Skid Steer Loaders

Southern Equipment’s Focus Shifts From Ag to Construction →

From Construction Equipment Guide... With housing developments sprouting up throughout Florida, the staff at Southern Equipment and Machinery has adapted and changed the company’s focus over the past few years. While its new venture has taken the company into the world of construction equipment, it has deep roots in agriculture. In 1944, it was founded as a John Deere agricultural center in Palmetto, FL. The current ownership group, of which Gary Coffman is managing partner, bought the company in 1988 and, less than a decade later, began its expansion. Click for more...

Small NJ Firm Gets Slice of Cherry Hill’s Redevelopment Pie →

From Construction Equipment Guide... While it was never one of the seven greatest man-made wonders of the world, at least the building at 926 Haddonfield Rd. is no longer one of the seven greatest man-made eyesores of Cherry Hill, NJ. The abandoned building on the 1.8-acre (.72 ha) tract was an unflattering complement to the ghostly shell of the 223-acre (90.2 ha) former Garden State Park horse race track directly across the street. Dilapidated and abandoned is not the image that Cherry Hill Township wanted, according to Mayor Bernie Platt. Click for more...

All Island President Tours Takeuchi Facility, Admires Original Skid Steer →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Gary Wade, president of All Island Equipment in New York, recently traveled to Takeuchi’s North American headquarters in Atlanta, GA, for additional product training. While touring the facility, he also was given the opportunity to view the first Takeuchi rubber-tracked loader ever produced. Takeuchi got a head start in developing the rubber-tracked loader in 1979 — approximately 10 years before the rest of the industry caught on. Click for more...

Alabama Pool Builder Drowns Downtime With Bobcat Equipment →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Over the past three years the growth in the backyard swimming pool market has significantly increased, according to industry observers. Pool builders and installers are more frequently being called upon to create a fun atmosphere where families can stay cool and enjoy their time with each other without leaving their back yard. Mike Shoemaker is one pool builder who has seen his business increase in the past few years. Click for more...

’Operator of the Year’ Crowned at Fabick CAT Event →

From Construction Equipment Guide... There was an additional buzz of excitement at the NASCAR Busch Series Race at Gateway International Raceway on July 30 as 30 finalists competed for the right to be called the Fabick CAT Operator of the Year. The crowd was amazed at the speed and skill these operators demonstrated as they maneuvered the Cat skid steer loaders in three separate obstacle courses. When the judges clicked the last stop watch, only seconds separated the top three winners. Click for more...

Ditch Witch Makes Smart Choice for Willey’s Wildscapes →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Lewis Willey is doing exactly what he wants to do. The Amarillo, TX, landscape contractor knew at an early age what profession he wanted to enter, but it took him 26 years to reach his original career goal. “After serving in the Air Force, I prepared myself for a career in the landscape business by getting a degree in horticulture from Texas Tech University,” said Willey. “But I graduated during a recessionary period, and there wasn’t much demand for people wanting to get started in the landscaping field.”So Willey worked as a property claims adjustor for a while, then went back to school and got an MBA. Click for more...

L&N Supply Co., Theros Equipment Earn Dealer Awards From Mustang →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Mustang Manufacturing Co. Inc. has honored two dealerships within its network for superior 2004 sales. Dallas, GA-based L&N Supply Co. received Mustang’s annual North American Dealer of the Year award. Founded in 1990, the independent dealer has been a distributor of Mustang skid steers and compact excavators for four years. Awarded Mustang’s North American Track Loader Dealer of the Year award, Theros Equipment Inc. Click for more...

Ingersoll-Rand Celebrates 100-Year Anniversary →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Look no further than Ingersoll-Rand (IR) for the keys to success in business. Celebrating its 100th year in 2005, IR has been everywhere, it seems, and done everything, while seizing the moment and diversifying into new fields. It helped dig the Panama Canal, sculpt the faces of presidents on Mount Rushmore, build subways, bridges, highways, tunnels and skyscrapers, and construct the Hoover Dam, the tunnel under the English Channel and China’s Three Gorges Dam. Click for more...

Cleveland Brothers Donates Skid Steer to Penn State →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Caterpillar Inc. Industry Representative Zel Grinnell and Work Tool Representative Pat Cavanaugh, along with Cleveland Brothers General Sales Representative Brian Hoffman presented Penn State University with a 242 skid steer. Accepting the donation from Caterpillar was Kenton Dutrow, supervisor of maintenance and equipment, who oversees Penn State University’s (PSU) landscape, construction and snow removal responsibilities. Click for more...

NJ’s Trico Equipment Announces Its New Case ’Light Line’ Sales Team →

From Construction Equipment Guide... New Jersey’s Trico Equipment Inc. recently announced the addition of its new Case Construction Equipment “Light Line” Sales Team. “The focus of this team will be to better service the contractors who use skid steers, compact track loaders, compact excavators and compact wheel loaders,” said Sales Manager David Naab, of Trico. “The salesmen will be equipped with roll-back trucks that are perfectly suited for moving this type of equipment quickly and easily. Click for more...

Philly Expo to Showcase Latest, Greatest Iron →

The Philadelphia Construction Expo VI is just days away from again transforming the Fort Washington Expo Center into an Equipment Mecca. New for this year’s show will be a significantly expanded exhibit in the Washington Room, an area adjacent to the main exhibit hall, by Asphalt Care Equipment, of Bensalem and Doylestown, PA. David Fackler, president of Asphalt Care was excited to explain his company’s new role at the Philadelphia Construction Expo. Click for more...

Explosion Springs Lano Equipment Into Action →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Gary Lano, one of six owners of Lano Equipment Inc., in Ramsey, MN, sat at his desk one late December morning and felt a tremor instantly followed by a huge bang. “At first I thought that it came from behind. It sounded like something heavy fell in our shop” Lano recalled. Then he glanced up from his paper work and gazed out the company’s huge glass windows across the highway. A towering plume of dust and debris rose before him. Click for more...

Steel City Poised to Host February Expo →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The rapidly approaching Pittsburgh Construction Expo on Feb. 8 and 9, will be sure to end with a bang. By the time the show wraps up at the Pittsburgh ExpoMart in Monroeville, PA, not only will visitors have had the opportunity to check out the latest models of equipment from a host of major manufacturers, they also will have the chance to win a model 700 BDL Synthetic Dale Earnhardt Jr. Signature No. Click for more...

Bobcat Helps IA Landscaper Grow From Ground Up →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Chris Sprong and Ryan Kinart know firsthand that growing a business is a learning process. It takes hard work, determination and enough humility to admit mistakes and find ways of doing it better. When Sprong and Kinart, two best friends from childhood, started their lawn care business, they were just high school freshmen who wanted to make a few bucks. They mowed lawns, edged and did general spring and fall cleanup work. Click for more...

Perimeter Bobcat ’Goes Wild’ at Final 2004 Open House →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The final 2004 Perimeter Bobcat Open House and Equipment Rodeo took place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 8-9, at the company’s Lake City, GA, location. Participants from the Lake City equipment rodeo joined the other 2004 equipment rodeo contestants from Gainesville, Marietta, and Norcross, GA, in being entered in a drawing to win the use of a Bobcat Toolcat 5600 for one year. The big winner was Michael Cox, a contractor based in Covington, GA, who won first place in the skid steer rodeo course. Click for more...

Bobcat MT52 Tackles Tight Spaces in TX’s Las Colinas →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Irving, TX, a suburb of Dallas, is known for more than just being the home of the Dallas Cowboys. In an area called Las Colinas, a planned community of offices and up-scale homes, the terra firma has a notorious reputation for heaving. Much of the soil is actually a mixture of clay and Bentonite, a substance referred to as “Black Gumbo” that expands when wet. When wet, Black Gumbo is very sticky, but when it dries it retains its expansion and acts like brick. Click for more...

Stiles Excavating & Trucking Celebrates 40th Anniversary →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Do you believe in destiny?Mike Stiles, owner of Stiles Excavating & Trucking Inc., in Halfmoon, NY, does. It was back in the 1960s — when New York’s north country didn’t even have a Northway — that Stiles discovered his love of earth. He was working the land with his uncle and brother. “We were farmers. My uncle operated a grader for big road outfits. There wasn’t enough money made from farming, so we did extra dirt and earthwork. 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...

Family Firms Stay Connected Through Generations →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The saying “Like father, like son” aptly applies to two Long Island businesses — in more ways than one. Merrick Utility Associates Inc., a contractor based in Farmingdale, NY, has been in business since Clemente Diorio founded the company in 1949. Today, three generations later, Frank and Tom Diorio run their grandfather’s business, handling drainage, sewer and water projects across Long Island. Click for more...

Groff’s Personnel Changes Focus on Customer Service in PA →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Groff Tractor, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, PA, has announced recent personnel changes. John Ehrin has been hired as the company's compact equipment territory manager for western Pennsylvania. Terry Wilhelm, Jeff Hood and Brett Schultz has have been hired as account managers and Steve Weikert has been promoted to regional sales manager. Ehrin will be responsible for selling and renting Case skid steer loaders, mini-excavators, mini-wheel loaders as well as Takeuchi tracked skid steer loaders and mini-excavators. Click for more...

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