Crawler Dozers

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...

Shamrock Welcomes Job Site Challenges →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Cross over the Georgia state line into South Carolina, and the first thing that greets you is the Welcome Center in Hardeeville, SC. Situated just over the border on Interstate 95, the Welcome Center is a place where you can stop, get a soda, rest, and attend to Nature’s call. Should you want to know more about the Palmetto State, the Welcome Center staff is happy to share their literature, and even make a hotel reservation for you. Click for more...

Scott Bridge Calls Specialist for Consultation on U.S. 31 Project →

The Alabama Department of Transportation has awarded a $9.7-million contract to Scott Bridge Company Inc. for work on U.S. 31 in Montgomery, Elmore and Autauga counties. Work on the contract, which involves roadwork and relief bridge replacement over the Alabama River, began in May 1999. The construction on U.S. 31 extends two miles from milepost 185 to milepost 187, including the main bridge over the Alabama River, which spans 2,310 ft. Click for more...

Gulf Stream Wades Through Soggy Soil for Aquatic Park →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Water is the reason for the fun that visitors eventually will find at the Wannamaker Park Family Aquatic Facility. But to Chris Shimakonis, water in the park isn’t fun yet. So far, it is mostly a challenge. Shimakonis is project manager for Gulf Stream Construction Co. Inc., which is building the $10 million facility in Charleston County, SC. The aquatic attraction will be incorporated into an existing county park, and will be the third and largest water facility in the county park system. Click for more...

Wet Weather Turns Simple Job Into Headache for Mangum →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As Tropical Storm Gordon in mid-September churned across Florida and northward along the East Coast, a C.C, Mangum Contractors crew worked quickly to beat the oncoming rain. The work project is a simple one as road construction goes: the addition of two traffic lanes and a turn lane along 4,600 ft. (1,395 m) of Buffaloe Road on the east edge of Raleigh, NC. Two conditions are making the project less than routine: weather and underground utilities. Click for more...

Turner Takes Pole Position on $135M Kansas NASCAR Track →

From Construction Equipment Guide... It’s not everyday that one sees a Caterpillar D10 bulldozer blazing a trail on a NASCAR track; yet, it’s becoming a familiar site at the Kansas Speedway, where Turner Construction Company is managing construction of the eagerly awaited race track. The 1.5-mi. (2.4 km) tri-oval track is scheduled for completion in April 2001. Race dates are set, and cars will be roaring around the turns as early as July of the same year. Click for more...

Tarlton Tackles Walls of Challenges at Missouri School →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The new $4-million Moog Oral School under construction in Town & Country, MO, will house an elementary school in which deaf children who have received cochlear implants will learn to speak. Being built by Tarlton Corp., a St. Louis, MO-based general contracting and construction management firm, the facility is conveniently situated near the intersection of I-270 and I-64 (Highway 40). The location creates a major construction challenge for Tarlton — shielding the structure from the background noise of thousands of vehicles. Click for more...

Equipment Collector Saves Relics From the Past →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Jim Holzhauer rescued a 1928 Jaeger cement mixer. “A buddy of mine was going to sell the engine and junk the mixer. I told him to sell it to me for the price of the motor,” he said adding that he just couldn’t let the mixer be dismantled. Holzhauer restored the mixer by following the original owner’s manual. He painted it according to the manual design with silver aluminum mineral paint. The Jaeger concrete mixer is just one of antiques in Jim Holzhauer’s construction equipment collection. Click for more...

New Holland Enhances Pushing Power on DC Dozers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... New Holland Construction’s new DC150 and DC180 dozers combine advanced technology with operator comfort and ease of servicing to maximize productivity. New Holland dozers are well balanced due to the length of the track on the ground, excellent weight distribution and a low center of gravity. The power-to-weight ratio provides enhanced pushing power. Both 104-kilowatt (140 hp) DC150 and 134-kilowatt (180 hp) DC180 are smooth running and easy to operate.They use a powershift transmission with torque converter. Click for more...

Liebherr PR 752 Dozer Makes Most of Ripper Attachments →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As the successor to the PR 751, Liebherr has now launched the PR 752 Litronic. With a service weight of 32,795 to 40,007 kilograms (72,300 to 88,200 lbs.), the new PR 752 Litronic completes the range of crawler dozers in the new Litronic generation. Its power output of 246 kilowatts (330 hp) is provided by a newly developed turbocharged and intercooled Liebherr diesel engine, which has a low fuel consumption and optimum emission figures. Click for more...

Deere Upgrades Crawler Dozer Line →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Major improvements such as a new pinned crossbar; single-lever steering, direction and ground speed control; and six-way blade make the 750C and 850C series II dozers welcome additions to Deere’s expanding crawler dozer line. More than 250 refinements have been made to the C-series dozers since their introduction in 1995. Both C-series II units will be available for sale this month. The most significant change is the pinned front crossbar that eliminates the track frame diagonal braces, and greatly reduces trapped mud and dirt from the undercarriage area. Click for more...

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