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ODOT Aims to Reopen Port Clinton Lift Bridge in July The northern half of the Port Clinton Lift Bridge is operational at half power, by design, after crews were able to get it aligned properly last week. This week crews are working on alignment of the southern half of the bridge. After the southern half is properly aligned and tested at half power, each half of the bridge will be bolted into permanent placement with approximately 200 bolts. The bolt holes are reamed to exact measurement of the final bolts—so exact that even a piano string won't fit between the bolt and the hole. This is expected to take about a week. It is ODOT's goal to be able to run testing of full power operations the first week of July. However, there are approximately 2 weeks of final tests that must be conducted to ensure the bridge runs properly at full power, before it is safe to allow drivers on the bridge. In order to expedite comple-
tion and reduce further delays, ODOT has paid to have the designer on site to review and approve allowed tolerances with the alignment. Because the remaining work must be completed in this sequence, ODOT must once again delay the opening date. As is clear from the previous delays, it is hard to set a firm reopening date with a project as complex as this one that includes so many different mechanical and electrical components. ODOT will open the bridge as soon as possible once all the testing is completed. At this time, the best estimate to reopen the bridge is July 20. ODOT will continue to update the public as it learns more information. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime project,” said Patrick McColley, district deputy director of ODOT District 2. "If
we rush to get it open and do not have the bridge aligned precisely, we will likely have to come back in a few years to repair it. If we finish this right, we only have to have this one major project in our lifetime. We estimate this bridge will last another 75 years before needing a second rehabilitation project." According to the ODOT webpage, ODOT shares the frustrations of these delays and will open the bridge as soon as possible. The waterway below is accessible with one span of the bridge to remain operable at all times. Occasionally, both spans may be open. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
Ditch Witch Mid-States Hosts Hospitality House Event
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itch Witch Mid-States’ Hospitality House event was held on June 1 and coincided with the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Course. The event attracted customers from throughout the dealership’s Ohio, Kentucky, Western New York, Western Pennsylvania and Southern Indiana market area. Ditch Witch Mid-States customers joined the dealership’s employees and Ditch Witch factory representatives to watch the event from the backyard of the Hospitality House, located on the seventh fairway. Guests also were able to head out onto the links for a closer look as their favorite players competed in the Tournament. Attendees were treated to a continental breakfast, buffet lunch, hors d’oeuvres and refreshments served throughout the day. In its 43rd year, the 2018 annual Memorial Tournament is one of the PGA’s largest non-major events and one of a handful of invitational events on the PGA tour. This year Bryson DeChambeau took top honors in an exciting three-man playoff with Kyle Stanley and Ben An. see GOLF page 7
(L-R): RLA Utilities’ Tim Cooper and Scott Moody caught up with Ditch Witch Mid-States’ Sam Swartz and Mike Fish at the Hospitality House event.
(L-R): Mark Speer of Speer Brothers Inc., Ditch Witch Mid-States’ Matt Di lorio, Mike Speer of Speer Brothers and Brian Willis of Ditch Witch Mid-States enjoy the event.
Tiger Woods consults with his caddy as he works his way past the Hospitality House during the tournament.
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Lakeside Sand & Gravel Hosts Annual Antique Show
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akeside Sand & Gravel hosted its 17th Annual Open House and Antique Construction Show on April 28, 2018.
Throughout the year, Lakeside Sand & Gravel sees heavy traffic on a daily basis as trucks from northeast Ohio pull in to load up on washed and crushed gravel, a variety of sand products and landscape and limestone products for use on the region’s construction and landscape projects. Every Spring, however, many of these construction workers are joined by an entirely different crowd who gather at the company’s Mantua, Ohio, operation to see the company’s extensive collection of antique construction equipment, much of which is put back to work in demonstrations at the event. The event attracts an average of more than 1000 antique construction equipment enthusiasts from Ohio and surrounding states who gather to take in the more than 200 pieces of equipment on display, which range in age from the late teens to the 1960’s. The collection includes an impressive variety of machines — everything from early model Caterpillar crawlers to rare, one of a kind machines and meticulously restored shovels and cranes. While the majority of the equipment on display and in action is a part of Lakeside Sand and Gravel’s private collection, additional machines owned by other collectors were brought in for the show as well. For the past several years, the International Watch Fob Association annual show has also been held on site in conjunction with the open house event. The Open House Antique Construction Equipment Show is a free event and open to the public; however, donations in support of Lakeside’s neighbors at the Hattie Larlham Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing a number of services for individuals with disabilities, are welcomed. Lakeside Sand & Gravel is a family-owned company with both second and third generations of the Kotkowski family actively involved in running the business operations. The business was started by Harry and Henry Kotkowski, the father and uncle of the current owners, Larry and Ron Kotkowski. Both brothers share a passion for antique construction equipment and, with the help of family, employees and friends, have devoted a great deal of time, effort and resources toward locating and restoring these historic machines. Nearly every machine in the collection has sentimental significance or comes with a unique story, which adds special meaning and value to each machine. Many of these machines narrowly escaped the scrapyard to gain a new life at Lakeside Sand & Gravel. Two examples are a Bucyrus Erie 15-B shovel which was owned and operated from the 1950’s until the 1970’s by their father, Harry Kotkowski, and a 1926 Northwest Model 105 shovel, dubbed Speedy Rusty in memory of Larry Kotkowski’s late granddaughter whose observations about the condition of the machine inspired its name. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
Future contractor Teddy Allen found this Magnatrac compact crawler tractor was just his size.
The Lakeside Sand & Gravel Open House event features live demonstrations of antique construction equipment at work.
Owners Ron (L) and Larry Kotkowski take a break on this Allis Chalmers TL-12 Tractomotive before getting back to business at the event. Lakeside Sand & Gravel’s Ben Kotkowski serves up lunch for a hungry crowd.
Event attendees enjoy a hearty lunch.
Father Doug Laborie (R) and son Joe Laborie, both of Laborie Enterprises, get a closer look at the indoor antique truck display at the open house event.
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Yoder & Frey Offers Auction, Equipment Display in Ashland
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oder & Frey’s Ashland, Ohio, yard continues to attract enthusiastic crowds to the sale site along with strong online bidding, which was made clear at the company’s auction on June 7. Equipment up for bid included a large selection of fresh machines from Caterpillar, Case, Doosan, Dynapac and JCB, along with quality used machines from John Deere, Komatsu, Volvo and other premier manufacturers. The auction featured aggregates, construction, farming and forestry industry equipment and included dozers,
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Rick Hohenbrink of Hohenbrink Excavating checks out this Caterpillar 314D LCR excavator while considering a bid. Auction attendees bid on the skid steers at the auction.
Jason Kriegmont of Jason’s Service tries out a Caterpillar D3K crawler tractor at the auction. A-Equip Pro LLC’s David Allen (L) and Caleb Johnson, on hand with a display of Barford equipment, were ready to meet attendees and answer questions at the auction.
Matt Mahnen of Ohio Cat stopped by to take in the auction activities.
Yoder & Frey’s Jonnie Keys (L) and Kevin Teets were busy making sure everything ran smoothly at the auction.
Carl Tanner (L) and John Galaida of S&S Commercial consider a bid on this JCB wheel loader.
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Ohio’s Move Over Law requires motorists to cautiously shift over one lane — or slow down if changing lanes is not possible — when passing any vehicle with flashing lights on the side of a road.
On June 14, ODOT hosted a “Slow Down and Move Over” event to honor the lives of construction workers that have been lost and to remind Ohio residents of the state’s Move Over Law. This event comes on the heels of ODOT’s announcement that it is preparing for a busy construction season with a particular awareness of the dangers roadside work can pose to workers. In that release, ODOT stated that its crews were struck a total of 152 times in 2017. The event aimed to spread awareness about these safety issues. To emphasize this point, 19 cones were stationed at the event,
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