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Equipment
Equipment Today Releases 2025 Annual Equipment Showcase
Designed to highlight hundreds of next level solutions for challenge construction jobsites, this year's showcase delivers the top equipment solutions in eight main categories, all aimed at improving your business and its jobsite operations.
March 24, 2025
Equipment Today's Annual Equipment Showcase highlights hundreds of today's latest product releases in earthmoving, attachments, lift equipment, worksite equipment, fleet maintenance, trucks and transportation, roadbuilding, and technology.
Earthmoving
60+ Earthmoving Products for Your Next Project
Check out Equipment Today's roundup of the latest equipment launches to maximize your earthmoving efforts, including excavators, wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, skid steers, dozers, compact track loaders and more.
March 24, 2025
John Deere's new 824 X-Tier loader features the John Deere Electric Variable Transmission (EVT) E-Drive system. It is equipped with a JD9 diesel engine as the primary power source, however, the torque converter and traditional transmission have been replaced by the EVT system. In addition, the E-Drive component provides instant power, while simplifying operation and reducing complexity.
Compact Equipment
Caterpillar Hosts Women in Construction Celebration
Caterpillar - Cat
Women heavy-equipment operators competed in construction worksite challenges at Caterpillar's first Women in Construction Celebration from March 13-14 in North Carolina.
March 15, 2024
Azaria Biven of Indiana, Kait Burds of Iowa and Kenzi Tackett of Ohio received awards at the first Caterpillar Women in Construction Celebration, which included operator skills competitions.
Batteries
Challenges & Benefits of Moving to Electric Equipment
As emission regulations tighten, construction equipment power sources will evolve, but adoption will be gradual.
February 28, 2024
Jobs that can rack up 10,000 hours on a diesel machine might add 6,000 hours or 7,000 hours to a comparable electric machine.
Compact Equipment
4 Often Overlooked CTL & SSL Comfort Features
Yanmar CE
Comfortable operators experience less fatigue, allowing them to spend more hours in the cab and be more alert while they work.
February 21, 2024
Operators who are comfortable experience less fatigue, allowing them to not only spend more hours in the cab in a day but to be more alert while they work, increasing productivity and safety.
Compact Track Loaders
Back to Basics: Compact Track Loaders as a Rental Choice
The Home Depot
The first step when deciding which CTLs to rent is to understand how it is going to be used.
February 20, 2024
CTLs' small turning radius allows operators to navigate tight spaces easily.
Undercarriage
Heavy Equipment Undercarriage & Track Advancements
Tread designs and rubber compounding define recent trends, leading to longer-lasting, smoother running tracks.
October 23, 2023
Deere recently updated its small dozer 450, 550, and 650 P-Tier models to boost productivity and operator comfort while lowering operating costs.
Underground
Equipment for Underground Utility Construction
Numerous equipment and technology offerings are enhancing underground utility construction employees’ productivity and safety long term.
September 29, 2023
By using Epiroc's VC double drum model, which doesn't have to move side by side, operators can dig different trenches, including those with flat bottoms.
Hammers & Breakers
5 Tips to Improved Hydraulic Hammer Operation
Notoriously self-destructive hydraulic hammers require finessing manufacturers’ operating instructions to fit ever-changing demolition working conditions where the difference between a job well done and misuse can be a matter of inches.
May 1, 2022
Get good at finding cracks near the edges of things to set the breaker point on. If the target doesn’t break, reposition at another spot closer to the edge.
Equipment
Friday Flashback: 5 Articles to Help You Choose the Right Tools for the Task
Check out the week's top trending equipment-related articles from the archives of ForConstructionPros.com.
October 30, 2020
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Backhoe Loaders
Tips to Simplify Backhoe-loader Selection
With more features and options to sort through than ever, backhoe-loader manufacturers offer advice to help you determine which model will best meet your needs.
December 13, 2016
Caterpillar makes pilot controls with pattern changer available even on its entry-level machines. This makes it easier for operators to switch back and forth between excavator and backhoe operation.
Backhoe Loaders
Interpret the Surprises in Your Backhoe’s Lift Chart to Place Big Loads Safely
If all you have is a backhoe’s maximum rated lift capacity, you really only know enough to be dangerous
April 22, 2014
John Deere 410K lift capacities -- in kilograms and (pounds) -- near their peak with the boom 12 ft. above grade, but fall 15% to their bottom when the boom is 4 ft. below grade.
Plate Compactors
The 2011 Rental Readers' Choice Award Winners
Readers tell us which are their overall favorite rental products
October 11, 2011
Franklin Cloninger at Triangle True Value says his Terramite T5C is popular with customers because it's unintimidating, simple to use and gets the job done.
Compact Equipment
Compact Backhoes are the All-Time Perfect Rental Machines
Get high utility at reasonable cost to climb with the recovery
July 21, 2011
All of Allmand's diesel models offer servo-controlled hydrostatic transmissions, giving them precise, more comfortable controls.
Earthmoving
Operators Hold the Keys to Backhoe Safety
The most important backhoe loader safety device sits in the operator’s seat.
February 17, 2011
The operator is the ultimate safety device, with responsibility for keeping everyone safe on the excavation.
Compact Equipment
Compare Extendible Dipper Designs
Benefits and trade-offs with various backhoe loader extendible dipper designs
December 9, 2010
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Tractor Loader Backhoes
TLBs Tackle the Tough Stuff
Smaller tractor-loader-backhoes prove hearty enough for heavy-duty use.
April 23, 2008
Smaller tractor-loader-backhoes feature increased engine and hydraulic power, enabling them to handle the more rugged applications encountered on commercial construction projects.
Tractor Loader Backhoes
Need a helping hand?
Compact tractor-loader-backhoes were designed to reduce hand labor, but this article compares how they add up to other compact equipment.
August 27, 2007
Compact tractor-loader-backhoes were designed to reduce hand labor, but how do they compare to other compact equipment?
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