Crawler Dozers

Dirt Work Creates Challenges at $3.8M Palmeiro Center →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A $3.8-million sports practice facility under construction at Mississippi State University (MSU) in Starkville, will bear the name of one of its former students, Baltimore Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro. Palmeiro played on MSU’s baseball team through his junior season, when he left college to enter the Major League Baseball draft. Heavy rains and problems with existing dirt have delayed completion of the Palmeiro Center until August. Click for more...

New Bridge in Pennsylvania Carries On Old Tradition →

The current project to replace a southwestern Pennsylvania bridge carrying US Route 40 over the Youghiogheny Reservoir raises memories of a span constructed almost 200 years ago — a bridge that still emerges occasionally from beneath the water that drowned a score of local villages during the 1940s. The First Two BridgesThe original Great Crossings Bridge was 40 ft. (12.2 m) high and 30 ft. (9.1 m) wide. Click for more...

Relief Coming for Notorious Cape Cod Clog →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When the Sagamore Rotary in Massachusetts was first built approximately 70 years ago, traffic leading to scenic Cape Cod was still light. The region was still a popular getaway, but by 2005 standards, it was an easy drive. Times have changed, though, and so have the traffic patterns throughout metropolitan regions of the United States. The numbers have always ballooned on Cape Cod during the summer months, but today’s numbers have boomed beyond understanding. Click for more...

Building Ballfields From Blight →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Heavy equipment and professional expertise are helping the Atlanta Braves Baseball Academy for inner-city youth become a reality. The 8-acre sports complex will be at the center of the redeveloped Villages at Carver community near the Braves’ home, Turner Field. It includes four fields, two pavilions, batting cages and a playground. Completion is expected in April 2006. It will cost $2.5 million and is part of a $13.5-million project to construct a full-facility family YMCA in the community off Pryor Road. Click for more...

Contractors on Par at Lakewood Golf Club Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A rebirth is the only word to describe the total remodeling of the Lakewood Golf Club’s Azalea course at the Grand Hotel Marriott Resort in Point Clear, AL. Working throughout the 96 acres that the course covers, massive machines daily excavate and move dirt to ready the area for the course designed by Bobby Vaughan. This $4-million project, being funded by the Point Clear Holding Company, began in December and is scheduled to be completed in mid-August. Click for more...

Frederico Construction Still Making the Grade in Rochester →

From Construction Equipment Guide... What drives a construction company, making one succeed into the third and fourth generation while others fall by the wayside? In the case of Frederico Construction Company located in Rochester, NY, a close family bond and a passion for quality construction and equipment have been the keys to success. Lee Frederico’s interest in construction and construction equipment goes way back. In fact, he still has a family photo taken of him as a toddler atop his father’s Case 750 dozer. Click for more...

I-84 Reconstruction on Track for Fall Finish →

The reconstruction of a portion of Interstate 84 (I-84), which is nearing completion, required an array of heavy construction equipment to meet project challenges and normal project needs. According to Rick Negro, the project manager of Plainville, CT-based Manafort Brothers Inc., the project’s general contractor, the project, which began May 21, 2003, included the reconstruction of 3 mi. (4.8 km) of mainline I-84, both eastbound and westbound, in Southington and Cheshire, CT. Click for more...

Two Contractors Join Forces for Lithonia Industrial Blvd. Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... To the north, there’s E.R. Snell Contractor of Snellville, GA. To the south, it’s Shepherd Construction Co. of Atlanta. And in the middle, making sure the Lithonia Industrial Boulevard project is running smoothly, is Project Engineer Christina Rooney. The two contractors submitted a joint contract because of the scope of the $49-million road project in DeKalb County that will extend Lithonia Industrial Boulevard, relocate Interstate 20 entrance and exit ramps and realign eastbound and westbound Frontage Road. Click for more...

Slide Closes Portion of Scenic Blue Ridge Parkway →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A Dec. 15 rock and mud slide damaged a portion of a North Carolina roadway known for its scenic vistas. Debris toppled onto the Blue Ridge Parkway at milepost 401, which is mid-way between the French Broad River and Mt. Pisgah in Buncombe County, NC. According to Jeff Bradley, project manager of Taylor & Murphy Construction Co. Inc., in Asheville, NC, repair work began in early February. Taylor & Murphy is the general contractor that will handle all of the repair work with the exception of the paving, which will be subcontracted to APAC-Atlantic’s Asheville division. Click for more...

Jomac Construction’s Fleet Swells With Approximately 60 Caterpillar Machines →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It is said, “a dog is a man’s best friend.” However, Jomac Construction’s Mike McCabe’s best friends are Cats — as in Caterpillars. He has found them to be reliable, hardworking and easy to handle. McCabe founded Jomac Construction in 1980 with just a few pieces of equipment that included an International backhoe, a Cat 955 trackloader, an old Trojan rough-terrain loader, a John Deere 450 dozer and a Ford single-axle dump truck. Click for more...

Work Chugs Along on $165M Corona Maintenance Facility →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Where is the best place to build a new train maintenance facility and car washer?For the Metropolitan Transportation Authority/New York City Transit (MTA/NYCTransit) it was within the bus depot in Corona, Queens, where an existing train maintenance facility and car washer actually existed. Work began on the new $165-million facility on Dec. 30, 2002, and not only will a new facility replace an existing one, but it is a design-build project led by Slattery Skanska of Whitestone, NY. Click for more...

Georgia Contractor’s Demolition Impresses ’Extreme Makeover’ →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Georgia Utility Contractors Association (GUCA) President Brent Scarbrough of Brent Scarbrough and Company helped make a dream come true for a needy family in Lake City, GA, by participating in ABC’s Extreme Makeover, Home Edition, from Jan. 16 to 23. The family chosen for this life changing event, the Harper family, originally of Brooklyn, NY, experienced tragedy when they lost their young son, who did not received prompt medical treatment that possibly could have prevented his death. Click for more...

Massive Sinkhole Could Delay Tallahassee Road Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A massive sinkhole could delay a roadway extension project — and tack a lot more money onto the price tag — for the Tallahassee, FL, Department of Public Works. Surveyors happened upon the sinkhole while staking out the area for the .7-mi. roadway extension in mid-October. What was then a 5-ft. (1.5 m) depression has since grown into a hole approximately 40 ft. (12 m) deep and 70 ft. (21 m) wide, said Public Works Director Gabriel Menendez. Click for more...

We Energies Sics Dressta TD40-C Tier 2 on Wisconsin’s Coal →

From Construction Equipment Guide... We Energies recently purchased a Dressta TD-40C Tier 2 crawler dozer from Roland Machinery Co. to work at its power plant in Pleasant Prairie, WI. The dozer features a tier-2 engine, joystick control, a new cooling package design and has the distinction of being the first TD40-C Tier 2 sold in North America. The company will use the dozer to move coal, as well as bottom ash that it receives from other operations. Click for more...

Archer Takes Aim at 2007 Greensboro Loop Finish →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Archer Western Contractors Ltd, is on schedule in meeting one of the most daunting challenges in its history –– building the western section of a new concrete loop around the city of Greensboro, NC, under a $117-million contract –– one of the largest ever let by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). The eight-mile section of Interstate 40 (I-40), sometimes five lanes wide in each direction, cuts through many populated areas. Click for more...

Komatsu Clears Way for ’Tornado Alley’ Builder →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Nestled in the heart of Tornado Alley is the state of Oklahoma. Its rolling hills and windy prairies make it the perfect breeding ground for some of the country’s largest, most powerful storms. Oklahoma is also home to Cherokee Builders, a company who in its own right is a powerful force known in the region for site clearing, planning and development. The difference, however, is that Cherokee Builders is using new dozer technology rather than funnel clouds to make its mark on the area’s landscape. Click for more...

Firm Makes Fresh Tracks Through South Florida Muck →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A 50-year-old marina in Naples, FL, is being recycled into a brand new condominium-hotel-yachting complex on Naples Bay. One of the first steps in the redevelopment process is deepening the basin around which the complex will be built. The site is one of three parcels of land totaling 43 acres (17 ha) that are being redeveloped by Antaramian Development into what will be named Naples Bay Resort. The resort’s marina section alone will have 98 slips, an 85-unit hotel, 30 waterfront condominiums, a private yacht club and plenty of commercial space. Click for more...

Stiles Excavating & Trucking Celebrates 40th Anniversary →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Do you believe in destiny?Mike Stiles, owner of Stiles Excavating & Trucking Inc., in Halfmoon, NY, does. It was back in the 1960s — when New York’s north country didn’t even have a Northway — that Stiles discovered his love of earth. He was working the land with his uncle and brother. “We were farmers. My uncle operated a grader for big road outfits. There wasn’t enough money made from farming, so we did extra dirt and earthwork. Click for more...

Liebherr, John Deere Sign Exclusivity Pact, End Crawler Dozer Dual Branding →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Liebherr Construction Equipment Co. has announced the signing of an agreement between Liebherr-Werk Telfs GmbH and John Deere’s Construction & Forestry Division, of Moline, IL, to end their current dual-branding strategy for large crawler dozers sold in the North American market and grant John Deere an exclusivity agreement for these products. Under an agreement signed in December 2000, Liebherr has provided large crawler dozers and crawler loaders under both the Liebherr and John Deere brands. Click for more...

Dozer Fleet Makes the Grade on Fall Line Freeway →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Robinson Paving’s road to success parallels the path cut by Georgia’s ever-expanding Fall Line Freeway. Based in Columbus, GA, the company is situated at the front door of the high profile project: a four-lane highway expansion cutting through Georgia’s peach, pecan and paper country. Scheduled for completion in 2009, the reconstructed corridor will not only provide a direct shot from Columbus clear to the other side of the state in Augusta, but will also open up trucking routes, granting easier access to major roads such as Interstate 16 (to coastal docks in Savannah) and Interstate 75 (north to Atlanta and south into Florida). Click for more...

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