The Earthmover Encyclopedia

The Earthmover Encyclopedia
Author: Keith Haddock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007
Genre: Earthmoving machinery
ISBN: 9781610592093

"This colossal reference book documents the timeless urge to reshape the world, and the machines used to do so from the 1088's to today. From utility tractors and loaders up to the largest diggers and bulldozers, every piece of heavy equipment is listed here by model and manufacturer, making this the most exhaustive book on the world's most hard-working vehicles and machines"--Publisher's description.

Colossal Caterpillar : The Ultimate Earthmover

Colossal Caterpillar : The Ultimate Earthmover
Author: Eric C. Orlemann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release:
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781610605816

This awe-inspiring collection covers the largest, top-of-the-line mining equipment in each of the manufacturer's five major classes; haulers, wheel loaders, hydraulic shovels, graders, and bulldozers. Design, development, and production histories are accompanied by the stories of these gargantuan machines in service, as well as details of the Herculean efforts required for their assembly. Incredible modern color photography from both the author and the Caterpillar archives provide shots of the equipment in action and production, not to mention detail shots to help explain their working componentry.

Caterpillar Chronicle : History of the Greatest Earthmovers

Caterpillar Chronicle : History of the Greatest Earthmovers
Author: Eric C. Orlemann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release:
Genre: Caterpillar tractors
ISBN: 9781610605779

CATERPILLAR CHRONICLE tells the whole Caterpillar story--from 1870 to the present. More than 200 color and 50 black-and-white phtographs reveal these heavy-metal monsters in their true grandeur, from prototype testing to on the job service.

LeTourneau Earthmovers

LeTourneau Earthmovers
Author: Eric C. Orlemann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release:
Genre: Earthmoving machinery
ISBN: 9781610605885

This book examines the Texas-based company's heavy equipment that has been used in the mining, construction, and oil industries from the 1920s to present. Two hundred photos illustrate the fascinating tales behind LeTourneau breakthroughs like the first electric-diesel front-end loader. Founder Robert Gilmour LeTourneau is regarded as the father of high-volume earthmoving equipment, and holds more U.S. patents than any other person, save Thomas Edison. Fans of heavy equipment are sure to enjoy this profile of the manufacturer of the world's largest front-end loaders.

Caterpillar

Caterpillar
Author: Eric C. Orleman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1998
Genre: Construction equipment
ISBN: 9781610608442

Management of Off-Highway Plant and Equipment

Management of Off-Highway Plant and Equipment
Author: D.J. Edwards
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203302303

Management of Off-highway Plant and Equipment provides a working knowledge of plant management for today's engineers, managers and students, and explains concisely and clearly the factors to be considered during investment in, and management of, construction equipment. It compares the cost of leasing with those of purchase, discusses ways of achieving optimum economic usage of plant, and covers issues of health and safety, licensing and the logistics of maintenance.

Earthmovers in Scotland: Mining, Quarries, Roads & Forestry

Earthmovers in Scotland: Mining, Quarries, Roads & Forestry
Author: David Wylie
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1910456969

*Over 400 photographs of heavy machinery *Unique guide to Earthmovers used in Scotland *Features big rigs by Caterpillar, Liebherr, and more!

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Author: Jon Agar
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1911576593

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.