Wed September 26, 2007
Blue Diamond Six-Way Dozer Blades Available in Four Widths
The Blue Diamond six-way dozer blade has many features for the wide range of needs that contractors face. This blade can be set up to use factory attachment controls or, in the case of having no factory controls, a universal control is available....
Wed September 12, 2007
Midwestern Manufacturing Unveils M594C Attachment
Midwestern Manufacturing Co. of Tulsa, Okla., recently completed field testing its newly engineered 200,000 lbs. (90,720 kg) sideboom attachment for a Caterpillar D9H tractor body. The new M594C attachment is the largest ever produced by Midwestern in its 50 year history....
Wed September 12, 2007
Volvo Construction Adds New Product Class of Pipelayers
Volvo Construction Equipment has announced the development of a new product class of pipelaying machines targeting, primarily, contractors in the on-shore oil and gas industry. It is anticipated that the new class will be available to the North America market in the second quarter of 2008....
Wed September 12, 2007
Dressta Introduces Two New ’Extra’ Crawler Dozers
Dressta NA has introduced the TD-25M Extra and TD-25M LA (Landfill Application) Extra series crawler dozers. These dozers feature a more powerful Tier III Cummins engine to meet lower emission requirements....
Tue October 09, 2007
PSC Chicago Shows Off New Facility at Open House
Nearly 500 customers, vendors and guests attended Positioning Solutions Company (PSC) Chicago’s open house and grand opening of its new building, located on 297 Commonwealth Drive in Carol Stream, Ill., Sept....
Thu September 20, 2007
The Earle Companies’ Family Values Equal Success
In 1968, Walter Earle borrowed $25,000 to start an asphalt paving company. With the money, he bought a small paver, a roller and a used pickup truck and went to work. At the time, few would have predicted that Earle Asphalt Company would one day become a group of related businesses known as The Earle Companies, which would be one of New Jersey’s leading full-service construction-related firms....
Bond Brungard - Wed September 19, 2007
Lancaster Development Flies Through Route 747 Project
Construction activity abounds on a new east-west connection road being built into Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y. To the east, a short line of rotating three-axle Volvo end dump trucks were taking turns as a Caterpillar excavator removed more of the hillside to make room for the four-lane connector road, which will be the new entrance into the airport....
Tue August 28, 2007
JESCO Customizes Deere Excavator, Loader for Scrap Yard
JESCO has recently customized a new John Deere 450DLC excavator with shear and a 544J loader with forks and specialized foam filled tires for Fortune Riverside Scrap Yard. JESCO enhanced the 450DLC’s Genesis 990 Maxx shear capabilities with a special hydraulic setup that will more efficiently utilize the machine’s hydraulic system during shear cutting operations....
Matthew Willett - Mon August 27, 2007
Razing the Bars
Veteran demolition contractor Price and Sons is razing the bar. No stranger to high-profile jobs, the team that handled demolition at Centennial Park prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics began work Aug. 3 at the former Buckhead Village, a district in Atlanta known for years for its bars and wild nightlife....
Fri July 27, 2007
Blade Addition Transforms MTL Into Compact Dozer
When landscape, construction or utility contractors encounter soft, muddy underfoot conditions, sloped terrain, sensitive surfaces such as turf, or tight spaces on the job site, turning a multi-terrain loader (MTL) into a mini-dozer may be the solution....
