Excavators

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...

I-80 Job on Track, Despite Undercutting →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The 7-mi. (11.3 km) refurbishment of I-80 between Yarnell and Bellefonte in Pennsylvania is running on schedule, despite extensive undercutting because of clay and other fine materials. The project began on Feb. 28, 2005, with the westbound lanes and is expected to wrap up by Nov. 22, 2006, with the completion of the eastbound lanes. “This section of I-80 was built in mid- to late-60s. The original embankment fills were constructed mostly of rock until the last few feet to subgrade. Click for more...

Sound Barriers Added to Sawgrass Expressway →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Concrete noise wall panels are being lowered and locked into place between H-post after H-post along an approximately 7-mi. stretch of Southwest Florida’s Sawgrass Expressway. The Sawgrass, a section of the 312-mi. (502 km) Florida Turnpike system, between the turnpike’s southern interchanges and Interstate 75, is being widened in two phases from four to six lanes to accommodate the ever-increasing traffic flow along the road otherwise known as state Route 869. Click for more...

Demolition Crew Scraps Deserted Utah Steel Town →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In January 2004, Grant Mackay Demolition won the largest contract in all demolitiondom, the dismantling of Geneva Steel in nearby Orem, UT. Geneva is an aged metropolis of 1,800 acres of gray- and rust-colored metal, concrete and I-beams. The former Geneva Steel Works is now a ghost town, where 1940s postwar buildings are lined up in rows throughout the complex. Signs abound, some instructional: “Hard Hats To Be Worn At All Times.” Some identifying: “Building 73.”Nearby, Josh Mackay rips through the metal infrastructure with a Hitachi EX1200 excavator. Click for more...

Nuclear Power Plant Goes Up in Smoke →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Ten years into a decommissioning process that will likely continue for two more decades, the Trojan Nuclear Plant cooling tower in Rainer, OR, was imploded at 7 a.m. on May 21. Crowds of onlookers, including a large constituency of former plant employees, watched from a dock in Kalama, WA, directly across the Columbia River from the plant. In partnership with Portland General Electric (PGE), Controlled Demolition Inc. Click for more...

State Line Machine Celebrates 40 Years in Business →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When heavy equipment fails and costly downtime looms, someone must be available to repair diesel engines or hydraulic systems, weld, or rebuild undercarriages. Fulton S. Owensby recognized this fact in the early 1960s and sought to be that person. For the past 40 years the Wilmington, DE-based company has been working to keep its customers’ equipment — from airport snow plows to Army Corps dozers — up and running. Click for more...

EastCoast Reduces Fuel Consumption While Juggling 14 Jobs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... EastCoast General Contractors Inc., a large general contractor based in Massachusetts, is a juggler. Just as a juggler is able to manipulate several objects and keep them in motion, so too can EastCoast Contractors keep several projects in motion at the same time. EastCoast Contractors serves the northeastern United States with its general contracting company as well as its excavation division and currently, it is juggling 14 different job sites. Click for more...

Made-to-Order Rigs Key to $150M Dey Street Job →

Two Davey Kent model 515 mini-pile drilling rigs and a Bauer BG-40 from Germany were all made-to-order rigs to meet the construction challenges of the $150-million Dey Street Concourse structural box project now under way in lower Manhattan. The design-build project, which began August 2005 and is the second of five contracts, called for the construction of at least a 1,000-ft. (304.8 m) long underground pedestrian passageway that will link (approximately 500 ft. Click for more...

Doosan Infracore Showcases New Products in Manalapan →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Doosan Infracore made its third stop on a nationwide tour in Manalapan, NJ, May 10, to launch its new DX Series of excavators and DL Series of wheel loaders. The event began with a slide presentation at the Ramada Inn in East Windsor, NJ, by Chad Ellis, training and product manager, assisted by Brian Sheely, Southeast Regional sales manager of Doosan. Following lunch at Staybridge Suites in Cranbury, NJ, the invited dealers and contractors met at the dig site in Manalapan, hosted by Hoffman Equipment of Piscataway, NJ. Click for more...

Campus Overhaul a Lesson in Teamwork →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) campus in Little Rock has begun $265 million in campus expansion projects. It is one of the most expensive construction efforts in Arkansas since the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigational System was built in the 1960s. It started as two smaller, but separate jobs, said Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson. “Our existing hospital was built in the 1950s and is inadequate for meeting our patient care, education, research and community outreach missions in the future. Click for more...

Born to Ruin - CDI Razes Asbury Park Eyesore →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It took weeks of planning, but in a mere 14 seconds, the 12-story, steel-frame remains of an abandoned, uncompleted condominium building known as C-8 in Asbury Park, NJ, came crashing down. “It’s about time,” said Kenny Wilson, of Asbury Park, passing by on his morning jog three days prior to the implosion. “It’s been up there too long. It’s an eyesore, you know?”In 1986, C-8 was part of a $500-million redevelopment project that was never completed because its developers went bankrupt. Click for more...

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