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This article was originally written over two years ago. Total Equipment Training has reviewed and updated the content to make it more accurate to the current data. Rigger Qualifications and Certifications Rigging is a critical part of construction and heavy industry, ensuring the safe lifting and movement of massive objects.…

Bucket trucks, also called boom trucks, are versatile pieces of mechanical equipment employed in several industries such as agriculture, construction, warehousing, forestry, electric, and utility. As the name implies, their base is a (diesel or gasoline-powered/hybrid) truck, fixed with a boom, with a man-carrying bucket or platform attached to the…

The earliest recorded appearance of a tractor unit equipped with a front loader and a ‘back hoe’ is in 1953 in the United Kingdom by inventor Joseph C. Bamford. That first machine that Joe Bamford built started out as a general-purpose farm tractor. Joe added the two most useful tools…