Also in 1911, a machine made by Vulcan Steam Shovel of Ohio joined the fleet of Western Massachusetts Construction near Goose Pond in Lee/Tyringham. It could move 500 yards of soil a day. In 1912, ...

By the end of the 1930s, diesel-powered shovels replaced steam shovels ... “To remember the ingenuity of the old days and how they did it back then and how things are different now,” said ...

We’re guessing that’s the case; why else would he build an AK-47 out of a common garden shovel? After buying an old shovel from an antique barn in Vermont, [Boris] cut off the handle an ...