Color Me Orange Customer Testimonials

  EXCAVATOR TESTIMONIALS:

  ZX240LC-3 Dale MacLean, Jock's Blasting & Son Ltd.
  ZX270LC-3/ZX270LC-3  Enterprise Energy Services, Inc.
  ZX350LC-3  Doug MacLeod, Owner, Extreme Excavating Ltd.
  ZX350LC-3  David Ceccanti, President & CEO, Active Construction, Inc.

Lanyard Development Inc., Savannah, GA - ZX350LC-3 and ZX450LC-3 - Lanyard Hits Pay Dirt with Hitachi  - Tob Lee's original business plan did not include operating an excavating division.  But when his real estate company, Lanyard Development, Inc. of Savannah, GA, bought a site containing fill material, fate took over. 
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R.G. Huston,  Madison, WI - ZX450LC and ZX600LC
Flying High - Planes aren’t the only things around the airport known to fly. Dirt’s been flying too, thanks to a $26-million safety-improvement project. And with the help of Hitachi excavators, R.G. Huston, one of the project’s contractors, has seen productivity — and profits — take off.
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Rakowski Cartage & Wrecking,  Winnipeg, MB - ZX450LC
Cross-Checking Winnipeg Arena into History - “This arena was definitely stubborn. The outside came down easily, but we didn’t give enough credence to the site’s center concrete piers and their reinforcing cages. So, while the explosives did their work, the cages held the real force of the explosion in. The sides of the structure fell easily, but the full midsection remained standing. A few hours later, we pulled those cages apart with an excavator, and it was all on the ground.” Read More...

W.F. Jackson Construction Co., Inc.  Sandersville GA - EX450LC and ZX450LC
"White Gold" gets a Tint of Orange in Georgia Operation - “We recently took a fleet of a dozen excavators out of service because they had exceeded what we felt were their maximum hours and replaced them with Hitachi units. Our decision was based on a good relationship with our dealer, a fair purchase price, and Hitachi’s reputation as a solid performer in this environment."
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Sunmount Corporation,  Roanoke, TX - ZX450LC
Hitachi Takes the Lead in Talladega Resurfacing Project - “Speedway repaving has become something of a specialty for us,” he says. “Over the years we’ve done a number of sites including the Texas Motor Speedway three times, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Richmond International Speedway, and Homestead- Miami Speedway. However, I believe Talladega with its steep banked curves and concrete wall has been the most challenging of them all.”  Read More...

Steven Counts, Inc. (SCI),  Summerfield, Fl - ZX330LC and 450LC
Fuel Savings Leads Florida Firm to Hitachi - “Together, we saw the economic benefit of replacing many of our existing excavators with Hitachi Zaxis 330s and 450s,” Counts says. “Our machines operate an average of ten hours a day, six days a week, in applications ranging from overburden removal to loading lime rock in quarries to excavation in our land development operations. The possibility of saving three gallons per hour, per machine, looked real good to us."  
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R&B Excavating, Omaha, NE - ZX450LC-3
R&B Excavating's motto is "Workin' It."  It's a big reason why the Omaha, Nebraska-based sanitary sewer and storm pipe specialist is one of the busiest contractors in the area.  
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Carl Bowers and Sons, Wisconsin - ZX600LC
Zaxis 600LC Anchors Effort for Wisconsin Utility Contractor - Conventional wisdom says a 60-metric-ton excavator is a tad large for utility work.  A 45-metric-ton excavator or smaller is more customary for underground work.  But for one Wisconsin firm, the Zaxis 600LC's size, reach and power is just right for all kinds of jobs, which is why it's the flagship pf Carl Bowers & Sons' fleet of 7 Hitachi excavators.  Read More....

C.E. Barker, Houston, TX - ZX350LC-3
Dash-3s Go Deep for Houston Underground Specialist - Up until about 5 years ago, C.E. Barker's fleet was heavily loaded with Samsung machines.  Then the area Hitachi dealer, ROMCO, paid a visit.  
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Crow Enterprises, Ltd., Edmonton, AB, Canada - ZX270LC-3
Habitat of the Canadian Crow - Doug Crow has been operating equipment for the past 22 years, so he knows a thing or three about productive and reliable iron.  "Over the years I've run many brands, and I  prefer the orange ones," says Doug.  Read More...

Malphrus Construction, Hilton Head, SC and Savannah, GA - ZX270LC-3, ZX350LC-3, ZX450LC-3, ZX600LC, EX1200 and more. 
Color me Red and Orange - There's a saying among Malphrus Construction employees:  "If it's red, it's ours."  These days some of that red fleet is turning orange as the company shifts from multiple excavator brands to one - Hitachi.  With more than 800 employees and annual project work in excess of $150 million, Malphrus is the preeminent specialist in residential and industrial construction.  Read More...

Pivetta Brothers, Sumner, WA - ZX350LC-3
"Blown Away" by the New Hitachi's Performance - "There are so many things we like about this machine, right down to its transportability.  It's powerful, it's fast, it's responsive, it's efficient.  It's a lot more machine that I ever expected," says Mark Pivetta.  Read More...

SHOVEL TESTIMONIALS 

  EX1200  Ronnie Lewis, President, Lewis Contractors, Inc.

Grant MacKay Demolition Co., Satl Lake City, UT - EX1200
Heavy-Metal Thunder - In January 2004, Grant Mackay Demolition won the largest contract in all demodom, the dismantling of Geneva Steel in nearby Orem, UT.  "Honestly, the main reason I go with Hitachi is - well, when it comes to machines big enough for this kind of work, they're the only game in town," Mackay says.  Read More...

Lee-Mar, Naples, FL - EX1200
Digging Mass Quantities; An EX1200 Excavates Florida Lakes by the Dozens - In April 2005, Lee-Mar started digging lakes with the new EX1200 at the new Ave Maria University outside of Naples, Florida.  As of mid-May 2006, the EX1200 had racked up 2,300 hours digging 13 lakes.  "The EX1200 was a strategic purchase for us.  It's the best excavator we've ever owned," says Jimmy Thompson, Operations Manager for Lee-Mar.  Read More...

Walsh Construction,  Chicago, IL - EX1100 and EX1200
Going for the good stuff - If you want to pump out 15,000 tons (13,608 metric tons) of earth per 10-hour shift, you’d better bring some high-production equipment and set it up to rock and roll.
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FORESTER TESTIMONIALS 

Whitestone Logging,  Alaska -  Zaxis 250 Forester
When it Pays to Rent Forester Helps Alaska Logging Firm to Cope - Whitestone has run almost every brand of forestry equipment at one time or another, but with an eye on production and efficiency, the last six pieces, including a Zaxis 250 Forester, have been Hitachi units. 
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