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Link-Belt Names Its Top Five Crane Distributors for 2002 →

John Claflin, Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company vice president of sales and marketing, announced the top five Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company crane distributors, and the “Rookie of the Year” distributor at the AED annual meeting in San Diego, CA. The top five are:• Four Seasons Equipment Inc., Houston, TX, has been a Link-Belt distributor for two years. It has branch offices in San Antonio and Dallas, and serves the central and east Texas area. Click for more...

Matt Beller Joins Stowers as Its CCE Sales Manager →

Stowers Rental & Supply, The Cat Rental Store, has announced that Matt Beller has joined the Knoxville-based company as sales manager for compact construction equipment. Beller will be responsible for the sales of Caterpillar’s line of skid steer loaders, mini-excavators, and compact wheel loaders as well the Challenger line of agricultural tractors. He has more than 17 years experience in the construction equipment industry. Click for more...

Kenworth C500 Enables Crane Operator to Conquer FL’s Sand →

Chris Grower was stuck - literally and figuratively. His truck outfitted with a 167-ft. (51 m) National crane was frequently getting mired in the sand and mud that are common in northeast Florida. The owner operator of Grower Crane Service Inc. was spending too much of his time digging out of the loose soil conditions when erecting outdoor signs and planting utility poles. “I had this crane mounted on a 6 by 6, which, as I found out too often, wasn’t satisfactory to handle the crane,” Grower said. Click for more...

Lady Lake’s South Eastern Timber Buzzes to Meet Demand for Oak Crane Mats →

For a company that has been around for more than 30 years, South Eastern Timber is seeing some of its best business in the past two. The company, based out of Lady Lake, FL, with a sales office in Coral Springs, has managed to keeps its oak crane mat production flow up in spite of a weak economy over the past few years. Diane Murray, vice president of the five employee outfit, credits the steady flow on a newer, better carriage, installed about a year ago, and a recently introduced Web site. Click for more...

Greenville’s Liberty Bridge Allows Visitors to Freely View Waterfalls →

Flowing through historic downtown Greenville, SC, is the scenic Reedy River. Sitting on this river, with its waterfalls and lush gardens, is Falls Park. Over the past 40 years, the Carolina Foothills Garden Club of Greenville and the city of Greenville have worked with individuals, corporations, and state and federal agencies to further develop the park. In 1990, landscape architect Andrea Mains, of Washington D.C., began to draw up plans to transform the area into a regional attraction, with botanical gardens and a curved suspension pedestrian bridge. Click for more...

Grove Gains Higher Profile in Guay Inc.’s Extensive Crane Fleet Throughout Canada →

Guay Inc. started out in Quebec City, Canada, in 1964 by its current owner, Jean-Marc Baronet. The company has expanded to seven locations serving Quebec, portions of Ontario, the Atlantic Provinces and the northern United States. More than half of the Guay fleet of 320 cranes that range from 8 to 880 tons (7.2 to 792 t), are Grove. Recent additions include four TMS745E truck cranes, three RT760E rough-terrain cranes and a GMK5120B all-terrain crane. Click for more...

Terex Reaches for Sky With RT1000 →

Terex Cranes has announced a new rough-terrain crane with a maximum lift capacity of 100 tons (90 t). Designated the RT 1000, the new model has a 126-ft. (38.4 m) four-section boom with single-lever control for either three-section heavy lift or four-section long boom configuration. Two double-acting hoist cylinders provide boom elevation of minus 2 to 78 degrees for easier reeving changes and close radius operation. Click for more...

Link-Belt’s HTT-8660 Crane Displays Mobility in NY Bridge Replacement →

Because of its lift, reach, mobility and duty-cycle times, Luck Brothers’ new Link-Belt HTT-8660 crane is a perfect fit for its first application. The crane is being used to tear down and replace a deteriorating bridge that carries heavy traffic over U.S. Route 3 over the Saranac River, in New York State. Luck Brothers, based in Plattsburgh, NY, is replacing the old bridge, which is located 7 mi. Click for more...

Link-Belt’s HTT-8660 Crane Displays →

Because of its lift, reach, mobility and duty-cycle times, Luck Brothers’ new Link-Belt HTT-8660 crane is a perfect fit for its first application. The crane is being used to tear down and replace a deteriorating bridge that carries heavy traffic over U.S. Route 3 over the Saranac River, in New York State. Luck Brothers, based in Plattsburgh, NY, is replacing the old bridge, which is located 7 mi. Click for more...

Crane & Machinery Event Highlights Terex Products →

More than 100 customers and guests headed out to Crane & Machinery’s Open House on Friday, Nov. 8 and Saturday, Nov. 9. The event was held to introduce the new Terex/Demag line of cranes and three new crane sizes in the Terex lifting lines. Crane & Machinery has been representing Terex and its acquired lines for 25 years. The new products, according to Linda Hamman, area manager, “enhance what we can provide our customers in the construction equipment industry. “We have changed our offerings to focus on Terex and all of their lines,” Hamman added. The equipment dealer, based out of Bridgeview, IL, had a variety of features highlighting the open house including equipment displays, give-aways, seminars and a pig roast on Saturday. Some of the machinery on display included an American HC 275, a 275-ton (249 t) crawler crane; a Terex RT 665, a 65-ton (59 t) rough-terrain crane that weighs under the 90,000-lb. Click for more...

Bay Crane Hoists 7-Ton Tree in Rockefeller Center →

NEW YORK (AP) The 76-ft. Norway spruce that once irked Mary Rizzo when it blocked the walkway to her house looked just perfect to her after it was erected to serve as Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree. The 7-ton, 43-ft. wide tree was taken from Carmine and Mary Rizzo’s property in Bloomsbury, NJ. In a first for a tradition that dates back to 1931, the tree was chosen based on a photograph sent in by the owners. Click for more...

Jones Purchases First JCB 718 Artic Truck Sold in U.S. →

Ronny D. Jones Enterprises Inc. is a third-generation utility contractor whose recent purchase of a JCB 718 articulated dump truck was a first. The Newnan, GA, contractor serving the Atlanta metro and north Georgia area has become the owner of the first JCB 718 sold in the United States. Specializing in site development and utilities construction services from initial site planning, preparation and grading through completion and follow-up, Jones needed a reliable vehicle to serve a range of clients including municipalities and counties. When the need arose, Jones turned to Stafford Tractor Company, based in Lawrenceville, GA. Click for more...

Crews March Past Halfway Point on Chicago’s Soldier Field Project →

After working for almost seven months and with approximately five months to go, crews have placed the majority of the structural steel, and fans are ready to cheer the early completion of Soldier Field. The general contractor, a joint venture between Turner Construction Management and Kenny Construction, both out of Chicago, and Barton-Marlow, of Detroit, have hired a trio of subcontractors to complete the structure of the stadium as well as an underground parking structure and the risers. Click for more...

Villager Construction Tackles Route 31 Challenges in NY →

In Palmyra, NY, on Route 31 a project has been under way to reconstruct a 1.9-mi. (3.1 km) section of the town from the Macedon town line in the west to the bridge which spans the Erie Canal in the east. The $7.5-million project includes installing a new water main as well as new storm and sewer lines. Villager Construction of nearby Fairport, NY, was awarded the project. “Route 31 is a major state route,” explained Joe Venuti, project manager of Villager Construction. Click for more...

Crane Safety Evolves Gradually Over Past Decade →

Since the Big Blue accident in Milwaukee and several other crane incidents in the early-to-mid 1990s, crane safety has been under a microscope. This scrutiny, plus the fact that crane and hoist safety meets the criteria for The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to designate it as a priority, raises the question of why it has taken so long for up-to-date safety guidelines to be published and implemented. Click for more...

NY’s Liftech Construction Takes on the Full JCB Line →

JCB recently appointed Liftech Construction Equipment as its dealer for all of upstate New York. With locations in Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, Liftech is poised to meet the needs of all upstate New York present and future JCB customers. Liftech will represent the full JCB line, which includes:• Tractor loader backhoes (six models), • Loadall material handlers (10 models), • Skid steers (four models), • Mini-excavators (six models), • Excavators, including a 100,000-lb. Click for more...

Slow Crane Sales Cause Manitowoc to Reduce Earning Forecast →

Manitowoc Co. reduced its 2002 profit forecast as crane sales remained weak from a slowdown in commercial construction. The maker of cranes and refrigerated vending machines employs about 8,000 people, including 2,375 in Wisconsin, and since July has cut 5 percent of its total work force. The 400 job cuts have occurred mostly in crane businesses, company officials said. The slowdown comes as the crane business has become a bigger piece of the manufacturing portfolio of Manitowoc Co., which also makes ice and beverage machines and repairs and builds ships. Manitowoc had been expected to earn $2.23 a share this year, according to the average estimate of four analysts polled by Thomson First Call. Click for more...

Grove Lifts Beams on Goldenrod Road →

Crane Rental of Orlando Florida Inc. put its new Grove GMK5240 all-terrain crane to work lifting bridge beams for Jones Brothers, general contractors on the Goldenrod Road extension project. Goldenrod Road is being expanded over the Bee Line Expressway, a major artery, which is the direct route from Orlando to Cape Canaveral. Each beam weighs 255,000 lbs. (115,666 kg) and 28 beams are being set over a two-month period. Crane Rental of Orlando began serving Florida in 1960 and now offers crane rental services on a nationwide basis. Click for more...

Grove GMK5240 Sets Up in AZ →

Southwest Industrial Rigging (SWIR) recently used its Grove GMK5240 all-terrain to set air handling units at Micro Chip in Tempe, AZ. Electronic chip assembly takes place in clean rooms requiring special filtration, HVAC, humidification and air handling equipment. The 240-ton (216 t) GMK5240 has a standard boom length of 197 ft. (60 m) and maximum tip height of 322 ft. (98 m) making it ideal for jobs of this type. Click for more...

Link-Belt LS-218H Drives Piles for WW II Memorial →

“Here in the presence of Washington and Lincoln, one the eighteenth century father, and the other the nineteenth century preserver of our nation, we honor those twentieth century Americans who took up the struggle and made the sacrifices to perpetuate the gift our forefathers entrusted to us: A Nation Conceived in Freedom” Midlantic Piling Inc., of Glen Rock, PA, was awarded the pile installation subcontract on the $56.1-million World War II Memorial being built in Washington, D.C. Click for more...

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