Excavators

Smith Rental Hits Jackpot With Yanmar Excavators →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Smith Rental, Sulphur Springs, TX, has become the first independent rental house in the state of Texas to purchase a Yanmar mini-excavator model B50-2B. R. W. Smith, owner and manager of Smith Rental said he purchased the Yanmar to offer a quality product to contractors. “The machine is easy to operate, and the nature of the hydraulics are not as jerky as other units I’ve tried,” said Smith. Click for more...

Denver Contractor Taps Rockies, Drills Caissons →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Denver, CO-based Coggins & Sons combines its experience with the latest in high-capacity, duty-cycle cranes technology to drill caissons in the daunting and beautiful Rocky Mountains. The caisson project the company is working on is the Veterans’ Hospital new parking garage project in downtown Denver. Coggins drilled 100 shafts for the installation of the deep-foundation piers. The multitude of piers is necessary because of the load that will be incurred on the ground from the new multi-level parking garage. Click for more...

Texas Environmental Recycling Selects Komatsu Unit for Power, Productivity →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Texas Environmental Recycling’s (TER) Field Supervisor Mike Malander recently purchased a Komatsu PC220LC-6 excavator from Continental Equipment Co. (CECo), Fort Worth, TX. This is the first new Komatsu machine sold out of the branch, according to CECo salesperson Dick Mulligan. TER and its parent company CERES Environmental Services Inc. have about twice as many Komatsu excavators as other machines, according to Malander. Click for more...

Bobcat 337 Digs Up Rave Reviews for Colorado Company →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Eight years ago, Dan Vavrina, Mead, CO, was a heavy equipment operator for a company that rented a compact excavator one day to install sewer lines in a limited access area. “I was immediately impressed with the power of the small machine,” Vavrina said. “I saw what you could accomplish with it, and I began to rent one for my own use in the evening and weekends. I’d do a job and immediately get calls for more work.” Before long, Vavrina started his own company — Colorado Mini Excavating. Click for more...

OH’s Kirila Contractors, Vienna Township Give AIM Attachments Two ’Thumbs Up’ →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Port Authority of Vienna Township, located near Youngstown, OH, recently enlisted the services of Kirila Contractors Inc. of Brookfield, OH, for a large commercial construction project. The $15-million proposal involves building a new 200,000-sq.-ft. (18,581 sq m) facility within the township. A major occupant of this facility will be The Timken Company, a leader in bearings and steel, whose corporate offices are located in nearby Akron. Click for more...

Former Community Hub Demolished With Hitachi →

From Construction Equipment Guide... What was once the center of the Westbury, NY, community has stood empty for 13 years and is soon to be demolished to make way for new development. Eastern Resource Service Inc. (ERS) has been contracted to tear down the Roosevelt Raceway, a 30-year legend in the community. The Roosevelt Raceway was built in 1941 and closed in 1987. During much of that time, the raceway was the town’s main attraction. Click for more...

Timothy J. Watters Named President of New Jersey’s Hoffman Equipment →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Timothy J. Watters has been named president and chief operating officer of Hoffman Equipment, Piscataway, NJ. The appointment was announced by William A. Hoffman Jr., chairman of Hoffman Equipment and its parent company, Hoffman International Inc. Hoffman is a domestic and international heavy equipment sales, service and rental organization focusing domestically, the market for which Watters will be responsible, in the New Jersey/southern New York area. Click for more...

New York Family Business Adopts Kobelco Blade Runner →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When you run a family-owned business, there are two things you can do to boost the company’s productivity: Have more kids or buy machines that can do more than one job. When Donald H. Stiriz, president of a small family-owned business, DHS Contracting Inc., went to ConExpo in Las Vegas last year, he saw a machine that he believed could significantly cut costs and boost his company’s productivity: a Kobelco ED180 Blade Runner, which is a combination of an excavator and a bulldozer. Stiriz said he believed the machine would help DHS eliminate both an extra operator and an extra piece of equipment on site, since the Blade Runner could do the work of an excavator and a bulldozer. Click for more...

Hackling Inc. Gets the Job Done With Samsung, Parker →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Hackling Inc., a Connecticut demolition and site construction company has utilized two Samsung SE 210s and a Parker tracked jaw crusher for its two recent projects. According to Robert Hackling, president of Hackling Inc., the company has been renting the Parker tracked jaw crusher with a radio remote control. The project that the company is currently working on involved the demolition of the East Hartford Plaza on Main Street in East Hartford, CT. On this site, a total of five buildings will come down. Click for more...

Oldest Maryland Contractor Breaks Ground With JCB →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Angelozzi Bros. Inc, one of the area’s oldest and most respected contractors, last year became the first Maryland business to take delivery of a JCB tracked excavator — a move it has not regretted. That’s not to say, however, that they did it without reservations. Frank and Nick Angelozzi summed up their previous experience with JCB in one word: “None.” “JCB to me was just a little ’scratcher’ company,” Frank said, referring to the backhoe loader operation that JCB has developed into one of the world’s largest. Click for more...

Bear Paw Attachment Takes Extreme Role on NH Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Bear Paw attachment from National Attachments is grabbing attention across the United States as an "extreme" machine. On a job site in New Hampshire, the Bear Paw 200H has been delivering uncompromising strength for Mike Workman of Workman Excavating, based in Gilmanto, NH. Attached to a Hyundai 160 LC-3 excavator, Workman has found the Bear Paw to be a reliable and versatile solution to his attachment needs. Click for more...

Moxy MT36 Demo Truck Hits the Dirt in Massachusetts →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Moxy MT36 demo truck was recently hauled up to Goodall and Sons Tractor, Westboro, MA, because Carl Goodall, owner, wanted to see how the truck ran. John McCourt Construction Co, a large company in the Boston area, agreed to demo the truck. McCourt was capping a large landfill in Quincy and turning it into a golf course. The MT36, working along with four Volvo A35Cs, was being loaded by a Hitachi EX550, and then hauled uphill about one-half mile. Click for more...

PBHs Level Multiple Structures in Colorado Cleanup →

From Construction Equipment Guide... What was once an important site for the manufacture of nerve gases is being given back to nature. The U.S. Army’s 27-sq.-mi. (43.5 sq km) Rocky Flats Arsenal in Colorado is now a wildlife preserve…home to deer, eagles, rattlesnakes, and prairie dogs. But there is still a great deal of cleanup to be done. Environmental Chemical Corporation of Burlingame, CA has been at this location since May, and its work won’t be finished until the end of September at the earliest. Click for more...

Route 36 Project’s Conditions Keep Missouri Contractors on Their Toes →

From Construction Equipment Guide... North central Missouri boasts some of the country’s finest farmland. However, pockets of the region have more challenging geographical features, including glacial till and wetlands. The design and construction of Route 36 illustrate how the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) and contractors are addressing the area’s unique topography. A primary east/west highway in the region, Route 36, is receiving a complete overhaul and being upgraded to four lanes. Click for more...

Patten Tractor Places Cat 320CL Front and Center →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Patten Tractor & Equipment Co., hosted an exhibition on the new Caterpillar 320CL hydraulic excavator in Elmhurst, IL, on Sept. 27. The exhibition was a joint venture between Caterpillar Inc. and Patten Tractor & Equipment Co. The introduction was done by Crane Patten, owner. Mike Pospischil, heavy equipment sales manager, followed with the introduction of the day’s events. On hand from Caterpillar Inc. Click for more...

Fred Weber Inc. Finds Route 141 New Place to Reside →

From Construction Equipment Guide... One of St. Louis County’s most congested intersections is receiving a complete overhaul that should improve the moods of many commuters. Route 141 will be relocated and enhanced from south of Clayton Road to Vance Road. The new road will be a six-lane highway with limited access. All the access to the new Route 141 will be at interchanges and intersections. There will not be any private or commercial entrances. Click for more...

Sleepy Stretch of Highway 87 Gets Barnhill’s Wake-Up Call →

Looking at a map of North Carolina, the 13-mile (21 km) stretch of NC 87 angling southeast from Interstate 95 would not seem to warrant four-laning. At its southern end, the roadway reaches nothing more than the outskirts of the small town of Tar Heel. The destination hardly seems worth $20.5 million that the NC Department of Transportation is spending on upgrading the highway. But just outside Tar Heel sits a big, impressive reason for the new roadway: a rambling Smithfield Packing plant, supplier of pork products to hungry consumers. Click for more...

Gradall Road Show Hits J.W. Burress in North Carolina →

From Construction Equipment Guide... J.W. Burress hosted a Gradall Road Show at its Charlotte branch on Friday, March 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. More than 100 area contractors came in to see and operate the three Gradall models that were on hand. The models included Gradall XL3100, XL3200 and XL3300. The Gradall XL3100 is road legal at highway speeds. The XL3200 is a track version with the same upper as the XL3100 and XL3300, but with a crawler undercarriage. Click for more...

Beers-York Finds Creek a New Home During School Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... They had to move a creek to construct a new Hollis Academy building in Greenville, SC. The kindergarten-through-fifth-grade school building will replace an existing structure that sits in front of it on a 5-acre (2-h) building site at the intersection of Goodrich and Eighth streets. The entire parcel contains about 25 acres (10 h), according to school officials. The original structure, which began life as Judson High School, was built 45 years ago near a stream that crosses behind it on the school grounds. But Beers-York Construction Co. Click for more...

Contractor Drives Faster With Link-Belt LS-138H →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Alabama Bridge Builders Inc., worked hard to drive approximately 3,200 piles before its deadline, at the new Honda Manufacturing of Alabama vehicle and engine plant in Lincoln, AL, 40 miles east of Birmingham. Alabama Bridge Builders used a pair of new Link-Belt LS-138H II cranes equipped with Delmag diesel pile hammers to drive the pile to bedrock. A 30-ton (27 t) capacity RTC-8030 Series II rough terrain crane is also on site serving a multitude of support functions, including positioning 60-ft. Click for more...

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