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The Earthmover Encyclopedia List Price: $44.95
The Earthmover Encyclopedia gives you all the dirt on every piece of earthmoving machinery made. This ultimate reference guide of earthmoving machinery covers rare milestones as well as the most popular machines. Vividly educating 900 photos, this encyclopedia explains the creation, development, and evolution of all classes of equipment.
Vital stats on each machine, emphasizing record-setting equipment, are provided in detail. A surplus of information on loading and stripping shovels, walking draglines, hydraulic and buck wheel excavators, haul trucks, wheel loaders and bulldozers is featured.
Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11, 320 pp. 900 b/w
Power Shovels List Price: $35.00
Subtitled: The Worlds Mightiest Mining and Construction Excavators.
Power Shovels is a celebration of the land leviathans that have inhabited the open pit mines over the past century. Due to their massive size and unbelievable capabilities, interest in these machines extends far beyond their role in the extraction of minerals and precious metals.
Author Orlemann focuses on the super stripper and loading class of shovels. Discover how the super stripper can remove vast amounts of earth and place it over a football field away. This book reveals design, engineering, manufacture, assembly, and operation of these modern and massive shovels.
Hardcover, 10-1/2' x 12', 160 pp, 175 color, 25 b/w
Covers the super stripper and loading class of shovels
Building Giant Earthmovers List Price: $19.95
Readers are taken behind the scenes with the world's heavyweight manufacturers to learn how the mammoth machines used in mining, construction, and timber industries are conceived and constructed.
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Giant Earthmovers List Price: $21.95
Subtitled: An Illustrated History. A comprehensive review of earthmoving and construction equipment from the birth of primitive industrial tools to today's awe-inspiring machines! The biggest haulers, dozers, scrapers and unusual specialty equipment in the field are presented here in over 500 black-and-white photographs. The author's expertly written text details machine categories and discusses the history, evolution, design and manufacture of these industry giants. Packed full of top-quality archival photographs, most taken from manufacturer archives. Sftbd., 8 1/4 x 10 3/4, 224 pgs., 500 b ill.
Extreme Mining Machines List Price: $24.95
Discover the largest machines ever used in the mining industry. Giant mining equipment such as stripping shovels and walking dragline shovels were at one time the largest machines to ever move on land. Packed with amazing photos, this book chronicles the history of the machines built from 1900 to 1971. The sheer size and mind-blowing capacity of these mining machines has won many fans. Also provides information about construction, operation, and maintenance. A necessity for earthmover or big-machine enthusiasts! Sftbd., 8 1/4 x 10 3/4, 128 pgs., 60 b and 60 color ill.
Colossal Earth Movers List Price: $14.95
This concise color history packs a wide assortment of the mighty machines that provide the muscle for America's construction and mining industries. Haulers, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, bulldozers, scrapers, motor graders, walking draglines, large-cable excavators, bucket-wheel excavators, and stripping shovels are featured. Several examples from each class are depicted in a selection of job-site photographs and described with detailed information about top manufacturers, dimensions, capacities, horsepower ratings, and significant developments in earthmover evolution. Keith Haddock is also the author of MBI's Giant Earthmovers: An Illustrated History. Softbound, 8-1/4' x 9', 96 pages, 80 color
Caterpillar List Price: $24.95
Subtitled: Farm Crawlers and Bulldozers. Incredible tractors, bulldozers, military tanks, and heavy machinery dating back to 1902, fill this down-to-earth collection. More than 50 original and restored machines are featured at work and show, including early steamers, the second Best ever built, pioneering diesel tractors, plus a variety of today's heavy machinery. Includes Russell and Letourneau Grader models. Sftbd., 10 x 10, 192 pgs., 54 b&w and 192 color ill.
Euclid and Terex Earth-Moving Machines List Price: $26.95
This heavy-duty history discusses GMs Euclid and Terex heavy equipment divisions, their evolution, technical features, manufacturing, design, and how the machines were used - then and now. Highlights include detailed discussions and photos of amazing engineering feats like the Twin-Powered haulers and scrapers, the mighty TC-12 Super-Dozer, and the huge 33-19 Titan truck. Includes sections on military applications, experimental machines, and one-of-a-kind specials. Sftbd., 8 1/4 x 10 5-8, 160 pgs., 50 b ill., 100 color.
Caterpillar Chronicle List Price: $34.95
Subtitled: History of the World's Greatest Earthmovers. With unprecedented access to Caterpillar archives, Eric Orlemann delivers the hard-working history of Caterpillar, from the earliest Best- and Holt-built steam traction engines up through today's massive earthmovers. Witness the post-war construction boom and see how these giant earthmoving machines grew and evolved to meet demand. CAT's incredible machines power through the pages of time to reveal the full and fascinating Caterpillar Chronicle. Sftbd., 10 1/2'x 12 1/4', 168 pgs., 50 b ill., 200 color.
Colossal Caterpillar: The Ultimate Earthmover List Price: $24.95
This awe-inspiring collection covers the largest, top-of-the-line mining equipment in each of the manufacturer's five major classes: haulers, wheel loaders, hydraulic shovels, graders, and bulldozers.
Design, development, and production histories are accompanied by the stories of these gargantuan machines in service, as well as details of the Herculean efforts required for their assembly.
Incredible modern color photography from both the author and the Caterpillar archives provide shots of the equipment in action and production, not to mention detail shots to help explain their working components.
Softbound, 8 1/4' x 10 5/8', 128 pages, 100 color ill.
Marion Mining and Dredging Machines Photo Archives List Price: $29.95
Beginning in 1884 with a prototype steam shovel, Marion went on to produce massive stripping shovels and walking draglines used in surface mining, as well as conventional shovels and dredges.
View handpicked photographs from the Archives of the Historical Construction Equipment Association augmented with authoritative captions that highlight Marion's innovations through the years. Includes a concise corporate history of the Marion Power Shovel Company.
Paperback 10-1/4' x 8-1/2' , 128 pages , 114 b/w, 6 ill.
Marion Construction Equipment 1883-1975 Photo Archive List Price: $29.95
It's famous for its walking draglines and stripping shovels, but Marion Construction Equipment is also known for its line of smaller shovels, cranes, draglines and other construction implements, as well as railroad, logging, and larger mining machines. The history of this maker of heavy-duty equipment - later known as Marion Power Shovel - is told with carefully researched text and 130 archival photographs. Nearly every model built for construction, from 1883 to 1975, is represented. Sftbd., 10 1/4 x 8 1/2, 128 pgs., 130 b ill.
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