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Maintenance: Page 61
Maintenance
RentSmart: Matching rented artics to your jobs
Contractors certainly like to rent articulated trucks. “When you include rental purchase options, approximately 75 percent of artics start out as rented machines,” says Mike Kennamann, Caterpillar’s sales support consultant for articulated trucks. Artics are versatile; they operate in all weather conditions and are adept at hauling a variety of materials. You don’t need good […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Business Matters: The digital difference
A lot of heavy construction accounting is done by the seat of the pants. If you work in any craft or industry long enough you get a pretty good idea of what your costs are going to be on any given job. But in today’s marketplace, especially if you want to grow your company, pretty […]
June 12, 2007
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Productivity Guide: Hydraulic excavators >25 to 30 metric tons
There are no hard-and-fast acquisition rules for excavators, but if you’re a contractor in North America, odds are you cut your business teeth on machines in the 12- to 24-metric-ton classes. Once your business is established and growing, it’s likely you’ll begin to take on larger jobs or perhaps move into new applications that require […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Maintenance/Management: Hiring, training and keeping technicians
If you are a construction company owner or manager, hiring your first equipment technician is a step not taken lightly. After all, servicing and repairing machinery is not how you make money. And most of today’s equipment dealers offer such comprehensive maintenance and extended warranty packages you could run equipment for years and never have […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Maintenance lessons from the mining industry
Mining machines are the giants among giants – trucks with 13-foot-tall tires, dozers with 850-horsepower engines and shovels that gobble up 50 cubic yards with a single bite. This equipment is so big and expensive it has to be managed with a precision and rigor that rivals the engineering efforts at NASA. Many of the […]
June 12, 2007
Safety
How to rent gen sets and light towers
Night work is a fact of life for several contractors. Take Jim Jacobs, owner of Jim’s Concrete of Bevard, Jacksonville, Florida, who uses light towers on early morning pours. “We typically use four light towers for our larger, 20,000 to 30,000 feet pours,” he comments. “Two of those will be rented, since we need light […]
June 12, 2007
Business
The pressure’s on: Hydrostatic transmissions
There’s nothing new about the principles of hydraulics – using a fluid under pressure to accomplish some type of work. That much even the ancient Romans knew. But in the past few years, advances in manufacturing techniques and materials have allowed hydraulic component makers to lower the weight, reduce the size and increase the performance […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Mike Nadeau, Shonna Nadeau, Jeff Rehder — BNR Excavating, Hastings, Minnesota
It was the winter of 1996 and Mike Nadeau and Jeff Rehder had just been laid off their jobs working for a large commercial site developer. Realizing they needed to create their own opportunity the two teamed up with another partner – someone they’ve since bought out – and started BNR Excavating. The first order […]
June 12, 2007
Business
John Hill — John Hill Engineering & Construction, Canyon Country, California
After years of looking at banking spreadsheets, John Hill came to a heartfelt decision: He didn’t want to be an accountant anymore. Shortly before his conclusion Hill had saved enough money to get a house – but only if he built it himself. “Whenever I wasn’t working at the bank, I was building the house,” […]
June 12, 2007
Safety
Pull-behind scrapers
If you’ve been using self-propelled scrapers for small site development jobs that last less than six months and involve short haul distances, you might want to consider using pull-behind scrapers. “Most of our sales come from people who previously had been running self-propelled scrapers,” says Mark Miskin, president of Miskin Scraper Works. “When you hook […]
June 12, 2007
Safety
Reach out-of-the-way work areas with a rented articulated boom aerial lift
If your work site is located above machinery and around overhead conduits, then the up-and-over capabilities of the articulating boom aerial lift is your best rental choice. “These compact units can get into tighter areas than other types of lifts, plus they have a greater range of motion,” says Jason Bullock, operations manager, JPS Equipment/Volvo […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Equipment financing options
New jobs often bring new equipment needs, and that means putting pencil to paper and matching the productive capacity of the machine to whatever mountain needs moving. But there is one more calculation you have to make before you buy that machine. The type of financing you choose can have a bigger impact on your […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Getting the most of your rental relationships
There are rental companies that try to stick it to you on rate, fail to meet their promised delivery dates and rent old, downtime-prone equipment. Just as there are contractors who abuse equipment and try to dodge responsibility for repairs … or expect the rental company to absorb the cost if they fail to call […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Hydraulic cylinders
Through hundreds and thousands of cycles a day, hydraulic cylinders bear the brunt of the heavy lifting that makes you money in the construction business. These simple, rugged components may seem bulletproof, but eventually they wear out. And it is possible to damage them before that, either through careless operation or by neglecting maintenance. Reading […]
June 12, 2007
Safety
Renting welders
Ready to do a variety of jobs – from steel fabrication work to pipe welding to carbon arc rehab work – rented welders address your need for additional units. While stick electrode units comprise an estimated 75 to 80 percent of rented construction welders, many welding equipment manufacturers see a trend toward wire-feed welders. “Some […]
June 12, 2007
Business
New oil specs for heavy-duty diesel engines
When the EPA set the deadline for manufacturers to come up with Tier 2 emissions compliant engines by October 1, 2002 – 14 months ahead of schedule – everyone knew there wouldn’t be enough time for lengthy field tests on the new engines. What was known from lab tests was engines using exhaust gas recirculation […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Focused on access: JLG’s Bill Lasky
Since coming on board JLG Industries in 1999, Bill Lasky has seen both the highs and lows of the construction machinery business. In 2001 through 2003 those lows got low indeed. “The U.S. recession became a depression in the access industry,” the chairman of the board, president and CEO of JLG says. “Our industry experienced […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Extended life versus regular coolants
When it comes to coolants for your trucks and construction equipment you can choose regular coolant or extended-life coolant. Since extended-life coolants cost more, we asked Carmen Ulabarro, business development specialist at ChevronTexaco, and Gary Karl, Caterpillar technical communications lead, to tell us what justifies the use of the premium product. EXTENDED-LIFE COOLANT: PROS · […]
June 12, 2007
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