August

New distributor for little known cranes

Japanese company Unic Cranes, has appointed Melbourne-based Gleason Cranes Australia, to distribute its mini crawler cranes.

Grout crusher recycles on site

A new EZ grout crusher for recycling bricks, stones, asphalt and non-reinforced concrete on the job site, has been launched by US company Multiquip.

Top gear for access-challenged earthmovers

Top Gear presenter and News Ltd columnist Jeremy Clarkson, wrote enthusiastically last weekend in The Australian, about his Argo Avenger 700 eight wheel drive amphibious off roader.

Plant tracker slips in under $400

GPS tracking service company GoFinder, has released Australia’s first sub $400 bolt on security tracking device, aimed at construction equipment owners and others.

SmartNet keeps machine control honest to within 1cm

SmartNet Aus has gone commercially live from the Gold Coast and around Adelaide in South Australia, with centimetre level real time corrections for surveying, construction, mining, machine control and agricultural auto-steer applications.

Leica launches budget priced grade laser

In the past, contractors who primarily required a flat plane laser, with the occasional need for grade, often settled for flat plane lasers that required manual calculations, because digital grade lasers were too expensive.

Power, small footprint mark IR’s latest compressors

Where a small footprint, high flow and extra high pressure compressor is required, Clark Equipment believes its latest Ingersoll Rand units should do the trick.

Monitor/controller accepts up to 13 inputs

Computronics Corporation Ltd has released a new unit in its Farmscan agproduct series, the Jackal.

Mustang skidsteer claims to be totally new

In a quiet civil construction equipment market, Mustang’s 2056 will be the first of just a handful of new skidsteers to reach the Australian market in 2009, when it arrives in late September.