Heavy Construction Equipment Podcast - podcast cover

Heavy Construction Equipment Podcast

Construction Articles
Last refreshed:
Follow this podcast in the Metacast mobile app to refresh it and see new episodes.
Download Metacast podcast app
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episodes

Renting a water wagon

Tired to inhaling dust in the construction site? You need to put them to rest by spraying water so that the dust settles down on the ground and you get some fresh air to breathe. It will also reduce the number of air-borne ailments and will thus keep your employees healthy. So if you have a big construction site and need to spray water in the entire place, you need a vehicle that is capable of carrying gallons of water and also simultaneously spray it along the site. This leads to the needs of a...

May 16, 20184 min

Insuring your heavy equipment – its need and benefits!

Whenever we purchase an expensive thing, we always think of insuring it, so that when there is a crisis situation, you do not have to pay a lump sum amount of money to have the product repaired. When it comes to the heavy equipment that you buy, this rule is equally applicable. However, many of the heavy equipment owners do not consider the importance of insuring the equipment. Reasons to insure your heavy equipment: Here are some of the many reasons, why you should be insuring your heavy equipm...

May 13, 20185 min

How to drive a bulldozer

Driving heavy equipment is simple for operators who have loads of experience operating it but as far as the newbie are concerned who are in the process of gaining some bit of experience in it may find it difficult to maneuver the machine. Other than that, every other model of heavy equipment has different operating functions which one need to know and have their hands-on it. So you can master to drive heavy equipment only when you do it quite often and in this process you also tend to learn new ...

May 05, 20185 min

Construction of manufacturing units and factories

When we talk about construction, it need not necessarily be of huge buildings or condominiums. The word in itself is quite elaborative. When you are in the construction business you deal with building anything and everything. Although you take time to learn the industry and the different ways by which you can acquire projects. You also take time to understand how to complete a project within the stipulated timeframe. Well you learn these things from experience and as and when you get to deal wit...

Apr 20, 20185 min

Line boring heavy equipment

Drilling a hole to lay a foundation is quite an intrinsic part in the construction sector and the holes dug for the foundation has to be precise as designed by the civil engineer. You can’t mess up with such an important stuff because if you do then it directly affects the quality of the construction. It is therefore crucial to select the right type of heavy equipment and also the right kind of cutting tool. The cutting tool needs to be attached to the heavy equipment and then begin the process ...

Apr 19, 20185 min

Foresightedness is a pre-requisite in the construction business

For any business to thrive, the managers of the business should possess the quality to foresee things. They should be in a position to anticipate what may happen next. An important decision taken by them can have certain ramifications. This should be construed well in advance by the people who are responsible for the growth of the company. Businesses that are volatile in nature are more prone to risks and if the business owner is not careful about his decisions, he may have to pay a heavy price ...

Apr 15, 20185 min

How to choose the right Heavy Equipment for Storm Clean-up

Climate is not in human control and natural calamities can strike in at any point, without any prior indication. However, nowadays, due to technological advancements, weather and climate changes can be predicted well in advance, and this gives us some scope for prevention or at least precaution. But, in front of huge natural calamities like tornado, hurricane and other storms, there is nothing that we could do. Damages are also huge as caused by these storms. Not just these cyclones and tornadoe...

Apr 12, 20185 min

High attrition can have a larger impact on construction projects

In a construction business, employees from different departments play a crucial role in the overall development of the project. You want the project to end on time; you need to ensure that you have you men/women by your side and if that is there you can end up completing it within the given deadline. However, if your men/women leave the company for any reason the prospect of the project ending on time gets jeopardized. This is why it is so important to ensure that the attrition rate of a constru...

Apr 02, 20185 min

Only the best salesman can sell heavy equipment

We all are in some way or the other are into the profession of a salesman. Some try to sell their qualification to get a job, some try to sell their capabilities to get more business. In a way we all are into the selling mode and still many of us feel that selling is not our cup of tea. Well, selling a specific product may require some sort of skill and perhaps this is the reason why many get jittery when they know that their work demands them to sell stuffs. Frankly, selling a product can prove...

Mar 28, 20185 min

Take rational decisions when it comes to budget of your construction company

The success of every business is largely determined on the way you plan it out and also the manner you execute those plans. It is evident that the actual will never be at par with the estimate, which means that things will never go exactly the way you planned it will work. There will always be some sort of deviations from what you have estimated. The ground situation will differ from what you have contemplated; but the thing that is crucial is the difference between the estimated and the actual....

Mar 24, 20185 min

Steps taken to prevent early ageing of heavy equipment

There is no denying the fact that the heavy construction equipment come for quite an expensive price. However, they are very vulnerable to damage and premature ageing, especially when they are mishandled and not taken care of properly. Hence, if you want to make sure that there is no early ageing of heavy equipment, you need to take some preventive steps. Add and Test Lubricants Frequently: Lubricants play a very important role in any machinery function. It reduces the friction. When you use the...

Mar 10, 20185 min

Buy and sell heavy equipment online

E-commerce has evolved majestically during the last 2 decades. Almost every company in today’s time is in some way or the other engaged in the online business. It means they either buy or sell their products online and this being their core business they tend to make good money from it. Probably a couple of decades ago, nobody must have thought that the E-commerce business will become such a big thing in the global market. However, now we are all in some way or the other are connected to it. We ...

Mar 09, 20185 min

Renting an excavator

Since the construction and heavy equipment industry has risen over the years so has many other industries that are associated with them have developed in these many years. Out of the many industries, one is renting heavy equipment. It is now never a problem to let out your machines as you will always find takers for it. Gone are the days where a person had to struggle giving ads in newspapers to find someone who wants to take the equipment on rent. Now people are educated about how to move ahead...

Mar 07, 20185 min

Do not keep old heavy equipment for long – Sell them off

To expect a re-sale value on a used commodity is not wrong but if you expect to get a good price on an item that has nothing left in it, you may become highly disappointed. When it comes to heavy equipment you will also come across people who do not believe in buying new stuff. They see profit in buying old machines, renovating them and make them new. In this way they get heavy equipment at a cheaper price. But these guys do not buy machines that are extremely old and has absolutely no use. You ...

Mar 02, 20185 min

Right strategy is what you need to grow your construction company

Before you start your day, you need to plan it well so that you can execute them and make your day somewhat useful. In the same fashion, while you are in the mode of setting up your construction company, it is important that you plan your things well so that you can execute them without any hassles. Please remember construction sector is one such sector where you can’t accurately assume anything. Situations may change anytime and you got to be ready to accept them and deal with them as and when ...

Feb 28, 20185 min

Becoming employee centric construction company is difficult but achievable

We all want to work with a company that not only provide us with good growth but also takes interest about the welfare of its employees. Companies that provides us with good perks and facilities are hard to get by but if we ever land up in such a company we may not want to leave it unless and until we have a very strong reason for it. Companies on the other hand are focused on earning profits. They are ready to provide their employees with basic benefits that they are supposed to as per the guid...

Feb 28, 20185 min

Take suggestions before starting a construction company

Before you get into anything big that can either shape up your career or can ruin it, it is very important that you sit with someone who knows about the subject and take adequate suggestion from him. Do not do anything in haste and for something that is so crucial for your life and career you just can’t take any chance on it. You have to be more than 100% sure of what you are doing and why you are doing. As long as you do not have the answers for your questions it will not be wise enough to get ...

Feb 27, 20185 min

Construction workers should know their worth

To know what we are really worth as far as our profession is concerned is a matter of pure confusion. Why it is confusing is because we actually do not know what the worth of your services is and this is why without knowing much about our worth we get ready to offer our services for a lesser price. This should really not happen because at the end of the day after having worked in a company for a couple of years when you actually know your price and also the fact that you are getting paid much le...

Feb 27, 20185 min

Negligence of any form can turn out to be fatal in the construction business

Right from our childhood we have the tendency to neglect things and feel that we can do it later. We just skip things for now and believe that someone else will do it for us or we will get it done some time later. We grow with the same tendency and then it starts getting costly to us. We can’t have the same approach that we had during our childhood days in our professional lives. It can have a nasty impact on our businesses and can hamper it big time. We need to take special care of things that ...

Feb 27, 20186 min

Sub-letting the construction project can degrade the quality of work

We live in the era of outsourcing where every possible business is outsourced in some way or the other. Some businesses are outsourced to foreign countries and some remain inside but are outsourced to parties that are known to do that kind of work. This is also known as sub-letting projects. What typically happens here is the person who is responsible to complete the project hands over the work to a third party who in turn further hands it over to the part who will indeed complete the work. Now ...

Feb 24, 20185 min
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android