Tag: CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011: Page 5

Business
Can You Hear Me Now?
Customer feedback programs allow operators to play a larger role in equipment design and evolution. After Gregg Perrett, owner and president of Valentine, Neb.-based Perrett Construction, tried for at least a year to give input to manufacturers about his experience operating their equipment — but to no avail — his opportunity finally arrived. The store […]
March 21, 2012
Equipment Experts
Machine Matters
Where Small is Big Looking for a compact excavator? There’s no shortage of choices and options on the market By Mike Anderson For equipment considered foreign to North American contractors not much more than a generation ago, the compact excavator has become a mainstream part of their fleets. Within the 3.0- to 6.0-metric-ton range alone, […]
January 27, 2012
Safety
Machine Matters
Where Small is Big Looking for a compact excavator? There’s no shortage of choices and options on the market By Mike Anderson For equipment considered foreign to North American contractors not much more than a generation ago, the compact excavator has become a mainstream part of their fleets. Within the 3.0- to 6.0-metric-ton range alone, […]
January 27, 2012
A new conventional excavator model from Bobcat, the Tier 4 Interim-compliant E55 has an in-track swing frame that keeps swing castings and cylinders within the width of the tracks when working the boom in an offset position. Drive motor covers are inset within motor wrap-arounds to protect them from damage.
Roadbuilding
Twenty that will Make a Difference
Better Roads editors step up and choose their “best of the best”
December 3, 2011
Top Rollout
Equipment
Marketplace
EDITOR’S PICK WELDING APP Quickly and conveniently access Stick, TIG and MIG equipment settings, as well as helpful tips, with the Miller Weld Setting Calculator app from Miller Electric Manufacturing. Available from the iPhone App Store or at MillerWelds.com/weldsettings, the calculator allows a welder to enter weld parameters such as the type and thickness of […]
October 5, 2011
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Construction Equipment
Cat ships vocational trucks to customers
The Cat CT660 vocational truck, which was announced at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011 trade show in March, passed all of Caterpillar’s new introduction process requirements and was approved for shipment to customers. The CT660 has been in limited production since June, with the first units off of the line used to validate manufacturing procedures. Customer deliveries […]
September 28, 2011
Cat
Equipment
Machine Matters
A loader first and foremost New features, options place the traditional single-purpose wheel loader into more applications, keeping it working in tough times By Mike Anderson The 135- to 174-horsepower wheel loader is often perceived as a throwback: Valued as a highly functional, reliable, yet often single-purpose machine. It’s been a rank-and-file plodder, if you […]
August 3, 2011
Business
Volvo customers win big in Vegas
Fairchild Brothers has been moving dirt for more than four decades. But now they’ll be doing it in style with the new Volvo MCT135C tracked skid steer loader they won at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011. In Las Vegas, the odds of winning aren’t good – ‘the house always wins’, as they say. But during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011, which took […]
July 19, 2011
Matt Shoemaker, Chris Sauers, Russ Fairchild and Guy Fairchild of Fairchild Brothers proudly stand in front of their new Volvo MCT135C tracked skid steer loader at the Volvo Construction Equipment dealership, Highway Equipment & Supply Company, in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.
Safety
Machine Matters
Not on the Skids Although the spotlight has been on heavier skid steers, manufacturers are not ignoring their littlest radial-lift diggers By Mike Anderson With much of the new product focus on larger vertical-lift models, don’t think skid steer manufacturers have forgotten about the most compact radial-lift machines, which are at the core of skid […]
June 28, 2011
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Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
It’s debatable whether it’s a good time to buy or sell used equipment, or both, but it’s clear the game has changed.
May 9, 2011
Roadbuilding
Mike Anderson’s American Iron
For the first time in a couple of years, optimism for the construction equipment industry seems a little more than the wishful thinking of a heavyweight business trying to use the ring’s ropes to not just hold itself up.
May 8, 2011
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Business
Reporter
By Equipment World Staff   Top techs honored The Association of Equipment Management Professionals honored the top equipment technicians from within its ranks at AEMP’s annual conference held in conjunction with ConExpo-Con/Agg. The 2011 National Technician of the Year winner in the private sector was Tom Hellmers, Murphy Tractor and Equipment, Omaha, Nebraska. The public […]
May 5, 2011
Ron Bradly (left) and Tom Hellmers.
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