Excavators

Florida Paving Company Expands Into Mining Business →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Tough economic times haven’t stopped Don (Rick) Mancil Jr. and Myra Smith from jumping into the material business. In August 2009, the pair took over ownership of the Vero Rock Mine, located in Vero Beach, Fla. “In this economy, you must diversify, and this was the perfect direction for us to go. The location, quality and need drew us to Vero Rock Mine,” said Smith, Vero Rock Mine vice president. Click for more...

Connecting Arkansas to Future Highway I-69 →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A large-scale project with a long-range scope is in the works in Arkansas. The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) is in the midst of constructing a 38.5-mi. (61.9 km) road designed to connect Interstate 530 in Pine Bluff to U.S. 278 in Wilmar. The connector is being built to provide easy access to the future Interstate 69, which will connect north and south portions of the country via southeast Arkansas. Click for more...

Coupler Industry Giants Team Up for North American Venture →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Two names in quick coupler technology have joined forces to form a single company committed to bringing innovative coupler products, buckets and additional work tools to customers in North America. The new firm, MillerBaird LLC, will be headed up by Randy and James Baird, founders and former principals with JRB Company Inc., as well as Keith, Gary and Jacqui Miller of European coupler manufacturer, Miller U.K. Click for more...

Route 422 Improvements Get Kick-Start From ARRA →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Federal stimulus funding is kick-starting hundreds of construction projects country wide, and the rehabilitation and resurfacing of a 4.5 mi. (7.2 km) stretch of Route 422 in Montgomery County, Pa., was one of the first Commonwealth projects financed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to get under way. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is investing more than $275.5 million on improving bridges and roads, upgrading signals, installing Intelligent Transportation System equipment, and bringing more than 3,500 handicap curb ramps up to required design standards in the five-county area making up the Philadelphia region. Click for more...

Don Smock Auction Hosts 17th Annual Snowball Sale →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Don Smock Auction Company held its 17th Annual Snowball Construction Equipment Auction at the company’s complex in Pendleton, Ind., Dec. 11. Up for bid was equipment from Ensley Excavating, and several local equipment dealers as well as equipment from other local contractors and bank and financial companies. Highlights of the auction included a 2007 Cat 304CR mini-excavator for $24,000, a 2004 Deere 310G loader for $27,000, a 2005 Case CX160 excavator for $30,000, a 2005 Deere 750J LGP crawler for $70,000 and a 2005 Cat D6N XL crawler for $100,000. Click for more...

Volvo EC 160 Excavator Fetches $50K at Columbus Sale →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Ritchie Bros. held an auction at its Columbus, Ohio, facility on Dec. 9 — attracting attendees to the facility from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Joined by bidders from around the world, the bidding remained active. Highlights included a Volvo EC 160 excavator bought for $50,000, a 2004 Komatsu PC 160 excavator that went for $35,000 and a 1998 John Deere 230 LC excavator that took a winning bid of $32,500. Click for more...

Riverbend Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A former brownfield located in Harrison, N.J., is in the process of rebirth as a mixed-use urban development, intended to serve one of the most thickly populated areas in the northeastern corridor. Advance Realty, headquartered in Bedminster, N.J., is the owner/developer of the 80-acre Riverbend District, which will feature approximately 2,000 for sale or rental residential units, two hotels with a total of 550 rooms, 800,000 sq. Click for more...

New Hybrid Excavator Break Ground for New Headquarters →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Komatsu’s new Hybrid PC200LC-8 excavator scooped the first bucket of dirt in a groundbreaking ceremony for Komatsu Equipment’s new headquarters on Dec. 15. More than one hundred attended the first dig, then celebrated over lunch in a tent next to the new facility. Construction of the new operation at 1486 South Distribution Drive in Salt Lake City is scheduled to be complete in August 2010. Click for more...

S.C. Firms Working on Fort Jackson Cemetery Expansion →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Heavy construction equipment is currently working its way across the gently rolling sandhills of central South Carolina as part of a project to expand the recently dedicated Fort Jackson National Cemetery. When it first opened last year, the cemetery became one of 125 national burial sites spread over 39 states and Puerto Rico honoring more than 3 million American veterans. The new 585-acre national cemetery is located adjacent to the U.S. Click for more...

St. Paul Sewage Lift Station →

From Construction Equipment Guide... What should have been a fairly routine sewage lift station installation, turned out to be a much larger project when overly wet soil was encountered. The project is located just east of downtown St. Paul, Minn., and a quarter of a mile away from the Mississippi River on Highway 61 and Lower Afton Road. The sewage lift station is located at the bottom of a river bluff so everything drains to that point, explained Glen Haugen, of Kober Excavating of St. Click for more...

PennDOT Begins Replacing ’Seriously’ Deficient Span →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Six Mile Creek Bridge project in Erie County, Pa., is part of Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell’s Accelerated Bridge Program, which is adding $200 million a year to the mix of federal and state funds the state invests in bridges. In 2009, the overall investment in bridges in Pennsylvania totaled more than $1.6 billion. In spite of nearly tripling spending on bridge repairs over the past seven years, Pennsylvania has the highest number of structurally deficient bridges in the nation, as reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). Click for more...

Komatsu Unveils New Hybrid PC200LC-8 Excavator in NYC →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Fourth and fifth graders from P.S. 115 in Brooklyn, N.Y., learned about the newest environmentally friendly construction equipment — a Komatsu Hybrid PC200LC-8 — when they visited a construction site adjacent to the Canarsie Pier near exit 13 of the Belt Parkway on Dec. 1. The students were issued hard hats and invited to sit in the cab of the excavator while engineers from Komatsu, construction workers from Tully Construction and Skanska USA Civil Northeast and Posillico Civil, and representatives from Edward Ehrbar Inc. Click for more...

Third-Generation Texas Firm Tackles Pipeline Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Few families can claim the pipelining experience of the Gorman family of Perryton, Texas. From their home base in the panhandle of northwestern Texas, three generations of Gormans have been involved in building pipelines for almost 75 years. H.V. Gorman traveled much of the country during the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s working for several major pipeline construction companies. Eventually H.V. Click for more...

Cashman Supplies Cat Backhoes to Install Huge Pipes →

From Construction Equipment Guide... They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and equipment aficionados could certainly call Reliant Construction’s projects a sight to behold. Reliant’s underground utilities installation project for Freeman Decorating (just to the east of the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Sunset Road) features three Caterpillar excavators, two Cat backhoe loaders, a 938 wheel loader, two large water trucks, and an 1175XHD Tesmec chainsaw. Click for more...

Franklin Construction Adds Bobcat Iron to Its Fleet →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The recession hasn’t slowed Mark Wanke of Franklin Construction, San Antonio, Texas. The company recently closed on a construction contract that will keep its crews busy well into 2010. In response to the growing demand, Mark Wanke is adding Bobcat compact equipment to his fleet. Wanke has been in the construction business for more than 20 years and has extensive experience with operating Bobcat equipment. Click for more...

Composite Cutting Edge From Nye Designed for Excavator, Loader Buckets →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Nye manufacturing’s composite cutting edge for excavator and loader buckets features the toughness of QT (quenched and tempered alloy) and the abrasion resistance of AR (Abrasion Resistant Heat Treated Alloy) to come up with the Duralam cutting edge. The Duralam was designed for strength and cold weather toughness and achieves this by using a single QT core for strength and an AR outer layer for wear resistance, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

Columbus Equipment Unveils Komatsu Hybrid Excavator →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Columbus Equipment Company unveiled a newer, greener future to the Ohio construction industry when it demonstrated the world’s only hybrid excavator, the Komatsu Hybrid PC200LC-8, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 16. While it uses different technology than today’s popular hybrid cars, the idea behind the hybrid excavator is similar — generating and storing electricity to be used by the engine later, resulting in lower fuel consumption and less air pollution. Click for more...

Final Segment of Anniston Eastern Bypass Under Way →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Ground was recently broken for the latest phase of construction of the final segment of the Anniston Eastern Bypass (state route 192) in Calhoun County, Ala. The ceremony was led by Gov. Bob Riley, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, and Transportation Director Joe McInnes on Oct. 13. The event signaled the beginning of construction on the $29.4 million federal stimulus project on the 8-mi. (12.8 km), four-lane highway that runs through Ft. Click for more...

Nyrim Track Pads Stave Off Sinking in Swampy, Sodden Soil →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Over the last few years BLS has had a number of applications for its Nyrim track pads, developed for low ground pressure applications. Last year Roy Strom Excavating and Grading Company, of Chicago, Ill., purchased Nyrim tracks pads to dig underneath a skyscraper being built in downtown Chicago. Its machines were sinking into the Lake Michigan clay before it tried the Nyrim track pads. Strom purchased more Nyrim track pads this year for another machine that it plans to use. Click for more...

Road Machinery LLC Hosts Open House at Gilbert Facility →

Road Machinery LLC (RML), the Komatsu dealer for Arizona, Southern California, New Mexico and the El Paso area of Texas, hosted a joint board meeting Oct. 28 between the Arizona AGC and Arizona Builders' Alliance (ABA). As soon as the board meeting was completed, Road Machinery conducted an open house of the newly renovated 19,500 sq.-ft. facility located on 9.5 acres at 1339 West San Pedro in Gilbert, Ariz. Click for more...

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