Within the mid-Eighteen Eighties, a pair of younger tradesmen with a penchant for constructing tools and motors began a enterprise constructing and promoting cranes, then expanded into earthmoving tools and ultimately into the mining trade. Over the following century-plus, P&H MIning established itself as a producer of rugged high quality tools that continues by means of at this time – as a division of Komatsu Mining. This is an attention-grabbing historical past of this longstanding mainstay of floor mining operations.