CONSTRUCTION
WEST TENNESSEE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
A BID THAT’S TOO HIGH
FULL-SERVICE PARKING LOT REPAIRS West Tennessee Construction Services provides a full line of paving and pavement maintenance services for the parking lots of some of the nation’s largest retailers. Along with asphalt and concrete repair, the company also does seal coating, striping and signs, crack sealing and overlay.
“We usually have four or fi ve jobs going on at one time throughout Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi,” Williams says. “It is not unusual for our crews to be out two or three weeks at a time.”
At least two of the crews will pull up to a parking lot repair job with an S850 skid-steer loader, an A300 all-wheel steer loader, a 40-inch planer and a sweeper. If concrete is involved, a hydraulic breaker will be included.
PARKING LOT MAINTENANCE FIRM HAS THE RIGHT BOBCAT COMPACT EQUIPMENT TO COMPETE IN A TOUGH MARKETPLACE
When as little as $50 can make a difference between winning and losing a bid to repair a 20,000-square-foot asphalt parking lot for a major retailer, you need to pay close attention to all the details — from how you remove the existing surface to effi ciently cleaning up the jobsite. No factor is too small to be overlooked.
For West Tennessee Construction Services, a leader in parking lot maintenance in Jackson, Tenn., a high-production Bobcat® equipment combination — skid-steer and all-wheel steer loaders, 40-inch planers and sweeper attachments — helps the company win its share of work in this highly competitive business.
“Some fi rms still use backhoe loaders, as we did up until about eight years ago,” says Gene Williams (pictured above), project manager. “I believe we now have an economic and effi ciency advantage since we switched to Bobcat equipment.”
“It took us a while to fi gure out the perfect equipment combination, but the machines we are now operating produce outstanding results,” Williams says. “We use the S850s with high-fl ow hydraulics and planer attachments to mill the asphalt. They do a great job of holding a straight line. The A300s, equipped with sweeper attachments, follow cleaning up and loading the millings into dump trucks. We used to have a couple of workers sweeping with push brooms. The all-wheel steer loaders allowed us to reduce each crew by two people because we don’t need as many employees sweeping excess millings. Tires on those machines last longer than tires on other equipment.”
MORE PRECISE MILLING WITH BOBCAT LOADERS Managing costs is something his customers want, too. “They may be large fi rms, but they want suppliers that provide good service at good prices,” Williams says.
For example, sometimes they have a 4-inch asphalt parking lot where only the top two inches have to be milled. “We previously used backhoes that caused us to dig out the entire four inches at a signifi cantly higher cost to the customer. Now we can mill it down two inches, which is all it really needs, saving the customer a lot of money.”
Another advantage is hauling away the milled asphalt. Instead of delivering big chunks, West Tennessee Construction
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WORKSAVER SUMMER ATTACHMENT CATALOG 2013
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