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Earthfill Compaction – A Brief History

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Good compaction of fill is essential if you are to avoid subsidence. The Romans and Egyptians knew it and so did the so-called “primitive” tribes...
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Forgotten companies: Hewco

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Our country has produced over the years many forward thinking and innovative companies. In the mid-1940s another one was born, in Huntly of all places,...
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The Hewco LD3 Scoopmobile

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This rather interesting piece of machinery can trace its origins through three decades and three countries: the USA, Australia and New Zealand.   By Richard Campbell...
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Forgotten companies: Heil

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Heil, whose head office and main production plant was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, was at one stage on the ‘cutting edge’ of earthmoving technology when...