Crawler Dozers

Tractor-Scraper Combo Hastens Homesite Grading Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... With the help of a new tractor-scraper combination, Ken Beer & Sons of Perkasie, PA, is making fast work of a mid-size excavating and grading job combination. In Hilltown, PA, Beer & Sons is moving approximately 100,000 cu. yd. (76,456 cu m) of dirt for a new 45-unit luxury home subdivision, Hilltown Chase, being built by the Elliott Building Group, Newtown, PA. Beer & Sons is excavating to grade, then stockpiling the material for later use in finishing the homesites. Click for more...

PA’s Bridge for 21st Century Carries $27.5M Price Tag →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Drivers using the elderly Carey Avenue bridge spanning the Susquehanna River at Wilkes-Barre, PA, have been following progress of the new structure being built slightly upstream with great interest. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) District Engineer Chuck Mattei, “The new Carey Avenue Bridge will be state-of-the-art. Instead of crossing the Susquehanna River on an old narrow two-lane steel bridge, drivers in this part of Luzerne County will soon travel on a new wide four-lane concrete structure, a bridge that will also have room for pedestrians, and for those who travel by bicycle. Click for more...

Corman Reconstructs Baltimore’s Reistertown Road Bridge →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Baltimore’s Corman Construction Inc. is gaining first-hand experience in creating an urban diamond interchange at Interstate 695 and MD 140 in Baltimore County. Although new to this particular area, this type of interchange has been used in more than 20 states to manage heavy traffic since the 1970s. An urban diamond requires only one traffic signal system to control the entire interchange, which helps to accommodate more vehicles and eliminate delays. Click for more...

Capital District’s Economy Grows Suburban Contracting →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Capital District of New York has had a strong economy for the past several years, which has benefited area companies such as Suburban Contracting and Development Corporation. The company is a land development contractor that purchases area land, site clears it and develops is so that it is suitable for area builders to construct homes on or develops land under contract owned directly by area home builders. Click for more...

Five Star Sells a Whopping 19 TLBs to Same Customer →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Five Star Equipment recently achieved the largest tractor-loader-backhoe deal in its history, selling 19 of the units to a single customer—E.E. Root & Sons Inc. of Oswego, NY. A John Deere dealership with New York locations in Kirkwood, Syracuse, Rochester and Oriskany, Five Star has an additional location in Stroudsburg, PA, and corporate headquarters in Dunmore, PA. E.E. Root primarily does contracting work for several local utility companies in central New York, and is headed by Gary Root, who is assisted by his sons, Mark and Jeff. Click for more...

GPS Guides Halverson Through Roseville Bypass Job →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Construction of a new highway bypass around Roseville, IL, may constitute routine work for Halverson Construction Company, but the firm is taking advantage of new technology to get the job done more efficiently. The $18-million bypass is a 5-mi. (8-km) stretch of four-lane highway that wraps around Roseville’s west side and connects U.S. Highway 67 on the north and south sides of town. Currently, Highway 67 carries extensive traffic through downtown Roseville, and once finished, the bypass will divert that traffic around the western edge of town. It’s a fairly typical highway project, according to Kyle Zellers, project manager of Springfield, IL-based Halverson. Click for more...

Crews Finish Up Road Work in South Carolina →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Dust will soon settle for the last time in four lakefront subdivisions near Eutawville, SC, where general contractor W. Frazier Construction Inc. and several subcontractors have teamed up to pave 21 existing dirt roads. Rea Construction will handle the paving portion of the project, which has a total value of nearly $1 million. Hutto Construction has the responsibility for building the drainage structures, while G.H. Click for more...

Crews Bridge Erie Canal on Route 31, Retain Aesthetics →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The plan to widen Route 31 and update the Route 31 bridge that spans the Erie Canal in the Town of Perinton, Monroe County, NY, calls for something new but with respect for what’s old. “We’re installing a special four-lane truss structure to maintain the aesthetics of the original canal bridge,” explained Terry Luzier, project superintendent for Sealand Contractors Corporation in Rush, NY. Click for more...

U.S. 421 Bulks Up North Carolina →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The company widening and straightening five miles of U.S. 421 in west-central North Carolina is friendly. That might seem frivolous to say, but both the environment and the people affected by the road-building project benefit from the attitude. The company is H.B. Rowe and Co. Inc. It is moving tons of reddish earth to improve a roadway that is busiest on certain weekends. On those weekends, during the season, thousands of motorists flood the highway headed for the NASCAR Winston Cup speedway near North Wilkesboro where Jeff Gordon and friends drive round and round at frightful speeds. The widened highway will let NASCAR fans get to the races more easily. Click for more...

Contractors ’Shoulder’ Georgia Interstate-16 Widening Project →

Rogers Bridge Company Inc. and Mitchell Construction Co. Inc. of Atlanta, GA, have teamed up to complete a $27.9-million bridge and shoulder widening project along Interstate 16 in Laurens and Treutlen counties. Reeves Construction of East Dublin, GA, also plays a key role in the effort as the project’s paving contractor. Other key figures in the project include Heath & Lineback, which serves as the consulting engineering firm to the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). Click for more...

Plasterer Christens New Dealership With Grand Open House →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Plasterer Equipment Company Inc. recently celebrated its 89th anniversary and its formal acquisition of Worley Equipment Co., with a grand open house at its newest location in Lewisberry, PA. Hundreds of invited guests visited the full-service facility, located at 640 Lowther Rd., off Route 83 north of York. Old friends, new friends, long-time customers as well as soon-to-be customers mingled with John Deere crawler loaders, backhoes, skid steers, and more as they took in the sights and sounds of the new branch location. Click for more...

Contractors Make Triple Play During Georgia Sports Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Youngsters in eastern Cobb County will have a new place to play this spring, when the new East Cobb Sports Complex opens on Lee Waters Road in Marietta, GA. “The new complex will be beautiful,” said Jeff Powers, project manager for Integra Construction Inc. “The facility will include eight baseball and softball fields, two combination concession and scoring buildings, one scoring-only building, one maintenance building, and two ticket booths. Click for more...

Integra Scores Home Run in Cobb County →

Pennsylvania Contractor Completes Jobs to a ’Tee’ →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When it comes to finding a niche, it appears McAllister Construction Co. Inc. has hit a hole-in-one. The Yardley, PA-based company recently completed its fourth golf course construction project, Green Briar at West Lake, in Jackson, NJ. The course is a retirement village set within an enormous golf course. According to Glenn McAllister, who oversaw site development at Green Briar at West Lake, “The hardest part of doing a golf course is getting used to nothing being level, everything’s supposed to be moving and rolling. Click for more...

Forestry Commission Stocks Up on Firefighting Dozers →

The low-humidity South Carolina winters create peak conditions for forest fires, making the risk for blazes greater now than any other time of year. But the state is prepared with the recent purchase of 17 new Dressta TD-8H dozers that have been customized to aid in firefighting. Charlie Jones, equipment manager of the South Carolina Forestry Commission, said his organization purchased the dozers in January and received them in September. Click for more...

Route 63 Opens Wide for Missouri Drivers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is widening Route 63 to four lanes for a 14.4-mi. (23 km) stretch that links Moberly and Columbia, Missouri. Area motorists, including thousands of students who returned to Columbia for another school year at the University of Missouri eagerly anticipate this improvement. Work is divided into two distinct projects. The northern segment includes two interchanges in a more urban setting. Click for more...

Texas Contractor, Komatsu Dozer Rip Through Layers of Tough Austin Chalk →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Try moving 670,320 cubic meters (882,000 cu. yds.) of Austin Chalk, and you’ll find it’s not an easy job. C. Watts and Sons Construction Co. Inc., Denton, TX, is in the midst of moving this massive amount of chalk for the North Texas Municipal Water District Landfill, McKinney, TX. In order to increase the needed capacity of the landfill, Watts had to identify the most environmentally responsible, economical and ratepayer-friendly method. Click for more...

$120M Span Transports West Virginia’s Corridor D Over River, Through Woods →

From Construction Equipment Guide... There is so much highway construction under way in West Virginia right now that it’s hard to tell one project from another. Huge cuts through mountains are typical of the construction required through the rugged terrain of the state. So, too, are the bridges that traverse the numerous streams and rivers encountered on each mile of a four-lane highway. At least one project, however, will be different. 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...

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...

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