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News from
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As of 9-7-01, the crew has been in Benton County, Butler
County, Greene County, and Wright County and now the crew is in
Keokuk County. They
are rained out for the day as I write this.
Up to now we have laid 140,000 Ton of Hot Mix Asphalt on
these projects. Denny
Pfantz and part of the lay down crew has also shouldered these
projects while Curt Chambers and the remaining people moved the
plant.
We still need to do Keokuk County that has approximately
36,000 Ton and then we need to go back to Greene County and do
another 40,000 Ton. This
work should keep us busy until the weather closes in on us this
fall.
Steve Armstrong, Denny Pfantz and Curt Chambers have a
real good group of employees working with them.
The whole group is a great team.
They are getting better production then we have ever
gotten before. The
quality has also been as good as ever.
Our smoothness numbers could be better but I relate this
to our paver and not the effort that the employees are putting
into the finished product.
We have received excellent support from the quality
control department, trucking department, milling department,
Brooklyn shop and office.
All and all this year has gone as smoothly as any that I
can remember. There
are only two things that could have been better this season.
The prices that we were able to get for our work were
real weak this season because of the amount of work and the work
we had along with the weather this spring did not allow us to
get a very early start.
I hope that the remainder of the season goes as smoothly
as up to now and that everyone finishes out the season safely. Milling
Division News
Here we are into September already.
Summer is starting to slip away from us.
We are down to less than 13 hours of daylight.
It has been a challenge this year for Bob Burnett and
myself trying to get enough work to keep all of the Mills
working. We quote
everything that we can get our hands on and pick up a little
more work all of the time. (Knock on wood)
It seems like every time we add five jobs to our list our
crew’s complete 10 jobs.
So far this year we have 154 jobs on the books and 73% of
those are completed. That
includes 3 jobs in Minnesota, 1 in Nebraska, 1 in Missouri and
all points in between. I would like to
thank Greg Ollinger and Elmer Anderson for doing all of the
legwork as far as getting permits in order to take the mills
across the state line when we needed to go.
So long story short, everybody has been keeping pretty
busy. Jim Dommer’s
crew has been all over cutting concrete lately.
4 miles of PCC surface prep in Pochantas County, City of
Hull and City of Rock Valley, both of which were PCC grinding.
The crew has even had time to do some night work in Iowa
City and Coralville. Phil
Maddison’s crew has been cutting a lot of widening units this
summer. They had
one on Highway 30 in Greene County for Steve Armstrong crew,
Highway 218 in Waterloo, Highway 139 in Winneshiek County and 16
miles of widening on Highway 141 in Polk County.
Some of that was also night work.
There is also a new face on Phil’s crew, Rick Leininger
has been with Snoopy, Mark and Phil for about a month now and
doing a fine job. Wally
Kalinay’s crew also has a couple of new faces, Scott Allspach
and Nick Klingensmith; both of these guys have also turned out
to be good help. Along
with Brian and Wally these guys have been running all over.
Some of their bigger jobs include several projects in
Ames at the college and on City street programs, I-90 in Martin
County Minnesota, The city of Fairmont, Minnesota, City of
Newton, Hwy 218 in Waterloo and some work in Floyd County by
Charles City. These
are just to name a few. Dick Prusha’s
crew has been chasing the full depth removals around the
Airports of Iowa being Ames, Waterloo and Chariton.
They also did around 80,000 Sq. Yds. in Jasper County
West of Baxter and South Dakota Avenue removal in Ames. All the crews
have been doing a great job and working hard to meet the Prime
Contractors schedules. Thanks guys. Keep up
the good work and the safety-oriented attitudes.
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