Prior to the 1960s, much of construction equipment still relied on winches and cables. “Dozer blades were moved with winches and wire ropes,” recalls Keith Haddock, national director of the Historical ...

As hydraulic excavators gained industry acceptance in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the market for the small cable-operated excavators that had been produced by the thousands since the 1920s rapidly ...

Bucyrus-Erie 20-H hydraulic excavator equipped with special rotary boom attachment. With increasing competition from European hydraulic-excavator producers in the early 1960s, traditional American ...

As with so many other types of modern machines, the compact hydraulic excavators that are widely used today are not a new concept. While the physics of cable-operated excavators made the design of a ...