A 16-ton beast: the Oliver OC-18
Image: Oliver promotional photo of an OC-18, taken on a highway construction job in the USA. The machine has a Heil cable-controlled straight blade with...
Tag : heavy machinery
Removing the roadblocks
Image: The country’s first ever crane parade followed the 2025 CANZ Conference in Wellington, to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. How CANZ is helping the crane...
Keeping the wheels turning benefits the country
Image: HEB Construction recently transported these two HM400-5 dump trucks from Komatsu in East Tamaki to the Taharoa Ironsands site, west of Otorohanga. The oversize...
Traffic Management should prepare for oversize
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive, NZ Heavy Haulage Association. We are already well into this construction season, but it is always time to think about...
Hauling on a handshake
The Waimea Heavy haulage driver team (from left): Andrew Brown; Lee Wiren; Grant Schroder; and Steve Gilmore. Richard Silcock talks with Peter McIntyre, the co-owner...
The Allis-Chalmers HD-19 tractor
Allis-Chalmers was the first heavy machinery builder to enter the big track-type tractor development race immediately following World War II. Richard Campbell looks at its...