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Connect Work Tools Adds Three to Team

by randyj,

Connect Work Tools, a construction and demolition equipment manufacturer based in Superior, Wisconsin, has announced the addition of three new members to its team. According to a news release from the company, the additions include Geordie Stewart, Blake Liebelt and Johnnie Gibbons. Continue reading

Komatsu Introduces Expanded Range of Hydraulic Breakers

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Breakers are a flexible and crucial attachment used for a wide variety of jobs, including tunneling, trenching, foundation removal, dredging, bridge demolition, quarry excavation, mining and more. To meet growing demand in North America, Komatsu is expanding its product line of hydraulic breakers. Continue reading

MB Crusher Returns to WOC 2021 to Put Versatility on Display

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After a long year, MB Crusher will be attending WOC 2021

A crowd starts to gather under the hot Las Vegas summer sun, everyone grateful for some shade that an outdoor booth can give them. As they begin to settle and listen to the announcer speak into the microphone, the operator brings the excavator back to life, and more people start to gather around, wanting to know what’s captured everyone’s attention. Continue reading

Tiny But Mighty, The Crushers for Small Job Sites

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When job sites are small and come with several regulations, turn to MB Crusher to alleviate those stressors.

Residential job sites come with regulations designed to ensure homeowners aren’t disturbed. When working a residential job site, it’s common to worry over scheduling, both in finishing the project on time and when your team is allowed to work. You also have to monitor your noise and dust emission and how much space you have to work with. However, with so many regulations limiting your job site, you start wondering if there’s an easier way to manage these rules without hurting your wallet or compromising the quality of your work. Continue reading

Stone Dry Walling: New Tools to Facilitate Business and Boost Artisanal Work

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The ancient art of dry stone walling becomes more efficient when it meets a new engineering technique using reinforced soil.

At the end of 2017, UNESCO intervened and confirmed how valuable the art of dry stone walling was: at the end of 2017, they added the process of creating dry stone walls to the Intangible Cultural Heritage list to protect and safeguard it. Continue reading

Weldco-Beales Improves the Wheel Loader Mat Grapple

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Weldco-Beales Manufacturing has announced new improvements to their Wheel Loader Mat Grapple.  The improved “Max-View” WBM Mat Grapple for wheel loaders is used to remove and place mats, which protect the environment and extend the construction season. This enables safe access for crews and heavy equipment. Continue reading

MB Crusher: The Impossible Made Possible

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Legarza Exploration & Construction first opened their doors in 1992. Now, twenty-eight, almost twenty-nine, years later, they’re thriving in the exploration, earth work, and construction industry. Continue reading

Seaports and Airports: With MB Crusher, Profits Take Off While Reducing Costs

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“Working to demolish, redevelop, and build on seaports and airports has many constraints due to the constant flow of arrivals and departures throughout the day and night. To be competitive, we must follow a schedule and avoid going over our budget. This way, our companies can generate profit, which is needed during these difficult times caused by the global pandemic,” this statement summarizes the difficulties and expectations that companies, whose job sites are located within seaports and airports, have to deal with. They turn to MB Crusher to find a solution that helps them improve operations and increase profit. MB Crusher provides a solution for every need on the job site. Continue reading

Road Widener Brings Heightened Safety to Road Crews with Offset Vibratory Roller Attachment

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Road Widener LLC, a leading manufacturer of innovative road construction equipment, offers the industry’s first Offset Vibratory Roller attachment. The attachment’s offset, patented design allows the host machine to drive safely on flat ground while compacting sloping shoulders, ditches and other hard-to-reach areas alongside the road, a task that has traditionally put road crews in danger of rollover accidents, increased workers’ comp costs and led to poor safety ratings. Continue reading

MB Crusher: A Year in Review

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As Big Sky Land Management (BSLM) continues to take on complicated jobs, the projects’ challenges grow. Their job sites’ challenges are common in the industry, while their solution makes a multi-step solution simpler. Continue reading

Rebuilding Roads: When Reclaimed Asphalt Makes the Difference

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Companies that recycle old asphalt are creating new revenue streams.

This industry faces many challenges with high hauling and material disposal costs while also protecting the environment. Anyone with an ongoing road construction project knows this industry’s hurdles on any job scale, from the reconstruction of a main road to a small side road. The same restrictions also affect those who process and distribute bituminous conglomerates. Continue reading

MB Crusher: When Times Are Uncertain

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When uncertain surrounds your business, prepare your company now with the right equipment

The world is filled with uncertainties, but, by now, you’ve created methods to work through bumps in the road and made unpredictable times slightly more predictable. Maybe, you’ve even started to make plans to strengthen your company and alleviate or even eliminate some stressors. As more uncertainties continue to pile up, you wonder if the best decision is to continue with your original plans or if you should wait until the dust clears before moving forward. Continue reading

Control What You Can

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Rebuilding has many uncontrollable factors, so control the aspects that you can.

Figuring out what to do after a building or home needs to be torn down due to poor maintenance or after a natural disaster hits is a difficult decision: you can either rebuild or relocate. Continue reading

Mission Impossible? Not for Everyone!

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5 exceptional contractors show us how “extreme” a job site can be.  Without using stunt-man or special effects.

How to save thousands of dollars while developing nine thousand kilometers (five thousand five hundred and ninety two miles) of land, how to demolish a 16 floor building, how to fly a crusher in an helicopter: these are the most amazing jobs completed in 2020. Continue reading