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Contractor of the Year Finalist: Brian and Dick Churchill
Although hard work can take you a long way as a contractor, adaptability and a willingness to consider new ideas can truly set you apart from the competition. Brian and Dick Churchill of The GroundsKeeper, a commercial landscape contracting firm in the Boston area, have done just that. Intelligent choices paired with meticulous attention to […]
July 9, 2007
Business
Enter the concrete curbing business with Tygar’s turnkey package
Tygar‘s Ultimate Curbing package offers a turnkey solution for contractors to enter the concrete curbing business. The package includes the Bengal TG1000 Curb Machine, the SC1000 Sabertooth Sod Cutter, a custom curbing trailer with attached concrete mixer and accessories in packages from $7,495 to $34,995. Tygar’s curb machine can handle 24-inch walkways, landscape curb with […]
July 6, 2007
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San Jose, California — trailers, equipment
Location: San Jose, California Theft date: end of March Value of stolen items: $40,000 Two trailers where stolen from the San Jose area during the last week of March, according to the San Jose Mercury News. A 14-feet long trailer with $30,000 worth of construction equipment was taken from a business, while the other trailer […]
June 26, 2007
Business
Contractor of the Year Finalist: Lana and Derek Couch
Couch Excavating owner Phil Couch had a great obsession: heavy equipment. He always carried a Caterpillar key in his pocket and was known to stop by the side of the road if he happened to see a piece of Cat equipment and fire it up just to see how it ran. In country communities like […]
June 14, 2007
Business
Contractor of the Year – June 2007
Growing up in the lush and rolling foothills just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Darrell Westmoreland spent his youth hunting and fishing and helping out on his grandfather’s farm. So it was only natural that he took his love of the outdoors with him to college and majored in biological and agricultural engineering with […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Business Matters: Equipment financing
The majority of equipment purchases today are financed with conventional loans, sometimes called retail or installment contracts. With these you typically put in a down payment of some kind, pay off the monthly installments and at the end of the contract – 36, 48, 60 or some number of months – the equipment is yours […]
June 12, 2007
Business
On Record: Getting to the second generation
Early on in my construction journalism tenure I interviewed a contractor who for me came to symbolize the family underpinnings of this industry. He had what seemed to be the perfect setup: As he was looking forward to stepping down in about 15 years, his two sons were gradually taking over. One son had a […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Maintenance/Management: Intelligent hydraulics
In just the past few years, the progression from electro-hydraulic control to electronic control of hydraulic systems has given engineers almost unlimited potential to re-write the rules of how machines and their component subsystems work together. And smarter hydraulics combined with steady improvements in the mechanical elements of hydraulic pumps, motors, hoses and connections are […]
June 12, 2007
Business
First Word: As good as it gets
Believe it or not, the business of publishing has a great deal in common with that of running a construction firm. In the construction industry, you can establish a reputation for doing the very best job from a technical standpoint and yet fail miserably at bidding jobs or billing your current customers. No matter how […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Maintenance/Management: Dealing with dust
Heavy equipment engines may be massive and powerful, but all it takes is a teaspoon of dust to ruin one. Silica, the primary ingredient in dust, is highly abrasive and acts like a lapping compound – polishing your piston rings, valves, cams and crankshafts and sandblasting your fuel injectors or any moving part with tight […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Contractor of the Year Update: Class of 2004
Editor’s Note: Equipment World’s Contractor of the Year program has honored a variety of contractors during its five years. Now that the program has a few years under its belt, we wanted to go back and check in with our past finalists. We’ll be revisiting these former finalists through this month, and then announcing our […]
June 12, 2007
Business
On Record: Prepare in advance
While using the phrase “prepare in advance” would drive my former English teacher Miss MacAllister nuts, there were so many examples of preparing in reverse this past year in the disaster-response arena that I’m going to let it stand. We’re still tallying the lessons learned during 2005. In March, United Rentals published a white paper […]
June 12, 2007
Business
First Word: Choose to pay attention
A good friend shared with me a quote that resonated in describing the confusing world we live in: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Back in the early sixties, the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) had yet to become a household acronym and Prozac and Ritalin were still figments of […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Rent Smart: The big boys
Cat Rental Store www.cat.com Number of locations: 430 in the United States and Canada, all operated by Caterpillar dealers Cat dealers added 23 locations in 2005 and will continue to expand in 2006, although no specifics are available. The national average fleet age is 18 months. In addition to Cat equipment, the stores offer a […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Engine Notebook: Cat gets ACERT-ive
A key goal in Caterpillar’s development of ACERT technology was to provide commonality – one basic strategy to meet in-place and upcoming emissions standards for both on- and off-highway applications. It’s working. The same basic design that satisfies current Tier 3 nonroad standards will be the platform on which Tier 4 nonroad engines will be […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Contractor of the Year Update: Class of 2003
Editor’s Note: Equipment World’s Contractor of the Year program has honored a variety of contractors during its five years. Now that the program has a few years under its belt, we wanted to go back and check in with our past finalists. We’ll be revisiting these former finalists through April, and then announcing our 2006 […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Application Tips: Welders
Just because you’ve had success using a certain kind of welding machine in the past doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider something different the next time you buy. While it may seem counter intuitive to fix something that isn’t broken, you might miss out on advancements that could improve your bottom line if you don’t at […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Cover Story: Digital Earthmoving
You are – right now – living through a revolution: A diverse array of technologies have converged to utterly change the way earth is moved. As with most revolutions, these advances happened in stages. The development of high-pressure hydraulic control systems and powertrains was revolutionary to men who cut their teeth on primitive clutch-and-brake and […]
June 12, 2007
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