An 80 tonne-metre model has been added to Hiab’s high capacity range of articulating hydraulic cranes. Deliveries have started of the Hiab X-HiPro 858 which offers an horizontal outreach of 34.5 ...

During World War II, the Austin-Western Road Machinery Co. developed the first hydraulic crane, the tractor-mounted Anteater, in response to the U.S. Navy’s need for a munitions-handling machine ...

An early H-5 Hydrocrane working with a magnet. In the early 1940s, Roy O. Billings, president of the Milwaukee Hydraulics Corp., saw the need for a small mobile crane that would be safer, easier to ...