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2007
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Product Report: Cat backhoes graduate to the E-series
Product Report: Smooth shift artists
Product Focus: Light towers and gen sets
Contractor of the Year – June 2007
Business Matters: Equipment financing
On Record: Getting to the second generation
Maintenance/Management: Intelligent hydraulics
Engine Notebook: Cummins technology for 2007 and Tier 3
Application Tips: Brush cutter attachments
Final Take
World of Asphalt: New products from the purveyors of paving
First Word: As good as it gets
Product Focus: Dozers
Business Matters: Pickup truck survey
New Products: Underground Construction Technology show
Rent Smart: Renting trash pumps
Maintenance/Management: Dealing with dust
Product Report: Fleetguard filters
First Run: Deere’s 650D LC and 850D LC excavators
Contractor of the Year Update: Class of 2004
Product Report: Caterpillar
Application Tips: Drop hammers
Aftermarket Options: Rebuilding hammers and breakers
Final Word: The dangers of DIADD
On Record: Prepare in advance
First Word: Choose to pay attention
The World of Concrete product review
Rent Smart: The big boys
Side by Side: Backhoes vs. compact loaders
Product Focus: Telescopic handlers
Product Report: Make way
Product Report: Hamm oscillation techonlogy
Engine Notebook: Cat gets ACERT-ive
Contractor of the Year Update: Class of 2003
Product Report: Cat backhoes graduate to the E-series
Application Tips: Welders
Cover Story: Digital Earthmoving
On Record: Five more years?
First Word: Good
and
nice
Business Matters: Auction action
First Word: Strength in 2006
Rent Smart: How to rent a compact excavator
Product Focus: Pickup truck accessories – June 2007
Product Report: Totally tubular
On Record: The wait
Maintenance/Management: Quick couplers
Contractor of the Year Update: Class of 2002
Application Tips: Pumps
Aftermarket Options: Second sight
Final Take
Side by Side: Trenchers vs. compact excavators
Product Report: Experience counts
Cover Story: Innovations 2006
Engine Notebook: Mack attack
Contractor of the Year Update: Class of 2001
Application Tips: Concrete saws
Final Word: Oil prices and business illiteracy
On Record: One scorecard
First Word: What’s working
Product Focus: Horizontal grinders – June 2007
Rent Smart: Renting compact wheel loaders
Maintenance/Management: After the flood
Product Report: Kubota’s new excavators
Contractor of the Year: Lou Jr. and Dee Manzie (Lou Manzie Inc.)
Business Matters: Operator training
Application Tips: Field service tips
Equipment Details: Free up your hitch
On Record: Our own best list
First Word: A new chapter
Product focus: Truck bodies
Side by Side: Tracked vs. wheeled excavators
Business Matters: Subcontracting cold planning
Product Report: The 657G
Contractor of the Year Finalist: Ron King and Kevin Montes
Application Tips: Motor graders
On Record: Another good year ahead
Final Take:
Product Focus: Pumps
Contractor of the Year Finalist: McCaughey Brothers Landscaping
Business Matters: The value of contractors’ associations
Cover Story: 70-Metric-ton muscle
Rent Smart: Renting skid steers
Product Report: Unbreakable
Maintenance Management: Tier 3 off road
Application tips: Oil sampling
On Record: Old pros
First Word: Around the world
Side By Side: Lasers vs GPS
Equipment Details: The magic of multi-processors
Application Tips: Vertical-mast forklifts
Cover Story: Dangerous Digging
Final Word: Dangerous digging: What needs to change
On Record: Until we can see through dirt
First Word: Training is always affordable
ICUEE 2005: The Demo Expo
Contractor of the Year finalist: Gerald Roberts, Roberts Excavation, Berthold, Colorado
RentSmart: Aerial lift survey
Product Report: Thompson’s 4JSCM pump
Equipment Details: Autolube systems
Application Tips: Generators
On Record: From the pithy to the silly: Wall sayings
First Word: Sharpen the saw at ICUEE
Contractor of the Year finalist: Aaron Smith, Smith Trucking and Construction
Side by Side: Vibratory steel-drum vs. pneumatic-tire rollers
Spec Master: Crawler dozers
Product Report: Ingersoll-Rand AirSource compressors
Maintenance/Management: Remanufactured components
Equipment Details: Filters
Corporate Profile: Doosan Infracore
Application Tips: Air compressors
On Record: Give heed to trucking’s siren call
RentSmart: Trenchers
First Word: Friends
Productivity Guide: Excavators 45 to 50 metric tons
Trucks: New tools, transmission highlight 2006 Unimog updates
Compact Focus: Compact pavers under 10,000 pounds
Productivity Guide: Trenchers: 40 to 60 gross horsepower
Trucks: Five to drive
Compact Focus: Skid-steer loaders (under 1,351 pounds)
Product Report: ASV’s new compact rubber-track loaders
Trucks: Three for the road
Product Report: Takeuchi 1140B excavator
Cover Story/Productivity guide: Pull-behind scrapers and power units
Truck Management: Why tires fail
Cover Story: Tracked asphalt pavers
Truck Management: Why tires fail
Compact Focus: Compact directional drills
Final Word: Believe me
Cover Story: 2006 Class 7 and 8 conventional trucks
Product Report: Ingersoll-Rand 8820Titan
Compact Focus: Utility vehicles
Trucks: Jobsite trucks
Productivity Guide: Telescopic handlers (6,000 pounds lift capacity/40-foot reach height)
Compact Focus: Compact rubber track loaders
Final Word: Get involved
Truck Management: Optimizing your fleet
Product Report: Komatsu unveils its largest skid-steer loader
Compact Focus: Compact backhoes–8 foot maximum dig depth
Productivity Guide: Compact wheel loaders
Trucks: Eaton’s HEV vocational hybrid truck technology
Compact Focus: Skid-steer loaders up to <1,600 pounds
Productivity Guide: Articulated dump trucks 25 to <35 metric tons
Truck Management: Truck News
Compact Focus: Excavators >1.5 to 2 metric tons
Special Report: Tire trouble
Application Tips: Utility locating systems
Utility Construction: Fiber to the home
First Word: The mother of invention
On Record: Up in the air
Last Page: How not to succeed in construction
On Record: Around the table
First Word: Graduation daze
Side by Side: Polyurethane vs. rubber track pads
Contractor of the Year: Duke Long, Interstate Sawing, West Bend, Wisconsin
Application Tips: Portable offices and storage units
Kubota’s L39 backhoe
On record: Step back
First word: Extreme makeover for insurance
Last Page: Will Internet phone service affect the trenchless industry?
Application Tips: Vacuum systems
Contractor of the Year Finalist: Jim Schier, Schier Construction Company
Compact Focus: Walk-behind trenchers under 18 horsepower
RentSmart: Ride-on compactors
Equipment Details: Lasers for grading
Contractor of the year finalist: Earth-Scrapes Excavating, Tucson, Ariz.
Men vs. women operators
First word: Easy prey
On record: Dirty open secrets
Optimizing oil drain intervals
On Record: Sarah’s husband
First Word: Take your chances
Case’s new compact track loader
Contractor of the Year finalist: EcoTurf, Raleigh, North Carolina
Application Tips: Small asphalt pavers
RentSmart: Matching rented artics to your jobs
Equipment Details: Over-the-tire tracks
Business Matters: The digital difference
Productivity Guide: Hydraulic excavators >25 to 30 metric tons
On Record – June 2007
First Word – June 2007
Final Word
Application Tips: Curb-and-gutter machines
Contractor of the Year finalist: Richard & Kevin Flack
Maintenance/Management: Hiring, training and keeping technicians
What drives your safety program?
Maintenance lessons from the mining industry
Forecast: Rolling into 2005 feels a little like 1999 for our contractor respondents
How to rent gen sets and light towers
The pressure’s on: Hydrostatic transmissions
Mike Nadeau, Shonna Nadeau, Jeff Rehder — BNR Excavating, Hastings, Minnesota
John Hill — John Hill Engineering & Construction, Canyon Country, California
Pull-behind scrapers
Reach out-of-the-way work areas with a rented articulated boom aerial lift
Equipment financing options
Contractor of the Year finalist: Larry Lafollette, Lafollette Excavating, Strafford, Missouri.
Getting the most of your rental relationships
Hydraulic cylinders
Renting welders
New oil specs for heavy-duty diesel engines
Focused on access: JLG’s Bill Lasky
Extended life versus regular coolants
Harry and Lori Foster — Green Ridge Construction, Tucson, Arizona
Retail giants up rental ante
Oils and oil analysis
Sonny Abernethy — Blue Ridge Industrial, Johnson City, Tennessee
The road to retirement
Mammoth showcase
Contractors and digital technology
Undercarriages – June 2007
Gil and Chris Egurola , Diggum Excavating — Tucson, Arizona
Trimble’s SCS900 Site Controller System
The rental cushion
Interview with Komatsu America’s Dave Grzelak
Getting grease right
Chippers
Getting unstuck underground
Power at hand — Renting handheld breakers
Terry Szabo — Szabo Construction, Postville, Iowa
Small gas engines
Innovations 2004
10 ways to nail down your insurance costs today
Heat for rent
Sterling’s HX chassis design
Bud Fultz, Ole South Excavating — Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Kubota fields new utility vehicle
Diamond Logic Builder
The art of the deal
Ed and Charlie Compeau — Compeau Brothers, Flat Rock, Michigan
Selling your used equipment
Wheel loaders in severe-duty applications
John Deere’s Pierre Leroy
Ron Hunsche — Ron Hunsche Excavating, Highland, Illinois
CabinZ offers flexible, portable storage
Kraig Meyer — Generation III Excavating, Hamilton, Michigan
Medium-duty trucks
Kevin
Is Hyperfix highway construction’s new wave?
Pressure washers
Rubber-tired trenchers — Cowboys finish sooner, but they pay more accordingly
Concrete saws
A process of elimination
Construction trucks
Fuel-based maintenance
Dozers: 85 to <130 horsepower
Erosion control
Rental offers winning hand to casino builders
A global competitor — Caterpillar’s Glen Barton
Air Compressors
Toolcarriers — 130 to <200 horsepower
Trash Pumps
G. Scott Edwards — G.S. Edwards, Inc., Orangeville, Pennsylvania
Self serve or full serve? When it comes to renting traffic control, the choice is yours.
Outsourcing equipment management
Articulated dump trucks — 30 metric tons and over
Double-drum vibratory rollers
Loader arms: z-link vs. parallel lift
Helmets to Hardhats program becomes reality in 2003
Hammers/breakers — 5,000 to 7,000 pounds
Off-road diesel engines
Dave & Kerri Heyl — Heyl Country Excavating and Construction
Jeff O’Risky — O’Risky Excavating, Evansville, Indiana
Renting trench safety
The new transmissions
Rigid frame trucks
Compact backhoe loaders: 9-foot dig depths and under
Compact utility loaders
Chicago rents: How the Windy City took control of its equipment rental costs
Freightliner’s utility tool carrier enters vocational market
Cold Planers
Hydraulic excavators: >12 to 14 metric tons
Update: The further adventures of Bob the Builder
Life cycles: Concrete pavers
Maintenance management: The brave new world of online equipment auctions
Update: Oregon’s voluntary diesel retrofit program fails to capture industry imagination
United Rentals’ Brad Jacobs
Productivity guide: Telehandlers — 6,000 pounds lift, with reach heights from 30 to 42 feet
Side by side: Pickup trucks, diesel vs. gas
Productivity guide: Skid-steer loaders up to 1,250 pounds
First run: The new Volvo BL70 Backhoe Loader
Interview: Terex’s Ron DeFeo
Maintenance management: Oil sampling & analysis
Update: Australian contractor renews efforts to prove heated-belt paving concept
Maintenance Management: Finding and training the next generation of technicians
Trucks Management: Spec’ing a mixer truck
Contractor of the Year finalist: Dean and Ralph Studer, Studer Construction, Billings, Montana
Lifecycles: Curb-and-gutter machines
Selection Guide: Construction Trucks
Checkpoint: How to buy a used rigid-frame truck
Contractor of the Year finalist: John Colomba, Colomba Bobcat & Trucking, Windsor, Ontario
Maintenance management: 10 questions to ask about service trucks
Contractor of the Year finalist: Mickey Evans, Evans Construction
Trucks: Maximizing fuel economy
Trucks: Caterpillar’s CX vocational automatic transmissions
Productivity Guide: Backhoes 10 to <14 foot digging depth
Chevy’s Green pickup
Trucks: Volvo’s VT 880
Maintenance/Management: Product and service reps
Productivity Guide: Skid Steers, 2,201 to <2,701 pounds
Final word: What I’ve learned so far
Making small fleets profitable
Hot Iron
Iveco’s NEF Power Units
Trucks: Five rules for controlling fleet costs
Compact Focus: Wheel loaders 80 to <90 horsepower
Interview: Kenworth general manager Bob Christensen
Innovations
Aggressive enforcement of tough new anti-idling laws will affect your business
Telehandlers — 8,000-pound capacity, 40-foot lift height and over
Top-tier service means laser-like attention to details for this Florida contractor
Class 7-8 trucks: What’s best for your job?
Interview with Nick Matich, general manager of International’s severe service applications
Compact excavators: 2.5 to <3 metric tons
Glenn Huey & Jim Rogers — Nittany Mountain Excavating, Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Wheel loaders: 150 to <175 net horsepower
Mack unveils all-new highway chassis
Chain-type trenchers — 76 to <100 horsepower
Milling machines: 80- to 87-inch cutting widths
Mitsubishi debuts new lineup
Smooth, tandem-drum vibratory compactors, >8 to 10 metric tons
Tracked asphalt pavers — 29,000 to <40,000 pounds
Compact loaders — 50 to <60 horsepower
Ford reenters tilt-cab market
Backhoe loaders: 4 to <15 foot dig depth
Articulated dump trucks — 20 to <26 tons
Compact trenchers under 18 horsepower
Hydraulic excavators — >21 to 24 metric tons
Compact track loaders — 2,201 to <3,001 pounds
Getting into concrete work
Wheel loaders: 250 to 350 horsepower
Class 8 dump trucks
Case 850K dozer
Freightliner unveils new look, automated medium-duty transmission
Compact excavators: 1.5 to 2 metric tons
Large skid-steer loaders
Update: ‘Graduation day’ for mentor/prot
The EPA and your fleet
Equipment lifecycles: Wheel loaders
Selection Guide: Compact excavators — 2.5 to 3 metric tons
Maintenance management: Getting a grip on your tire program
Maintenance Management: The EPA and your fleet. Part I
Maintenance Management: Fleet managers tell it like it is
Equipment Lifecycles: Asphalt pavers
Cover Story: Tandem, smooth-drum vibratory compactors, 2.5 to 3 metric tons
Reporter: Allied celebrates 60th
Reporter: Safety groups urge banning teenagers from construction
Reporter: Loaded to the limit
On Record: The road to reauthorization
First Word: Business and family values
On Record: Tell it like it is
First Word: One-to-one, past and present
Equipment Maintenance: Articulated Trucks
Checkpoint: How to buy a used tri-axle dump truck
Cover Story: Wheel loaders 90 to 120 net horsepower
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