Tag: Tim O'Brien

Roadbuilding

Applications & Innovations

Let the job site be the judge of whether to use tires or tracks.

October 9, 2012

Machine control

Machine Matters

Lift Higher, Reach Farther   Large skid steers help contractors add services     Although on the small end of construction equipment, skid steers with 2,201-pound rated operating capacities and up are playing a large role in operator comfort and productivity. “From 2000 until 2005, the unit-size-class popularity changed from the 1,500-pound class and up […]

June 30, 2012

Equipment Experts

Heavier Workload: 30- to 50-metric-ton crawler excavators winning over new customers with added versatility

By Mike Anderson Impressing veteran equipment operators is never easy. For Georgia contractor Lee Deas IV, though, a light bulb turned on the day he pulled himself into the cab of a 72,000-pound crawler excavator. “I’ve run small excavators my whole life, but it’s a whole different ballgame when you get on something that big,” […]

April 5, 2012

Business

Heavier Workload: 30- to 50-metric-ton crawler excavators winning over new customers with added versatility

By Mike Anderson Impressing veteran equipment operators is never easy. For Georgia contractor Lee Deas IV, though, a light bulb turned on the day he pulled himself into the cab of a 72,000-pound crawler excavator. “I’ve run small excavators my whole life, but it’s a whole different ballgame when you get on something that big,” […]

April 5, 2012

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

Roadbuilding

Mike Anderson’s American Iron

When Better Roads editor emeritus Kirk Landers led a group of us Randall-Reilly construction editors on last month’s deep dive into the trends of the equipment industry, it was a not-so-gentle reminder to me that growth, in all forms, never truly ceases.

April 1, 2011

Safety

Product Report

C-Series excavators Case takes on the fuel efficiency challenge once again, and adds a nifty monitor By Marcia Gruver Doyle When Case set about to up their game with its C Series excavators, it knew the immediate challenge would be fuel efficiency. Not only did it have to top the fuel efficiency gains of its […]

February 2, 2011