THE CHALLENGE Rebuilding a defunct bucket wheel excavator into a higher-performance machine At an inland port in Superior, Wisconsin, one of BNSF Railway’s three bucket wheel excavators, used to load taconite (low-grade iron ore) on ships, had been out of service for many years because parts were no longer available for the 50-year-old machine. Anticipating… Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2015
NASA Crawler-Transporter 2
THE CHALLENGE Upgrading one-of-a-kind undercarriages on the world’s largest self-powered land vehicles The U.S. National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) needed to upgrade one of the twin Crawler Transporters, the largest self-powered land vehicles on Earth, to carry a new generation of bigger, more powerful rockets and spacecraft to and from the launch pad at Kennedy… Read more »
L&H Starts Second NASA project
Outside L&H Industrial’s shops in Gillette, parts sit wrapped in plastic and ready to be shipped to Florida, where they will help ensure NASA can continue to move spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center’s assembly shop to one of its launch sites. In its first government contract, L&H redesigned, built, installed then tested parts for NASA’s Crawler… Read more »