Agricultural Equipment Articles

Rochester Awaits New $63.9M Bascule Bridge Over Genesee →

A few years ago, a single lane bridge in upstate New York was replaced. It was affectionately known to local residents as the Thunder Bridge, from the loud banging that ensued when cars drove over its loose timber decking. “Shortly after the new bridge went in I had a call from the adjacent neighbor, right on top of the bridge, complaining that he could not sleep at night any more,” recalled Bo Mansouri of Monroe County Department of Transportation (DOT) in New York state. Click for more...

Crews Finish Up Road Work in South Carolina →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Dust will soon settle for the last time in four lakefront subdivisions near Eutawville, SC, where general contractor W. Frazier Construction Inc. and several subcontractors have teamed up to pave 21 existing dirt roads. Rea Construction will handle the paving portion of the project, which has a total value of nearly $1 million. Hutto Construction has the responsibility for building the drainage structures, while G.H. Click for more...

Millions of Pounds of Concrete Barge Up the Monongahela River →

History was made in Pennsylvania on July 26 as people gathered along the Ohio and Monongahela (Mon) rivers to see for themselves that concrete really could float. The spectacle was definitely something to see as 22 million lbs. (9.9 million kg) of reinforced concrete slowly made a 27.5-mi. (44 km) journey up the river. The football-field sized chunk was one of the segments of a new navigation dam under construction near Braddock, PA. Click for more...

Castor Named Volvo Wheel Loader VP →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Thomas Caster has been appointed vice president and business line manager, wheel loaders, of Volvo Construction Equipment North America Inc., Asheville, NC, the sales, marketing and product support subsidiary of Volvo Construction Equipment, Brussels, Belgium. The announcement of Caster’s appointment was made by J. P. Roszell, president and chief executive officer of Volvo Construction Equipment, North America, and is effective immediately. Click for more...

Contractors ’Shoulder’ Georgia Interstate-16 Widening Project →

Rogers Bridge Company Inc. and Mitchell Construction Co. Inc. of Atlanta, GA, have teamed up to complete a $27.9-million bridge and shoulder widening project along Interstate 16 in Laurens and Treutlen counties. Reeves Construction of East Dublin, GA, also plays a key role in the effort as the project’s paving contractor. Other key figures in the project include Heath & Lineback, which serves as the consulting engineering firm to the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). Click for more...

Bobcat Acquires Czech Compact Loader-Backhoe Maker Superstav →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Bobcat Company of West Fargo, ND, recently announced the purchase of Superstav, s.r.o., a manufacturer of compact loader backhoes based in Dobri, Czech Republic, and its subsidiary Earth Force America Inc. of Charleston, SC. The acquisition includes Superstav’s line of compact loader-backhoe products—marketed under the EarthForce brand—and its Dobri manufacturing plant located outside Prague. Click for more...

Newest Batch Plant Becomes Builder’s ’FirstSource’ →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The newest concrete batch plant in Johnston County, NC, is the product of a young building supply company and an older heavy equipment supply firm in the state. Interstate Equipment Co. was founded 55 years ago in Statesville, NC. Formed just four years ago, was Builders FirstSource of Frederick, MD. The common connection for the two firms is Bob Holland, an Interstate senior vice president, who has been with the company almost as long as it has been around. Builders FirstSource has grown rapidly through acquisition of established building companies that supply everything from footing concrete to roofing shingles. Click for more...

Komatsu Customers Discover Value of ReMarketed Machine →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Last year, Komatsu ReMarketing introduced “Distributor Qualified Used Equipment” as a way to bring certain standards and assurances to the used equipment marketplace. A distributor-qualified machine is one that has been thoroughly inspected by a trained Komatsu technician and graded according to specific standardized criteria. Equipment users said they like the distributor-qualified program because they know exactly what they’re getting. Click for more...

Fermec Scores With Hat Trick of Contracts, Inks Backhoe Orders →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Fermec, a U.K.-based manufacturer of loader backhoes, has won three contracts in the United States. The state of North Carolina has placed a contract for 33 Fermec 860SB loader backhoes and the state of New York has awarded a 12-month contract during which any state or municipal body can order Fermec loader backhoes, a deal which is estimated to demand 40 machines. Ben Newell of Fermec said, “Good things come in threes and the third contract is particularly pleasing as it has been placed by the West Virginian Department of Transportation, calling for 10 Fermec 760B loader backhoes. Click for more...

Deere, Hitachi to Create a Joint Venture for Wheel Loaders in Japan →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Deere & Company and Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. jointly announced the intent to create a 50/50 joint venture for wheel loaders in Japan. Hitachi has operated its wheel loader business through Hitachi Furukawa Construction Co. Ltd. ("Hitachi-Furukawa"), a 50/50 joint venture between Hitachi and Furukawa Machinery and Metals Co. Ltd. ("Furukawa") and through TCM Corporation ("TCM"), of which Hitachi is a 13 percent shareholder. Click for more...

Cell Construction Locks Up Delaware’s Garbage →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Delaware Solid Waste Authority is serious about keeping the site safe and clean. So serious that it is investing $10.5 million in the construction of a new cell at its Southern Solid Waste Management Center (SSWMC) in Sussex County, DE. National Earth Products Inc. (NEP), a subsidiary of Mahwah, NJ-based EMCON/OWT Solid Waste Services, a unit of The IT Group, is working on this more than 30-acre expansion project to construct Cell 4 Disposal Area and related facilities. Click for more...

T.C. Simons Tackles U.S. Route 40 Improvement Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When the traffic flow became unbearable along U.S. Route 40 Corridor in Delaware and Maryland, a long-range Corridor improvement plan was developed. In looking at the area’s congestion, it has been reported that the number of dwelling units in the Corridor is projected to increase to 38,965 in 2020, an increase of 50 percent since 1995-96. The overall population in the Corridor is projected to increase to 90,371 by 2020, an increase of 35 percent since 1995-96. Traffic also has shifted in the Corridor. Click for more...

Heavy Equipment Rescues State From Perils of Ice Storm →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Unlike the F5 tornado that blew through Central Oklahoma in 1999, there was adequate warning about the Christmas disaster of 2000. Clear radar pictures flashed across television screens statewide for almost a week warning of the impending storm approaching. Even though the results of the meeting of cold and warm fronts covered much of the nation, it was Oklahoma that was caught between the rush of warm south rain from the Gulf and the freezing snow from the north. Click for more...

Midwest Catches Super Bowl Fever on JCB Grid Iron Tour →

From Construction Equipment Guide... JCB, the official heavy construction equipment suppliers for Tampa Bay Super Bowl XXXV, are getting dealers across the country to show their football spirit by displaying the unique “JCB Grid Iron Helmets” and providing area residents the chance to win tickets to the Super Bowl this month. The “Grid Iron” helmets are inflatable and fit over the cabs of JCB 214 backhoe loaders. Click for more...

$1.39M Overhaul Rejuvenates Aging Pennsylvania Span →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Drivers in Butler County, PA, faced slight delays this summer caused by occasional single-lane alternating traffic on the bridge carrying SR l08 over I-79 in Worth Township. In addition, traffic on I-79 itself also was restricted at times to single lanes, but the public’s patience has been well rewarded with the recent reopening of the newly refurbished bridge. Begun in April 2000, the bridge superstructure replacement involved rehabilitation of a multi-span steel-beam bridge 238-ft. Click for more...

Contractor Saves Time, Money With Pro-Tec Slide Rail Shoring System →

From Construction Equipment Guide... How Pro-Tec’s Slide Rail Shoring System is used as an economical alternative to tight sheeting has been aptly demonstrated on an Anderzack-Pitzen Construction Co. job in Toledo, OH, where a 34-ft. (10.4 m) long, 10-ft. (3 m) diameter separator tank was installed underground for the Teledyne Company. To accommodate the tank, a large pit measuring 40-ft. long, 16-ft. wide, and 22-ft. deep (12.2 m long, 5 m wide, 6. Click for more...

Mega Construction Kicks Off 2001 With Purchase of Dozen Backhoes →

From Construction Equipment Guide... John Capponi, president of Mega Construction Co., Philadelphia, PA, is starting the New Year off on the right foot with 12 New Holland 575E backhoes. Capponi, president of Mega Construction Co., Philadelphia, PA, recently updated his backhoe fleet with the purchase of the 575Es from Modern Construction Equipment, Hatfield, PA. Ten of the 575Es are equipped with New Holland’s extended dipperstick and two of the backhoes are equipped with standard hoes and plumbed for Rammer hammers. Click for more...

Five Star Sells a Whopping 19 TLBs to Same Customer →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Five Star Equipment recently achieved the largest tractor-loader-backhoe deal in its history, selling 19 of the units to a single customer—E.E. Root & Sons Inc. of Oswego, NY. A John Deere dealership with New York locations in Kirkwood, Syracuse, Rochester and Oriskany, Five Star has an additional location in Stroudsburg, PA, and corporate headquarters in Dunmore, PA. E.E. Root primarily does contracting work for several local utility companies in central New York, and is headed by Gary Root, who is assisted by his sons, Mark and Jeff. Click for more...

Bobcat 337 Digs Up Rave Reviews for Colorado Company →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Eight years ago, Dan Vavrina, Mead, CO, was a heavy equipment operator for a company that rented a compact excavator one day to install sewer lines in a limited access area. “I was immediately impressed with the power of the small machine,” Vavrina said. “I saw what you could accomplish with it, and I began to rent one for my own use in the evening and weekends. I’d do a job and immediately get calls for more work.” Before long, Vavrina started his own company — Colorado Mini Excavating. Click for more...

Marble Mining Crew Trades Pickaxes for Volvo Loaders →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Two Volvo D Series wheel loaders have become important parts of the operation at the historic Georgia Marble Company in recent months. The 116-year-old mining operation in Tate, GA, acquired a Volvo L70D last summer, then added a Volvo L330D to its equipment inventory in September. The Volvo L70D quickly became an essential part of many different maintenance and utility chores, such as transporting saws and heavy equipment and assisting in cleanup operations. Click for more...

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