Excavators

Wrecking Ball Strikes Out Busch Stadium →

From Construction Equipment Guide... After almost 40 years of St. Louis Cardinal memories, the final section of Busch Stadium came down about 24 minutes after midnight December 8. The demolition was weeks ahead of schedule as crews worked 7 days a week to bring the stadium down. The northern curve was the last section to fall to the wrecking ball. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a crowd of onlookers cheered and honked their car horns as the final section of the stadium came down on an early Fri. Click for more...

Link-Belt Helps Contractors Tackle Mountainous Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Contractors Crane Service (CCS) is taking on a project the size of a mountain and has enlisted the help of a new Link-Belt 138 H5 crane to get the job done. CCS recently purchased the crane in October from Woods CRW Corp. In Williston, VT. Pizzagalli Construction, a large national construction firm from Burlington, VT, serves as the project’s general contractor. The company has contracted CCS to provide crane and operators to execute all steel erection as the two contractors collaborate to build a new lodge and an underground parking structure on Mount Ellen at the Sugarbush Ski Resort in Warren, VT. Click for more...

MT’s Damaged Beartooth Highway Reopens →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Hurricane Katrina will long be remembered for the toll it took on the United States’ infrastructure. But nature also took its wrath out in another, much less publicized location. On May 19 and 20 five mud and debris slides severely damaged Beartooth Highway (Highway 212), a two-lane road that connects Red Lodge, MT, with Yellowstone National Park. According to the Montana Department of Transportation’s (MDT) Web site, this road is essential to the livelihood of Red Lodge because 200,000 tourists travel it from Memorial Day to Labor Day every year. Click for more...

Mazzocchi Wrecking Razes Con-Ed Plant in Manhattan →

From Construction Equipment Guide... New York City is much more than just the “city that never sleeps;” it’s also a city that can’t sit still. Artists who hope to capture a precise rendering of Manhattan’s landscape have to sketch it about as quickly as Greenwich Village’s caricature artists do of hurried tourists looking for a souvenir. Although the city never seems quite satisfied with its appearance, it also imposes stringent rules and regulations, complicating any construction — or demolition — makeover. Click for more...

Thompson Contractors Relies on Hitachi at NC Quarry →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Thompson Contractors Inc., a family-owned business since the 1940s, operates two quarries in North Carolina, which mainly produce load shot granite and stone-based material for asphalt plants. The Miller Creek Quarry, the largest of the two quarries and located in Rutherfordton, NC, has been in operation since 1965. With the assistance of a Hitachi EX1200 this quarry produces on average 1 million tons (907,000 t) per year. Click for more...

Cleveland Construction Deals With Tight Quarters at Chamblee Village →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Commuters lift their necks out of car windows to peer over the fence of a Chamblee, GA, job site, sometimes causing minor fender benders and traffic jams, along the corridors of Chamblee Tucker Road and Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Their curiosity is being piqued by the Mentor, OH-based Cleveland Construction company and its latest project. Being built on a 15-acre (6 ha) site, the new Chamblee Village includes a 204,025-sq.-ft. Click for more...

Hitachi Accompanies VA Contractor Through Years of Growth →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Russell Jenkins, the president of General Excavation Inc., recalled the time he first met Don Powell, a Hitachi salesman of J.W. Burress. “It was in the early 1980s,” said Jenkins. “Don Powell came to one of my job sites, and I happened to be running the motorgrader. I kept on running it, but he kept coming back, and coming back, until he caught me on the ground. Finally, we started renting various rollers, Hitachi excavators, and other equipment from Burress. Click for more...

Hitachi EX1900 Improves Productivity at Oregon Quarry Op →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In quarry operations, it’s not easy to replace a piece of equipment that has provided decades of reliable service. However, when that equipment has outlived its practicality and replacing it can significantly reduce downtime and increase production, nostalgia takes a back seat to good business sense. Such was the scenario confronting the Sand & Gravel Division of Wildish Construction Company in late 2004. Click for more...

Demolition Firm Races to Remove Darlington Grandstand in 2 Weeks →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Before work could begin on the construction aspects of a $6 million capital improvement plan at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, SC, the old Brasington Grandstand in Turn 2 had to go. For two weeks this fall, a 15-member crew from Total Demolition in Hartsville, SC, leading with a Caterpillar 330 excavator with a Genesis XP shear, crunched away the old 3,000-seat grandstand. Vice President Todd Talbert said it took three days to bring down the 40-ft. Click for more...

Small Illinois Contractor Moves Dirt for Big Jobs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It’s a wise businessman who can find his niche market and be successful in it. Such is the case with Joe France, owner of France Bulldozing, Astoria, IL. France Bulldozing is a four-man company that specializes in small earth-moving jobs. Besides Joe, employees include his son Brandon, one full-time equipment operator and one part-timer. While France Bulldozing may not be seen as a big player with high profile jobs, the company’s dedication to service is recognized as second to none. Click for more...

NJ Company Builds Reputation for Tackling Tough Jobs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Mike Jost has always had a fascination with heavy equipment. As a child, he was often found playing with Tonka toys and laying imaginary pipe. Today, he’s living out his childhood dreams as owner and president of Mike Jost Excavating, one of northern New Jersey’s premier private excavating companies. “I’ve always liked the business,” said Jost, whose company is based in Franklin Lakes, NJ. Click for more...

Excavation Begins for Convention Center on Lake Erie →

On the shore of Presque Isle Bay in Erie, PA, the Erie County Convention Center Authority (ECCCA) is embarking on the largest development project in Erie’s history. Along with the 28,800 sq.-ft. (2,676 sq m) exhibition hall, the Bayfront Convention Center Complex also will feature an upscale hotel and restaurant development alongside the U.S. Brig Niagara and the new Erie Maritime Museum. Ideas for the Convention Center began to circulate in the mid-1980s, when private business owners and the Erie Port Authority felt that their needs exceeded the capabilities of the Erie Civic Center, which hosts a variety of concerts, sporting events and small trade shows. Click for more...

A Plant Grows in Brooklyn →

For the $493-million upgrade to the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) in Brooklyn, NY, for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, heavy construction equipment has been facilitating work on the project since it began in September 2003. According to Ali M. Catik, a project executive of Slattery Skanska Inc. of Whitestone, NY, the lead partner in the general contracting joint venture of Slattery, Picone, McCullough and Perini Corp. Click for more...

Cross Pipeline Looks to Moxy Trucks to Increase Earthmoving Capacity →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Faced with moving approximately 200,000 cu. yds. of dirt at a 50-acre subdivision in Grayson, GA, the crew at Cross Pipeline Inc. knew they needed more trucks. As a result, the firm ended up bringing on two extra Moxy MT31 trucks. The machines were the first two delivered to a job site from the Lawrenceville, GA-based Stafford Tractor Company since it took on the Moxy line. The contractor had previously purchased two Link-Belt 460 excavators and a Vibromax 605PD compactor from Stafford Tractor. Click for more...

B&B Paving Gets Gold Key Treatment From John Deere →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When Danny Blackburn, owner of B&B Paving, recently purchased a John Deere 200CLC excavator from the Raleigh, NC-based RW Moore Equipment Company, little did he know that he would be going for the gold as well…or at least for a Gold Key. Blackburn’s 35-year-old paving and grading company, recently received a Gold Key Award after ordering its latest machine from RW Moore. Customers can receive the Gold Key treatment as a thank you from John Deere and their dealer for purchasing an ordered machine. Click for more...

Independent Commercial Contractors Demolish Black Clawson Facility After Fire →

From Construction Equipment Guide... On a steamy July afternoon, teenagers accidentally started a fire at the former Black Clawson manufacturing facility in Watertown, NY, devastating the building’s interior. Before the fire, Black Clawson was a major manufacturer of equipment used in the paper manufacturing industry. In its heyday, Black Clawson had approximately 2,000 employees at its Watertown location, but the site has been deserted for approximately four years. Click for more...

Tide Turns on Flooding in Bayside, Queens →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Flood prevention comes in many forms. In New Orleans, it’s with levees and spillways. In other places, it’s with concrete bulwarks. In New York City, sometimes, it’s a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) drainage system. One such project that is now under way in Bayside, NY, is the $95-million Alley Creek Drainage Improvements/CSO Abatement Facilities Project, Phase 1, Stage 1 for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP), the project’s Flushing, NY-based owner. Click for more...

Permitting Questions Remain at Spanish Fort Town Center →

Despite two tropical storms, a hurricane and a group seeking to stop the project, site preparation work on the roughly $100 million Spanish Fort Town Center project is proceeding on schedule, according to the developer. Work started June 20 on the giant retail complex, which will be anchored by a Bass Pro Shops and JC Penney and include stores, restaurants, a hotel, office buildings and car dealerships, said John Farrow, senior project manager for Cypress Equities, the retail development and acquisition affiliate of Dallas-based Staubach Retail. Click for more...

Twin Bridges Will Mark First Time PA Uses Precast Concrete Segmental Method →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Twin bridges now under construction across the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, PA, are the first to be built in the Commonwealth using the precast concrete segmental method. The two spans will replace a 55-year-old bridge owned by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC). Detailed studies carried out as part of the PTC’s long-term program of improvements showed that re-decking the current bridge at this site would be too expensive. Click for more...

New Equipment Makes Debut at Highway 74 Site →

An improved piece of iron made its national debut this spring at the U.S. 74 highway project in Robeson County, NC. According to Terry Moore, of R.W. Moore Equipment Company, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, the John Deere 210 rubber-tired excavator was selected for this project because of the large job site and the machine’s ability to set jersey barriers and pipes and dig trenches. “The 210 requires less maintenance, is more efficient and compact, and can do more operations than [our previous machines],” Moore said. Click for more...

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