LE ROY — After two years of careful, almost full-time work, a model of a Marion Shovel — Model 91 sat next to its full-sized counterpart across from the entrance of the Dolomite Group limestone quarry ...

A steam shovel found embedded in the bottom of Wixom Lake in October 2020 is well on its way to being fully restored. Mike Oberloier, of Beaverton, who now owns the shovel, recently displayed parts of ...

The vintage steam shovel that for the last nine years has sat outside the Nederland Mining Museum took a long, circuitous route to the small Boulder County mountain town. The steam shovel’s first stop ...

The Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) will raffle a 1:10 scale model of the iconic Otis railroad shovel, with $5 ticket sales between now and September 15, 2012. Patented in 1839, ...

The cable-operated excavator is the earliest documented self-powered machine ever used to move earth. Its earliest form, the steam shovel, has roots going back to the very first mechanical excavator, ...

One of just two left in the world, will under go a lengthy restoration process After displaying it in an upcoming festival, Mike Oberloier will begin disassembling a nearly extinct machine for a ...

Although we’ve been using them for thousands of years, the shovel has never garnered much respect, and it’s the person using the shovel who has had to pay for it in injuries. But Stephen Walden of ...