It’s rare for construction equipment to have sea legs. When local timber companies needed help floating material down a waterway, Osprey Logistics came to the rescue. And that solution meant making their machines comfortable in a seaside location.

Gabe Shemper is well known in the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, area for his work transforming commercial and residential landscapes. He’s made a name for his company, Homestead Dirt Works and Mulching, by performing a variety of earthmoving and land-clearing services.

NEXT-GENERATION LOADERS ARE HERE The market-leading performance features in Doosan® -7 Series wheel loaders can lower cost of ownership and maximize uptime protection.

R&L Excavating in Oregon counts on its DX300LL-5 road builder for land clearing and harvesting tasks. When their area was hit with devastating wildfires, they relied on their newest Doosan machine — purchased from Feenaughty Machinery — for clearing burnt timber.

Hailing from a family of teachers, Jack bucked family tradition and chose an equipment-focused path. He worked at a farm and at landscaping companies in his teens. After stints grooming snow at a ski resort and working in construction and land clearing, he jumped into a career selling heavy equipment before striking out on his own six years ago at age 32 to launch Western Earthworks. A common theme of all his jobs? Equipment.

GlassWRX, an advanced technology and materials science company, is working hard to change that statistic. Why? Well, as the company’s vision goes: they see a "world without waste."

Bill Stanton grew up on a farm in his native Florida. His family raised animals and cared for the environment, and this upbringing led him to a career in a unique organic recycling business.

Since 2017, Central Texas Stone and Aggregate, LLC, has been on a mission to increase its production of rock and aggregate to support construction jobs throughout central and southern Texas under the guidance of General Manager Cole Bland.

Jason Tutterow knows how to have a blast on the job. His company, Carolina Drilling, specializes in explosions that bust up stubborn rock below cities across the southeast. He clears the way for sewer and water pipes. It’s work few consider fun: The projects run long, are often very tough and need more employees than other construction gigs.

Nothing’s more foundational to every new building project than, well, the foundation. Before a frame ever goes up, a project has to start on sure footing. Unfortunately, most jobsites are more like building on sand than solid rock. Some land is replete with soft silt and clay. Sites in urban areas can contain fill soil from multiple earlier builds. In both cases, a contractor must stabilize sites before construction gets off the ground.