Wed June 22, 2005
Peters Construction Co.’s New Fleet Helps Crew Finish Job in Six Days
Bob Peters, owner of R.A. Peters Construction Co. Inc. in Social Circle, GA, grew up in the grading business. The son of a grading contractor, he started operating a 2U series D8, a 1952 model, at just 6 years old....
Tue June 21, 2005
Victor L. Phillips Parlays Light Iron Success Into New Market
Lynn Ronnebaum, Kansas City branch manager of The Victor L. Phillips Company, has spent the last eight months revamping the company’s personnel as it moves forward into the crushing, screening and pavement and compaction markets....
Kate Zanoni - Mon June 13, 2005
Quality Grows From Single ’Tonka’ to Fleet of New Hollands
When William Hammersmith founded his business, Quality Construction, his friends mocked his small excavator by referring to it as a “Tonka.” Twenty-one years ago, before his son, Tony, and his wife, Lisa, joined the firm, Hammersmith started out humbly with just one employee — himself....
Brenda Ruggiero - Fri June 10, 2005
GPS Makes the Grade for McAninch Corporation in NC
A road relocation project in North Carolina includes several unique features, including custom-built equipment and a heavy reliance on Trimble GPS technology. The $40.4-million project involves the relocation of existing Route 16 in Lincoln and Catawba counties to a new divided four-lane roadway....
Mon June 06, 2005
Ditch Witch’s Mini Machines Making a Mark in Florida
In order to think big, Ditch Witch of Central and South Florida is looking small. “The trend over the past few years has been moving to compact equipment and the addition of these products is a logical extension of our traditional line of underground construction equipment,” said General Manager Kent Stephenson....
Wed June 01, 2005
Firm Celebrates Gold With Hitachi Orange
The 750 employees of Texas Sterling Construction are celebrating the company’s golden anniversary. Its 50th is shaping up to be its best year ever, in part due to Hitachi. In 1981, Sterling Construction founders Jim and Pat Manning moved from Michigan way down south to the booming Houston metro....
Mary Reed - Mon May 30, 2005
New Bridge in Pennsylvania Carries On Old Tradition
The current project to replace a southwestern Pennsylvania bridge carrying US Route 40 over the Youghiogheny Reservoir raises memories of a span constructed almost 200 years ago — a bridge that still emerges occasionally from beneath the water that drowned a score of local villages during the 1940s....
Thu May 19, 2005
Fastracs Makes Tracks in New York With Caterpillar Iron
“Back in the day,” more than 70 years ago, when Red Hook, NY, seemed as far away from New York City as one could get, Oakleigh Cookingham, the sheriff of Dutchess County, made a decision that has been a work in progress ever since....
Kip Fry - Tue May 17, 2005
Relief Coming for Notorious Cape Cod Clog
When the Sagamore Rotary in Massachusetts was first built approximately 70 years ago, traffic leading to scenic Cape Cod was still light. The region was still a popular getaway, but by 2005 standards, it was an easy drive....
Tue May 10, 2005
White Oak Inks Big Kubota Sale For C. W. Wright Job
With the promise of three years of steady work in his company’s future, Jay Spruill went on the hunt for a new fleet of heavy equipment. C. W. Wright Construction Company had received the contract from Progress Energy to install underground cable in a multitude of new subdivisions in Haines City and Buena Vista, FL....
