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Bohnsack & Hennen’s Skid Steers Touch Up Oak Ponds →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Leroy Bohnsack and his son, Mike, owners of Bohnsack & Hennen Excavating, have done excavating and finish-grading work in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. “My dad runs the company and has been in the excavating business for forty years in Prior Lake, Minn.,” Mike, owner and job superintendent, said. Beside Leroy and Mike, the company employs Jason Bolly, Justin Schumer, Justin Schultz and Tom Mesenbernik. Click for more...
Chattahoochee Students Learn Skills in Cat Loader →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Chattahoochee Technical College has a new machine to help prepare its students for a career in environmental horticulture. Instructor Bejie Herrin has added a Caterpillar 257B multi-terrain loader to the one-year-old program’s fleet, purchased from Yancey Bros. Co. Approximately 20 students are currently enrolled in the program at the Paulding County campus. While some have had experience working with this type of heavy equipment in the past and are taking classes to obtain certification, there are a few who had never been in the cab of a machine of this size before. Click for more...
Case’s New M Series 3 Backhoes Feature Family IV Engines →
From Construction Equipment Guide... The latest upgrade to the Case line of backhoe loaders, the M Series 3 lineup includes the 580M, 580 Super M, 580 Super M+, 590 Super M and 590 Super M+. These five models range in net horsepower from 79 to 109 (59 to 81 kW) with dig depths from 14 ft. 3 in. (4.3 m) on the standard backhoe to 20 ft. 4 in. (6.2 m) with the Extendahoe. All Case M Series 3 models feature Case Family IV engines with Tier III certification, as well as improved performance and serviceability New Engine, Backhoe Performance ImprovementsThese Tier III-certified engines are turbocharged to provide the extra power required by customers. Click for more...
New Attachment Turns Skid Steer Into Tree-Pulling Machine →
From Construction Equipment Guide... The Rockland Tree Jack, by Bedford, Pa.-based Rockland Manufacturing Company is able to effectively pull up to 12.5 in. (31.7 cm) diameter trees, completely removing the tree and its root structure in one step. It is less costly than other tree removal equipment and eliminates the need to first cut the tree and then grind out the stump, according to the manufacturer. The Tree Jack is available for skid steers rated at 65 hp (48 kW) and above. Click for more...
Attachment Turns Skid Steer Into Tree-Pulling Machine →
From Construction Equipment Guide... The Rockland Tree Jack, by Bedford, Pa.-based Rockland Manufacturing Company is able to effectively pull up to 12.5 in. (31.7 cm) diameter trees, completely removing the tree and its root structure in one step. It is less costly than other tree removal equipment and eliminates the need to first cut the tree and then grind out the stump, according to the manufacturer. The Tree Jack is available for skid steers rated at 65 hp (48 kW) and above. Click for more...
Skanska Builds Super New Giants Stadium →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Site work and ongoing adjacent construction projects are among the challenges faced by the team that is building New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The $998 million, 2.2-million-sq.-ft. (204,387 sq m) steel and concrete facility will include 82,000 seats and 217 luxury suites for New York Giants and Jets fans. According to Frank Falciani, senior vice president of Skanska USA Building, the project’s Parsippany, N.J.-based design-build construction manager, work began May 21, 2007. Click for more...
Bobcat Loader Keeps Dyno-Noble Inc. Busy at Coal Mine →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Allen Briegel is plant manager of Dyno-Noble Inc., an international mining services company, at its Gillette, Wyo., facility. When it came time to replace his old Bobcat skid steer, he purchased a 56-hp (41.8 kW) turbocharged Bobcat S185 skid steer loader with a 1,850-lb. (839 kg) rated operating capacity. Its primary use is to stem bore holes at surface coal mines. The 9-in. (22.9 cm) diameter holes are bored 20 to 70 ft. Click for more...
Chadwick-BaRoss Volvos Used on Extreme Makeover →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Chadwick-BaRoss Inc., Maine’s Volvo Heavy Equipment Construction dealer, had two of its customer-owned Volvo EC240 excavators along with a Volvo L90F wheel loader equipped with forks and bucket at work on the site of the recent Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Milbridge, Maine. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s design team prepared to build a new home for the Ray-Smith family of Milbridge, Maine, and found R.F. Click for more...
Bobcat Delivers New Product to Farm-Rite in Minnesota →
Bobcat representatives delivered the company’s new CT230 compact tractor Oct. 29 to Farm-Rite Equipment in Dassel, Minn. Although Bobcat has announced that the new compact tractor line officially will be unveiled in Las Vegas in January, Farm-Rite Equipment received a tractor early and was the first to sell the CT230 model. The purchaser was Towmaster’s Arlyn Hedtke of Litchfield, Minn. Click for more...
TrakBites Enhances Rubber Track Capabilities on Snowy, Icy Surfaces →
From Construction Equipment Guide... By Shelley HawesSpecial to CEG Short and simple, Dell Anderson saw a need. His son, Erick, was struggling with problems slipping on snow and ice with his skid steer rubber track system. Anderson put his brainpower to work and two days later had developed and created the finished product; a steel clamp-on track device to solve slippage problems called TrakBites. One Friday evening, Dell Anderson drafted a plan to produce steel clamp-on cleats, faxed it overnight to his mechanical engineer in Shanghai, China, and by Sunday the first prototype was built. Click for more...
Farm-Rite Adds Groskreutz as New Salesman in Dassel →
Farm-Rite in Dassel, Minn., has added Chase Groskreutz to the sales staff. Groskreutz will be selling new and used equipment from Farm-Rite’s equipment fleet of Bobcat Equipment, Towmaster and Felling Trailers. Groskreutz brings hands-on experience in the construction market as he has worked in excavating professionally for years. For more information, call 888/679-4857. Click for more...
Southern California Faces Long Road Ahead →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Though wildfires that engulfed approximately 370,000 acres in southern California have been contained, there is still a major challenge ahead — cleanup. To start the process, a $30 million debris removal program has been launched by San Diego County officials to remove the remains of more than 1,800 buildings that were destroyed or damaged. The California State Office of Emergency Services is funding $23 million of those debris removal costs, while the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is funding the other $7 million. Click for more...
Adobe West Takes on Construction Boom →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Scott Rennicks of Adobe West Landscaping Company, Oakland, Calif., described the housing market in northern California as “explosive.”Rennicks saw an opportunity and capitalized on the housing development by growing the company’s landscape construction business. Rennicks buys his equipment from Bobcat West and believes local sales, service and parts are important. “When we decided to replace [our old] machines, we looked for a good place to get service and parts — that is why we ended up going with Bobcat.”Rennicks has built quite a fleet of different Bobcat machines, including seven 430 Zero House Swing (ZHS) compact excavators, a 331 compact excavator, various skid steer loaders, a powerful T300 compact track loader and five MT52 and MT55 mini track loaders. Click for more...
Vermeer Manufacturing Expands Mini Skid Steer Lineup With New S400TX →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Vermeer Manufacturing Company has expanded its mini skid steer product line with the addition of the all new S400TX, designed to meet the needs of rental centers and landscape contractors. The S400TX, built on the platform of the Vermeer S600TX mini skid steer, is powered by a 23-hp (17 kW) Kohler Command air-cooled gas engine that offers 15 percent more horsepower than competitive models in its class, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...
Dressta 555C Extra Wheel Loader Boasts Turbocharged, In-Line Six Cylinder Engine →
From Construction Equipment Guide... The newest addition to the Dressta lineup is the 555C Extra wheel loader, featuring a new turbocharged, in-line six-cylinder Cummins QSM11 engine. This 10.8-L Tier-III-certified engine delivers 319 net hp (238 kW) at 2,100 rpm or 330 net hp (247 kW) with minimum fan usage. Maximum torque is 1,235 ft.-lbs. (1,674 Nm) at 1,400 rpm. This 6.5-cu.-yd. (4.9 cu m) size wheel loader can come equipped with buckets ranging from 5.5 to 11.0 cu. Click for more...
Rock-Free Dirt Speeds Up Monroe’s Work at 1,000 Unit Development →
Coming across an out-of-the-ordinary situation in construction usually isn’t a good thing, at least in terms of time. But Monroe Roadways, of Charlotte, N.C., is benefiting from a less-than-ordinary situation in its $21 million housing development project in Waxhaw, N.C., that the group took over in March 2006. “We’ve had almost no rock to deal with, just dirt and clay. Because of this, our tractor and scrapers have been ideal for both the scraping and the compaction,” Monroe Roadways co-owner Bob Ryan said. Click for more...
TrakBites Enhances Rubber Track Capabilities on Snowy, Icy Surfaces →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Short and simple, Dell Anderson saw a need. His son, Erick, was struggling with problems slipping on snow and ice with his skid steer rubber track system. Anderson put his brainpower to work and two days later had developed and created the finished product; a steel clamp-on track device to solve slippage problems called TrakBites. One Friday evening, Dell Anderson drafted a plan to produce steel clamp-on cleats, faxed it overnight to his mechanical engineer in Shanghai, China, and by Sunday the first prototype was built. Click for more...
Cat Delivers Special Skid Steer to Vassa Enterprises →
From Construction Equipment Guide... Vassa Enterprises, located in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania, recently took delivery of an important piece of equipment from Ransome CAT, headquartered in Bensalem, Pa. Vassa received the first C-series skid steer delivered in the Delaware/Lehigh Valley region, a Cat 272 C skid steer loader. Keith Vassa, owner of Vassa Enterprises, is delighted with his purchase and happy to be setting a precedent for others to follow. Click for more...
Skid Steer Line Provides High Productivity, More Uptime →
From Construction Equipment Guide... With a unified design, John Deere’s 300 Series skid steers are more productive and more reliable than ever before — offering customers a lower daily operating cost than their predecessors. “Every feature of the 300 Series was designed with productivity, uptime and operating cost in mind,” said Gregg Zupancic, product marketing manager, John Deere Construction & Forestry Division. Click for more...
Cat’s B2 Series Boasts Wide Range of Standard Features →
From Construction Equipment Guide... The new Caterpillar B2 Series of skid steer loaders and multi-terrain loaders feature an improved operator station, an advanced hydraulic system and a wide range of standard features and options designed to meet a variety of production and comfort requirements, according to the manufacturer. Six skid steer loaders — 216B2, 226B2, 232B2, 242B2, 236B2 and 252B2 — and two new multi terrain loaders — 247B2 and 257B2 — constitute the new B2 Series line of machines. Click for more...
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