Wheel Loaders

Crews Begin Replacing Troup-Howell Span →

The Western Gateway Project in Rochester, upstate New York, is an ambitious $85-million effort to rebuild Route I-490 from a western suburban stretch of the Erie Canal to the Genesee River in downtown Rochester. During the job, bridges over the highway will be rebuilt, noise barriers constructed, vehicle monitoring and traffic condition announcement equipment installed and landscaping improved. The project has reached the stage of replacing the approximately 50-year-old eight-span Troup-Howell Bridge, which crosses the Genesee River in the city with a three-member steel arch structure. Click for more...

NJ 47 Drivers Get Holiday Bonus →

From Construction Equipment Guide... With highway construction following an accelerated schedule, both shoppers and merchants in a major South Jersey retail center are getting an early Christmas present. A new, expanded New Jersey Route 47 in Vineland and Millville, NJ, is open to traffic in time for the holiday rush, as many as 17 months ahead of schedule. Agate Construction Co. Inc., Ocean View, NJ, is rebuilding a 3-mi. (4.8 km) stretch of Route 47, also known as Delsea Drive, under a $16-million contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT). Click for more...

Volvo CE Posts 3rd Quarter Increases →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Volvo Construction Equipment had a 17 percent increase in net sales in the third quarter of 2004 compared with the same period in 2003. An adjustment was made for currency effects. The company’s results, announced as part of parent company AB Volvo’s third quarter report, continues a succession of previous positive quarters indicating strong performances in a growing global marketplace for construction equipment. Click for more...

Archer Takes Aim at 2007 Greensboro Loop Finish →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Archer Western Contractors Ltd, is on schedule in meeting one of the most daunting challenges in its history –– building the western section of a new concrete loop around the city of Greensboro, NC, under a $117-million contract –– one of the largest ever let by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). The eight-mile section of Interstate 40 (I-40), sometimes five lanes wide in each direction, cuts through many populated areas. Click for more...

MA Firm Turns ’Useless’ Land Into Valuable Commodity →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Kevin Sweeney, owner of Sweeney & Sons, Acton, MA, believes that land is like a canvas, “entrusted to us by our creator to demonstrate to the world that, through our collective effort, we can improve this small piece of land. If we do our jobs properly, we will leave this earth in a significantly improved condition.”In the Bay State, the majority of prime real estate was built upon long ago, and today’s developer must, by necessity, work with less than optimum land, requiring imaginative planning, creative engineering and a resourceful contractor with quality equipment to transform this land into a suitable platform for the homes. Click for more...

Volvo CE North America Wins Multimillion Dollar Contracts for Iron in Iraq →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Volvo Construction Equipment North America has been awarded contracts totaling approximately $30 million by the United States government to build and deliver more than 200 units of construction equipment to the Iraqi government to be used in the reconstruction of that country. The contracts, awarded on behalf of the Iraqi government by the United States’ Department of State, are funded by a $21 billion reconstruction allocation from the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004, passed by the United States Congress in 2003. Click for more...

Malphrus Puts Volvo to Work on Hilton Head Links →

From Construction Equipment Guide... While some people head to the links to get away from work, others head to the course to get their work done. Such is the case with Malphrus Construction Company Inc., based in Hilton Head Island, SC. Whether it’s new construction for an entire course carved out of dense forest and murky swampland or a refurbished facelift to an existing course showing its age, there’s a lot of work to be done on the course. Click for more...

Duneland Sand Raises Pit Production With Roland, Komatsu →

Duneland Sand Inc. in Valparaiso, IN, recently purchased two Komatsu WA500-3 wheel loaders from Roland Machinery’s Portage, IN, location to help increase production at its plant. “[They] have dramatically cut our time on loading trucks, going from two and a half buckets with our old machine,” said Josh Lambert, manager of Duneland Sand Inc. “We purchased the WA500s and they cut a minute-and-a-half off our time. Click for more...

L.P. Nurseries Sows Success With Komatsu Skid Steers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... John Pileggi Jr., president of Limekiln Pike Nurseries of Chalfont, PA, is an equipment hound — when something new comes out that affects the landscaping industry, he knows about it, studies it, and asks his distributors for information because he takes pride in having an exceptional knowledge of equipment specifications and capabilities. At the same time, he’s also a product loyalist — he doesn’t believe in having an equipment fleet sprinkled with numerous manufacturers. Click for more...

Wright Brothers Clears Strip for Henderson, TN, Airport →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A simple matter of dollars and common sense drove the decision to build a new $15-million regional airport in Henderson County, TN, to take the place of a smaller local airport in Henderson and another in adjacent Decatur County, TN. “This airport is being built because it was going to cost more to bring the other airports up to safety standards than it would be to build a new airport,” said Danny Azbill, chairman of the Beech River Regional Airport Authority. Click for more...

Contractor’s Talents, McAllister Tools Mold Illinois Projects →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When it comes to doing heavy civil work, few companies in the Chicago metro area have the diverse talents and capabilities of Illinois Constructors Corporation. Based in the suburban Kane County community of St. Charles, IL, Illinois Constructors takes on large, difficult, fast-track jobs –– primarily for governmental entities –– and brings them in on-time and on-budget. “For the most part, we don’t do average, everyday construction work like houses, schools, churches or offices,” said Illinois Constructors President John Mackanin. Click for more...

Thibeault of NE Packs in the Iron on Tiny Verizon Site →

From Construction Equipment Guide... How many angels can you fit on the head of a pin? No one’s been able to come up with an answer for this one yet, but Thibeault Corporation of NE knows how much equipment can squeeze into a few acres where a new Verizon telecommunications center is taking shape in Hooksett, NH. On just 5 acres, Thibeault is responsible for site prep, excavation and generally all construction from the slab down for a 34,000-sq.-ft. Click for more...

John Deere ’Scalpels’ Carve Out New Look For McAlpine Dam →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When you first come upon the massive $221-million McAlpine Lock and Dam Replacement Project in Louisville, KY, you’d swear the tide had gone out in a big way. Realizing that there is no tide on the Ohio River, you look closer and see a bustling job site more than 100 ft. (30 m) below that almost defies description. The project, which was conceived by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will replace an obsolete 360- by 56-ft. Click for more...

Rocky Terrain Proves No Match for Buckeye on $1.4M NC Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Given the rolling hill terrain where the old sewer lines lay buried in the earth, it was no surprise that workers would encounter rock during the $1.4-million sewer line replacement project for the town of Columbus, NC. But the folks at Buckeye Construction Co. have been pleasantly surprised by how perfect their new John Deere 544J wheel loader has been for the job, said Garry Mease, owner and president of the Canton, NC, company. Click for more...

Ingersoll-Rand to Introduce Excavators and Wheel Loaders →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Ingersoll-Rand will soon offer excavators and wheel loaders to construction markets as the company gears up to introduce four new earthmoving products this fall. New Ingersoll-Rand excavators will be introduced in the 7.5 and 12.5 ton classes. Two new wheel loaders will provide 60 and 73 hp options. All four products will be sold through contracted IR dealers and Ingersoll-Rand Equipment Services stores throughout North America Click for more...

Case to Restore Guard’s Wheel Loader Fleet to Original Specs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Case Construction Equipment was awarded a U.S. Government contract to rebuild approximately 400 MW-24C Army National Guard wheel loaders. Originally purchased in the early 1980s for service with the Armed Forces these loaders have been used in various military missions, ranging from support of humanitarian projects and third world nation building to deployment with combat support troops in hostile areas. Click for more...

Volvo L35B Proves ’Rock’ Solid Choice for NJ Landscape, Building Supply Firm →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Business has increased so much for Rock Products Inc., a landscape and building supply business in Thorofare, NJ, that owner, Charles Zeisloft II, decided that the company needed a second compact wheel loader to keep up with the workload. After doing his homework, Zeisloft purchased a Volvo L35B from LB Smith’s Deptford, NJ, branch. “We demoed several compact loaders, but Volvo outperformed them all,” he said. Click for more...

Heitsche Boyz Propels Profits With Eagle UltraMax →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Since the early 1990s, Ted Heitsche has operated Ted’s Trucking, a successful hauling company in Collins, OH, just south of Toledo. With his trucking business firmly established, Heitsche did what few people would do: create a second business in an industry he knew little about. In 1998, a former asphalt plant manager at S.E. Johnson introduced Heitsche to the asphalt and concrete recycling industry. Click for more...

Baltimore Modernizes Loch Raven Dam →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A $29-million rehabilitation project is well under way at the Loch Raven Dam at Gunpowder Falls in Baltimore, MD. The structure is a gravity dam, meaning that it relies on its own weight for stability. The rehabilitation project will add significant mass to the existing dam as a public safety improvement. According to Baltimore’s Department of Public Works (DPW), state and federal regulations require that the dam be rehabilitated and modified to withstand future significant storm events — 31 in. Click for more...

Westchester Tractor Helps Silver Lake Get Into ’High Gear’ →

“Neither snow nor sleet nor gloom of night stop these men from their appointed rounds” is a revised version of the words by Herodotus in the fifth century B.C. that aptly describe the dedication of John Amodeo and his crew. Whenever there is a forecast of snow, John Amodeo, president of Silver Lake Contracting, of East White Plains, NY, prepares the company to get into “high gear” for its most stressful time of year. Click for more...

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