Crawler Dozers

More Space On the Way for New Yorkers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Although it looks toward one of the world’s most populous cities, the 172 acre (69.6 ha) Governors Island in New York Harbor is virtually unknown outside New York City, even though it lies in clear view and is only a seven-minute ferry ride from lower Manhattan. On Oct. 10, 2008, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other dignitaries were present to observe the start of the demolition of 10 three-story apartment buildings at the southern end of Governors Island. Click for more...

Reliable Landfill Crawler Helps Hamilton County Stay Ahead of Inspections →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Hamilton County, Fla.’s 15 year-old landfill crawler was breaking down too often. “Wire would get trapped in the final drive sprocket area and the machine would break down,” explained Dale Jackson, landfill director. “It was creating a lot of down time and a lot of repair bills.”The down time was the biggest problem. “The Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] checks on us regularly, and one of their biggest pet peeves is when you don’t have operational equipment. Click for more...

MoDOT Opens Route 21 Ahead of Time →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Motorists in Jefferson County, Mo., near St. Louis enjoyed a nice surprise recently when the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) opened a 4-mi. (6.4 km) stretch of Route 21 eight months early. The new segment from Lake Lorraine Road to Hayden Road is one of several projects to construct a new road to replace the old Route 21, a winding, hilly two-lane road that was considered one of the most dangerous in the state. Click for more...

McCourt Construction Begins Widening Infamous Route 128 →

Work has begun on a major component of MassHighway’s Route 128 highway expansion project, a lane-widening effort that will bring rush hour relief to thousands of Boston area commuters. Already under way, following Gov. Deval L. Patrick’s formal approval this past fall, the $42 million plan will reconstruct a section of Interstate 95/93 (Route 128) along the communities of Randolph, Canton, Westwood and Dedham — a stretch of highway that brings hundreds of thousands in and out of Metro Boston every day. Click for more...

English Erects Much-Needed New Yadkin River Bridge →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Heavy cranes are being moved into position to begin the girder assembly later this winter on a new $14.9 million, four-lane bridge spanning the Yadkin River along U.S. Highway 158 in North Carolina, 10 mi. southwest of Winston-Salem. The bridge links the communities of Clemmons in Forsyth County on the east bank of the Yadkin with Bermuda Run and Advance in Davie County on the west bank. The new span on U.S. Click for more...

Midwestern Introduces Side Boom Attachment for 1050J →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Midwestern Manufacturing Company has begun production of its newly designed sideboom attachment for the new John Deere 1050J model crawler tractor. The new pipelayer has a maximum lift capacity of 140,000 lbs. (63,503 kg) and was developed by Midwestern’s engineering group working closely with John Deere Construction Division engineers and senior representatives. The new Midwestern sideboom attachment for the John Deere 1050J follows last year’s design for the 1050C model, which was field-tested on a 36 in. Click for more...

Major League Work Involved With Braves Triple A Ballpark →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Back in June, it was farmland. But on April 17, Triple-A baseball teams the Gwinnett Braves and the Norfolk Tides will face off in the Braves’ new minor league stadium at the transformed 44-acre (17.8 ha) site in suburban Gwinnett County, Ga. The roughly $59 million construction project — headed by general contractor Barton Malow Company — is on schedule to have the 10,000-plus-seat stadium ready for the game, said Preston Williams, chief executive officer of the Gwinnett Convention & Visitors Bureau, the entity responsible for developing the land and managing the lease on the county-owned stadium. Click for more...

Fuhgetaboutit! $125M BQE Improvement Work Wraps Up →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As part of a massive project involving the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is rebuilding, improving and reconfiguring the section running from 61st Street to Broadway, updating the infrastructure to meet current standards in bridge safety, roadway and operations. Prime contractor Perini/Tutor-Saliba II JV, made up of Perini Corporation, based in Peekskill, N.Y., and Tutor Saliba, headquartered in Sylmar, Calif., are overseeing the work on this stretch of the expressway in a joint venture. Click for more...

Caterpillar’s PL61 Provides 40,000 Lbs. of Lift Capacity →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Introduction of the Caterpillar PL61 pipelayer positions a new, technically refined model at the small end of the Caterpillar pipelayer range — providing a machine with 40,000 lbs. (18,145 kg) of lift-capacity and the capability to meet the pipeline contractor’s requirements for precision control, transportability, operator comfort, visibility and durability. The PL61 shares many common components with the Caterpillar D6K tractor, featuring a Cat C6.6 ACERT engine, closed-loop hydrostatic drive system, oval-track SystemOne undercarriage and an electronically enhanced operator station. Click for more...

Dallas/Fort Worth Region Experiences Plant Growth →

Many communities in the United States have experienced substantial growth in the past 50 years, and a new generation of treatment plants is currently being built (both new plants and expansions and reconstruction of existing plants). Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex has had a boom in treatment plant construction. Unlike some areas of the construction industry that have been slowed by the economy, treatment plants are typically funded by revenue bonds, which are less sensitive to market conditions. Click for more...

Caltrans Finally Completes Red Hawk Parkway →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Red Hawk Parkway in El Dorado County opened in December 2008, providing a connection between U.S. Highway 50 and the Shingle Springs Rancheria. The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians has been waiting more than 40 years for a public access road to its reservation, ever since the construction of Highway 50 in 1965. Previously, the only road available for its use was a winding private road, covered with speed bumps and prohibited from commercial use. Click for more...

Komatsu D475A-5SD Super Dozer Lowers Operating Costs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Komatsu America Corp.’s D475A-5SD super dozer was developed to provide productivity, reliability and operator comfort for the mining and quarry industries. The super dozer pushes more material without a proportionate increase in operating weight and horsepower due to its blade design. The D475A-5SD’s 58.9-cu.-yd. (45 cu m) super dozer blade provides 15 percent more production than a conventional U-blade in level dozing. Click for more...

Airport Runways Back on Track in Iowa →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The tight tolerance requirements specified by the Federal Aviation Administration caused difficulties for an almost completed project at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, airport. However, DeLong Construction Inc., headquartered in Washington, Iowa, accomplished the task with the aid of GPS equipped equipment. It is not that long since this type of equipment was introduced to the construction industry, Paul Ruckman, GPS technician and land surveyor of DeLong Construction, recalled. Click for more...

PL61 Combines Power Train, Control Technology With Lifting Features →

Millennium Pipeline Replaces Old Gas Line in New York →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Replacing a flowing gas line is tricky. If the gas line happens to be 182 mi. (293 km) long and involves working in areas that feature nearly straight vertical drops, it’s that much more of a challenge. And those are the fundamentals of the new underground, natural gas pipeline going into the ground in upstate New York, under the direction of Millennium Pipeline Company LLC, Pearl River, N.Y. Click for more...

Trains Keep a Rollin’ as Morris Group Spans Busy Rail →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Heavy truck traffic coming in and out of the Mobile Container Terminal at Choctaw Point gets backed up by the long CSX freight trains that block Virginia Street when they chug by several times a day. A six-span bridge being built by The Morris Group Inc. over both the CSX tracks and a spur leading into the Port of Mobile is designed to alleviate that congestion. But working around the rail traffic has been a challenge on the bridge job, which began in May, said Shane Sansom, construction superintendent of the Birmingham-based firm. Click for more...

Liebherr, John Deere Update Crawler Relationship →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Liebherr Construction Equipment Co. and John Deere jointly announced the signing of a long term sourcing agreement for Deere branded 950 and 1050 size crawler dozers, and the discontinuation of the existing product supply arrangement for crawler loader machines between Liebherr-Werk Telfs GMBH and John Deere’s Construction & Forestry Division of Moline, Ill. Under the original agreement signed in December 2000, Liebherr has supplied large crawler dozers and crawler loaders to John Deere for distribution in the United States and Canada. Click for more...

Metrac, Pierce Pacific Spawn Material Handler From John Deere Excavator →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Combine the need for a new material handler with a heavy dash of brand loyalty and you’ll see the newest machine that’s hard at work at Jones Recycling. Gary Jones, CEO and co-owner of the Jefferson, Ga., auto recycling business, had been talking with Metrac, the local John Deere dealer, for nearly two years about his need of a specialized machine. With a specific task in mind, Jones had an extensive list of requirements for the machine. Click for more...

Davis Grading Turns to Topcon GPS for Competitive Edge →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Davis Grading needed an edge. Feeling the burden of a tanking economy that all but halted residential construction — even in Charlotte, N.C., which seemed to be dodging the national downturn — the grading contractor started to bid on more and more public contracts. The competition was tough. In the first few bids, the company was one of 10 to 15 firms vying for the job and “we were getting blown out of the water” at the bid opening, said Project Manager Tim Davis. Click for more...

North Construction Takes on Project of Olympic Proportion →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When skiers fly down the sides of mountains, it is called sport. When 35-ton (31.7 t) excavators do the sliding, it is called risky business. North Construction is perfectly familiar with each kind of mountainside thrill. The North Vancouver, Canada, “extreme terrain” contractor specializes in moving earth in places that might give pause to Great Plains contractors. Typical job sites for North are slanted 60 degrees or more. Click for more...

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