Skid Steer Loaders

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...

McAllister Expands Volvo Offerings With Compact Line →

From Construction Equipment Guide... McAllister Equipment Co. announced it has expanded its product offering to include the Volvo compact equipment product line. For years, McAllister has represented Volvo’s heavy product line, including wheel loaders, articulated haulers, excavators and motorgraders. The compact product line consists of Volvo’s skid steer loaders and backhoe loaders — new to McAllister — as well as existing lines of compact wheel loaders and compact excavators. Click for more...

Fort Myers Dealer Proves Rock Solid at Youngquist Quarry →

From Construction Equipment Guide... If there are two men in Florida who know equipment, those two men are Harvey and Tim Youngquist, the founders of Youngquist Brothers Inc. In 1971, straight out of high school, the brothers established their own drilling business. Working alone, they did it all –– including performing the work and repairing the equipment. Youngquist Brothers was incorporated in 1977, and Harvey and Tim expanded their work from home water wells to large agricultural water supplies, from several hundred feet deep to thousands of feet deep. 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...

Aquatic Resource Reclaims 300-Acre Sand, Gravel Mine →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Aquatic Resource Restoration Company (ARRC), of Seven Valleys, PA, is changing the landscape in Maryland — literally. Founded in 2001, the company performs restoration design and construction for many different types of water resource projects. And it’s very good at it. In just two years the company has grown from four to 17 employees. Lee Irwin and Bill Weihbrecht started ARRC and quickly added Josh Lincoln, Amanda Bronick, Chris Tenant and Rebecca Wargo. Click for more...

Eagles Cheerleaders Sign On for Philly Expo →

Negotiations almost broke down at the last minute. Just as our prospective guests were about to sign the contract to appear at the Philadelphia Construction Expo V, their attorneys requested lavish personal dressing rooms at the Fort Washington Expo Center. We, at Construction Equipment Guide, responded by saying that we would only agree to this demand if the Philadelphia Eagles promised to either draft or sign some talent at the wide receiver position. Click for more...

MD’s Folcomer Equipment Caters to Both Large and Small Contractors →

From Construction Equipment Guide... At first glance, Folcomer Equipment of Aberdeen, MD, may not look like a catering business, but it is. It caters to the needs of its customers by supplying construction equipment that they need to get the job done. Surveying its customers about which type of equipment they need and then providing it is just one way that Folcomer caters to its clientele. “We have recently increased our rental fleet to make sure customers are happy,” said Dave Folcomer, president of Folcomer Equipment. Click for more...

Caterpillar 246 “Steer” Now Runs With the Bulls →

From Construction Equipment Guide... What’s one of the fastest growing indoor sports in North America — one that requires a unique machine to smooth out the arena’s playing surface during a break in the action? Thinking hockey? Thinking Zamboni? Think again. The sport is bull riding, and what better equipment is there to push dirt at intermission than a state-of-the-art Caterpillar machine, particularly the 246 skid steer loader? That’s what Caterpillar Building Construction Products Division Marketing Representative Jason Becker thought in 2002 as he sat through his first Professional Bull Riders (PBR) event, courtesy of fellow Cat employees Brad Van De Veer and Marty Dains. Becker said, “All during the event there was a machine parked outside the ring, and during intermission it came in to rake the dirt — much like a Zamboni cleans up the ice during a hockey game. Click for more...

Athletic Services Rounds Third On Phillies’ Clearwater Ballpark Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When Ray Kinsella heard the words “If you build it, they will come,” the Iowa farmer plowed through his corn to construct a baseball field. The 1989 movie Field of Dreams and Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, left to the imagination what Athletic Services is making a reality at the new spring training facility of the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, FL. The company is transforming 12,000 tons (10,900 t) of rock, stone, clay, greens mix, sand and sod into a modern playing field that will begin hosting training games this upcoming spring. Contracted by the Phillies organization, Athletic Services started the fieldwork on Aug. Click for more...

Bobcat A300 Slims SC Site Management Firm’s Monthly Costs →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Construction site cleanup contractor Henry Evans is putting an extra $300 to $400 in his pocket every month. That’s what he was spending to replace tires on his previous skid steer loader, which was doing work that required a lot of quick tread-wearing turns on paved surfaces. He’s still completing the same type of jobs but is now using a Bobcat A300 all-wheel steer (AWS) loader. For Evans, that means four to five times more life from the tires on his Bobcat loader. “My skid-steer loader was burning through a set of tires in about 200 to 250 hours,” he said. Click for more...

Contractors Tie Up Eight Interchanges Along I-20 →

From Construction Equipment Guide... By the end of the year, eight heavily-traveled interchanges on Interstate 20 east of Atlanta will be much safer. Contractors are expected to complete the majority of two major interchange reconstruction contracts for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) later this month. GDOT let the contracts in 2001. Rogers Bridge Company, Shepherd Construction and E.R. Snell Construction won the $16.5-million contract covering the demolition and replacement of bridges and interchanges at Almon Road and Georgia state Roads 11 and 12 in Newton and Walton counties. Click for more...

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