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“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded 1957.” June 27, 2012 • Vol. XXV • No. 13 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com
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Salisbury Cemetery Expansion Involves Lots of Planning
Ditch Witch of Tenn. Holds Open House… 8
ASC Earns Several 2011 Dealer Awards…12
Thirty-four hundred crypts are being installed and once that’s all done, burials will simply involve moving the topsoil and lifting the lid up.
By Peter Hildebrandt CEG CORRESPONDENT
Salisbury National Cemetery is part of a system of such military burial sites throughout the United States. In ground crypts
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Table of Contents ................4 Recycling Section ........35-47 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................48-50 Attachment Section ....51-54 Parts Section ................56-57 Business Calendar ............62 Auction Section ..........64-71 Advertisers Index ..............70
Salisbury National Cemetery also has another project going on, the installation of 1,000 aboveground niches for the cremation remains. These are contained in a wall with slots.
— 1,500 per acre — are being installed, ironically, to expand the life expectancy of the cemetery. Conventional grave sites are five by 10-foot plots which, if it is to be for a veteran and spouse, the grave will be dug seven feet
deep into which a vault will be placed and then when the spouse dies the grave will be reopened and the vault for the spouse placed on top to close it up. With this new crypt project everything is going to be
installed beforehand. Thirty four hundred crypts are being installed and once that’s all done, burials will simply involve moving the topsoil and lifting the lid up. Currently the cemetery is see CEMETERY page 26
Terex Linked to History AGC Asks Obama to Reconsider Quotas For the Space Shuttle Discovery, it was a journey of nearly 150 million miles that ended at Washington Dulles International Airport. Discovery’s maiden voyage was made on Aug. 30, 1984, and it flew 39 successful missions into space over its 27plus years of service. It was the most traveled and storied of all the space shuttles in NASA’s fleet. On April 17, 2012, Discovery made its final voyage atop its Boeing 747 Shuttle see SHUTTLE page 22
Enterprise, via the 747 SAC, took off from Dulles on April 27 for its final home in New York City and landed at JFK International Airport. At the same time, the CC 2800-1 crane components were derigged and loaded onto trucks and trailers heading for New York.
The Associated General Contractors of America joined with 10 other national business associations in calling on the Obama administration to reconsider a series of new hiring mandates it wants to impose on contractors working on federal projects. Association officials noted that the government has failed to produce any data justifying the very costly and incredibly prescriptive new hiring mandates. “The administration is getting ready to impose a tremendous new regulatory burden on thousands of employers to fix a problem that doesn’t appear to exist,” said Stephen E. Sandherr, the association’s chief executive officer. “The administration is trying to mandate away the symptoms of a broader problem: a stagnant economy that has left too many Americans out of work for too long.” see AGC page 24