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Maintenance

Product Focus

Demolition attachments By Lauren Heartsill POWER HANDLER Maximize excavator efficiency with Amulet’s G2 PowerClamp progressive-link hydraulic thumb, which can support beams or remove unwieldy materials, debris and rip-rap. • Designed for excavators from 30,000 to 100,000 pounds • Made for use with a quick coupler • Reaches an average of 180 degrees of thumb rotation. […]

September 6, 2010

Roadbuilding

Reporter

Equipment Resurrection 3 tips to get idle equipment ready to go 1. Fight fuel fungus If your diesel engine has been idle for more than three months, you could be facing fungus. Bacterial and fungal growth can clog filters, pumps and fuel lines, and also produce organic acids that speed corrosion. Use a diesel fuel […]

September 6, 2010

Construction Equipment

Marketplace (Digital)

By Amy Materson FUEL SAVER Prevent diesel fuel spills and contamination with Transcube’s DOT-approved transportable fuel tanks, which are double walled and provide 110-percent secondary containment of the inner container’s total capacity. The secondary containment system eliminates the need for a separate containment pan, and the tanks have no bottom or side exterior outlets that […]

September 6, 2010

Construction Equipment

Builtrite redesigns website

Builtrite Handlers and Attachments’ redesigned website, www.builtritehandlers.com, has more photos, videos and product information. The site’s new format will make searching for equipment more efficient on Google, MSN, Firefox and other search engines. The latest Web browser versions are needed to view the site properly.

August 17, 2010

Construction Equipment

Diamond Goodson now carries Ingersoll Rand

Doosan Portable Power appointed Diamond Goodson Equipment Company a full dealer of its line of Ingersoll Rand-branded portable and utility air compressors. They will also carry light tower systems, light compaction rammers and walk-behind compactors. Diamond Goodson has locations in Richmond, Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia. They are the leading supplier of air compressors, air-related tools and […]

August 9, 2010

Safety

Marketplace

By Amy Materson   POWER AND PERFORMANCE Kubota has entered the compact track loader market with two models: the 75-horsepower SVL75, which has a 6,204-pound bucket breakout force and 4,881-pound lifting capacity, and the 90-horsepower SVL90, which delivers 7,961 pounds of breakout force and offers a lifting capacity of 5,869 pounds. Powered by a four-cylinder […]

August 1, 2010

Construction Equipment

Inspection Checkpoint

How to inspect a used rubber-tire trencher Rubber-tired trencher inspections are straightforward affairs, with little of the complications seen in other machine types. By Marcia Gruver Doyle “We usually see 200 to 250 hours a year on a machine this size,” says Steve Howard, used equipment manager, Vermeer Southeast Sales & Service, Birmingham, Alabama. Our […]

August 1, 2010

Construction Equipment

Volvo Road Institute announces 2010-2011 schedule

Volvo Construction Equipment announced its 2010 – 2011 schedule for Volvo Road Institute. Course curriculum ranges from two- to five-day sessions beginning in September and continuing through June 2011. Courses will be held at the company’s two training facilities in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Phoenix, Arizona. The curriculum is designed for operators and crew personnel as […]

July 22, 2010

Home

New Champion Grader dealer brings government experience

Champion Motor Graders’ newest dealer J. F. Sahlberg brings government fleet experience to the Champion Graders network. The new dealer allows Champion Graders to expand its market to include the needs of government buyers. Based in Buckley, Washington, the new dealer serves Champion Graders customers in western Washington State.

July 21, 2010

Technology

Pape brings Doosan line to Pacific Northwest

Papé Material Handling is expanding the Doosan Portable Power line of mobile air, power adn light construction equipment to its locations in the Pacific Northwest. Papé will provide sales, rental and parts and service support in 11 of its locations throughout Washington, Oregon, Nevada and northern Idaho. The expansion brings Doosan’s Ingersoll Rand-branded air compressors, […]

July 16, 2010

Construction Equipment

Bandit expands dealer network across U.S., Canada

Bandit Industries added new partnerships and dealerships across the United States and Canada to bring its Beast recyclers and whole tree chippers to new North American markets. Bandit added McClung-Logan Equipment and its six locations in Virginia — Chesapeake, Manassas, Richmond, Roanoke, Winchester and Wise — to its dealer network and signed an agreement with […]

July 15, 2010

Construction Equipment

Volvo debuts Shippensburg addition

Volvo Construction Equipment has opened a $30 million expansion to its Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, plant. The 20,000-square foot addition will add motor grader manufacturing capabilities, transferred to Shippensburg from a plant in Goderich, Ontario. The expansion also includes a materials service center.

July 6, 2010