Excavators

New Shoring System Helps Twins Stadium Foundation →

From Construction Equipment Guide... One challenge stands out beyond the everyday challenges faced by crews building the new, $412 million, 40,000 capacity stadium for the Minnesota Twins. Located just a few blocks west of downtown Minneapolis, the construction site is hemmed in on all sides by bridges, roads and buildings; making for tight working conditions and a logistical challenge for moving hundreds of workers and trucks in and out of it daily. Click for more...

Kobelco 17SR Acera Offers Stability in Tight Work Spaces →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Kobelco Construction Machinery America’s 17SR ACERA zero tail swing, compact excavator delivers more digging performance and an adjustable track gauge that gives easy maneuverability in tight spaces without sacrificing stability when working. The 17SR also features a new “Smart Hydraulic System” fueled by three pumps that ensure maximum power for simultaneous lifting, swinging and travel operations as well as controllability for fine grading. Click for more...

John Deere 210LJ Landscape Loader Is Tier III Certified →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The new John Deere 210LJ landscape loader has been redesigned from the ground up with a Tier III-certified engine and a cab option that makes it even more versatile and productive. “The 210LJ is a purpose-built landscape loader — not a modified backhoe,” said Bob Tyler, product marketing manager, John Deere Construction & Forestry Division. “Operators have told us they’re looking to do more and work longer into the year, particularly in the North and East where they use these units as utility tractors. Click for more...

LBX Company’s Spin Ace Excavators Offer Operators Small Swing Radius →

From Construction Equipment Guide... LBX Company has introduced the Link-Belt Spin Ace Series minimum swing radius excavators with Tier III engine technology. Available models include the 75SA, 80 Swing Boom, 135SA and 225SA with operating weights ranging from 17,500 to 53,800 lbs. (7,938 to 24,403 kg). Spin Ace excavators are designed to perform big jobs in tight spaces such as traffic restricted road maintenance or other jobs with limited maneuvering space. Click for more...

Crawler Equipment Sales Starts Third Decade of Operation →

From Construction Equipment Guide... With its first 20 years firmly placed under its figurative belt, Crawler Equipment Sales (CES) and its customers look forward to the next two decades and beyond. Approximately 20 years after John D. Stephens founded his pipeline construction company, he decided to search for equipment on his own, rather than going through a dealer. During his search, said his son, Mark Stephens, he came to the realization that lots of other contractors in Georgia also were on the hunt for quality used machines. Click for more...

Floating Excavator Vital in Swamp Restoration Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A lone amphibious excavator is floating amid the Pocotaligo Swamp in an effort to restore its natural flow. A three-man crew from Garcia Forest Service LLC in Rockingham, N.C., is removing debris from two 15-mi. (24 km) long natural channels between the confluence of Turkey Creek and the Pocotaligo River near Sumter, S.C., and the Highway 301 bridge near Manning, S.C. The restoration of the 20-ft.-wide (6 m) and 2-ft.-deep (0.6 m) channels will allow approximately 5,800 acres to return to a forested swamp that normally dries up for part of the year. Click for more...

C.W. Matthews Begins 14th St. Bridge Replacement →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Getting around Midtown Atlanta has been a little more circuitous since Feb. 9. Work by C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. to replace the 14th Street bridge over the I-75/85 connector required the closure of Techwood Avenue between 16th and 10th streets until 2009 and the re-routing of traffic from the I-85 southbound 10th and 14th streets exit ramps to the 10th and 14th streets ramp. It also required the re-routing of traffic from the I-75 southbound exit 250 to the 10th and 14th streets ramp. Click for more...

Murray Demolition Cleans Up After the Four Sisters →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A distinctive landmark west of Toronto on the Lake Ontario shoreline for more than 40 years, the four imposing concrete stacks of the Lakeview Thermal Generating Station, each 480 ft. (146 m) high, were demolished in a controlled drop and on the ground in less than 30 seconds on June 12, 2006. The concrete stacks were commonly known as “The Four Sisters” as each of the plant’s eight boilers were paired off or “sistered” to a common exhaust stack. Click for more...

Link-Belt 210 X2 Wins Energy Conservation Award for Design →

From Construction Equipment Guide... LBX Company has announced that its Link-Belt 210 X2 hydraulic excavator has won the Energy Conservation Award. The award is bestowed jointly by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy in Ministry of Economy, Japan and the Industry and Energy Conservation Center, Japan. The Energy Conservation Award recognizes innovative products that accelerate wider commercial application of new energy-saving technologies that also result in reduced emissions and environmental conservation. Click for more...

Heavy Equipment Rolls Into Action After Tornadoes Hit →

From Construction Equipment Guide... What nature’s fury destroyed Feb. 5 with a rash of tornadoes in the South must now be cleaned up. And answering the call are an army of private contractors, department of transportation crews and the National Guard. The National Weather Service confirmed at least 31 tornado touchdowns in Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, which killed nearly 60 people and caused millions of dollars in damage. Click for more...

Hoffman International Delivers Doosan Excavator to Russia →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Hoffman International, a Doosan and Bay Shore Systems dealer in Piscataway, N.J., delivered a Doosan Solar 370 excavator equipped with a Bay Shore Systems LoDrill HTFB-24 to Sochi, Russia, the home of the 2014 Olympic Games. Hoffman shipped the Doosan excavator and Bay Shore Systems drill from opposite sides of the world and married the two together on-site in Sochi, Russia. A Doosan excavator was chosen as the base machine so that Hoffman could provide the customer with a single source of spare parts and product support for the entire unit. Click for more...

Shanahan Offers Komatsu’s New PC300HD-8 Excavator →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Shanahan Equipment’s seven locations in California and Nevada now offer Komatsu America’s new PC300HD-8 hydraulic excavator. Komatsu has developed an upgraded version of this model designed for operator comfort and control as well as the same stability, performance and reliability features that differentiated this model’s predecessor in the marketplace. The PC300HD-8 combines the PC300LC-8 upper structure with the PC400LC-8 fixed gauge undercarriage, providing for stability and lift capacity in its competitive size class. Click for more...

INDOT Completes $175M Super 70 Reconstruction →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Drivers can breathe a sigh of relief — the $175 million reconstruction of Interstate 70 that put the east side of Indianapolis in turmoil through most of 2007 is now complete. Dubbed “Super 70” by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), it was the biggest single-season construction project ever undertaken by the state. It was also one of the biggest projects tackled by the general contractor, according to Delbert Collard Jr., Walsh Construction project manager. Click for more...

Allu Screener-Crusher Expedites Gas Pipeline Project →

Gary “Red” Bailes of Leslie Equipment puts his pickup truck into four-wheel drive and heads up the nearly-vertical slope of the construction right of way to where the workers from ST Pipeline are installing the Big Sandy Pipeline. Building a 68-mi. (109 km) pipeline in the rugged mountains of eastern Kentucky requires four-wheel drive to get up and down the 50 percent slopes and also requires the Allu SM Screener-Crusher to prepare the blasted and excavated sandstone for use as structural fill material. Click for more...

Skanska Builds Super New Giants Stadium →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Site work and ongoing adjacent construction projects are among the challenges faced by the team that is building New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The $998 million, 2.2-million-sq.-ft. (204,387 sq m) steel and concrete facility will include 82,000 seats and 217 luxury suites for New York Giants and Jets fans. According to Frank Falciani, senior vice president of Skanska USA Building, the project’s Parsippany, N.J.-based design-build construction manager, work began May 21, 2007. Click for more...

Deere 27D Boasts Reduced Cycle Times, Long Arm Option →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The John Deere 27D compact excavator provides even more productivity due to reduced cycle times and a long arm option, as well as better operator comfort with updated controls and a redesigned cab. Additionally, fuel economy and long service intervals combine to deliver low operating costs. “This versatile, productive machine is ideally suited to a wide variety of applications,” said Mark Wall, product marketing manager, John Deere Construction & Forestry. Click for more...

Gorilla Hammers Its Way to Success in Concrete Jungle →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Gorilla Hammers of Randolph, Mass., the attachment division of Tech Hydraulics, does not believe in taking shortcuts, according to Robert “Bob” Tedesco, president and CEO. “My father started the family business in the 1940s by repairing gas pumps and other petroleum delivery equipment. My big brother took over at the age of seventeen when my father passed away suddenly. He expanded products and services to offer hydraulic and pneumatic sales and repairs to the automotive, industrial and mobile equipment markets. Click for more...

Chadwick-BaRoss Volvos Used on Extreme Makeover →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Chadwick-BaRoss Inc., Maine’s Volvo Heavy Equipment Construction dealer, had two of its customer-owned Volvo EC240 excavators along with a Volvo L90F wheel loader equipped with forks and bucket at work on the site of the recent Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Milbridge, Maine. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s design team prepared to build a new home for the Ray-Smith family of Milbridge, Maine, and found R.F. Click for more...

Sennebogen 835M Material Handlers Weather Neb. Winters →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Sam Jacobs has learned that life on the plains of Nebraska includes blizzards, droughts, windstorms, frigid cold and blistering heat. Jacobs first went to work in his family’s recycling business, Columbus Metals, nearly 30 years ago and, in 1994, became the sole owner of the company. “We can have some nasty winters out here,” Jacobs said. “Anytime from November to April, it can go to 20 below zero. Click for more...

Retek Crushers Razes Eyebrows on Jersey Mall Demo Job →

It may be the oldest mall on the East Coast, but it can still change from time to time. The Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, N.J., built in 1961, is undergoing a footprint change and Central Salvage of Philadelphia, Pa., demolished a section of the mall to make way for a new Nordstrom department store. The now razed section was once occupied by Strawbridge’s department store, but the footprint of the old store didn’t match up to Nordstrom’s requirements. Click for more...

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