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Maintenance: Page 63
Business
Erosion control
The rules regarding erosion control at construction sites are changing – and the stakes are getting higher. To complicate matters further, there isn’t just one set of regulations. The federal government sets overall requirements, but then state, county and municipal agencies can tack on more guidelines. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Phase II Storm Water regulations […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Air Compressors
Air compressors are easy to ignore. Compared to your other equipment, they don’t cost a lot, they only do one thing and they’re so easy to operate that many contractors forget to look after them. But a diligent equipment manager or owner should take care to treat these machines well. Otherwise the two primary and […]
June 12, 2007
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Maintenance
Trash Pumps
Brad Fine, director of marketing for Thompson Pumps, says you need to take several pieces of information with you when you go to the pump dealer or rental store. These include your estimate of the average and peak flow requirements of your job and how fast fluid is flowing back into the trench, excavation, pond, […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Self serve or full serve? When it comes to renting traffic control, the choice is yours.
If you want to rent traffic cones and “men working” signs, the rental industry is happy to oblige you. But what many rental entities really would like is for you to come to the conclusion that traffic control is not your core competency, and you should leave the entire business to them. So your first […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Outsourcing equipment management
You’re being pulled in a thousand different directions and frittering away too much time on non-essential tasks, and you’re not alone. Everybody is asked to do more these days. When a construction business is going strong, time and manpower are the two most challenging resources to muster. Trying to do it all yourself may work […]
June 12, 2007
Safety
Articulated dump trucks — 30 metric tons and over
Properly spec’ing a large articulated hauler depends a great deal on the application at hand. Remember that ADTs are only one half of a team. In order to get the most out of your trucks, it’s vital that you correctly match the excavators to the truck’s rated tonnages. Effective loading in general construction applications is […]
June 12, 2007
Maintenance
Double-drum vibratory rollers
Unlike many pieces of equipment that are turned every few years, a vibratory roller is simple and sturdy enough to repair and rebuild almost indefinitely. But as with any machine, the cost and frequency of repairs increases as a roller ages. For that reason, contractors who need high rates of machine availability will buy new […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Hammers/breakers — 5,000 to 7,000 pounds
Busting up reinforced concrete or hard rock is a pretty straightforward demolition application. If you’re tasked with concrete or rock removal on your jobsite, hammers and breakers in the 5,000- to 7,000-pound classes are the ideal attachment choice, particularly if you use excavators between 25 and 45 metric tons. Hammer and breaker attachments are built […]
June 12, 2007
Maintenance
Off-road diesel engines
In many cases, engines are the primary factor in determining the lifecycle of a piece of off-road equipment. The hours to overhaul differ a great deal due to a number of different variables. But armed with a best practices program you can maximize uptime and get a good return on your equipment investment. For this […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Dave & Kerri Heyl — Heyl Country Excavating and Construction
“Go west, young man.” Heeding Horace Greeley’s directive more than 100 years after it was given, 19-year-old Dave Heyl boarded a Greyhound bus in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and made a miserable 48-hour trip to the Eagle/Vail, Colorado, area. Wife and business partner Kerri Heyl now says with a laugh: “He never wanted to […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Jeff O’Risky — O’Risky Excavating, Evansville, Indiana
Jeff O’Risky had a stable factory job and two young children in 1997 when he had a chance to buy a small excavating business and its only piece of construction equipment – a 1980 bulldozer. The decision wasn’t an easy one. “I kept saying to myself, ‘I’ve got a nice job and I’m going to […]
June 12, 2007
Maintenance
The new transmissions
You are lugging hard uphill with a heavy load and rpms are dropping even though you’ve mashed the accelerator to the floorboard. All of a sudden there is a big pause … and then – KA-CHUNK – your machine changes gears, your head snaps back and you spill yet a little more dirt from the […]
June 12, 2007
Maintenance
Rigid frame trucks
If you have a 7- to 10-year-old rigid frame truck, chances are you could get a lot better lifecycle costs out of a new machine. During the past decade, rigid frame truck manufacturers have focused on lengthening component lifetimes and service intervals. “All of the systems have been improved to give greater life,” says Francis […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Chicago rents: How the Windy City took control of its equipment rental costs
When you have 40 different departments that use rental equipment from more than 40 different vendors, it soon becomes clear that rental is a process that must be managed. “It was getting to the point that our relationships with rental suppliers had become confrontational,” says Matt Quinn, who has served as Chicago’s rental manager since […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Cold Planers
Twelve years ago, Terry Leber was a specialty contractor doing nothing but asphalt milling and cold planing. “Back when I was in the business, it was an immature market,” he says. “The equipment was changing radically every year. There were dramatic price changes and improvements and the industry was dominated by milling subcontractors.” Today, Leber […]
June 12, 2007
Maintenance
Life cycles: Concrete pavers
Given the cost and complexity of setting up and transporting concrete pavers, most of these machines don’t log a lot of engine hours in the course of a year. As a result, contractors often keep their machines 10 and sometimes even 20 years before they sell them. There are a few components that need replacement […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Maintenance management: The brave new world of online equipment auctions
Contractors in the past could hardly be faulted for their reluctance to buy used equipment through Internet auctions. Given the cost of the equipment and its mechanical complexity, few contractors early on jumped into the game with both boots. But in the past two years the weaker players in the online marketplace folded. The companies […]
June 12, 2007
Equipment
Side by side: Pickup trucks, diesel vs. gas
Diesel pickup trucks have been around for years but a new generation of diesel engines offers a major leap in convenience and drivability, says Jack Blanchard, assistant chief engineer at GM Powertrain. Gone are the smoke, noise and difficult cold-weather starts. In the heavy duty pickup truck market GM started it all by offering Isuzu-Duramax […]
June 12, 2007
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