Excavators

Hitachis Get Their Kicks on Route 66 →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Chandler, Okla., like many a small town along the fabled 2,400-mi. U.S. Route 66, counts on tourism dollars to help make ends meet. But with soaring gasoline prices in 2008, fewer folks were making the ultimate road trip. However, those same rolling digits at the gas station pumped new life into the area’s oil and natural gas industry, with many of the new wells going in just a stone’s throw from the old highway. Click for more...

471 DIG-R-TACH Designed for Backhoes, Mini-Excavators →

From Construction Equipment Guide... General Equipment Co.’s model 471 DIG-R-TACH hydraulically-powered earth drilling attachment system is specifically designed for use with lower-auxiliary hydraulic system flow rates found on popular models of compact loader backhoes, mini-excavators and compact utility loaders. The 471 DIG-R-TACH system enhances the versatility of compact loader backhoes and mini-excavators by allowing them to become practical and productive options for many hole-digging projects, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

Case Excavator Razes 19th Century Milwaukee Tannery →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Milwaukee’s venerable Pfister and Vogel tannery stood up through the Civil War and two World Wars, creating a century-and-a-half’s worth of shoe leather for the American public. But despite its deep footprints in Milwaukee’s history, the now-abandoned tannery couldn’t stand up to the relentless power of an 80-ton (72.6 t) Case CX800 excavator. The machine demolished and cleared the 30-plus-building, 18-acre (7.3 ha) complex in less than three months. Click for more...

Page Avenue Extension on Track for 2009 →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Despite a sluggish start caused by weather and resources diverted for high profile projects, Phase 2 of the Page Avenue Extension project will finish on time in late 2009, Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) officials said. Work began in 2007. The project will extend Highway 364 another mile basically following Highway 94 west of Jungs Station Road to west of Harvester Road. Included will be a one-way outer road system, retaining walls and improved interchange. Click for more...

Major League Work Involved With Braves Triple A Ballpark →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Back in June, it was farmland. But on April 17, Triple-A baseball teams the Gwinnett Braves and the Norfolk Tides will face off in the Braves’ new minor league stadium at the transformed 44-acre (17.8 ha) site in suburban Gwinnett County, Ga. The roughly $59 million construction project — headed by general contractor Barton Malow Company — is on schedule to have the 10,000-plus-seat stadium ready for the game, said Preston Williams, chief executive officer of the Gwinnett Convention & Visitors Bureau, the entity responsible for developing the land and managing the lease on the county-owned stadium. Click for more...

Stafford Hosts Eco-Crusher Demo Event in Charlotte →

Stafford hosted a live demo of the Eco-Crusher Dec. 16 in Charlotte, N.C. Local contractors looking for onsite crushing solutions stopped by Stafford for some lunch and demonstrations of the Eco-Crusher attachment. The Eco-Crusher, a jaw crusher bucket for crushing material onsite, enables contractors to provide the onsite processing of concrete, bricks, blocks, basalt, aggregate and more, thus reducing the costs for hauling and tipping fees on the job. Click for more...

Fuhgetaboutit! $125M BQE Improvement Work Wraps Up →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As part of a massive project involving the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is rebuilding, improving and reconfiguring the section running from 61st Street to Broadway, updating the infrastructure to meet current standards in bridge safety, roadway and operations. Prime contractor Perini/Tutor-Saliba II JV, made up of Perini Corporation, based in Peekskill, N.Y., and Tutor Saliba, headquartered in Sylmar, Calif., are overseeing the work on this stretch of the expressway in a joint venture. Click for more...

Operators Hit the Ground Running With TC37 Excavator →

Designed to turn 360 degrees within the width of its tracks, the Terex TC37 zero-tail swing excavator is at home in confined and restricted areas. Ideal for utility contractors, this mini allows operators to get up close and personal in places where conventional excavators can’t fit. “If you’re working in an alley, next to a building, or on a street, where traffic is an issue, you can be certain that the rear of the TC37 isn’t going to swing out into traffic or into a wall,” explained Lowell Stout, Terex Compact Equipment product manager. Click for more...

Only a Memory: Crews Clear Remnants of Miami Arena →

From Construction Equipment Guide... For the second time this year a Miami sports venue has been reduced to a twisted pile of concrete and steel. Earlier this year, the legendary Orange Bowl was demolished to make way for a new stadium for the Florida Marlins baseball team. On Sept. 21 at 8:06 a.m. black plumes of smoke could be seen as 175 lbs. of explosive charges rigged to the steel trusses detonated, imploding the Miami Arena’s roof, bringing an end to what was known as the Pink Elephant because of its pink colored walls. Click for more...

Hyundai Unveils New 9 Series Excavators →

At ConExpo earlier this year, a pre-production version of the R210LC-9 was debuted. On Dec. 11 and 12 the R210LC-9 and R290LC-9 models were unveiled to Hyundai dealer principals in Orlando, Fla. The R210LC-9 and R290LC-9 will be available to the market in the first quarter of 2009. Also at the launch meeting, Hyundai previewed two additional 9 series models, the R140LC-9 and the R250LC-9 that will become available later this year. Click for more...

Huge U.S. 321 Widening Project Heads Into Home Stretch →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A $65 million road-widening project in Caldwell County, N.C., will enter its fifth year of work in 2009 and all indications are that the construction will be completed next fall. A 6.57-mi. (10.6 km) stretch of U.S. Highway 321 between Lenoir and Blowing Rock has seen almost continuous drilling, blasting, earth moving and paving, while still remaining open to most car traffic since February 2005. Approximately 3.1 million cu. Click for more...

Operators Hit the Ground Running With TC37 Crawler Excavator →

Designed to turn 360 degrees within the width of its tracks, the Terex TC37 zero tail swing excavator is at home in confined and restricted areas. Ideal for utility contractors, this mini allows operators to get up close and personal in places where conventional excavators can’t fit. “If you’re working in an alley, next to a building, or on a street, where traffic is an issue, you can be certain that the rear of the TC37 isn’t going to swing out into traffic or into a wall,” explained Lowell Stout, Terex Compact Equipment product manager. Click for more...

John Deere Introduces 120D, 135D Hydraulic Excavators →

From Construction Equipment Guide... John Deere is offering two new hydraulic excavators in the 13- to 14.9-ton (12 to 13.5 t) range, the 120D and 135D — mid-sized machines with big performance. The 120D is a “dig-and-run” unit for jobs such as excavating basements or placing pipe and transports easily between jobs. The 135D is a reduced tail-swing machine capable of maximum production in confined areas and work within a single lane of traffic. Click for more...

E-Crane Offers Alternative to Offloading Bulk Materials →

In small ports around the world, the ever increasing need to offload bulk materials such as coal and limestone at rates from 300 to 2,000 tons (272 to 1,814 t) per hour and do it as economically as possible calls for modern equipment with greater efficiency than can be provided by many of the older cranes still in operation today. Most of these older cranes are at or near the end of their life cycle; cable replacement is a never ending ordeal; and highly skilled operators are required. Click for more...

Komatsu Offers Optional Power Angle Blade on PC45MR-3 →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Komatsu America Corp.’s (KAC) PC45MR-3 compact hydraulic excavator is designed to bring increased production and added operator comfort to contractors in a variety of construction, utility, landscaping and other applications. The PC45MR-3 is equipped with the latest Komtrax technology which sends machine operating information to a secure Web site utilizing wireless technology. Data such as operating hours, machine location and fuel levels are relayed to the web application for analysis. Click for more...

Millennium Pipeline Replaces Old Gas Line in New York →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Replacing a flowing gas line is tricky. If the gas line happens to be 182 mi. (293 km) long and involves working in areas that feature nearly straight vertical drops, it’s that much more of a challenge. And those are the fundamentals of the new underground, natural gas pipeline going into the ground in upstate New York, under the direction of Millennium Pipeline Company LLC, Pearl River, N.Y. Click for more...

Conveyors Save Carolina Sunrock Truckloads of Money →

A Raleigh-based company has found a way to move material out of its quarries that it believes will save dump trucks full of money over time. Carolina Sunrock LLC, a construction materials firm that supplies aggregates, asphalt and concrete to construction projects across the Southeast, has recently begun handling and transporting rock out of its new Woodsdale quarry in Person County via conveyor belt. Click for more...

E-Crane: A Modern Alternative →

Trains Keep a Rollin’ as Morris Group Spans Busy Rail →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Heavy truck traffic coming in and out of the Mobile Container Terminal at Choctaw Point gets backed up by the long CSX freight trains that block Virginia Street when they chug by several times a day. A six-span bridge being built by The Morris Group Inc. over both the CSX tracks and a spur leading into the Port of Mobile is designed to alleviate that congestion. But working around the rail traffic has been a challenge on the bridge job, which began in May, said Shane Sansom, construction superintendent of the Birmingham-based firm. Click for more...

Deere Rolls Out New Wheeled Excavators →

From Construction Equipment Guide... John Deere Construction & Forestry has introduced two new wheeled excavators, the 190D W and the 220D W, featuring Tier III-certified engines and significant increases in horsepower, weight and digging forces over their predecessors. Both units have fuel-efficient 5.2-L diesel engines rated at 159 hp (118 kW), with the 190D W weighing in at 44,974 lbs. (20,400 kg) and the 220D W at 51,368 lbs. (23,300 kg) when both are equipped with two-piece booms and front and rear outriggers. Click for more...

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