Marion Steam Shovel introduced the 4160 4-yard mine and quarry loading shovel in 1927. It was the first crawler mounted, fully revolving shovel designed specifically for this type of work; until this ...

JCB’s 457 was one of four machines working the Slacks Farm pit, exerting its 20t-plus mass on incoming grass. It remains top ...

Photograph of a rail mounted steam shovel loading dump cars for two waiting steam locomotives. The hillside next to the shovel and locomotives appears to have already had dirt cut out of it. Steam ...

Apart from enormous silage operations and vast grain storage units, pivoting, fixed-reach loading shovels have never made huge waves in the agricultural sector and the telehandler remains the machine ...