Wheel Loaders

Doosan Names A. Montano Dealer for Excavators, Wheel Loaders →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Doosan Infracore America Corp. has named A. Montano Co. as Southern Hudson River Valley Region dealer of Doosan Daewoo Construction Equipment. The Saugerties, NY-based dealer will sell, rent and provide service for Doosan Daewoo excavators and wheel loaders in the Upstate New York counties of Sullivan, Orange and Putnam. A. Montano Co. is a 25-year-old, family-owned and operated business that sells and rents new and used heavy equipment. Click for more...

D’Annunzio Leads Way to Holland Tunnel →

Work is under way to reconstruct the 12th Street and 14th Street viaducts, which support the approaches to the Holland Tunnel from Jersey City, NJ. Included in the project’s scope of work, according to Bill Weissman, a project executive of D’Annunzio & Sons Inc., the project’s Clark, NJ-based general contractor, is replacement of the concrete decks; repairs to the substructure, performing seismic retrofits to the viaducts; construction of a new shoulder; widening the structure along the 14th Street Viaduct, which is the westbound approach to the Holland Tunnel; construction of a new retaining wall on the east end of the 12th Street Viaduct; replacement of structural steel stringers; replacement of the bearings and miscellaneous approach road work. Click for more...

Ehrbar Provides Trouble-Free Iron for NY Sand & Stone →

From Construction Equipment Guide... As one of the largest distributors of construction aggregates in the New York City and Long Island market, New York Sand & Stone delivers its products to various locations throughout the metropolitan area. The company’s primary location is at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where ocean going vessels discharge their 50,000-ton (45,359 t) cargo through the use of a self-unloading boom conveyor. This allows the ship to unload in approximately 36 hours. Click for more...

MO’s Smooth Road Plan Keeps Crews Rolling →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Missourians saw more road construction this year — in fact, more than ever before in the state’s history. Crews are working to produce smoother roads in the state — approximately 2,200 mi. of them for starters. The flurry of work came after voters passed Amendment 3 in November 2004 giving the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) the green light for major road repairs. The amendment’s passage led to the creation of the $400-million Smooth Road Initiative, a plan to create more than 2,000 mi. Click for more...

AZ Contractor Completes Emergency Repairs on I-40 →

From Construction Equipment Guide... This past spring, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) issued a challenge to local highway contractors. The challenge, in the form of a project, was that a 12-mi. (9.3 km) stretch of I-40, between Sanders, AZ, and the New Mexico state line, was in dire need of repair and ADOT wanted the highway's conditions improved before winter temperatures would render pouring asphalt impossible. ADOT put out an emergency bid on May 26 and Southwest Asphalt Paving, a subsidiary of Fisher Industries located in Tempe, AZ, accepted the challenge by winning the bid on June 17. Click for more...

Kawasaki Makes Lasting Impression on Barrett Paving →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Kawasaki has made a lasting impression on Barrett Paving Materials’ Litchfield, NY, facility. Barrett Paving owns a year 2000 Kawasaki 95ZIV, a 6.5- yd. (5.9 m) machine and has put a startling number of hours on it. According to Robert Bard, Barrett’s Litchfield plant superintendent, “[We] have had tremendous success with the Kawasaki loader. They have a number of features that our operators appreciate,” he said. Click for more...

New Equipment Makes Debut at Highway 74 Site →

An improved piece of iron made its national debut this spring at the U.S. 74 highway project in Robeson County, NC. According to Terry Moore, of R.W. Moore Equipment Company, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, the John Deere 210 rubber-tired excavator was selected for this project because of the large job site and the machine’s ability to set jersey barriers and pipes and dig trenches. “The 210 requires less maintenance, is more efficient and compact, and can do more operations than [our previous machines],” Moore said. Click for more...

Mobile Crusher Adds Versatility for Geary Construction →

Russell Dean Geary formed Geary Construction in 1947 in Coalville, UT. A marine who had just returned from World War II, Geary started out with a backhoe and a dump truck as a means to simply make a living for himself. He quickly earned a reputation for his work and began to take on employees to expand the business. A man with a deep respect for anyone willing to put in a hard day’s work, Geary ran his business with a couple of goals in mind: to create job security for his employees and to expand his equipment fleet to make his first goal possible. Click for more...

Athletic Field Services and Ehrbar Tear Up Some Turf →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Years ago, Jon Sweeney, president of Athletic Field Services, turned his love for sports into a career when he constructed his first ballpark for St. Luke’s High School in New Canaan, CT. By the completion of that first job, he knew that he had found his niche. KickoffRecently, Sweeney returned to the field where his dream job began when he was named to build St. Luke’s new football field. Click for more...

Morris Iron & Steel Takes Pride in Scrap Recycling →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Most of us think of recycling as a fairly recent development — and in terms of cans, bottles and paper being recycled by residential households — that may be true. But for heavy metals, the concept of recycling is anything but new. Take the Philadelphia-based Morris Iron & Steel Company for example. Founded by Morris Greller in the early 1920s, it’s now a third-generation family business. Click for more...

Subterranean Atlanta Flooded With Activity For Sewer System →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Rocky is back, bigger and more bulked up than ever before, and fighting at approximately 300 ft. (91 m) underneath the city of Atlanta. But don’t start humming that familiar movie theme just yet. Rocky is one of the tunnel boring machines (TBM), owned by Japan-based Obayashi Corp. currently cutting and grinding through the bedrock in one of a series of three connecting sewer tunnels, which will serve to hold more than 177 million gal. Click for more...

NJ Firm Receives Second of Three Cat Certified Rebuilt 950Fs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Taking out the garbage is a messy job, but somebody’s got to do it. But it’s also a challenging job, one which puts equipment to the test. National Ecology Corporation does it in part with some help from Foley Inc. of Piscataway, NJ, which recently finished its second of three complete Certified Rebuilds of Caterpillar 950F front-end loaders for the Monmouth County, NJ, municipal solid waste processor. Click for more...

Kiska Replaces Century-Old Bridge in NYC →

From Construction Equipment Guide... For more than a century, the Third Avenue Bridge, which spans the Harlem River, has linked Manhattan and the Bronx. Constant use and weathering led to a call for its replacement. As a result, work began in July 2001 on the $118-million replacement of the Third Avenue Bridge over the Harlem River. The existing 300-ft.-long (91.4 m) swing bridge was in service from 1890 to 2001, with renovations taking place in 1954, noted Mehmet Ayverdi, a project manager of Kiska Construction Corp. Click for more...

Project Greenshores Gearing Up for Phase II of Pensacola Bay Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Pensacola’s Project Greenshores is the byproduct of an opportunity that exploited industrial rubbish for the purpose of environmental improvement. Through the effort, environmentalists hope to restore marine habitat to the sensitive coastal area of Pensacola Bay. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) capitalized on the situation at site I of the two-phase project — and plans are in place to continue in the same vein with site II. Click for more...

Relief Coming for Notorious Cape Cod Clog →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When the Sagamore Rotary in Massachusetts was first built approximately 70 years ago, traffic leading to scenic Cape Cod was still light. The region was still a popular getaway, but by 2005 standards, it was an easy drive. Times have changed, though, and so have the traffic patterns throughout metropolitan regions of the United States. The numbers have always ballooned on Cape Cod during the summer months, but today’s numbers have boomed beyond understanding. Click for more...

Hoffman Equipment Lands Major Daewoo Deal in NYC →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In sports, dedicated teamwork can result in much success on the playing field. In the equipment industry, teamwork also can breed success. Such was the case with a Piscataway, NJ, equipment dealer when it landed a major contract with the New York City Department of Sanitation (NYCDOS). The contract is a three-year deal, with an option for a fourth year, for Hoffman Equipment Co. to supply NYCDOS with up to 130 Daewoo Mega 200-V wheel loaders. Click for more...

Miami Gardens Drive Job Focal Point of New City →

Just more than a year after it began, three separate but related reconstruction projects in the 2-year-old city of Miami Gardens, FL, are progressing nicely toward completion. They represent the final phase of a comprehensive plan designed to improve traffic flow and safety along Miami Gardens Drive. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) launched the projects in February 2004. The work includes Miami Gardens Drive from NW 28th Place to NW 2nd Avenue, and is expected to last approximately two years at an estimated cost of $20 million. Click for more...

Landfill Use Minimal in Plaza Demolition →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A joint venture between Douglas Transport and Recycling, based in Hiram, GA, and Atlanta Demolition, based in Atlanta, are on a fast track to finish demolition of the old Lindberg Plaza in the Buckhead area of Atlanta within four months. Located at the corner of Piedmont Road and Sidney Marcus Boulevard the Lindberg Plaza Shopping Center was constructed around 1956, back in the days when Piedmont Road was a two-lane road and Sidney Marcus Boulevard was a dirt road called Marion Road. Click for more...

Slide Closes Portion of Scenic Blue Ridge Parkway →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A Dec. 15 rock and mud slide damaged a portion of a North Carolina roadway known for its scenic vistas. Debris toppled onto the Blue Ridge Parkway at milepost 401, which is mid-way between the French Broad River and Mt. Pisgah in Buncombe County, NC. According to Jeff Bradley, project manager of Taylor & Murphy Construction Co. Inc., in Asheville, NC, repair work began in early February. Taylor & Murphy is the general contractor that will handle all of the repair work with the exception of the paving, which will be subcontracted to APAC-Atlantic’s Asheville division. Click for more...

Massive Sinkhole Could Delay Tallahassee Road Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A massive sinkhole could delay a roadway extension project — and tack a lot more money onto the price tag — for the Tallahassee, FL, Department of Public Works. Surveyors happened upon the sinkhole while staking out the area for the .7-mi. roadway extension in mid-October. What was then a 5-ft. (1.5 m) depression has since grown into a hole approximately 40 ft. (12 m) deep and 70 ft. (21 m) wide, said Public Works Director Gabriel Menendez. Click for more...

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