Excavators

Groff’s Personnel Changes Focus on Customer Service in PA →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Groff Tractor, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, PA, has announced recent personnel changes. John Ehrin has been hired as the company's compact equipment territory manager for western Pennsylvania. Terry Wilhelm, Jeff Hood and Brett Schultz has have been hired as account managers and Steve Weikert has been promoted to regional sales manager. Ehrin will be responsible for selling and renting Case skid steer loaders, mini-excavators, mini-wheel loaders as well as Takeuchi tracked skid steer loaders and mini-excavators. Click for more...

Cat 420D Proves Workhorse on Orlando Infrastructure Jobs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When it comes to infrastructure construction in Central Florida –– schools, streets, and waterworks –– Gibbs & Register Inc. (G&R) of Winter Garden is often the contractor of choice. G&R crews, numbering 80 to 100 employees in all, recently have completed: • A nine-school expansion project in Brevard County consisting of parking lots, sanitary and drainage work; • A major city beautification project in Winter Garden, rebuilding entire boulevards and even upgrading community parks; • A municipal water treatment plant constructing the entire facility. Click for more...

Jesco Provides Unique Solution for J.F. Kiely Pipeline Project in McKey City →

From Construction Equipment Guide... South Plainfield equipment dealer Jesco Inc. recently assisted long-time customer J.F. Kiely Construction Co. with its equipment selection for a project Kiely has been awarded by the South Jersey Gas Co. in Egg Harbor Township, NJ. The contract was awarded to J.F. Kiely, following a competitive bid situation and was selected, in part, for the project due to its vast experience in gas utility installation. Click for more...

Crane, Boring Rig Combo Drop Shafts in Tight Quarters →

To sink a pair of 6.5-ft-diameter open shafts 250 ft., mostly through rock, a specialty contractor is using a compact dry boring rig originally designed for cast-in-place piles. Raito Inc., Geosystems Construction Specialists, the American arm of a Japan-based construction firm, is installing two concrete-lined vent and drop shafts for the new Combined Sewer Overflow tunnel in Providence, RI. Raito’s U.S. Click for more...

Daewoo Surges to Industry Forefront in Asia, America →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It’s often said one becomes stronger during bad times. The same could be said of Daewoo, which has been coming on strong in recent years. But the good days only arrived after some trying times for the long-time iron maker. Today, Daewoo enjoys the status of being the No. 4 excavator manufacturer in the world and it resides alone at the top in sales in China. In addition to excavators, the company annually produces 37,000 diesel engines and was recently awarded the wheel loader contract with the New York City Department of Sanitation. Click for more...

J.H. Reid Keeps Newark Route 21 on Track →

From Construction Equipment Guide... “We’ve actually got five bosses on this job,” Steve Gravelin, project engineer of J.H. Reid, general contractor, of South Plainfield, NJ, said about the company’s $42-million contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) to reconstruct NJ Route 21, also called McCarter Highway, in downtown Newark. Besides NJDOT, Reid “works” (under overall supervision of NJDOT) for the following: • NJ Transit. Click for more...

Riverbend Marketplace Finds Footing in Hills of Asheville →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Asheville, NC, is nestled between the Blue Ridge and Great Smokey mountains at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers. The city is a diverse, urban area, made up of people who have spent their entire lives in the area and transients seeking refuge from more fast-paced parts of the country. It also is an area rich in history, its roots deeply embedded in manufacturing, from textiles of the past to electronics of today. Click for more...

Binder Machinery Takes on Sennebogen’s Green Line →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Scrap yards and other facilities in New Jersey and lower New York State could be turning green — as in Sennebogen’s Green Line of material handlers, which will now be available through Binder Machinery Company in South Plainfield, NJ. Both Binder and Sennebogen are excited about the new partnership. “We know our scrap-recycling and material-handling customers are always looking for products that will help them do their jobs faster, safer and more profitably. Click for more...

Heitsche Boyz Propels Profits With Eagle UltraMax →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Since the early 1990s, Ted Heitsche has operated Ted’s Trucking, a successful hauling company in Collins, OH, just south of Toledo. With his trucking business firmly established, Heitsche did what few people would do: create a second business in an industry he knew little about. In 1998, a former asphalt plant manager at S.E. Johnson introduced Heitsche to the asphalt and concrete recycling industry. Click for more...

McAllister Expands Volvo Offerings With Compact Line →

From Construction Equipment Guide... McAllister Equipment Co. announced it has expanded its product offering to include the Volvo compact equipment product line. For years, McAllister has represented Volvo’s heavy product line, including wheel loaders, articulated haulers, excavators and motorgraders. The compact product line consists of Volvo’s skid steer loaders and backhoe loaders — new to McAllister — as well as existing lines of compact wheel loaders and compact excavators. Click for more...

NY Contractor Breaks Open Tight Spaces With Kobelco’s Gate Keeper →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Pete DeRosa works in such tight spaces that he and his crews have to wheelbarrow out materials. And if it weren’t for his Kobelco SR13 Gate Keeper zero tail-swing excavator, he’d be doing that a lot more. DeRosa founded his company, P. DeRosa Inc., of Dix Hills, NY, in 1971, after serving in Vietnam and spending some time with a Long Island-based landscaping company. In its early stages, DeRosa’s company did landscaping and provided landscape management. Click for more...

PA Job Surmounts Difficulties, Wins Archaeological Award →

From Construction Equipment Guide... During the past 10 years, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has invested more than $160 million in its modernization of U.S. Route 15 in Tioga County. It also has committed itself to an investment of approximately $200 million to complete the job of upgrading this highway between Williamsport, PA, and the New York State border. Project BackgroundThis latest section of the U.S. Click for more...

Daewoo Opens Doors to Asian Facilities →

From Construction Equipment Guide... From April 17 to 23, Daewoo Heavy Industries America Corporation provided a tour of its production facilities in Incheon, Korea and Yantai, China, as well as its parts warehouse in Ansan, Korea, for a select group of representatives from its North American dealer network. The six-day tour combined both business and pleasure by providing attendees the opportunity to learn more about Daewoo and the cultures of Korea and China. Click for more...

Volvo Pulls W.D. Excavation Through Rocky Job Sites →

From Construction Equipment Guide... William Dubray won’t find himself or his company caught between a rock and a hard place as long he has his Volvo excavators. Dubray founded W.D. Excavation and Contracting Inc. with his father, William, in 1978. The Croton-on-Hudson, NY-based firm does mostly residential excavation. W.D. Excavation and Contracting is currently working in Peekskill on a 200 unit residential housing project. In all, 110,000 yds. Click for more...

Hyundai Bridges Theory, Practice With Interactive Training →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It could be argued that service is the most important facet of the heavy-equipment business. For this reason, many manufacturers greatly invest time and money into technician training. For Hyundai Inc. this meant reevaluating its training and coming up with a new program utilizing tools relatively new to the industry. For several years, Hyundai has been doing training in the field at dealer locations. Click for more...

JCB Marches in Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade →

From Construction Equipment Guide... JCB Inc. was presented the Thomas J. Beytagh trophy for its entry in the 2004 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, held on March 17 in Savannah, GA. The trophy honors the late Thomas J. Beytagh, 1976 grand marshal of the annual parade, the second largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the world. Dermot Ahern, Irish minister of communications, marine and natural resources, said, “I have been to St. Click for more...

Chuck Mason Equipment Expands With New Lines →

From Construction Equipment Guide... For more than 30 years, Chuck Mason Equipment Sales Inc. has been offering contractors in Tennessee and beyond quality used equipment, from backhoes and excavators to buckets and trailers. Over the past four years, the Johnson City, TN-based company has expanded into the new equipment market, and the lines –– which include JCB, Hyundai, New Holland and Kobelco –– have spawned new growth and mounting awards. Click for more...

Triangle Grading Squares Off on Durham County, NC, Bridge Replacement Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Triangle Grading and Paving, based in Burlington, NC, recently began on-site preparations on a new $1.5- million, three-lane bridge and road project that will cross over the Northeast Creek, on Alston Ave., in western Durham County, NC. The new bridge will replace a 30-year-old, two-lane asphalt bridge built on pre-stressed concrete channels, and supported by reinforced concrete caps on timber piles. Click for more...

Hitachi Makes Earth Move on MODOT Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In Missouri, rigid-frame trucks are usually associated with rock work, not dirt work. Rain turns dirt to mud and clay, and conventional thinking says, “Use articulated trucks” if there’s any possibility of moisture. But Hilty Quarries was bidding a 2.8-mi. (4.5 km) MODOT State Highway 13 road-bed project, and it really wanted to use rigids because of their usefulness post-project at its various quarries. Click for more...

Relocation of I-195 Creates Domino Effect in Providence →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The relocation project of I-195 in Providence, RI, has created a domino effect there. To move the intersection of that highway and Interstate 95, numerous other huge construction projects must be undertaken first. Take, for example, the 1,250-ft. (379 m) bridge that carries I-195 across the Providence River. Work is just beginning on a new one, 2,000 ft. (606.7 m) to the south. It is all a part of the plan to move the intersection of the two interstates, thus making I-195 a straighter and safer route for travel through the city. Click for more...

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