Excavators

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...

Atlantic Tractor Pulls Forward →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Sixteen months after its merger, Atlantic Tractor has not only continued to serve those in the four-wheel-drive/scraper industry but is making tremendous strides forward in its commitment to be the preeminent John Deere dealer for this market, according to the company. New service support vehicles have just recently been added to the already triple digit fleet of Atlantic Tractor vehicles, and a new scraper/pan service vehicle and a new preventative maintenance/lube truck have joined Atlantic Tractor’s service fleet. Click for more...

JLG Industries Sells Gradall to Alamo Group for $39.4M →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Gradall has been sold to the Alamo Group Inc. The $39.4-million sale by JLG Industries Inc., which had owned Gradall since 1999, was announced at an employee meeting at the plant Feb. 3. Alamo becomes the ninth owner of Gradall excavators — generally recognized as the world’s first hydraulic excavator and now the only excavator manufactured entirely in the United States. “This is an exciting development for Alamo and one that will be synergistic to our business,” said Ron Robinson, Alamo Group’s president and CEO. Click for more...

New Komatsu Hydraulic Excavators Equipped With Komtrax Technology →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Komatsu America Corp. has introduced its PC200LC-8 and PC220LC-8 hydraulic excavators. These machines feature enhancements in efficiency, information technology upgrades, improvements in operator comfort and new low emission engines that improve fuel consumption. The powerful PC220LC-8 has a flywheel horsepower of 168 hp and an operating weight of 54,309 to 54,926 lbs. (24,634 to (24,914 kg), while the PC200LC-8 has a flywheel of 148 hp and an operating weight between 45,480 and 46,690 lbs. Click for more...

NJ Firm Brings New Jaw Crusher Attachment to the States →

The Eco-Crusher is one precious investment for contractors. Not only is it cost-effective, it also saves time and space on the job site. The machine is an excavator-attached jaw crusher that was previously unavailable in the United States. However, because of Giberson Enterprises in Shamong, NJ, the Eco-Crusher is now readily available to U.S. contractors. Giberson Enterprises was able to procure the distributing rights as the exclusive importer of the Eco-Crusher to the United States. Click for more...

Route 22 Project Under Way After 40 Years of Planning →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Environmental and historic issues are at the forefront of a road reconstruction project currently under way near Lewistown, PA. After 40 years in the planning stages, the road is finally becoming a reality, and is scheduled for completion by fall 2008. The contract called for the construction of a 6.65-mi. (10.7 km), four-lane limited access highway through a narrow river valley while maintaining traffic for an arterial highway link in Central Pennsylvania. Click for more...

D’Annunzio Leads Way to Holland Tunnel →

Work is under way to reconstruct the 12th Street and 14th Street viaducts, which support the approaches to the Holland Tunnel from Jersey City, NJ. Included in the project’s scope of work, according to Bill Weissman, a project executive of D’Annunzio & Sons Inc., the project’s Clark, NJ-based general contractor, is replacement of the concrete decks; repairs to the substructure, performing seismic retrofits to the viaducts; construction of a new shoulder; widening the structure along the 14th Street Viaduct, which is the westbound approach to the Holland Tunnel; construction of a new retaining wall on the east end of the 12th Street Viaduct; replacement of structural steel stringers; replacement of the bearings and miscellaneous approach road work. Click for more...

Compact Equipment Gets Contractor Out of Tight Spot →

From Construction Equipment Guide... For anyone traveling through Des Moines, IA, these days, the sight of cranes, dozers and loaders, to name a few, is not uncommon. Since 2001 there has been an explosion of construction activity, both road construction, and new building construction and renovation downtown. A great example of a major exterior renovation project is the Des Moines Federal Building, which for the past three years has been undergoing restoration. Click for more...

Stanford Stadium Axed; New Arena Construction Under Way →

From Construction Equipment Guide... How do you cut the time to construct a stadium in half?For some general contractors, they fast-track a project, issuing bid packages before a project’s designs are completed. For others, design-build is used as a means of cutting costs and expediting a project. But for Vance Brown Inc., of Palo Alto, CA, and the $115-million Stanford Stadium under construction at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, “The project delivery method is a hybrid between fast-track and pure design-build,” explained Vance Brown’s Senior Project Manager Rodney Humble. Click for more...

Monroe Tractor Celebrates 55-Year Anniversary →

From Construction Equipment Guide... “Don’t call me in the middle of the night if you have a problem.” That’s what Len Frederico, CEO and president of upstate New York’s Frederico Construction, said many equipment dealers would tell you if you had equipment break down. Saving Frederico Construction from a serious situation is just one of the reasons why Frederico prefers to work with Monroe Tractor when he buys, sells, or rents heavy equipment. Click for more...

Major Revitalization Work Slated for Bayonne Waterfront →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Hudson Valley Environmental Inc. (HVEI) has been doing its part to help revitalize the waterfront in Bayonne, NJ. South River, NJ-based company is nearing completion of a $5.5-million demolition project on Pier 35 on the Hudson River. According to HVEI Vice President of Operations Frank Pasalano, the project, which began in April 2005, is part of a revitalization effort by a private developer who plans to build a condominium on the project’s 65-acre site. HVEI’s primary responsibility is the demolition of a three-level, 270,000-sq.-ft. Click for more...

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