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NJ’s JESCO Creates Dedicated Compact Equipment Division →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In an effort to further assist contractors in need of compact equipment, South Plainfield, NJ, equipment dealer JESCO has created a dedicated light equipment division. While JESCO has been in the business of selling light equipment for many years, the company saw a need to develop a division completely separate from that of its heavy equipment to ensure that its customers were receiving devoted attention. 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...

NJ’s JESCO Creates New Dedicated Light Equipment Division →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In an effort to further assist contractors in need of compact equipment, South Plainfield, NJ, equipment dealer JESCO has created a dedicated light equipment division. While JESCO has been in the business of selling light equipment for many years, the company saw a need to develop a division completely separate from that of its heavy equipment to ensure that its customers were receiving the devoted attention JESCO customers have come to expect. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Farm-Rite Sells First JCB 718 in Mid-Atlantic Region →

Farm-rite, Inc. based in Shiloh, NJ, recently sold the first JCB 718 articulated dump truck in the Mid-Atlantic Region to Advantage Rental & Sales, of Seaville, NJ. The unit will be immediately placed on a long-term rental to Action Supply, also of Seaville, NJ, according to Tom Tower, of Advantage Rental. The 718 will be mainly used to move processed concrete sand from Action’s dredging operation to Action’s concrete plant, according to Frank Carpino, vice president, of Action Supply. 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...

Upgrade Digs Up Productivity With Takeuchi Fleet →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When Upgrade Landscaping President Chris Cox went on a quest last fall to update his equipment fleet, he was on the lookout for machines that wouldn’t get stuck in the mud –– literally. What Cox and the staff of his Cumming, GA-based landscaping firm found in its newly purchased fleet of Takeuchi equipment were machines that not only got the job done but got it done nearly 20 more days a year than the old fleet. 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...

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