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Your Ohio Connection: Ed Bryden, Strongsville, OH • 1-800-810-7640 This Doosan excavator owned by Ace Demo, pictured here with a Geith bucket helps the company with its demolition projects.
Doosan Excavator Value Matches Companies’ Needs
“There is a lot of competition for demolition work in this area,” said Patrick Lally, owner of Ace Demo, Bedford, Ohio. “Our Doosan excavators give us a real competitive advantage when bidding on jobs.” Doosan crawler excavators are known for outstanding production, top-of-the-line fuel economy, a comfortable cab, excellent all around visibility and easy maintenance. The models range from an operating weight of 30,865 to 111,774 lbs. (14,000 to 50,699.8 kg), with engine sizes of 99 to 328 hp. (73.8 to 244.5 kW) Lally started Ace Demo three years ago after he sold his share of a family-owned automobile dealership. “It was the right time for me to get out of the car business and a really good time to get into demolition,” he said. “The Cleveland area was becoming a hotbed of demolition because of declining population and aging building.” Cleveland has an estimated 11,500 vacant homes, according to Neighborhood Progress Inc. The figure is expected to grow in the coming years. The city demolished 195 houses in 2005; that number grew to 950 in 2007. In 2009 the city was expected to raze at least 1,700 homes. As a prime contractor for the city, Ace Demo has seen its business increase rapidly as more and more structures come under the Cleveland Neighborhood Stabilization Program. The company bid more than a million dollars of work in its second year; through the first five months of 2010 it had reached well in excess of $2 million. “I started with one employee, a dump truck and a skid steer loader, which was used for snow removal at the car dealership,” Lally said. “I looked at bigger equipment and quickly determined that the Doosan dealer, Gibson Machinery in Oakwood Village, Ohio, had the right equipment for my needs.” In 2008, he purchased a DX225LC excavator and a DL200 wheel loader. More recently he added two more excavators — a DX300LC and DX350LC. All of his Doosan crawler excavators are equipped with a hydraulic clamp and a 54-in. (137 cm) bucket. “I think that I’m way ahead of the game using these Doosan excavators,” Lally said. “That’s because they cost significantly less than competitive machines. Many of the firms we bid against have much higher hourly rates because they have excavators that are priced $50,000 to $60,000 more than my Doosan models, which, by the way, work just as well as other machines.” Lally makes money with his excavators because they are very productive, often working seven days a week. “We do a lot of emergency work for the city of Cleveland,” he said. “We recently were called in to take down a number of houses see VALUE page 4