Born of opportunity during a long-ago oil boom, a 70-year-old central Illinois oilfield services contractor is re-inventing itself as an excavation and earthmoving business. Well into its third ...

Ubiquitous on mini-excavators, dozer blades for backfilling and grading have crept up to the medium 20,000- to 40,000-pound excavator size class. As in other machine categories, operators have been ...