(Video Link) Zipper Trucks are amazing machines that quickly pick up and move 1,500 pound blocks of concrete that serve as median barriers on San Francisco's highways: Each 30-ton, 58-foot Zipper Truck is driven by...

Ferropolis (Iron City) is an open-air museum featuring huge industrial machines that are no longer in service. It has been open to the public in Gräfenhainichen, Germany, since 1995. If you can't get there, see some...

I want one. I'm not sure what I'll do with it,...  ...e what I'll do with it, but step 1 is to get this heavy lift ship, the VB 10,000 -- also known as "the Cl...

(YouTube link) The person operating this Bobcat E50 excavator no longer has to fill out employment applications; he just sends the YouTube link! -via Bits and Pieces...

The Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 is a monster crane with a 100 meter (328 feet) boom that can lift up to 1200 tonnes (1322 US tons). You may have seen bigger cranes, but this one is carried on its own truck -two, actually....

Before Melvin Baker died at the age of 79, he asked that during his funeral, he be carried in the front bucket of a digger. He had driven one most of his life, and wanted to leave this world in one. So his former boss...

Now here's a clever lamp, with a light bulb as a wrecking ball! It's made of solid bronze. See it and a companion piece the Crane Lamp at Designboom. Link -via Laughing Squid...

Männerspielplatz is a 17-acre theme park in Germany with a real theme. The name translates to "men's playground". For 219 euros (about $280), patrons can spend the day operating 29-ton Liebherr backhoes and 32-ton Kom...