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Howe was 43 years old at the time with years of seniority at a steel mill in adjacent New Haven. He had been doing custom work around North Haven with his John Deere, plowing and harrowing gardens, mowing fields, a middle-aged entrepreneur supplementing his mill income. Now the couple considered a wholesale career change. North Haven and other communities on the outskirts of New Haven were more rural in 1952, with small farms dotting the countryside. The agricultural scene was fully productive, not hobbyist, and the reliable “Johnny Popper” two-cylinder Deere tractors and other farm equipment were instrumental to the local economy. However, post-war population growth had begun and the character of the region was evolving into that of suburbia, with nearby Yale University, local Quinnipiac University and other campuses exerting growing economic influence. The dealership that Howe would replace was one town away from North Haven. The closest Deere competitors were 25 to 30 miles away. A need clearly existed for a dealership in central New Haven County and the Howes convinced themselves that throwing in their lot with Deere see g&H page 8
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Checkered House Bridge Undergoes Three-Year Makeover
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The Checkered House Bridge project on Route 2 in Richmond, Vt., will be widened this summer, the mid-point of a three-year project that is more than 22 years in the making.
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Its name may be “Checkered,” but its past isn’t. And its future is bright (green). The Checkered House Bridge project on Route 2 in Richmond, Vt., will be widened this summer, the mid-point of a three-year project that is more than 22 years in the making. Mid-June marked the moving of the longest truss bridge in the state. Workers took approximately five days to move it 12.5 ft. (3.8 m) from where it is, in order to widen and reconnect its trusses. The project, which began in 2011 and will be finished in the summer of 2013, will cost an estimated $13.9 million. The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VAT), which owns the bridge, retained the design-build team of Harrison & Burrowes Bridge Constructors Inc., Glenmont, N.Y., and CHA Inc., Albany, N.Y., to widen the existing truss span, while they preserve the majority of the historic steel structure. In the middle of its 36-month schedule, the project also includes the reconstruction and realignment of Route 2, Kenyon Road and Johnnie Brook Road. Supports for the truss, assemblage of pieces needed to move it and all plans and permits are in place so that the bridge can be widened at a day to be determined. Travelers both ways continue to use a two-lane temporary bridge built just east of the original span, opened in June 2011, throughout the construction season. Manager Has Waited for 22 Years To call this a labor of love for Carolyn Carlson, structures project manager of the VAT, is to insult both “labor” and “love.” Carlson has been part of this dream historic project for 22 years, nurturing it every step of the long process. “I have been associated with this project since 1990, when we designed a replacement for the concrete deck and see BRIDGE page 12
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Howe’s Sons Eventually Took Over, Expanded Business G&H from page 1
would fill that need. They took out a third mortgage on their home and became a small business couple, combining their first-name initials to create G&H Equipment. It would be a family business in more than name. Twenty-hour work days followed, with Helen Howe getting kids off to school before coming to the dealership to sort parts, sell machinery, and keep books while her husband sold and serviced Deere equipment. He often still was delivering green and yellow machines to customers at 11 o’clock at night. “I don’t remember exactly what he made in the beginning,” Howe’s son Dave recalled, “somewhere between $4,000 and $5,000 a year. I do remember the first two years in business my father only took out $1,100 each year. That’s $2,200 in two years. We lived out of a garden and raised chickens and sheep, G&H’s original location was a tract of land at the intersection of Quinnipiac Avenue and State Route 17 in the Montowese section of North Haven. Rent was low because the property was in back of a Studebaker-Packard dealership owned by another of Howe’s cousins. A business partner who helped finance the venture also was a Studebaker dealer. It’s no wonder that in photos of that period of G&H’s New Haven County Fair equipment displays, John Deere model 50s and 60s shared the green with the soft lines of Studebaker pickups. Why was Gil Howe willing to risk it all and start a new career at age 43? “I’m sure that father did that so my brother and I would have something to work with someday,” said Dave Howe, who was 10 years old when his parents started their business. “He loved the idea, being something of an entrepreneur, but he also did it because of his family. I really think that my father had in the back of his mind that his two sons would get into the business and carry it on — and we did!” An Evolving Dealership Dave and his brother, Jim, eventually succeeded their parents as owners of a dealership in which
they had been immersed most of their lives, Jim beginning full time in 1956 and Dave four years later. In 1978, they became co-owners of the business and steered it for two decades through lean and flush times, including boom years in the late 1980s. Ag tractors eventually gave way to compact commercial machinery and construction equipment. When John Deere began to consolidate its construction outlets, G&H gave up its lineup of yellow Deere machinery in 1996, remaining a Kubota dealer and a John Deere dealer in compact and lawnand-garden equipment. In 2000, the brothers sold the family business. Dave Howe recently returned to G&H as a part-time salesman, his enthusiasm for Deere products undiminished. It is complemented by his personal endorsement of the latest equipment line at G&H: Yanmar, the 100-year-old Japanese engine manufacturer with a growing line of compact construction
A final key product in the G&H stable is Stihl hand equipment. When Hurricane Irene blew through Connecticut in August 2011, it left behind so many downed trees and broken limbs that G&H sold some 200 Stihl chain saws to commercial companies and property owners.
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equipment. Howe and his brother actually handled Yanmar products for a few years in the early 1980s and Howe is a fan of his Yanmar tractor, which he said starts for him even in Connecticut winters. Those are the kinds of testimonials Roger Funk wants to hear. Adding Yanmar to the G&H product line is part of a growth strategy guided by Funk, who purchased G&H from the Howe brothers. His vision is to build out the company on the existing customer base as the recession finally wanes, attracting additional customers through such brands as Yanmar.
“You always have to grow,” Funk said. “You cannot get to a point of saying, ‘I’m going to stay at this level.’ If you are going to survive, you must constantly be proactive in trying to guide your company toward the future. This is why we went out and brought in another manufacturer to complement John Deere.” Funk said he was fortunate to land Yanmar, the top choice of three brands that he targeted for distribution rights. Yanmar is credited with developing the small diesel engine that is widely used on many brands of equipment in
2012. It is a long-time supplier of the engines to Deere, so bringing it to G&H is a good fit. “The Yanmar product line gives us tractors that compete with Deere products,” Funk acknowledged. “Since we now have two brands of compact tractors, it allows our customers to compare and make the decision. Both brands are excellent and we are acting as a purchasing agent for our customers.” As important, the Japanese brand gives G&H entry into the construction equipment field, with mini-excavators, skid steers, and compact wheel loaders leading the
way. Funk sees the light construction machinery being more in demand in post-recessionary Connecticut than larger equipment, particularly among G&H’s targeted decision-makers in landscaping, institutional and municipal offices. G&H equipment offerings will swell some more in the next year because Funk isn’t through adding lines. He is negotiating with two other manufacturers for the right to sell their products in North Haven. The announcement of the identity of those brands will be made in the next few months. Furthermore, G&H plans to forcefully enter the rental equipment business. Yanmar will help with that initiative because its construction equipment is the type often rented for a day or a month by small contractors. Mowers, compact utility vehicles, snow blowers, and other staples of the John Deere urban line do not as readily lend themselves to rental. G&H’s Hudson trailer line also is expected to benefit from the Yanmar presence, with commercial buyers of compact construction machines needing a way to transport the machinery from location to location. A final key product in the G&H stable is Stihl hand equipment. When Hurricane Irene blew through Connecticut in August 2011, it left behind so many downed trees and broken limbs that G&H sold some 200 Stihl chain saws to commercial companies and property owners. That surge of chain saw sales was repeated a few weeks later when an unexpected early snowfall thinned branches across the region. “You can’t control Mother Nature,” Funk said philosophically. Building Loyal Customers G&H sales leader Gerard Adinolfi appreciates shoppers who wander into the recently expanded G&H showroom. The appreciation is not feigned. He is a self-proclaimed “people guy” who easily connects with visitors or old customers. Once a farm boy, Adinolfi also appreciates the engineering of the machinery he has been selling at G&H for the past 17 years. He is as see G&H page 18
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upgraded a few steel members. However, the community did not agree with our concept of closing the road for four-to-five months,” said Carlson. “We then proceeded to evaluate other alternatives: From new bridges to keeping the old and building another next to it. “In the late 90s, we decided to evaluate the possibility of widening the truss. We received the blessing from the state’s historic preservation specialist and FHWA to pursue the option. Widening the truss preserves its historic significance yet improves the infrastructure for the travelling public,” added Carlson. Located in the town of Richmond, approximately a mile or so east of the Williston town line, the historic Checkered House Bridge was built in 1929, two years after the Great Flood of 1927. Built by the American Bridge
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The North truss is to be cut, moved 12.5 ft. (3.8 m) and then reattached once the bridge has been widened.
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New Bridge Expected to Last Through 75-Year Lifespan June. Called the Mabey Bridge, it is 266-ft. (81 m) will be shifted 12 ft. 6 in. to long, the biggest single-span, the north. A temporary roadtemporary bridge built in way bridge was constructed Vermont, just long enough to in June 2011 to allow traffic cross the 250-ft.-wide to cross the river while the Winooski. old bridge was eventually The temporary bridge will moved for its widening. To lead to permanence, or at accomplish this, the arching least stability for three-quarsteel north truss will be cut, ters of a century. supported, moved those 12 “The new bridge is ft. 6 in., and then re-attached designed for a 75-year with new steel supports to design. This can be achieved the 1929 bridge. if the bridge is maintained Once the bridge is reconover its life,” said Carlson. nected, its overall appear“The Design-Build team ance in its setting will be has done a tremendous job very similar to its appeardesigning and constructing ance before the widening. this project. I am looking However, motorists and forward to seeing the bridge other observers will be able completed. The contractor is to notice the difference going to begin the actual between the new and the old widening of this structure Photo courtesy of Fitzgerald & Halliday Inc. and Harrison & Burrowes Bridge Constructors Inc. soon and this task will be the steel when they are directly in front of the bridge. Vermonters built historic bridges without any of the heavy iron power equipment or tools of today. milestone for the project,” Officials say there’s a reason she added. “Replacing decks Torn down due to weakened and floor systems are not unique, for not “blending” the look — it is Kenyon Road intersects Route 2, are ideal — weather, equipment, abutments, it was one of the rarest but widening and adding to the important to the preservation 100 feet or so west of the Johnny crews, etc. “The new bridge also will help covered bridges in Vermont. It had existing portals and upper sway process that the new parts of the Brook Road. This new intersection bridge be clearly discernible from on the Kenyon Road will eliminate the farmers on each side of the been constructed circa 1812, after a bracing is a monumental task.” the current unsafe intersection of bridge. The existing bridge made it woman drowned trying to cross the the original bridge. Carlson added that designing very difficult for the farmers to Winooski River on horseback. “Prior to construction of this the Johnny Brook Road.” the rehabilitation of any historic bring their equipment over the The massive deluge of 1927 structure is demanding of “our project, the existing truss bridge How Will Widening bridge due to the width and the brought a new bridge building engineering background, but when width was 20 feet between the Be Done? load capacity of the bridge,” said wave through the state. According it is all designed and built, it is guardrails,” said Carlson. “That In simple terms, the work will Carlson. “The farmers actually to state records, some 1,258 rewarding to think that you are part width [was] not conducive to havfarm land on both sides of the bridges were damaged or of history in the making.” ing two trucks meet or even a car include these key steps: • Temporary bracing will be put bridge so the new bridge will allow destroyed, costing almost $25 miland a truck. There is also a local It amazes Carlson to think that road [Johnny Brook Road] that in place to support the bridge on them to do this more efficiently lion (approximately $500 million Vermonters built historic bridges in today’s dollars). intersects Route 2 at the west end the north side so that the north truss and safely.” without any of the heavy iron Again, according to University power equipment or tools of today. of the bridge which has no sight can be disconnected. • Once supports are in place, the The Great Flood of 1927 of Vermont research, a series of distance, which creates a danger“From the Brooklyn Bridge to north truss will be disconnected According to University of dams was built to prevent massive our 350-feet thru truss, engineering ous intersection.” The too-narrow width and lack from the rest of the bridge by Vermont researchers and their Web flooding in the future. Richmond construction of a hundred years site, the state was deluged with farmers also joined Project ago is truly unique and fascinating. of sight distance are only two rea- removing bolts and rivets • The north truss will then be rainstorm after rainstorm in the Vermont from 1938-1941 to stabi- I am very proud that I was given sons why the bridge needed work. “The existing bridge has been a slowly moved on rollers until it autumn of 1927. With grounds lize riverbanks by planting vegeta- the opportunity to work on this posted bridge for more than 20 rests in its new location on the completely saturated in early tion. Today, a grove of white pine project. This has been my project November, a two-day downpour trees behind the former Checkered for more than 20 years and I am years; meaning that trucks over a abutments built last fall. • New steel will be put in place covered the state with 8 in. of rain. House (Kitchen Table Restaurant) fortunate that I will be here to see it certain weight could not travel on Much like Hurricane Irene, still stand as a reminder of this. the road,” Carlson explained. “The to reconnect the newly situated finished,” said Carlson. “It is improved and widened truss north truss to the rest of the bridge, which washed out roads and important to save bridges that are For Children and bridge will have no load capacity extending the width of the truss by bridges in Vermont during the historic so our children and grand12 ft., 6 in. summer of 2011, the torrent of Grandchildren restrictions when it is completed. children can see our transportation Commuters will be able to see rainfall rushed into swollen brooks The Checkered House Bridge history.” “The new bridge will be widened enough to allow a 30-feet, the difference as trusses will no and streams, devastating towns and stands as one of hundreds of For more information, visit, bridges built after the flood, with www.checkeredhousebridge.com rail-to-rail distance which will pro- longer be symmetrical. A require- killing 84 people. There were many close calls and its familiar green, metal truss struc- or vide two 11-feet travel ways and ment of historic agencies is that the visit four-foot shoulders. This width two sides not match, so that the courageous rescues and, incredi- ture. Efforts to preserve it have www.Harrisonburrowes.com will allow the commuters to feel public can more easily distinguish bly, no one in Richmond lost their remained a top priority for officials (This story also can be found much safer travelling this road. We what is “new” versus what was the lives, but the early 1800s-era like Carlson for decades. on Construction Equipment wooden covered Checkered House The temporary bridge and Guide’s Web site at www.conalso are realigning the Johnny “look” of the original bridge. The exact timing of the move Bridge was damaged beyond detour road around the existing structionequipmentguide.com.) Brook Road. This road will intertruss bridge opened a year ago in CEG sect the Kenyon Road. The will depend on when all conditions repair, although it did not fall. BRIDGE from page 12
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NEW ENGLAND SUPPLEMENT ADVERTISER INDEX A T EQUIPMENT INC ..............................................13 ACE EQUIPMENT SALES INC ................................7 ACR EQUIPMENT ....................................................13 ARGUS INDUSTRIAL COMPANY ..............................1 ASTRO CRANE ........................................................13 BARRY EQUIPMENT CO ........................................15 C N WOOD CO INC..................................................20 CHADWICK BAROSS MA ......................................5,6 CLASSIFIED ............................................................13 CONTRACTOR’S CORNER ....................................13 DAVIS AUCTIONS INC ............................................15 DOOSAN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND ................11 EQUIPMENT EAST ....................................................6 FOLEY MARINE & INDUSTRIAL ENGINE ................1 GORILLA HAMMERS ................................................1 HYUNDAI CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT ............19 ITL AUCTIONEERING ................................................1 J R VINAGRO CORPORATION ................................1 KRAFT POWER CORP ..............................................1 LORUSSO HEAVY EQUIPMENT LLC ....................12 LOU GIZA EQUIPMENT ............................................1 LUBRICATION TECHNOLOGIES INC ....................13 MID CITY STEEL CO................................................13 MILTON CAT ............................................................13 MULTI MACHINE INC ................................................1 POWERSCREEN OF NEW ENGLAND ..................10 ROGERS BROTHERS..............................................17 T-QUIP SALES & RENTAL INC ................................14 THE N.I.C.E. COMPANY ..........................................10 TYLER EQUIPMENT CO ......................................3,14 W I CLARK CO............................................................2 WANTED MACK TRUCKS ......................................13 WOODS CRW OF NH CORP ....................................9 The Advertisers Index is printed as a free editorial service to our advertisers and readership. Construction Equipment Guide is not responsible for errors or omissions.
Co. Rewarded by Customer Multi-Generational Loyalty G&H from page 8 doors leading to nine service bays reflect the equally enthusiastic about Deere products as days when full-size construction equipment he is about the new Yanmar line — and con- was serviced there. “It really is almost too big for us and we veys genuine excitement about working again with part-time salesman Dave Howe, love it!” Adinolfi said of the expansive buildwho hired him in 1995. “We’re a team ing, which is apt to become more crowded as Funk’s new product lines are unveiled. again!” Funk believes the company is well posiThe logical consequence for G&H of all this evident conviction and sincerity is a cus- tioned as it emerges from grinding recession tomer base whose loyalty has been passed that reduced gross annual sales. “There is down through generations. Adinolfi talks still a need for the institutional and commerabout a G&H customer living in a nearby cial equipment, but we have found that our customers are very town who bought conscious of cost. a tractor from the Consequently, the dealership in decision to buy is 1967. Just a few usually decided weeks ago, a famiover a long period ly member of that of time than when buyer returned to the economy is the dealership and good and people bought a compact have positive attiDeere tractor. “We have some G&H Equipment moved to its current loca- tudes.” at 314 Old Maple, where a 13,000-sq.-ft. But if governpeople who have tion structure dominates a 3-acre site. ment overseers of been buying tracthe economy will tors from us since 1952,” Howe pointed out. “In the early days, give enterprising small businesses like G&H we had to really cater to the customer, a freer rein, Funk said, he believes the future because you needed him to come back. Now will be bright. “Certainly we have a compawe have customers saying things like, ‘My ny that is well-known because it is 60 years grandfather bought a tractor from your father young,” he said. “We have a facility that is and he treated my grandfather well.’” large enough that we do not have to expand Funk acknowledged that, “G&H has a the physical facility. We will have to add very nice base of loyal customers that has employees and I am confident we can do been with us for a number of years.” He that. attributes the customer loyalty to employees “Lastly, we have the experience,” he said, who over many years have proved their noting that 2013 marks the 50th year of his value and allegiance to the organization. involvement in the equipment business. In “G&H being able to survive and now look Orange, Conn., the Funk family started ahead to growing as a business is because of F&W Equipment in 1939 and still operates loyal employees,” the owner said. He cited the Case/Kubota/Doosan dealership. From Adinolfi’s “nice rapport” with customers, his involvement in that family business, which Funk believes comes from the lead Funk was long aware of G&H before buying salesman being an “honest, hard-working, the company 12 years ago. caring individual” who customers correctly “I went to work for my father after graduconclude is there to help them. ation from college in 1963 and G&H was in “The G&H team really is a small one of business then,” he recalled. “They were eight people, but six of them have been with always very good competition for us.” us for a great number of years,” Funk said. With a twin line of compact tractors — “They are very loyal and it creates a family “our bread and butter,” said Funk — a new atmosphere that customers feel when they line of Yanmar construction equipment, the walk into G&H more so than when they long green line of Deere compact utility walk into a larger dealership or retailer.” The original G&H location behind the vehicles and lawn and garden equipment, Studebaker dealership was given up in 1960 Hudson trailers, and Stihl hand equipment, for a new and larger building alongside Old G&H Equipment looks to be competitive for Maple St. Eighteen years later, with owner- some years to come. (This story also can be found on ship of G&H about to pass from parents to sons, the dealership moved to its current Construction Equipment Guide’s Web location at 314 Old Maple, where a 13,000- site at www.constructionequipmentsq.-ft. structure dominates a 3-acre site. Tall guide.com.) CEG
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Lorusso Heavy Equipment, LLC 160 Elm Street P.O. Box 857 Walpole, MA 02801 508/660-7600 www.lhequip.com
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