Crawler Dozers

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...

Komatsu Adds Six Models to its Plus Series Dozer Line →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Komatsu America International Company recently announced the availability of six new models to its crawler dozer line. The Komatsu D32E/P-1, D38E/P-1 and D39E/P-1 Plus Series dozers offer powerful and easy-to-use controls, larger blades, reliable engines and a comfortable operating environment for a variety of applications including construction, forestry and land clearing. These new introductions increase Komatsu’s extensive crawler dozer line to 23 machines, including 10 in the 52.2 to 67.1-kilowatt (70 to 90 hp) range. Click for more...

Case Pushes Boundaries With H Series Family of Dozers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Case has introduced its all-new H Series dozers, designed to be more powerful, more reliable and more productive. “We went straight to the people who know our products best — our customers — when designing the new H series machines,” said Rusty Schaefer, Case marketing manager. “Together with their help, we created one of the most productive and efficient families of dozers on the market today.” Five new machines make up the H series line — the 550H, 650H, 750H, 850H and 11 50H — which range from (50 to 89 kilowatts (67 to 119 hp). Click for more...

Komatsu Compact Dozers Put Big Power at Fingertips →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Komatsu Utility Corporation’s (KUC) expanded line of compact equipment includes a new class of compact dozers: the D21A-7 and the D21P-7. These two models feature an operating weight from 3,951 to 4,182 kilograms (8,710 to 9,220 lbs.) that makes these machines easier to transport to a job site. The D21 compact dozers also include a rubber track option that adds a new dimension to the construction and landscape marketplace. Click for more...

PA Disposal Facility Wastes No Time Building Landfill →

More goes into the construction of a landfill than meets the eye, and at the Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority, a small municipal waste disposal facility in Bradford County, PA. A project to expand the landfill there is employing state-of-the-art technology and materials to meet the stringent demands of today’s environment-conscious waste disposal industry. As the Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority’s (Authority) original 27-acre landfill nears full-capacity, an additional 19-acre plot has been purchased and is being prepared to accommodate the steady flow of waste that arrives at the facility daily, said Dave Terrill, executive director of the Authority. Terrill and his crew at the landfill spent most of the spring and summer excavating the first, four-acre plot of the new landfill in preparation for the next phase of work, which includes the laying down of a liner and 18 in. Click for more...

Erosion Control Job Helps Save Pennsylvania Creek →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Excavating contractors and conservation officers are working together to solve the problem of soil-eroding and flooding creeks in a unique project that is under way in northeastern Pennsylvania and may serve as a model for similar projects around the country. Using the concept of fluvial geomorphology, in which erosion-causing sediment build up on the creek bed is eliminated by redirecting the water flow back into its original course at the center of the bed, the project is transforming the 20-mi. Click for more...

West Virginia University Invests $100M for Expansion →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Maybe it’s the seven-year itch. It seems like every seven years or so, West Virginia University embarks on a major construction project. Judging by the whirlwind of activity on the Morgantown campus, it must be that time again. And this time it’s not one major project, but three. Construction is under way on both of the University’s major campuses. The Downtown campus, with its traditional clock tower academic setting, is the site of two projects, while the more contemporary Evansdale campus is home to the third. At Evansdale, the steel framing is almost complete for the new $34-million Student Recreation Center. Click for more...

Polk Parkway Paving Slips on Mining Slime →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Road building contractors are all too familiar with the problems encountered in Florida — shallow, sandy soil, igneous limestone, environmental restrictions and water, water everywhere. But problems facing the state Department of Transportation in constructing the recently completed Polk Parkway were different. Before they could begin construction of the 40.2-kilometer (25 mi.) toll road circling the city of Lakeland, engineers had to figure out how to overcome soil conditions resulting from decades of phosphate mining. “It was a very special challenge,” said Turnpike District Construction Engineer Charles Wegman. Click for more...

Wet Weather Bogs Down Smith Gap Landfill Crew →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Branch Highways of Roanoke, VA, has begun work on a $1.42-million project expanding the Smith Gap Regional Landfill (Phase III/ IV, liner system and sediment basin No. 3) located in Roanoke County in southwestern Virginia. Branch Highways is adding seven additional cells that will cover a total of 2.8 hectares (7 acres). The first cell will be ready for use by May 31; remaining cells will be operational by June 30. Click for more...

Fifi, Fergie & Big Red Head Hackney’s Team →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Andy Hackney has one of the first clasping four-in-one buckets in Cherokee County, AL, on his front end loader, which he calls Fifi. “We call her Fifi because she was made in France,” said Deanna Hackney, Andy’s wife and partner in Hackney Dirtworks Inc. of Cedar Bluff, AL. Andy prefers working with a front end loader — a 943 Caterpillar — instead of a bulldozer, “because I like the varied capabilities of a front end loader,” he said. Click for more...

Pernas Eliminates Blasting Problem With Help From Deere’s Iron Giant →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In Dade County, FL, contractors cannot blast in order to form the man-made lakes needed for drainage in every new development, “unless it’s two miles away from residential areas, and that never happens,” according to Delfin Pernas, owner, with his brother Carlos Pernas, of Persant Construction Co. of Miami. So Persant became the first company in Florida to purchase a John Deere 750 LC excavator from the newly formed Nortrax Equipment Company, according to Jaime Pineiro manager of Nortrax’s Miami branch. Click for more...

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