Excavators

Deere 710G Backhoe Tackles Tough Assignments →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Numerous enhancements over the previous model make John Deere’s 710G backhoe well suited for tough jobs, particularly those where a small excavator and loader are used together, according to Bob Tyler, product marketing manager, John Deere Construction & Forestry Company. “The 710G provides the kind of digging force and lift capacity that customers typically find only in a 12-metric-ton excavator, and on the front end it rivals most 2-yard loaders,” he said. Click for more...

Bland Landscaping Spices Up Work With Ditch Witch →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Bland Landscaping Inc. keeps itself busy in its neck of the woods in North Carolina. Located in the small town of Apex just outside Raleigh, Bland Landscaping’s service area includes North Carolina’s prestigious Research Triangle anchored by Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill and major research centers of North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of North Carolina. Click for more...

Allied Hammerhead II HB 550 Busts Up Concrete Flatwork →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Allied Construction Products LLC has announced the addition of the Hammerhead II Model HB 550 to its full-product line of attachments. The Allied Hammerhead II is a self-contained hydraulic concrete slab buster designed to demolish concrete flatwork. The concrete is rubblized at a 45-degree angle from the point of impact. This concrete flatwork includes floors, driveways, bridge decks and roadways up to 12 in. Click for more...

FLECO Excavator Grapples Designed for Heavy Demolition →

From Construction Equipment Guide... FLECO Attachments’ excavator grapples come in two configurations, heavy-duty and high-capacity. The grapples are designed for heavy demolition work, land clearing jobs, and other tasks requiring clamping, prying, and breakout forces. The heavy-duty configuration includes a two-over-three tine design with solid tines and serrated teeth. The high-capacity configuration offers a three-over-four tine design with boxed tines. Click for more...

Big Apple Transforms Ever-Changing NYC Landscape →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The massive footprint of New York City is constantly changing and ever-evolving, with old buildings coming down and new buildings being erected in their place. All this change is enough to keep local construction and wrecking companies very busy. While there may not be a shortage of work, there is a shortage of truly qualified companies that are equipped to tackle these sometimes enormous endeavors in an urban environment where tall skyscrapers are built right next to each other. Click for more...

Doosan Infracore Dealerships Added in Southeast, Midwest →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Doosan Infracore America added five new dealers to its dealer network. They are: • Crawler Equipment Sales in Georgia, • Rex Spencer Equipment in Missouri, • Ronson Equipment Company in Illinois, a new Seller’s Equipment location in Kansas and; • the G. W. Van Keppel Company in Arkansas. “Our dealer network is strong and growing,” said Meghann McKinley, marketing manager of Doosan Infracore. Click for more...

Colony Park Sparks MDOT Contracts →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Approximately 66,000 vehicles per day currently travel I-55 daily between Old Agency and Steed Road near a $230-million shopping center under construction in Ridgeland, MS. That number is expected to increase to 81,000 when the 75-acre open-air lifestyle center, Renaissance at Colony Park, opens in fall 2007. Some road projects are being considered by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) to alleviate traffic in the area. Click for more...

CALTRANS Gives Highway 14 a New Angle →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When rain and wind consistently dislodged rock on State Highway 14 in Santa Clarita, CA, a $7.5 million slope stabilization project was required by District 7 of the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS). The project began in February by general contractor Peterson Chase General of Irvine, CA. The scope of work requires that the slopes be cut and stabilized by exaction and installation of cables with mesh netting along various areas, according to Peterson Chase General’s Project Manager, Lew DeLucia. Click for more...

Case Debuts New Iron at Its Tomahawk Experience Center →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Case Construction Equipment out of Racine, WI, recently revealed expansions and enhanced modifications to its long line of light and heavy equipment. The additions and modifications emphasize Tier III compliance standards, ease of equipment maintenance and service, improved operator ergonomics and visibility improvements. On the 500-plus acre grounds of the Case Tomahawk Experience Center located near Tomahawk, WI, Jim Mischke, product demonstrator of Case took a run with all of the new pieces of equipment to demonstrate many of the latest features designed into them. Click for more...

Linder Machinery Co. Offers Expanded Komatsu Line →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Komatsu America Corp. has introduced its new PC200LC-8, PC220LC-8 and PC600LC-8 hydraulic excavators, which are available through Linder Industrial Machinery Company’s 19 locations in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina. These machines are distinguished by enhancements in efficiency, information technology upgrades, improvements in operator comfort and new low emission engines that improve fuel consumption. Click for more...

Crazy Horse Open House Showcases Work on Statue →

From Construction Equipment Guide... For the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, Memorial Day Weekend and the onset of June marked both the beginning of the summer tourist season and the continuation of the non-profit Foundation’s efforts to create the largest statue on the planet. Included in the celebration was the display of a new Case CX240 excavator, which will be used, along with precision blasting and other earthmoving equipment, to reveal the sculpture of the legendary Oglala Sioux chief. Click for more...

Unexpected Groundwater Causes Stir at Pump Station →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Project challenges can always be overcome. But, sometimes there are surprises that test the mettle of a team’s quickness to respond. One of these surprises occurred at the $17.5 million pump station No. 357 in Miami, according to Project Manager Todd Palmatier of Atlantic Skanska Inc. the project’s Atlanta, GA-based general contractor. One of the project’s first hurdles was dewatering. Click for more...

Middlesex Takes on First Major Turnpike Project in 40 Years →

A Manitowoc 888 230-ton crane sat briefly idle after an early May rain shower at the intersection of Interstate 4 and Florida’s Turnpike in Orlando. But Middlesex Company workers got it working again as soon as they could — there’s a financial incentive in their future. Middlesex is the prime contractor in a turnpike-widening project, set to double the capacity of a 5-mi. stretch of expressway between milepost 254 at the south end of the job and milepost 259 at the north. Click for more...

Contractor Has Fairy Tale Relationship With Volvos →

From Construction Equipment Guide... School-age children and folk singers have long marveled at the legend of the mighty Paul Bunyan. As the story goes, Bunyan used a huge ax and a big blue ox to quickly and efficiently clear the woods of the upper Midwest. Rusty and Randy Ledbetter may not be legendary, nor is anyone writing songs about their work. Still, the Ledbetter brothers and their crew at Charles Ledbetter Logging are using two specially equipped Volvo excavators to cut and process logs at a pace that would make even the lumberjack of tall tale fame gasp in disbelief. Click for more...

Damaged Columbia River Jetties Under Repair →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Nature’s fury is played out in daily headlines: 2004’s southeast Asia tsunami, last year’s Gulf Coast hurricanes, the recent devastating earthquake in northern Pakistan, and so on. While not making national headlines, that fury also ia being felt on a daily basis on the Washington-Oregon border as massive waves pound — and are damaging — jetty walls at the mouth of the Columbia River. Click for more...

Lancaster County’s Warner Services Goes the Extra ’Miles’ to Clear Land →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When it comes to landclearing or debris clean-up, there’s not much that Rick Warner, owner of Warner Services, won’t tackle. “We try to work with our customers as best we can,” said Warner. This credo is part of the reason the Lancaster County, PA, company has been able to complete local and regional jobs; or even jobs as far away as Louisiana where they were doing some debris clean-up from Hurricane Katrina. Click for more...

D’allessandro Corp. Squeezes Iron Into Boston Streets →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As one of America’s oldest cities, Boston, MA, is a city steeped in history. Many of the city’s neighborhoods and streets were laid out long before the automobile was invented — making them narrow and cramped with the vehicle traffic now bustling on them. These streets are not only challenging to everyday drivers, but as the city has moved into modern times, the area’s construction and utility contractors have also found the city’s layout especially challenging for the type of construction and repair work they perform on a daily basis. Click for more...

Sales Team Trained on Compact Machines, Attachments →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Briggs Equipment held a training session in Charlotte, NC, for its eight new north region compact equipment salesmen May 10. “Compact equipment makes up about 53 percent of all units sold,” said Rob Jordan, compact equipment sales manager of Briggs. “We simply needed more people to sell our products.”Jordan coordinated the training session with help from Case representatives Marv Adkins and Jim Story, as well as FFC representative Ken Lordi. Click for more...

E.V. Williams Invades Battlefield Blvd. →

One of the worst traffic predicaments on Interstate 64 in Chesapeake, VA, should be improved by July 2009. The I-64/Battlefield Boulevard interchange has long been a motorist’s worst nightmare because of its close proximity to the Greenbrier Parkway interchange, creating merging difficulties amid high-speed traffic. As a result, tense drivers more often than not slow down suddenly or come to halting stops — sometimes right on the interstate. Click for more...

Volvo Excavator, Cab Production Heading to Asheville, NC →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) will begin building excavators and excavator and wheel loader cabs at its Asheville, NC, manufacturing facility. The company plans to invest, initially, $25 million with a possible additional $30 million over the next few years to increase its fabrication and assembly capabilities to meet growing requirements in the excavator market in North America. Production at the nearly 400,000 sq. Click for more...

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