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Victor L. Phillips Parlays Light Iron Success Into New Market →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Lynn Ronnebaum, Kansas City branch manager of The Victor L. Phillips Company, has spent the last eight months revamping the company’s personnel as it moves forward into the crushing, screening and pavement and compaction markets. By hiring new management, Ronnebaum is positioning the Kansas City branch to be a premier player in the quarry market. Although Victor L. Phillips is one of the oldest compaction equipment dealers in the nation, it wanted to revitalize its sales position in this area. Click for more...

Quality Grows From Single ’Tonka’ to Fleet of New Hollands →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When William Hammersmith founded his business, Quality Construction, his friends mocked his small excavator by referring to it as a “Tonka.” Twenty-one years ago, before his son, Tony, and his wife, Lisa, joined the firm, Hammersmith started out humbly with just one employee — himself. Then, he focused on local utility work. Those days are gone. In early May, Hammersmith finished a 220- by 80- by 22 ft. Click for more...

GPS Makes the Grade for McAninch Corporation in NC →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A road relocation project in North Carolina includes several unique features, including custom-built equipment and a heavy reliance on Trimble GPS technology. The $40.4-million project involves the relocation of existing Route 16 in Lincoln and Catawba counties to a new divided four-lane roadway. The contract for the project was awarded to McAninch Corporation, of West Des Moines, IA. The company’s management team for the project includes Doug McAninch, president and COO; Don Taylor, vice president, National Division; Scott Hintz, general superintendent; Adam Whittington, project manager; and Bill Howard, project superintendent. Click for more...

Ditch Witch’s Mini Machines Making a Mark in Florida →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In order to think big, Ditch Witch of Central and South Florida is looking small. “The trend over the past few years has been moving to compact equipment and the addition of these products is a logical extension of our traditional line of underground construction equipment,” said General Manager Kent Stephenson. “Their productivity, ease of operation and the versatility offered by more than 70 attachments makes these machines multi-purpose tool carriers capable of doing many different jobs.”The popularity of the smaller machines comes from their ability to move in areas that would otherwise require hand labor. Click for more...

Firm Celebrates Gold With Hitachi Orange →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The 750 employees of Texas Sterling Construction are celebrating the company’s golden anniversary. Its 50th is shaping up to be its best year ever, in part due to Hitachi. In 1981, Sterling Construction founders Jim and Pat Manning moved from Michigan way down south to the booming Houston metro. Terry Williamson joined the company in 1990, and expanded the company’s capabilities by jump-starting the concrete paving division. Click for more...

New Bridge in Pennsylvania Carries On Old Tradition →

The current project to replace a southwestern Pennsylvania bridge carrying US Route 40 over the Youghiogheny Reservoir raises memories of a span constructed almost 200 years ago — a bridge that still emerges occasionally from beneath the water that drowned a score of local villages during the 1940s. The First Two BridgesThe original Great Crossings Bridge was 40 ft. (12.2 m) high and 30 ft. (9.1 m) wide. Click for more...

Fastracs Makes Tracks in New York With Caterpillar Iron →

From Construction Equipment Guide... “Back in the day,” more than 70 years ago, when Red Hook, NY, seemed as far away from New York City as one could get, Oakleigh Cookingham, the sheriff of Dutchess County, made a decision that has been a work in progress ever since. Before he left the sheriff’s office, Cookingham purchased a 200-acre farm in Red Hook, located approximately 80 mi. north of New York City, in the Hudson Valley. Click for more...

Relief Coming for Notorious Cape Cod Clog →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When the Sagamore Rotary in Massachusetts was first built approximately 70 years ago, traffic leading to scenic Cape Cod was still light. The region was still a popular getaway, but by 2005 standards, it was an easy drive. Times have changed, though, and so have the traffic patterns throughout metropolitan regions of the United States. The numbers have always ballooned on Cape Cod during the summer months, but today’s numbers have boomed beyond understanding. Click for more...

White Oak Inks Big Kubota Sale For C. W. Wright Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... With the promise of three years of steady work in his company’s future, Jay Spruill went on the hunt for a new fleet of heavy equipment. C. W. Wright Construction Company had received the contract from Progress Energy to install underground cable in a multitude of new subdivisions in Haines City and Buena Vista, FL. With no end in sight for Florida’s housing boom, Spruill knew he’d be able to keep new equipment quite busy and decided to buy. Click for more...

ACS Industries Plays it Safe With Customers, Employees →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When it really comes down to it, safety is Joe Zeno’s top priority. Sure, the president of ACS Industries Inc., originally known as American Coupler Systems, in Kent, OH, is looking to make a profit, but not if it means putting his employees or his customers in a dangerous situation. At its Ohio facility, the company, which first introduced the ACS quick coupler system for wheel loaders in 1968, earned Ohio Workman Compensation’s highest safety rating and boasts the lowest number of incidents of lost time in its category. Click for more...

Aesthetics Count During I-4 Work Through Ybor →

Ybor, “the city with a past,” is getting a new roadway. Not only is it expected to make travel easier, it should be quieter with aesthetically pleasing noise walls built to match the historic ambiance of the city. As a result, the surrounding neighborhood will have more green space and larger medians, which could spark a return to enjoying the outdoors for Ybor residents. Called “Florida’s Latin Quarter,” Ybor beckons visitors back to another era. Click for more...

B&B Demolition Infiltrates The Citadel’s Law Barracks →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Law Barracks stood for 66 years on The Citadel campus and was home to generations of cadets. But the castle-like structure is gone now. It couldn’t withstand the assault upon it by an Hitachi EX300LC demolition excavator. Using the machine’s 71-ft. (22 m), three-piece boom, B&B Demolition Company attacked the building at its most reinforced point: the top. Once concrete caps were removed from the turreted and serrated top edge of the building’s walls, the brick structure beneath surrendered without much trouble. Click for more...

Red Oak Disposal Service Carves Niche in Demolition, Recycling →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Red Oak Disposal Service Inc., a southern New Jersey contractor, has been taking on specialized jobs in demolition and recycling since 1986 to meet the needs of a changing, growing economy. “We take on the jobs that no one else can or wants to take on. We clear and recycle stumps and brush as well as blacktop and concrete. We will take down an old garage as well as pull up a parking lot and recycle all of the material we take away. Click for more...

Norsic & Son Still Going Strong After 73 Years in Business →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In the early 1930s, while the nation was in the throes of the Great Depression, Emil “Pop” Norsic worried about his financial future like so many others of his time. In 1932, however, an opportunity came along for Norsic when he was offered a chance to buy the assets of a failing company. He did not see this as a risk; rather he saw it as his big chance to take control of his own destiny and make a better life for his family. Click for more...

Daewoo Wows Dealers With New Training Facility in GA →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Daewoo Heavy Industries America Corp. hosted a Product Support Seminar April 21 and 22 at its North American headquarters in Suwanee, GA, to introduce its dealers to its new training facility. A total of 39 distributorships from the United States, Mexico and Canada were represented, 20 of which sent dealer principles. Several dealers received awards for outstanding product support, which were presented at the Daewoo sponsored reception and dinner. Click for more...

British Military Invention Strengthens Embankment →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Near the Kentucky border on southbound Interstate 75, in Ellico, TN, a displacement of soil has caused a problem that has to be dealt with quickly or it might further jeopardize travel in the area. Time and weather eroded soil under the roadway, creating an unstable surface on which to drive. “This is an embankment that failed,” said Max Morton of the Knoxville-based Philips and Jordan Inc. Click for more...

Hitachi Drives Lattimore Operations in TX →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In a world dominated by publicly owned ready-mix and aggregate companies, Lattimore Materials is a thriving, family-owned business. But don’t equate “family owned” with “small.”Headquartered in McKinney, TX, Lattimore is one of the top three ready-mix producers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The company owns 19 ready-mix plants, and seven sand, gravel and rock mining operations in north Texas and southern Oklahoma. Click for more...

I-84 Reconstruction on Track for Fall Finish →

The reconstruction of a portion of Interstate 84 (I-84), which is nearing completion, required an array of heavy construction equipment to meet project challenges and normal project needs. According to Rick Negro, the project manager of Plainville, CT-based Manafort Brothers Inc., the project’s general contractor, the project, which began May 21, 2003, included the reconstruction of 3 mi. (4.8 km) of mainline I-84, both eastbound and westbound, in Southington and Cheshire, CT. Click for more...

Miami Gardens Drive Job Focal Point of New City →

Just more than a year after it began, three separate but related reconstruction projects in the 2-year-old city of Miami Gardens, FL, are progressing nicely toward completion. They represent the final phase of a comprehensive plan designed to improve traffic flow and safety along Miami Gardens Drive. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) launched the projects in February 2004. The work includes Miami Gardens Drive from NW 28th Place to NW 2nd Avenue, and is expected to last approximately two years at an estimated cost of $20 million. Click for more...

Two Contractors Join Forces for Lithonia Industrial Blvd. Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... To the north, there’s E.R. Snell Contractor of Snellville, GA. To the south, it’s Shepherd Construction Co. of Atlanta. And in the middle, making sure the Lithonia Industrial Boulevard project is running smoothly, is Project Engineer Christina Rooney. The two contractors submitted a joint contract because of the scope of the $49-million road project in DeKalb County that will extend Lithonia Industrial Boulevard, relocate Interstate 20 entrance and exit ramps and realign eastbound and westbound Frontage Road. Click for more...

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