Liebherr New Zealand has now acquired Morrow NZ, former distributor of Liebherr tower and marine cranes here, and a new chapter in an interesting crane story begins. Richard Campbell explains.
A look around any cityscape will reveal tower cranes, they are everywhere and pop up seemingly overnight in some places.
A closer look will...
Auckland might seem far away to a business based in Taupo, but four-laning has brought it well within reach. Hugh de Lacy explains.
EARTHMOVING AND QUARRYING comprise the two otherwise separate businesses run out of Taupo by Seay brothers Graham and Bruce, but while the dozers and excavators operate around the central North Island,...
Grand-daddy of all the scrapers (apart from the horse-drawn, wheel-less Fresno type), the single axle scraper has a niche in the history of earthmoving and this type of scraper has seen a resurgence within the last decade. By RICHARD CAMPBELL
Developed from the early drag scrapers and designed as a utility land leveling tool, the single...
When your childhood passion is making things, the choice between following your father into a career in accountancy, or opting for an engineering degree is an easy one. By Mary Searle Bell.
AFTER COMPLETING HIGH school, Paul Herbison left his hometown of Whakatane and headed north to begin a Bachelor of Engineering degree at the...
Back in time when the track type tractor was still considered a new tool for earthmoving, there were dozens of companies offering attachments to outfit these machines for work. Isaacson were one of them. By RICHARD CAMPBELL.
With the end of the great depression in the early 1930s, those tractor manufacturers who had survived the...
This article first appeared in Contractor February 2017.
Cutting costs was the original reason that Nelson-based Taylors Contracting looked for a GPS fleet management system. But it soon discovered wide-ranging health and safety benefits.
TAYLORS CONTRACTING is a civil contracting company that has specialised in earthmoving, civil...
This article first appeared in Contractor magazine's December issue.
He drove a motor scraper at age 15 and now drives a multimillion-dollar business. RICHARD SILCOCK profiles Stan Goodman, MD of Goodman Contractors.
SECOND GENERATION family owned and run business Goodman Contractors is in good hands. Located in Waikanae on the Kapiti...
Introduced in 1960, the No.922 Traxcavator was the second Caterpillar wheel loader to be released for sale (the first was the No. 944) and proved to be a huge success. By Richard Campbell
Until 1959 Caterpillar had not offered a wheel loader of any sort and companies such as Hough, Allis-Chalmers, Scoopmobile and Michigan had...
