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Newell Kicks Volvo, Hitachi Fleet Into Overdrive to Meet Deadline
Keith Newell knows that the best way to stay successful is to surround himself with the best people and the best equipment. When his company, W.S. Newell Inc., took on a site prep job in Montgomery, AL, he armed himself with a little of both, including some of the newest offerings from Hitachi and Volvo....
Bar Construction Holds Court on North Carolina Campus
When Bar Construction Co. of Greensboro, NC, won the job of clearing away and then reconstructing some tennis courts on the campus of University of North Carolina-Greensboro, the task was clear enough to Charles O’Bryant, project manager. It was simply a matter, he said, “of making the water go away and making the courts flat.” Sounds simple enough, and the project indeed is on schedule for completion a few days before Thanksgiving....
JCB, Crescent Machinery Do ’Dam’ Good Job in Texas
Texas’ Lake Tucker, the city of Strawn’s domestic water supply is undergoing several drastic changes to increase its current water capacity. The lake’s dam and spillway are being modified to increase the current level of the 30-acre lake by 5 ft. The dam, in particular, presented the contractor, M....
$1.39M Overhaul Rejuvenates Aging Pennsylvania Span
Drivers in Butler County, PA, faced slight delays this summer caused by occasional single-lane alternating traffic on the bridge carrying SR l08 over I-79 in Worth Township. In addition, traffic on I-79 itself also was restricted at times to single lanes, but the public’s patience has been well rewarded with the recent reopening of the newly refurbished bridge. Begun in April 2000, the bridge superstructure replacement involved rehabilitation of a multi-span steel-beam bridge 238-ft....
Route 63 Opens Wide for Missouri Drivers
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....
Link-Belt Loads Into Wee Hours
Houston, TX-based M-I L.L.C. is all too familiar with the rigors of loading and offloading offshore supply boats, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the stresses it places on the cranes that do the work....
Hoss Equipment Whips Cat 944 Loader Into Shape
Hoss Equipment Company has repainted and re-decaled a 1992 Caterpillar 994 wheel loader in its Irving, TX, on-site sandblasting and paint facility. Cleaning the 994 – the largest current production wheel loader manufactured by Caterpillar – was a piece of cake for Hoss and its sandblasting and paint shop....
Smith Rental Hits Jackpot With Yanmar Excavators
Smith Rental, Sulphur Springs, TX, has become the first independent rental house in the state of Texas to purchase a Yanmar mini-excavator model B50-2B. R. W. Smith, owner and manager of Smith Rental said he purchased the Yanmar to offer a quality product to contractors. “The machine is easy to operate, and the nature of the hydraulics are not as jerky as other units I’ve tried,” said Smith....
Denver Contractor Taps Rockies, Drills Caissons
Denver, CO-based Coggins & Sons combines its experience with the latest in high-capacity, duty-cycle cranes technology to drill caissons in the daunting and beautiful Rocky Mountains. The caisson project the company is working on is the Veterans’ Hospital new parking garage project in downtown Denver....
Texas Environmental Recycling Selects Komatsu Unit for Power, Productivity
Texas Environmental Recycling’s (TER) Field Supervisor Mike Malander recently purchased a Komatsu PC220LC-6 excavator from Continental Equipment Co. (CECo), Fort Worth, TX. This is the first new Komatsu machine sold out of the branch, according to CECo salesperson Dick Mulligan. TER and its parent company CERES Environmental Services Inc....
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