A robot that can dig quickly and deeply into mud or wet sand could one day help lay underwater cables, dig up and detonate underwater mines, or anchor machines to the seafloor, researchers say. The ...

A wide range of available attachments give excavators the versatility to accomplish virtually any task associated with a trenching application, including digging, lifting, placing and more. Following ...

Digging tunnels has become easier and safer thanks to custom-designed tunnel-boring machines. Tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) could be the ultimate power tool. They're monstrous, weighing millions of ...

The proliferation of attachments for skid-steer and compact track loaders makes them very versatile pieces of equipment, capable of doing a host of different tasks - including digging a trench. A ...

"Dad" Hill was known in Raceland 70 years ago as a successful corn farmer, but a story in the Dec. 30, 1937, Lafourche Comet revealed him to be the inventor of internationally popular ditch-digging ...

Click to viewSometimes we forget that diggers are more than just utilitarian machines. Inside their steel body beats a heart filled with passion…and lust. Behold the grace and beauty of the ...

Mining company officials brought in a remote-controlled digging machine Sunday to help try to reach a worker missing since a tunnel collapsed deep inside a northern Idaho mine. The special digger must ...