Crawler Dozers

Murray Demolition Cleans Up After the Four Sisters →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A distinctive landmark west of Toronto on the Lake Ontario shoreline for more than 40 years, the four imposing concrete stacks of the Lakeview Thermal Generating Station, each 480 ft. (146 m) high, were demolished in a controlled drop and on the ground in less than 30 seconds on June 12, 2006. The concrete stacks were commonly known as “The Four Sisters” as each of the plant’s eight boilers were paired off or “sistered” to a common exhaust stack. Click for more...

Skanska Builds Super New Giants Stadium →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Site work and ongoing adjacent construction projects are among the challenges faced by the team that is building New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The $998 million, 2.2-million-sq.-ft. (204,387 sq m) steel and concrete facility will include 82,000 seats and 217 luxury suites for New York Giants and Jets fans. According to Frank Falciani, senior vice president of Skanska USA Building, the project’s Parsippany, N.J.-based design-build construction manager, work began May 21, 2007. Click for more...

Prank Ends With CSX Train Ramming Stolen Bulldozer →

From Construction Equipment Guide... COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) Police in the Metro East community of Collinsville are trying to figure out who left a bulldozer on railroad tracks as a possible prank before it was rammed by a train. Investigators said the crash early Jan. 12 near the city’s Glidden Park didn’t cause a derailment or any injuries. But police said the wreck seriously damaged the CSX locomotive and the bulldozer. Click for more...

Crews Forge Twin Spans Over the Susquehanna →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A $60 million bridge project currently under way in Pennsylvania’s Lycoming County is expected to enhance revitalization efforts taking place in downtown Williamsport as well as create a direct connection between SR 15 and I-180. The Susquehanna River Bridge carrying SR 15 and linking Williamsport and South Williamsport is in the process of being replaced with twin bridges, in tandem with construction of a single point urban interchange (SPUI) connecting SR 15 and I-180. Click for more...

Brubacher on Par for Applecross Course Finish →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Applecross Country Club Community, featuring more than 1,000 town, carriage, classic, estate and active adult homes, is currently under construction in East Brandywine Township, approximately 4 mi. from Downingtown, Pa. Once fully inhabited, the 860-acre development is expected to double the local population. The upscale community is a partnership venture by Pulte Homes, based in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., ClubCorp, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and Nicklaus Design of North Palm Beach, Fla. Click for more...

Mascaro Barrels Ahead on Bradford Bypass Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Mascaro Construction, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is barreling ahead on an ambitious $55 million project to rebuild the Bradford Bypass section of Route 219 in north-central Pennsylvania. “Last year, we experienced a lot of rain, which created wet conditions,” according to Hal Harmon, project manager of Mascaro. “This year, the weather has cooperated.”Mascaro, and 26 subcontractors, have assembled an arsenal of heavy equipment to complete the massive Bradford Bypass project. Click for more...

Mainline’s Work Allows Honda Jet Engine Plant to Take Flight →

Before Honda Corp. can put Burlington, N.C., on the map as the manufacturing center for a heralded new product, the company needs a facility in which to build it. This fall, Mainline Contracting Co. of Durham, N.C., jump-started the construction that will put the Japanese company in its facility. Over the course of two hectic months that ended the first of October, Mainline prepared a 90-acre (36 ha) tract where Honda will establish its Honda Aero Inc. Click for more...

An Earthmoving Moment: N.C. Contractor Pops the Question With His Bulldozer →

From Construction Equipment Guide... This job didn’t quite fall within the specs of Michael Autry’s bulldozer. But the John Deere 750, with the guidance of a Sokkia GPS, helped him etch a life-altering message in a Fayetteville, N.C., job site. In 40-ft. letters on the side of a hill, Autry wrote, “Marry me.”After a year and a half relationship with girlfriend Melissa Chadwell of Fayetteville, N.C., Autry of Gray’s Creek, N.C., decided it was time to take the plunge into marital bliss. Click for more...

John Deere Awarded Contract to Build Machines for U.S. Marines →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The U.S. Department of Defense awarded John Deere Construction & Forestry Company an estimated $125 million contract to build up to 540 medium crawler tractors (MCTs). The MCTs are being built for the Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Va., for delivery to military bases throughout the United States and overseas. Based on the John Deere 850J crawler dozer, these machines will be modified to meet the Marine Corps’ unique specifications. Click for more...

Blue Diamond Six-Way Dozer Blades Available in Four Widths →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Blue Diamond six-way dozer blade has many features for the wide range of needs that contractors face. This blade can be set up to use factory attachment controls or, in the case of having no factory controls, a universal control is available. The 22-in.-tall (56 cm) blade can be angled 30 degrees, tilted 10 degrees and is offered in 5, 6, 7 and 8 ft. (1.5, 1.8, 2.1 and 2.4 m) widths. It has four heavy trip springs that are non functional until two pins are removed, then it can be used for snow removal. Click for more...

Midwestern Manufacturing Unveils M594C Attachment →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Midwestern Manufacturing Co. of Tulsa, Okla., recently completed field testing its newly engineered 200,000 lbs. (90,720 kg) sideboom attachment for a Caterpillar D9H tractor body. The new M594C attachment is the largest ever produced by Midwestern in its 50 year history. The use of older/used crawler tractors for conversion into pipelayers by retrofitting with a Midwestern sideboom contributes to material re-use and resource efficiency. Click for more...

Volvo Construction Adds New Product Class of Pipelayers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Volvo Construction Equipment has announced the development of a new product class of pipelaying machines targeting, primarily, contractors in the on-shore oil and gas industry. It is anticipated that the new class will be available to the North America market in the second quarter of 2008. The Volvo Pipelayer represents a major technical advance over traditional pipelaying dozers with a side-based boom, the basic design of which originated in the 1930’s and has changed little since, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

Dressta Introduces Two New ’Extra’ Crawler Dozers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Dressta NA has introduced the TD-25M Extra and TD-25M LA (Landfill Application) Extra series crawler dozers. These dozers feature a more powerful Tier III Cummins engine to meet lower emission requirements. Net power has increased to 330 hp (246 kW), up from 320 hp (238 kW) for the previous models. Maximum torque also has increased 11 percent to 1,346 ft-lbs. Maximum power is now attained at 1,800 rpm, 300 rpm lower than previously, reducing overall noise levels. Click for more...

PSC Chicago Shows Off New Facility at Open House →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Nearly 500 customers, vendors and guests attended Positioning Solutions Company (PSC) Chicago’s open house and grand opening of its new building, located on 297 Commonwealth Drive in Carol Stream, Ill., Sept. 20. The 10,000-sq.-ft. facility is a major upgrade from the company’s 3,500 sq. ft. Rolling Meadows, Ill., office that supported customers for the past 5 years. The new facility features an expansive showroom area that will highlight new products from key vendors like: Topcon, Seco, TDS, Nikon, Bulls-Eye, Carlson Software, Aervoe Marking Paint, DeWalt, CST and more. Click for more...

The Earle Companies’ Family Values Equal Success →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In 1968, Walter Earle borrowed $25,000 to start an asphalt paving company. With the money, he bought a small paver, a roller and a used pickup truck and went to work. At the time, few would have predicted that Earle Asphalt Company would one day become a group of related businesses known as The Earle Companies, which would be one of New Jersey’s leading full-service construction-related firms. Click for more...

Lancaster Development Flies Through Route 747 Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Construction activity abounds on a new east-west connection road being built into Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y. To the east, a short line of rotating three-axle Volvo end dump trucks were taking turns as a Caterpillar excavator removed more of the hillside to make room for the four-lane connector road, which will be the new entrance into the airport. After the dumps picked up their load, they crossed a bridge over a portion of the Catskill Aqueduct System — which runs the airport, headed by boarded-up barracks, once part of the Stewart Air Force Base — and dumped their earth into a landfill, just south of the airport terminal. Click for more...

JESCO Customizes Deere Excavator, Loader for Scrap Yard →

From Construction Equipment Guide... JESCO has recently customized a new John Deere 450DLC excavator with shear and a 544J loader with forks and specialized foam filled tires for Fortune Riverside Scrap Yard. JESCO enhanced the 450DLC’s Genesis 990 Maxx shear capabilities with a special hydraulic setup that will more efficiently utilize the machine’s hydraulic system during shear cutting operations. This hydraulic setup balances the work load between both hydraulic pumps. Click for more...

Razing the Bars →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Veteran demolition contractor Price and Sons is razing the bar. No stranger to high-profile jobs, the team that handled demolition at Centennial Park prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics began work Aug. 3 at the former Buckhead Village, a district in Atlanta known for years for its bars and wild nightlife. When all’s said and done, the area once known for seedy boozing will be elevated to the top rung of the uber-glitzy. Click for more...

Blade Addition Transforms MTL Into Compact Dozer →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When landscape, construction or utility contractors encounter soft, muddy underfoot conditions, sloped terrain, sensitive surfaces such as turf, or tight spaces on the job site, turning a multi-terrain loader (MTL) into a mini-dozer may be the solution. By exerting very low ground pressure, MTLs can give operators access to areas where a larger machine would not be a practical choice for moving dirt, gravel, snow and other materials or leveling the work site in finish grading applications. Click for more...

Deere Dozers Provide Integrated Grade Control Systems →

From Construction Equipment Guide... John Deere Construction & Forestry Company announced the introduction of the Integrated Grade Control (IGC) option on 750J and 850J dozers. These machines now can be shipped from the factory with hardware, software and wiring ready to support the grade control system of the customer’s choice. John Deere is working under separate development agreements with two of the leading suppliers of grade control systems to provide this technology for dozers, graders and other machines. Click for more...

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