In 1930 two enterprising farm boys, Vern and Wilbur Schield, put together $1,000 to purchase a “good for nothing” 40 acres of land near Waverly, Iowa, and successfully quarried agricultural lime from ...

As hydraulic excavators gained industry acceptance in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the market for the small cable-operated excavators that had been produced by the thousands since the 1920s rapidly ...