It was not a case of reinventing the wheel when Marion Power Shovel Co., one of America's top three mining-shovel manufacturers, announced its revolutionary Superfront shovel in 1974. It was an ...
The first Skooper was used on the hybrid Koehring 205 in 1957 and quadrupled the bucket capacity. In 1963, Koehring introduced its first full-hydraulic excavator, the 505 Skooper, which was a 40-ton ...