Excavators

Crews Already a Year Ahead of Schedule on Lynnhaven Parkway →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Work on the Lynnhaven Parkway widening project has been under way since January, and the project is already one year ahead of schedule. This is good news because with the holidays, and Lynnhaven Mall, around the corner the contractor is not permitted to have any lane closures during the busy shopping season. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) awarded the $24.9 million Lynnhaven Parkway widening project, located in Virginia Beach, to Suburban Grading and Utilities Inc., Norfolk, Va. Click for more...

LEA, MTG Teeth Available for Multi-Ripper Products →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Two new teeth are now available for multi-ripper products from Leading Edge Attachments Inc., developed in conjunction with MTG Corp. There is the new 220- to 300-lb. (100 to 136 kg) excavator class size “Double Vector” and the new 55- to 110-lb. (25 to 50 kg) excavator class size “Multi-Ripper Tooth.”The new Double Vector part number MG200W will be available on all of the new 220- to 300-lb. Click for more...

Deere 75D Sports Auto-Idle Feature to Conserve Fuel →

From Construction Equipment Guide... John Deere’s 75D mid-sized hydraulic excavator with conventional boom and reduced tail swing weighs in at 17,637 lbs. (8,000 kg), has a 15-ft. (4.6 m), 1-in. (2.54 cm) dig depth and is practical for light residential, site development, underground and landscaping duties. “This excavator’s reduced tail swing and 360-degree rotation enable it to get into tight spaces,” said Mark Wall, excavator product marketing manager of John Deere. Click for more...

Cat D-Series Mini Hydraulic Excavators Boast Higher Bucket, Traction Forces →

Three D-Series mini hydraulic excavators join the Caterpillar line. The 307D is a direct replacement for the 307C. The 308D CR, a compact radius machine that works productively in tight spaces, replaces the 308C CR. A new model, the 308D CR SB, combines the compact radius design with a swing boom for even more versatility. The D-Series mini excavators retain the best features of the C-Series models while incorporating many improvements that increase productivity and reduce operating costs. Click for more...

Fecon Introduces New Tree Shears for Excavators →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Fecon has added three new tree shears to its line of excavator attachments. Two models are designed for 12- to 18-ton (11 to 16 t) excavators with 15 to 20 gpm (56.8 to 75.7 Lpm) — the FBS1400EXC and the FBS1500EXC. The FBS1400EXC weighs 2,000 lbs. (907 kg), features a single knife cutting system and can shear trees up to 14 in. (35.5 cm) in diameter. The FBS1500EXC features a dual knife cutting system and can shear trees with up to a 15-in. Click for more...

Volvo Construction’s New Class of Pipelayers Now Available →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In 2007 Volvo Construction Equipment announced the development of a new product class of pipelaying machines targeting, primarily, contractors in the on-shore oil and gas industry. The first prototype of the Volvo PL4611 and the Volvo PL4608 are now in the field with production availability beginning in the second quarter of 2008. The Volvo Pipelayer represents a major technical advance over traditional pipelaying bulldozers equipped with side booms, the basic design of which originated in the 1930’s and has changed little since, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

Demolition Crew Weaves Through Oaks on Jekyll Island →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When CST Environmental Inc. of Orlando, Fla., began demo work last November at the Buccaneer Beach Resort on Jekyll Island, management knew it would be a challenge. They didn’t know it would come out so near to a clean sweep. Southeast Region Vice President and Branch Manager John Jenkins said the company completed work at the hotel that reclaimed almost 95 percent of the material on site for recycling, meeting a LEEDs standard that usually comes in at a fraction of that rate. Click for more...

Blue Goose Takes a Gander at Port St. Lucie Plant Canal →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Long before Blue Goose Construction started to repair the intake/discharge canals at the Port St. Lucie, Fla., nuclear power plant, the toughest part of the job already was complete. Just landing the contract from Florida Power & Light (FPL), which operates the nuclear plant, had Blue Goose folks breathing easier. “We did a lot of work putting presentations together, graphics together, depicting how our process would work and the equipment we had selected going into the bidding process and the selection process,” said Blue Goose General Manager Larry Tarr. Click for more...

Massive Forklift Assists With Housing Project for Fish →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Weeks Marine of Cranford, N.J., had a problem. It had a contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) New York City Transit to take some 1,662 retired work cars and “B Division” subway cars and drop them into the ocean, where they would serve as luxury homes for sea grass, blue mussels, sponges, black sea bass and tautog. The contract was going well, except for one thing: the company didn’t have a piece of equipment big enough to lift the subway cars off its barge. Click for more...

Optional Magnet Adds Versatility to Jaw Crusher Bucket →

Demolition and concrete contractors using the Eco-Crusher, a jaw crusher bucket for crushing material onsite, have the option of adding a magnet to provide an easy and efficient means of removing rebar from crushed debris. The Eco-Crusher 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...

Allu Launches Stabilization System for Earthmoving Jobs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Allu Group has developed the new stabilization system for earthmoving contractors. The Allu stabilization system also gives the opportunity for small contractors to step into the mass stabilization business that was before accessible only to bigger contractors with self-developed stabilization machines. Combination of Three UnitsAllu PM Power Mix, which is a hydraulic accessory for excavators, converts the excavator to a mobile and effective mixer unit. Click for more...

Walton Construction Company Widens Hillcrest Road →

Crews have been at work for a little more than a year widening a nearly 2-mi. (3.2 km) stretch of Hillcrest Road in Mobile, Ala., to accommodate increased traffic flow in the growing area. Meanwhile, they’ve had to make sure not to exacerbate the problem. “We have kept two lanes open during the whole project, so delays have been minimal,” said John G. Walton. president of John G. Walton Construction Company in Mobile. Click for more...

Manufacturers Begin to Tout Fuel Efficiency →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Contractors trying to cope with zooming fuel costs have short-term and long-term options. They can immediately take steps to operate their heavy equipment as efficiently as possible, though many contractors already are squeezing every last ounce of efficiency from machines and crews. For the longer haul, they must weigh the dollars and sense of updating fleets with new generations of equipment that feature fuel-sipping technology. Click for more...

LBX Company LLC Announces Top 5 Excavator Dealers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... LBX Company announced its 2007 Top Dealers of Link-Belt excavators for North America. The Top Dealers were recognized at AED Convention in Chicago, Ill. They are in no particular order. • Cisco Ford Equipment with headquarters in Odessa, Texas. • Rexco Equipment Inc. with headquarters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and branch locations in Des Moines, Davenport and Gretna, Neb. • Riverbend Machinery Inc., with headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. Click for more...

Tearing Down Giants Made Easier, Safer for Company →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Bianchi Industrial Services needed a new excavator. The company was performing demolition work at major commercial and industrial sites and its management knew that a large excavator would increase productivity and help to ensure a safe work environment. “Bianchi has one of the best safety records in the industry,” said Bill Bianchi, managing partner of Bianchi Industrial Services. “The large excavator will help keep our employees safe, because the longer reach of a larger machine allows the operator to be further away from the building being demolished.”Choosing a MachineNow, Bianchi had to decide which large excavator to buy. Click for more...

Arkansas State Residence Hall Comes Tumbling Down →

From Construction Equipment Guide... For the faculty and students of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, the demolition of the Seminole Twin Towers is the end of an era. From 1967 to 2006, the Twin Towers housed university students. It was a place to study, to sleep and to call home for the academic year. But those 40 years were brought to the ground by explosives May 25 in just 15 seconds. And just another month later, the last truckload of structural debris was removed from the site. Click for more...

CTI’s Fleet of Orange Machines Dig Into Emerald City →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Seattle, Wash., is a city on the grow. Nicknamed the Emerald City for its majestic evergreen trees, it is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, and home to many legendary Fortune 500 companies like Nordstrom, Starbucks and Amazon.com. Other nearby Fortune 500 giants include Microsoft, Costco and Nintendo. Seattle also is known for being business-friendly and is in the midst of a number of development projects. Click for more...

Hill Remediation Relishes Taking on the Garden State’s Dirty Work →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Hill Remediation & Construction Services, Pennington, N.J., does a lot of the industry’s dirty work: jobs with daunting names like “air sparging,” “soil vapor extraction” and installing and maintaining “dewatering systems.” The woman-owned business enterprise got its start in 1992 and has been growing steadily ever since to become a full-service remediation company with hundreds of clients throughout New Jersey and the surrounding states. Click for more...

Nacirema Rises to the Occasion Over 10 Years of Service →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Proving to be a company as American as apple pie, Nacirema has experienced the best and the saddest of jobs in the nation during the 10 years since it was founded. “We’ll go anywhere,” said Sal Carucci, Nacirema’s vice president of sales. For example, the company has been involved with replacing luxury boxes at the Green Bay Packers’ venerable Lambeau Field. And within hours of the Sept. Click for more...

Convention Center to Transform Historic Downtown Lancaster →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Retailer Watt and Shand maintained the crowned jewel of Lancaster, Pa., in a beaux-arts department store that bustled with life for much of the 20th century. Today, 18 prime contractors are building a new Lancaster County Convention Center around the façade of the former Watt and Shand building. With earthwork behind it, Reynolds Construction, of Harrisburg, Pa., is moving ahead in its role as construction manager for the prime contractors on the project. Click for more...

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