Crawler Dozers

Talladega Paving Job Steeped With Angles →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It’s likely one of the steepest paving jobs in the country. At 33 degrees — a 65 percent drop slope — the crew from Sunmount Corporation has had to come up with a new way of keeping the paving train where it needs to be as they resurface the track at Talladega Speedway in Alabama. Work began May 2 to mill and repave the 2.66-mi. track and the 1,730-ft.-long pit road. The slope on which they’re working is worlds away from the 2 to 6 percent drop slopes a contractor may encounter on a highway. Click for more...

New Komatsu Crawler Dozer Powered by Cutting-Edge Blade →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Komatsu America Corp. has introduced its new D155AX-6 crawler dozer. Developed primarily for both ripping and dozing operations, the new machine combines the Sigmadozer blade with a new automatic transmission. Komatsu’s new crawler dozer has an operating weight of 87,100 lb. (39,507 kg) and features a SAA6D140E-5 turbocharged, after-cooled diesel engine that provides a maximum net output of 354 hp (264 kW). Click for more...

CALTRANS Gives Highway 14 a New Angle →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When rain and wind consistently dislodged rock on State Highway 14 in Santa Clarita, CA, a $7.5 million slope stabilization project was required by District 7 of the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS). The project began in February by general contractor Peterson Chase General of Irvine, CA. The scope of work requires that the slopes be cut and stabilized by exaction and installation of cables with mesh netting along various areas, according to Peterson Chase General’s Project Manager, Lew DeLucia. Click for more...

Case Debuts New Iron at Its Tomahawk Experience Center →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Case Construction Equipment out of Racine, WI, recently revealed expansions and enhanced modifications to its long line of light and heavy equipment. The additions and modifications emphasize Tier III compliance standards, ease of equipment maintenance and service, improved operator ergonomics and visibility improvements. On the 500-plus acre grounds of the Case Tomahawk Experience Center located near Tomahawk, WI, Jim Mischke, product demonstrator of Case took a run with all of the new pieces of equipment to demonstrate many of the latest features designed into them. Click for more...

Middlesex Takes on First Major Turnpike Project in 40 Years →

A Manitowoc 888 230-ton crane sat briefly idle after an early May rain shower at the intersection of Interstate 4 and Florida’s Turnpike in Orlando. But Middlesex Company workers got it working again as soon as they could — there’s a financial incentive in their future. Middlesex is the prime contractor in a turnpike-widening project, set to double the capacity of a 5-mi. stretch of expressway between milepost 254 at the south end of the job and milepost 259 at the north. Click for more...

Contractor Preps Atlanta Area Site for Use as Landfill →

Transforming land into a Subtitle D landfill cell calls for a lot of precise earthwork. Anyone who says otherwise is just talking trash. Cooper, Barnette & Page Inc. of Statham, GA, is in the midst of a 90-day project to construct a 13-acre subtitle D landfill cell in suburban Atlanta. They’re meeting the quick schedule with a crew numbering approximately 25 people and a fleet of 30 pieces of Caterpillar equipment. Click for more...

I-80 Job on Track, Despite Undercutting →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The 7-mi. (11.3 km) refurbishment of I-80 between Yarnell and Bellefonte in Pennsylvania is running on schedule, despite extensive undercutting because of clay and other fine materials. The project began on Feb. 28, 2005, with the westbound lanes and is expected to wrap up by Nov. 22, 2006, with the completion of the eastbound lanes. “This section of I-80 was built in mid- to late-60s. The original embankment fills were constructed mostly of rock until the last few feet to subgrade. Click for more...

Middlesex Corporation Completes ’BeautiVacation’ of Route 192 →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It pays to complete a job ahead of schedule in Florida — in this case it paid approximately $1 million. The Middlesex Corporation of Orlando took advantage of Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) ’No Excuse Bonus’ while completing a 3.2-mi. (5.1 km) stretch of commercial state Route 192 in Osceola County south of Disney World. According to Senior Project Manager Chris Sousa, the maximum amount allowable under the bonus specifications is $1 million or $8,000 for each day the job is completed ahead of schedule — up to 125 days. Click for more...

State Line Machine Celebrates 40 Years in Business →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When heavy equipment fails and costly downtime looms, someone must be available to repair diesel engines or hydraulic systems, weld, or rebuild undercarriages. Fulton S. Owensby recognized this fact in the early 1960s and sought to be that person. For the past 40 years the Wilmington, DE-based company has been working to keep its customers’ equipment — from airport snow plows to Army Corps dozers — up and running. Click for more...

EastCoast Reduces Fuel Consumption While Juggling 14 Jobs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... EastCoast General Contractors Inc., a large general contractor based in Massachusetts, is a juggler. Just as a juggler is able to manipulate several objects and keep them in motion, so too can EastCoast Contractors keep several projects in motion at the same time. EastCoast Contractors serves the northeastern United States with its general contracting company as well as its excavation division and currently, it is juggling 14 different job sites. Click for more...

Industry Begins Grappling With Rising Fuel Costs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Rising fuel prices are pressuring the industry to turn away from — or at least to modify — some traditional business assumptions, yet so far the arc of the industry’s response has been pretty gentle. Mostly, the industry has reacted to surging fuel costs — for example, insisting on contracts that pass along fuel price increases — rather than acting to outflank almost certain higher costs in the future. Click for more...

John Deere Goes to Work For Ohio Excavating Firm →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Started more than 65 years ago as a gravel hauling company, Miller Bros. Excavating has grown to one of the top earthmovers in Ohio. The firm branched into excavating in 1942 and has continued to expand, providing services to residential and commercial customers in a 70-mi. radius around Dayton. However, there is such a thing as becoming too big. With approximately 110 pieces of equipment and more than 100 trucks, the size of Miller’s fleet and equipment has grown to the point where it risked outgrowing the lower end of the earthmoving market — the farm ponds and gas stations. Click for more...

Scurry Sails Through Carolina Lakes Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As a teenager, President Andrew Jackson fought the British in the woods around his home in what now is Lancaster County, SC. Later, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops burned their way through the area. Were Sherman to return, he probably would do so as a retiree (perhaps in disguise, as his first visit wasn’t popular) to buy a lot in the first Del Webb Sun City retirement community in the central Carolinas. Click for more...

Averill Park Septic Service Builds on Family Ties →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When David Lobdell started his business in 1984, his equipment inventory consisted of only a small dozer, a Kubota tractor backhoe loader and a single axle dump. In those days, the company’s market area consisted primarily of Rensselaer and parts of Columbia and Albany counties in New York. “My primary interest was in expanding the excavation side of the company,” said Lobdell, “but unfortunately expanding it called for large investments in equipment.”To accomplish this, Lobdell had to expand his company gradually. Click for more...

Hertz’s John Deere Rentals Transform Boston Landfill Into a Golf Course →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Quarry Hills Associates in Boston had a tough job ahead of them: reshaping what was once a landfill and an eyesore into a recreational Mecca with a beautiful golf course. Located approximately 8 mi. south of downtown Boston and adjacent to the 7,000-acre Blue Hills Reservation and the Boston and Quincy harbors, the 259-acre recreational complex offered a beautiful setting and fantastic views. It also provided plenty of challenges. Click for more...

Design-Build Team Tackles U.S. 1/64 in N. Carolina →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The design-build team of The Lane Construction Corporation, SEPI Engineering Group and The LPA Group of North Carolina is well on its way to earning a bonus for the early completion of improvements to U.S. 1/64 in Wake County, NC. Crews are nearing the halfway mark of the $58-million project, according to Spokesman Kipp Bodnar of MMI Associates Inc., and should be complete by the end of the year — six months ahead of the deadline. Click for more...

MD Property Proves to Be Worth Its ’Wait’ in Sand, Gravel →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Thousands upon thousands of years ago, eroded material from the Appalachian Mountains was carried down the Potomac River and deposited throughout the Chesapeake Bay region. One such deposit area in what is now Prince George’s County, MD, near Washington, D.C., is known as the Brandywine formation. It contains a rich concentration of that eroded material, which over the years has become sand and gravel. Click for more...

Tomco Construction Grows With ’Out-of-the-Ordinary’ Jobs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Tomco Construction, a former lawn care company, has evolved into one of New Jersey’s leading site-development contractorsWhen Tom Schoonmaker started a lawn-mowing/landscape maintenance business in his hometown of Parsippany, NJ, in 1978, he had no idea he would one day employ more than 60 people in a highly-diversified, full-service contracting firm. Back then, all Schoonmaker was trying to do was make a living. Click for more...

Contractor Finds Uplifting Solution to Low Set Bridge →

Alabama highway officials weren’t about to let a small bridge stand in the way of safety. But rather than raze it, they raised it — approximately 2 ft. (0.6 m) to make way for a $4.69-million project designed to ease congestion and improve safety at the accident-plagued Interstate 10/Interstate 65 interchange. Mobile Asphalt Co. of Mobile, AL, is the primary contractor on the job, which includes extending lanes on both interstates, changing the alignment on the ramps, making concrete barrier rails taller and thicker and improving lighting, according to Jay Palmer, district engineer of Alabama Department of Transportation in Mobile. Click for more...

Stanford Stadium Axed; New Arena Construction Under Way →

From Construction Equipment Guide... How do you cut the time to construct a stadium in half?For some general contractors, they fast-track a project, issuing bid packages before a project’s designs are completed. For others, design-build is used as a means of cutting costs and expediting a project. But for Vance Brown Inc., of Palo Alto, CA, and the $115-million Stanford Stadium under construction at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, “The project delivery method is a hybrid between fast-track and pure design-build,” explained Vance Brown’s Senior Project Manager Rodney Humble. Click for more...

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