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Two New Skid Steers Designed to Save Time, Money →

Two new additions to the John Deere skid steer family — the 313 and 315 — are compact and maneuverable, yet powerful with rated operating capacities of 1,300 and 1,500 lbs. (590 and 680 kg). Features such as 10- by 16.5-in. (25 by 42 cm) tires for traction and flotation, heavy-duty drive chains that never need adjusting, and enhanced visibility provide outstanding safety while operating in tight spaces. Click for more...

NDDOT Replaces 85-Year-Old Bridge →

“When the Liberty Memorial Bridge was first built in 1922 it was the only crossing over the Missouri River from Sioux City, Iowa, to Great Falls, Mont., a 500-mile distance in either direction. The Memorial Bridge was also needed as an arterial route between Bismarck on the east side of the Missouri River and Mandan on the west side of the river, in central North Dakota,” explained Mike Kopp, on-site engineer of the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT). Click for more...

InfraSource Adding Extra ’Swank’ to Buckhead →

It’s a project that will define the area. The first — and sometimes only — impression that visitors take is not a bridge or a building, but a streetscape. On Peachtree Road in Atlanta’s ever-swankier Buckhead district, the streetscape will be like no other in the world. “It’s quite a visually striking project,” InfraSource Underground Construction Services General Manager George Betzner said. Click for more...

Crews Widen Main Street in Bamberg During $8M Project →

With large stretches of its main downtown streets reduced to a mess of rocks and dirt and gaping holes, Bamberg, S.C., looked more like a war zone than a quiet Southern town during work late last year and earlier this year to widen U.S. 301/601 and crossroad U.S. 78, said Earl Capps, spokesman for contractor U.S. Group Inc. “Basically, [the streets] were torn down to dirt. … We had to pull up everything [and] start over,” said Capps, whose company is based in Columbia, S.C., approximately an hour north of Bamberg. Click for more...

Manitowoc Acquires Shirke’s Potain Tower Crane Business →

The Manitowoc Company Inc. has acquired Shirke Construction Equipments Pvt. Ltd. Shirke is headquartered in Pune, India, and manufactures Potain tower cranes under license. It also is the Potain distributor for India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. The newly acquired business will operate in the future as Potain India Pvt. Ltd. and will continue to manufacture tower cranes under the Potain name. Click for more...

IMT Adds CraneWorks Inc. as Dealer in Houston Area →

Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc. (IMT) added CraneWorks Inc., based in Houston, as a dealer of IMT products to customers in the Houston area. CraneWorks now offers the extensive line of IMT telescopic cranes. CraneWorks also has established an IMT parts and service operation in Houston so that customers get the full experience of working with the IMT dealer network. “We’re excited about CraneWorks Inc. Click for more...

Bard Capital Acquires Crane Rental Giant AmQuip →

Bard Capital Group LLC, a private equity investment firm engaged in the acquisition and operation of middle market companies, along with other investors, has acquired the assets and business of AmQuip Corp., one of the nation’s largest providers of industrial crane rentals, sales and related services. The transaction was valued at more than $320 million. The transaction provides AmQuip with the capital, operational oversight and other resources necessary to foster continuing organic and strategic growth. Click for more...

Gantry Cranes Speed Up Alabama River Bridge Work →

Faced with growing traffic on a pair of bridges crossing the Alabama River in Montgomery, Ala., state Department of Transportation officials decided to bridge the widening gap between their designed capacity and increasing demand by bridging the actual gap between the two structures. “In essence, you’re taking two separate bridges and turning them into one big bridge,” said ALDOT spokesman Tony Harris, explaining the roughly half-mile (0.8 km) span of Interstate 65 was widened by building up between the two bridges to create two additional traffic lanes — one northbound and one southbound — that will be divided by a concrete barrier wall. Click for more...

Crane Operators Save Victim’s Life →

Budrovich Contracting crane operators, Rocky Rhodes and Steve Leslie, came to the rescue of a man whose arm was nearly amputated in an auto accident June 22. The accident took place near the interchange of I-55 and I-270 in south St. Louis County. Both crane operators were following each other on their way to construction job sites, when a cement truck blew a tire and collided with the car next to it. Click for more...

Mantis Crane Takes the Field for the New York Yankees →

The Barletta Corp.’s 14010 Mantis crane has been an MVP on the field so far for the New York Yankees stadium project in the Bronx. The crane, which is now on lease to Interstate Industrial Corp. of Clifton, N.J., has been hard at work in both the outfield and infield for foundation work, which has included driving piles, picking and carrying heavy steel beams, unloading steel and re-rodding, among other tasks. Click for more...

ALL Erection Sets 184-Ft. Bridge With Two-Crane Lift →

ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp. set a 184-ft. (56 m) walk bridge across a Lake Erie bay at the new Bayfront Convention Center in a complex but well-orchestrated two-crane pick. Detailed planning, close cooperation between crane company and engineers, ALL’s lift-planning software, experienced crane operators, and two hydraulic truck cranes pooled efforts to erect a bridge that many feared would require a tugboat with a crane aboard, according to the company. Click for more...

Link-Belt RTC-8090 Series II Features New Boom Design →

Link-Belt’s RTC-8090 Series II, 90-ton (80 t) rough terrain crane features a new boom design and increased lift capacities. The RTC-8090 Series II features Link-Belt’s locking and latching system for the 38 to 140-ft. (11.6 to 42.7 m), five-section boom — a first for an RT crane. This boom design uses a single hydraulic cylinder to move all five boom sections one at a time. And, unlike other cranes with latching booms, there is no deduct in the lift chart for telescoping a load. Click for more...

Demolition Spree Spurs Surge at EMF’s Scrap Facility →

Good things come in bunches. James Rose and John Toth founded EMF Development Corporation as a joint venture to purchase and demolish the former Bethlehem Steel’s Johnstown steel making facility. The Johnstown, Pa.-based company’s work there inspired city officials to ask them to raze another large facility in town. The new demolition project, which covered 80 acres, presented EMF with very heavy demolition and high tonnage yields of valuable scrap metals. Click for more...

Etchart Appointed Manitowoc Crane Group’s President →

Manitowoc Crane Group (MCG) has named Eric Etchart president and general manager. The new role is effective immediately and follows the promotion of Glen Tellock (previously president and general manager of MCG) to president and CEO of the parent organization, The Manitowoc Company Inc. Etchart has been with Manitowoc Crane Group since 1995, serving first as a general manager for Potain in Italy before moving to the Asia-Pacific region in 1997. Click for more...

Link-Belt ATC-3250 Auto-Adjusts for Boom Deflection →

Link-Belt’s 250-ton (220 t) ATC-3250 is equipped with a 43.3 to 223.1-ft. (13.2 to 68 m), full power, seven-section, latching boom. The sections extend independently by means of one double acting, single stage hydraulic cylinder. Four pinned positions of 0, 46, 92, and 100 percent on each section provide thirty-eight extend combinations for increased capacities when varying the extensions of the telescoping sections. Click for more...

Building Boom Creates Shortage of Cranes →

DALLAS (AP) It’s daybreak when Michael Machovsky climbs nearly 200 ft. (60 m) to the cab of his tower crane for a 10-hour day of hoisting equipment and supplies across a downtown construction site. As morning joggers shuffle by and commuter traffic backs up, Machovsky methodically swings the crane’s jib and drops the hook for the morning’s first lift. His counterparts across the Dallas skyline repeat the drill as the construction day rumbles to a start. Click for more...

Caterpillar-Based Crane Features 60-Ton Capacity →

The new Favelle Favco Model 60T telescopic boom, crawler crane with 60-ton (54 t) capacity and a 4-section, 105-ft. (32 m) boom tip is built on a Caterpillar Model 325 excavator power module. The crane is powered by a quad turbocharged 168-hp (125 kW) Cat diesel engine with automatic engine control and an electronic power unit control with backup system. For operator convenience, the quiet Caterpillar cab has ergonomic control placement using a joystick for swing, boom elevation, telescopic main hoist and auxiliary hoists. Click for more...

Link-Belt 298 HSL Fills Gap in Lattice Boom Crane Line →

Link-Belt’s 298 HSL, a 230-ton (208.6 t) hydraulic lattice boom crawler crane fills out Link-Belt’s crawler crane line providing Link-Belt quality between 200 and 300 tons. It also provides a replacement for all the aging 230-ton crawlers in fleets around the world. Grace Under Power Continuing the HYLAB tradition, the 298 HSL brings pin-point controls and reliability to the table. With a 230-ton capacity, it has 55,000 lbs. Click for more...

Miss. Towns Reconnected by Bay St. Louis Bridge →

Mississippi Gulf Coast residents celebrated a milestone May 17 when two lanes were opened on the newly reconstructed Bay St. Louis bridge destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The new U.S. 90 bridge links the communities of Bay St. Louis and Henderson Point for the first time since 2005. The six-lane bridge, which spans 1.6 mi. (2.6 km), will be totally completed in November. Southern District Transportation Commissioner Wayne Brown called the opening of the two lanes “symbolic of the recovery of the coast.”MDOT officials, along with federal, state and local dignitaries, began the ceremony followed by two busloads of participants taking a short ride to the top of the bridge, where they tied together a huge ribbon signifying the communities are once again connected. Click for more...

Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental Inc. Changes Facility →

Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental Inc. has moved to a new 12-acre facility off Interstate 94 at Highway 29 in Eau Claire, Wis., from its former location in Chippewa Falls. Since 1993, Dawes has been based in the Chippewa Valley but, with rental and sales operations growing, Dawes decided to expand to the new location because it allows room for future growth. Additionally, the new, larger facility and optimal location will fill customers’ rental needs, from cranes — rough terrain, crawler, operated hydraulic truck, boom truck, hi-reach, carrydeck, and static and self-erecting towers — to aerials and material handlers such as scissor lifts, telescopic booms, articulating booms, and rough terrain forklifts. Click for more...

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