Quick couplers, those handy hydraulic devices that conveniently connect buckets to an excavator arm, are becoming standard equipment on many manufacturers’ excavators and are a popular aftermarket add ...

It started innocently enough. An excavator operator was holding a bucket over two trench workers' heads to protect them from gravel that was being placed into the trench via a loader. The bucket ...

In June, a construction worker in Ohio was working in a trench when the bucket on a nearby excavator came loose and pinned him against a water line that was being installed. The 34-year-old father of ...

Quick coupler supplier Steelwrist and tiltrotator specialist Rototilt said that with the new standard, machine operators can combine tools from different manufacturers who comply with the standard and ...

Caterpillar's ‘Fusion' quick coupler allows wheeled loaders to use a range of work tools, without sacrificing the performance operators get from pin-on attachments. Key to this is a patented new ...