Excavators

John Deere Goes to Work For Ohio Excavating Firm →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Started more than 65 years ago as a gravel hauling company, Miller Bros. Excavating has grown to one of the top earthmovers in Ohio. The firm branched into excavating in 1942 and has continued to expand, providing services to residential and commercial customers in a 70-mi. radius around Dayton. However, there is such a thing as becoming too big. With approximately 110 pieces of equipment and more than 100 trucks, the size of Miller’s fleet and equipment has grown to the point where it risked outgrowing the lower end of the earthmoving market — the farm ponds and gas stations. Click for more...

Green Bay Contractor Packs in Pipeline →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A consortium of six Green Bay, WI, suburban communities recently let bids to build a 65-mi. long raw-water pipeline from Ledgeview, WI, to a treatment plant on Lake Michigan in Manitowoc, WI. The huge pipe-installation project is divided into separate contracts, where each contractor is responsible for installing sections of the pipeline in different locations along the path which runs through portions of Brown and Manitowoc counties. Click for more...

Cranes Kept Busy at NC Phosphorus Reduction Plant →

Two Link-Belt rough-terrain cranes played a key role in the $29-million McAlpine Creek WWMF Phosphorus Reduction project in Pineville, NC. According to Geoff Doyle, a project manager of Atlantic Skanska Inc., the Atlanta-based general contractor, a Link-Belt 8050 and a Link-Belt 8070, each a rough-terrain crane leased from Atlantic & Southern of Atlanta, were used to set chemical tanks, pumps, sludge processing equipment and precast concrete water sample stations throughout the 1-sq.-mi. Click for more...

Enormous Project to Create Bypass Into State’s ’Heart’ →

From Construction Equipment Guide... On one stretch of road that serves as a merging point for Georgia State Route 316 and Interstate 85 South, in Lawrenceville, GA — the county seat for the sprawling Gwinnett County — the daily scene, at any given time, often resembles the final laps of a NASCAR race. Roughly 260,000 cars per day constantly fight for pole position on this main artery in and out of Atlanta, forcing drivers to merge into the left lane of traffic when merging onto I-85 south toward Atlanta, from state Route 316 West in Lawrenceville. Click for more...

Citrus Canker Sparks Projects for Florida Contractor →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In a place where citrus groves once dominated the landscape all the way to the horizon, coconut palm saplings and sprawling subdivisions are now sprouting up. On the western edge of Vero Beach, FL, Joe Massagee, vice president of Heavy Equipment Services (HES) drives his truck through a decontamination spray on the way to one of the company’s work sites. “The citrus canker destroyed most of the orchards in the area,” Massagee said. Click for more...

Scurry Sails Through Carolina Lakes Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As a teenager, President Andrew Jackson fought the British in the woods around his home in what now is Lancaster County, SC. Later, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops burned their way through the area. Were Sherman to return, he probably would do so as a retiree (perhaps in disguise, as his first visit wasn’t popular) to buy a lot in the first Del Webb Sun City retirement community in the central Carolinas. Click for more...

Equipment Gamble Pays Off for Upscale TX Storm Sewer Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Every year, millions of people travel to Las Vegas with hopes of finding their fortune in cash. Utility Contractor Connard Barker made that same trip to Vegas in early 2005, but instead of easy money, he was looking for a solution to a job-site challenge he was facing in Texas. To borrow an obvious Las Vegas cliche, Barker “hit the jackpot” at ConExpo-Con/AGG when he discovered the Volvo EW180B rubber-tired excavator. Click for more...

Averill Park Septic Service Builds on Family Ties →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When David Lobdell started his business in 1984, his equipment inventory consisted of only a small dozer, a Kubota tractor backhoe loader and a single axle dump. In those days, the company’s market area consisted primarily of Rensselaer and parts of Columbia and Albany counties in New York. “My primary interest was in expanding the excavation side of the company,” said Lobdell, “but unfortunately expanding it called for large investments in equipment.”To accomplish this, Lobdell had to expand his company gradually. Click for more...

DeFoe Takes Charge on Port Authority Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... DeFoe Corp. is quietly making good progress on a $46-million bus ramps and triple bridges rehabilitation project for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Launched March 7, 2002, the project, under the auspices of Mount Vernon, NY-based general contractor, DeFoe Corp., included the removal of an existing concrete bridge deck and replacing it with precast concrete slabs in 11 spans, according to DeFoe’s Project Manager, Dave Amato. Click for more...

Rogers Trailer Hauls in Big Savings for NJ’s Stone Industries →

When Stone Industries Inc. began shopping for a new lowboy trailer, it knew that versatility would be the main criteria in their decision. “Our business is multifunctional,” explained John Ciampo, of Stone Industries. “We manufacture crushed stone, sand and asphalt. We accept concrete and asphalt for recycling, and operate a Supply Center for decorative stone, landscaping and masonry needs. Click for more...

Branch Highways Working to Abate Flooding in Downtown Roanoke →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It has been 40 years in the making, but before long the city of Roanoke will experience less devastating floods that have plagued the city for years. The start of the Roanoke flood control project is a result of recent cooperation between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the city of Roanoke and Congressional representatives. The Roanoke-based Branch Highways Inc. was awarded a $3.8-million contract for initial improvements in phase one of the two-phase project. Click for more...

Design-Build Team Tackles U.S. 1/64 in N. Carolina →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The design-build team of The Lane Construction Corporation, SEPI Engineering Group and The LPA Group of North Carolina is well on its way to earning a bonus for the early completion of improvements to U.S. 1/64 in Wake County, NC. Crews are nearing the halfway mark of the $58-million project, according to Spokesman Kipp Bodnar of MMI Associates Inc., and should be complete by the end of the year — six months ahead of the deadline. Click for more...

A Task of Olympic Proportion in Charlotte →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Designed to mimic the most exciting rapids in the world, the artificial river being constructed as part of the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, NC, will be the future site of the official U.S. Olympic team training center for the U.S.A. canoe and kayak teams. According to Director of Development Lance Kinerk, the $35-million Whitewater Center, which sits on 306-acres, will include a conference center, restaurant, parking, high ropes course, mountain bike trails, rock climbing, and a 49-acre rafting attraction. Click for more...

Belknap Plumbing Reopens for Business Stronger Than Ever →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Kenneth Belknap has a couple of theories about how to grow a successful plumbing business. And so far, every single one of them has worked. Belknap Plumbing Systems Inc. in Houston, TX, has become a premier plumbing company under the direction of Belknap, company president. But the family-owned business hasn’t been without its hardships. When Belknap’s parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1990, only four months after he started working for their company full-time, Belknap Plumbing Systems was forced to go out of business. Click for more...

Ludwig’s Named LBX Excavator, Material Handling Distributor →

From Construction Equipment Guide... LBX Company, makers of Link-Belt Earthmoving, Forestry and Material Handling Equipment, has appointed Ludwig’s Equipment LLC as the authorized distributor of Link-Belt excavators and material handling equipment in eastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware. This appointment is effective immediately. “We are pleased to have the team Ludwig’s Equipment representing our products in the Philadelphia area,” said Mike Davis, director of Sales and Marketing of LBX. Click for more...

Arlington Mayor Lassos Cowboy Stadium Deal; Site Prep Kicks Off →

From Construction Equipment Guide... After more than 40 years at Texas Stadium in Irving, TX, the Dallas Cowboys are venturing west. No, they haven’t gone Hollywood. In fact, they’re only going approximately 15 mi. away to their new home in Arlington. The process began a year and a half ago when Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck met with team owner Jerry Jones to make his case. “I think I knew the city was going to get the contract right when I walked in the room,” said Cluck. Click for more...

Johansen Excavation Goes the Extra Mile With Hitachi Iron →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Johansens must have one gigantic Christmas tree to put presents under. JoAnn, one-half of the husband and wife ownership team of Johansen Excavation in Glen Head, NY, likes to buy big toys for her husband, David, for Christmas. This past December, for example, JoAnn arranged, for a second time in three years, to have a Hitachi excavator adorned with a big bow delivered to her husband. This time it was a Zaxis 270, which is now their company’s largest piece of equipment. Click for more...

Quarry Attacks Sandstone With ’SHARC’ Multi-Ripper Bucket →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Recently, production has risen sharply for one Greensville, PA, quarry. To excavate sandstone, White Rock Silica Sand Co. Inc. would use two excavators: one was equipped with a single pointed ripper while the other was used to load the material. The single pointed ripper, however, produced a lot of sand and was a strain on the excavator to which it was attached. And, if it rained before workers could load, the sandstone would absorb moisture and gum up the crushing-plant. Click for more...

Runaway Excavator Crashes Into Overpass →

From Construction Equipment Guide... HAYS, KS (AP) Eastbound traffic on Interstate 70 near Hays will have to endure a 9-mi. detour, after a piece of construction equipment damaged a 45-ft. section of an overpass on Feb. 13. Officials of the Kansas Department of Transportation expect an emergency repair of the bridge to be done by March 1. The detour takes motorists along U.S. 183. Hall Street, which crosses I-70 by way of the 40-year-old bridge, was scheduled to be widened within the next 10 years. Click for more...

Doosan Names A. Montano Dealer for Excavators, Wheel Loaders →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Doosan Infracore America Corp. has named A. Montano Co. as Southern Hudson River Valley Region dealer of Doosan Daewoo Construction Equipment. The Saugerties, NY-based dealer will sell, rent and provide service for Doosan Daewoo excavators and wheel loaders in the Upstate New York counties of Sullivan, Orange and Putnam. A. Montano Co. is a 25-year-old, family-owned and operated business that sells and rents new and used heavy equipment. Click for more...

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