Heavy Construction Heritage Society HCHS

09/02/2025

Relocating a topsoil pile like it’s 1953

08/21/2025

Getting more equipment ready and mobilized for this weekend!

08/03/2025

Join us August 23-24 2025 for our Cat 100th celebration.

01/02/2025

Happy New Year everyone including our top fan John D. Big things coming to the HCHS this year.

09/23/2024

Yesterday we held the inaugural Caterpillar Wine Mixer to tour some new friends around the collection.

Sh*t…. Oh yeah our friend Austin managed to pick up the wheel of the Polar Bear and move it for the first time in 8 years.

09/22/2024

09/22/2024

If you’re new here…. Welcome to the HCHS. We have a vast collection of vintage iron from the 1930’s to the 1990’s.

One of the highlights of our collection is the Henuset Pipeline Equipment. This iron was graciously donated by the family of Arthur Henuset and serves as a great reminder of the work he accomplished.

We’ve gathered a vast collection of this iron throughout the years and are grateful for the people that support us from afar.

09/20/2024

The Henuset Polarbear seems to be getting a fair bit of attention on Facebook lately, and rightfully so.

The 300,000lbs beast has been sitting for quite some time, but it is our pleasure to say that this past Labour Day long weekend, the Polarbear lived again!

Our friend Ross Tory came up for a visit and, with the help of a few volunteers, got its Detroit 16V149 started.

The trencher still needs a torque converter to run the wheel, but Ross seems confident that the Polarbear will eventually walk again after we sort out a couple fuel injector issues.

Photo courtesy of .iron 👌

08/22/2024

Don't forget to swing by Devon next long weekend for our next start up event! August 31st to September 2nd.

Everyone is invited! Come visit as we get more machines from our collection going, hear the stories of the machines that shaped our country and see for yourself some of the most unique equipment preserved in a collection.

As always, we're still looking for more volunteers to help us out, but everyone is welcome to visit our site, located just south of the Leduc No.1 museum off Highway 60 in Devon, Alberta.

08/15/2024

Smoky evening in Devon.

In case you missed it, we are having another start up event this coming long week, going from August 31st to September 2nd.

The event is open to everyone, but feel free to give us a shout on this page or on our website hchscanada.com to let us know you're coming!

Are you a Caterpillar tractor wizard? Let us know, we have 9 Cats, from gas and diesel Forty and RD6 to D8s to get running again and we could use all the help we can get!

Come join the fun with a great group of people, and the most unique fleet of antique equipment you'll ever see!

08/07/2024

The beast is home.

It has been 2 years since we first started to hear about this donation, and we were very fortunate today to receive this beautiful Caterpillar 245, courtesy of Whissell Contracting in Calgary.

This is the 3rd machine donated by them this month, after the American 5299 and partial 245B for parts in order to finish building the Henuset wide undercarriage 245.

These are absolutely exceptional contributions and we cannot wait to finish putting it together!

We now have 4 complete and working hydraulic excavators, between the Hydra-Unit, Koehring 1066, Cat 245 and Hopto 1900.