

The Miami Trailer-Scraper Co. offered scrapers that were rear dumping. Hoisting was performed either through the drive wheels or, with a special attachment for the tractor, by means of powered winch.

The St. Pierre, Manitoba lagoon project required 150,000 cubic meters of earthwork to double the lagoon capacity, which now allows for a capacity of 150 additional homes, or 2,000 residents. This ...

As developers seek methods for reducing the impacts of their projects on the natural environment, the contractors who work for them are doing the same thing. In Mount Vernon, Wash., contractor Plats ...