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INSIDE Superintendent of Highways John Greeley and the Town of LaFayette ....................................................9 Advertiser / Supplier Index ..................................................70 Lots of news, products and services throughout!

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Everything, it seems, is beginning earlier than it used to. The Christmas shopping/advertising season starts November 1st, right after Halloween, which, planning, shopping and decorating for that now starts around mid-September. I don’t recall that happening when I was a kid. And what I certainly don’t recall is how early kids are dating these days. I have a daughter in her early teens and she and her friends are all dating boys who are also in their early teens. No one back in the 1970s, when I was an early teen, was dating anyone; that didn’t start until about 9th grade. Another equally aggravating thing that starts early now are the presidential election campaigns; this began back in the spring when most candidates announced their intention to run and the money and news coverage soon started to pour out daily. The 24-hour news outlets then began doing daily tracking polls, both for the states that have early primaries and national — national? So if there’s a particular candidate that I like and he or she is leading by two points in the national poll in August 2015 and the actual election is in November 2016, I’m supposed to feel happy about the fact that person is leading then? Ridiculous. This is not a basketball game; if a team is up 2-0, we can be pretty certain the game won’t end that way. Same applies here: too early to start keeping score. We need an engaged electorate and already I’m hearing from people that they’re burnt out from all this coverage and conversation about something that isn’t even going to ramp up until next spring. And this way-too-early campaigning isn’t good for our country because now, more than ever in the past, it’ll take even more money, perhaps billions, to mount a successful campaign, which eliminates virtually all but a handful of potential candidates. Not good for our democracy and our sanity. Lastly, thank you for all who attended and exhibited at the N.Y.S. Highway & Public Works Expo in Syracuse. Look for coverage in the next issue. P

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and the Town of LaFayette Fifty years from now, on June 1, 2065, somebody will open up a highway department’s inspired time capsule. The four-foot metal tube, clearly marked, was set into the wall of the town of LaFayette’s brand new, state-of-the-art highway department, which had an illustrious ribbon cutting in May 30, 2015. John Greeley, the town’s superintendent of highways, carefully collected the time capsule contents to reflect what LaFayette is all about right now. Among the items chosen are photos of the current crew and town board members, minutes from the town board meeting, former highway superintendents’ names and years of service, pictures of the old highway garage, and blueprints of the new facility. There also is a quart of Captain Morgan rum for a celebratory toast from John even though, he says, he probably won’t be there. The capsule provides a little slice of life in the highway department, and its town. John’s influence is felt in the county’s association of highway superintendents, a group of which he is vice president. The town’s roads are frequently cited in professional meetings as, “The best in the county.” It makes John very proud. In addition to a new building and a lot of new heavy equipment, the town of LaFayette has a crew of seven, plus John. Other crew members include: Joe Ambrose, Art Gabriel, Al Klaiber, Don Skinner, Tom Kurtz, and Tim Storrier. The town plows and mows 29 lane miles of town road and an additional 26 miles for the county. The budget is $981,873, with $71,420 coming from CHIPS. While he still plows certain areas in a smaller truck with wings, he says it’s beginning to get old, so he is investing heavily in mentoring Steve Robson, his deputy. On hiring Steve he says, “I like his honesty. He grew up, like I did, working.” John and Steve brought the majority of the ideas on board for the new building when planning for the facility to come. They even did all the site work, landscaping, and built the flag pole and the dedication area when they began to run out of the project’s budget allocated to landscaping. John estimates that his crew probably saved the town about $1 million by doing the site work, but it wasn’t easy. First, they had to impress the engineers at C&S Engineering that they could do what was required to meet the engineering specs. “They were a little bit concerned with the magnitude of the job that needed to be done, but we ended up with a great working relationship with those guys,” John says. By Laurie Mercer

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Beyond sentiment, the new highway garage has a lot going for it, especially technology-wise. John says from the very beginning, when the building wasn’t even in the blueprint stage, the town board — with whom he has an admirable can-do relationship — was adamant that this new facility would have to fit future-driven goals: serving needs right now while also being engineered to be productive in the years ahead. “The board basically said, ‘We don’t want you coming back here in 20 years and asking for more,’” says John, cheerfully. It’s All About Breathing Deeply Air quality is of primary concern in any garage — consider the air brake test alone that has to take place on each truck for about 10 minutes every morning before they hit the road. That testing generates a lot of carbon monoxide. Units from Rupp Air Systems were installed in the ceilings throughout the building. The units can detect undesirable levels of carbon monoxide and respond automatically by bringing in fresh air at the same temperature as the existing air, even if it’s 20-below outdoors. Heat is provided by radiant gas — directed from the ceiling down to the floor. John explains, “Before we even made up our plans, Steve and I talked to all of the highway superintendents in a 40-mile radius from our shop and some in Buffalo. We wanted to find out what they like and didn’t like about where they had to work. Many of them mentioned that when you bring in a truck covered with ice and snow and the building warms from the floor, sometimes the materials in the truck don’t even get warm by morning.” Radiant gas heat, which LaFayette is using, John says, gives you the sensation of warm sunshine on your skin. It warms every object in the 14

John visits the Town Hall to chat with Kristen Shutd, assistant town clerk.

building so that it is warm to the touch. Large, bright units of LEDs light most of the ceilings. In the wash bay, with less use, they opted for less expensive, traditional lights. “Everything we built here is future-driven,” says John, as he walks through tremendously high ceilinged areas surrounded by portable jacks that make repairs easier. The $3.2-million department is located on 4.5 acres that parallel Route 81, a high-speed, sometimes dangerous road that, more than a century ago, caused the creation of the town of LaFayette — a town that owes its very existence to the convergence of four major highways. When John and Steve began the site work for the new building, they continued on page 16

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Brand new trucks ready to roll. LaFayette just paid cash for two Western Star trucks — one is a six-wheeler and one is a ten-wheeler. The town's equipment plan looks 15 years ahead.

quickly found that the ground is both wet and hard pan. The site work and early digging produced many surprises. “I believe that if you do your job, you will be rewarded,” says John. Early earth work sometimes tested his resolve. They found a place where the ground dropped off and required filling with stone and gravel. Then there were some surprises — quicksand.

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“We found what they call ‘running sand,’ which basically is quicksand,” says John. “We would take one bucket out, and it would fill up instantly.” “We ended up having to go back and undercut to a clay level, which is solid. I would say that two-thirds of our parking lot, which is large, is on what proved to be unsuitable soil.” The site, formerly a lumber supply business, also had a lot of concrete in the ground. He estimates that an outside contractor might charge $100,000 to remediate the concrete. It took them all one summer to prepare the site for the ground breaking, while still doing their scheduled work on the highways. “There were some long days for sure,” says John. “We were working out of an old barn. When we got done plowing, we would come down here to work on the site.” Notable in the improvements are water systems, both inside and out. All the water from inside the building goes into grid separators before being discharged. All of the water outside the building goes into pipes that drain into detention ponds and finally into swales toward Route 81. John explains, “We planned all of our piping and electrical lines so that if we ever had a problem in 25 years, we wouldn’t have to dig up the blacktop.” The Grand New Garage For John, part of his DNA and core values is his desire to protect his workers from contaminants and an unsafe environment. “I told them, when I took office as superintendent, ‘you guys have a right to come to work every day to a place that is safe, clean, and productive. You deserve to go home to your families, and what you are working in is not safe. We will have a new highway garage. You have continued on page 28

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my word on it.’” The former garage could serve as a poster child for the many conditions that can plague worn-out, highly polluted highway garages, from the days of old before guidelines and regulations were put into practice. The former garage will probably be sold by the town. The location is ideal in terms of the town’s long-term plans to renovate the village’s four corner area, turning this historic convergence of four highways into a lively, John learned how to use computers in the 1980s when he worked for Carrier. He creates his own mixed-use development area. The plans are Facebook pages devoted to citizens' interest in things like e-waste recycling, brush pickup and the availability of free mulch. in the works. LaFayette is located at the convergence of four major highways. The dent, the new building will be able to provide videotape of much of the north-south highways Interstate 81 and U.S. 11 intersect U.S. Route 20 road in that location. The new building also is designed with a second possible strategic use in LaFayette while New York State 11A is a north-south highway in the town that parallels U.S. 11. From LaFayette any traveler can motor in mind — that of a disaster headquarters. The open architecture, treatalmost from coast to coast, while Route 81 will take them from Canada ment of door locks, and some other significant features make it FEMAapproved in the event of a community-wide emergency. The building is to Tennessee. John calls the iconic blacktop, “a very important highway.” Recently centrally located and wired with multi-channel radio hand sets especially designed to communicate with everyone involved in such events on a he and Kathy drove Route 81 all the way to Tennessee for a vacation. The town of LaFayette roads get a salt-sand mix. They use 1,500 tons dedicated radio frequency. John says, “In the event of an emergency, this building has been built of salt and 4,500 tons of sand each year. Salt is stored in the county’s salt barn on a reciprocal arrangement. Shared services with all the neigh- so that it would function as a command center. Our job, as highway peoboring towns is a constant, especially when all the towns are surface ple, would be to ensure that all residents are safe, and then the county, including state police, would lead the response.” treating roads in summer. One might think that the hilly roads along apple orchards are the stuff that only grace Norman Rockwell illustrations, but they would be Why They Call LaFayette wrong. In 1993, during an epic water event, a large mudslide obliterated the Crossroads of New York Located in the heart of New York, LaFayette’s center is at the cross- one side of Tully Hill Farms Road, taking several homes with it. John explains, “We spent the entire summer trying to clean it all up roads of two of the longest roads in the country — where travelers can drive from Canada to Florida or from the east and the west coasts. Route and still take care of the roads as usual. The roads were covered with continued on page 32 81 also barrels past the new highway garage, and in the event of an acci28

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acres of mud.” A careful look at the valley today still demonstrates a more barren area that produced the unexpected event. LaFayette is known for its apple production and for its Apple Festival — the weekend before Columbus Day —which draws thousands of spectators to its crafts, food, and pageantry in this beautiful apple-centric upstate region. LaFayette also is home to the hamlet of Cardiff where the largest hoax ever perpetrated in America was unearthed — the Cardiff Giant. Apple production continues to be the giant of local agribusiness. The Vinegar Hill Sports Complex In the old days when LaFayette was even more densely planted to all kinds of premium apple varieties, they also had acres of scrub trees whose fruit was suitable only for vinegar, so they called that area, which is carved with a steep hill, Vinegar Hill. The name stuck, so the town called the new sports complex, built by the highway department, Vinegar Hill Sports Complex — a true community-wide initiative. While the highway crews did the work, the Optimist Club donated the materials and built the lacrosse box themselves. While coaches, players, referees, neighbors, and others labored in donated worker t-shirts, the sports park quickly took shape. The highway crew used their equipment and talents for demolition of a former, little-used park, and worked toward site improvement, including a massive retaining wall. The park now hosts lacrosse, basketball, and soccer, with nice metal benches for

The unrestrained feeling of the garage's open architecture is evident throughout the new building.

spectators. John says some of the country’s best lacrosse players got their start here in LaFayette’s Vinegar Hill Sports Complex. “We took an old park that is off the beaten path and revitalized it to have some value,” says John of the area they help construct. The tiny town has had four #1 recruits for lacrosse players in the country. “Lyle Thompson is a Native American from here,” says John. “He won the biggest award you can get, like the Heisman trophy for lacrosse. This box in Vinegar Hill Sports Complex is sacred ground to serious lacrosse players of all ages.” continued on page 34

John stands in a part of the Vinegar Hill Sports Complex, which involved a community-wide effort including the highway crew doing the demolition of the old park and creating the new one. 32

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John’s own son, John Greeley III, learned to play “in the box” here. Playing championship games by the time he was in 8th grade, he went on to a full scholarship, including books and board, at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he starred as #9 on the lacrosse team. He now lives and works in security in Las Vegas where he also volunteer-coaches the game. His father says that giving back is something you learn growing up in a rural community like LaFayette. John describes his son, who calls him every day, as being “very worldly.” When his father recently asked him if he would ever come home to live in LaFayette, his son answered, “One traffic light and a Dollar General?” The game of lacrosse was played as a blood sport by Native Americans across many acres. Serious injury and fatalities were commonplace. The game may have originated with the nearby Onondaga tribe, who live on a reservation bordering LaFayette. Of the town’s 68,000 acres, more than 6,000 acres comprise the Onondaga Reservation. John’s own sports while growing up were wrestling and baseball. Today, he likes to hunt turkey and white tails and travel with his relatively new wife Kathy (www.uniquejewelerybyKathy.com). His property, graced by a magnificent weeping willow tree, is where he gardens for what he calls his therapy. He also takes his weekly golf game seriously enough to have acquired professional-quality clubs. LaFayette also is looking out for its senior citizens. In another park adjacent to the garage, the crew recently put in a handicapped accessible senior workout area, with a mile-long, paved path, landscaped with a little more privacy, and featuring equipment and instruction for safe, senior-driven stretching exercises.

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Local Boy Makes Good It is not lost on John that his helping to plan and build the new highway facility gave him a chance to stretch out in some areas that he had devoted himself to in his past. John was born, with a fraternal twin, in Syracuse. In 1962, he helped build the home that his mother still lives in. His dad died in 1990. In his younger, hipster days he played in a touring band that did cover-tunes of the “oldies,” playing in clubs and Holiday Inns. His son flew him to Las Vegas for an Eagles concert and gave him a new Fender acoustic guitar, so who knows? John may be ready to rock on, at least off the job. Having graduated from high school in 1977, he briefly attended college and quickly found higher education was not for him. He says his dad gave him a week living at home without paying for room and board. continued on page 38

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The former town of LaFayette highway garage had been hosed out years ago. It was drafty, crowded and most equipment was stored outside. The vintage gas pumps give you some idea of when it was built. Until the groundbreaking on the new facility in 2015, this was it.

By the time the deadline was up John was in boot camp in Florida, having enlisted in the Sea Bees. He initially signed up agreeing to a “buddy deal” with his friend. An older brother served in Vietnam. The military taught him a lot. He gleaned information from his experience watching airplanes take off and land on carriers, which now influences the traffic flow in the town’s slick new highway garage. The entrance and egress are wide open, with continuous paths in and out so that vehicles, even with plows, can easily move about. “Our plows have wings, which is not too far in concept from jet airliners’ wings,” he says. He was in the service for eight years, being stationed all over the world, including time spent off the coast of Africa, while building bridges and runways. Upon discharge he took a job at Carrier in Syracuse, and then moved to the DOT in LaFayette as a maintenance worker who moved up the channel quickly. “I was up for a big promotion there,” he says, “when the town highway superintendent came to me and asked if I would take over for him when he was ready to retire. I had to weigh my options. I was raising my son as a single parent. If I went with DOT, I would be called out to places like Binghamton and Oswego in snowstorms and have to make arrangements for a baby sitter. Or I could go with the town department and be home every night.” “He pulled a fast one,” he says of the former superintendent. “He didn’t want to retire.” He had to retire for medical reasons. I became superintendent by default.” John may be the highway superintendent, but he also is part of local history where the really important news is shared over coffee at Cindy’s continued on page 40 38

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brush on their road, or they question why we took a tree down. Short reply: “We didn’t; it fell.” He says he began daily postings on Facebook about two years ago because he felt he might be missing some important dialogue. “Social media gives me a chance to convey what is going on and explain why, which also saves me a lot of time in phone calls.” LaFayette highways are often long and hilly, winding along meandering apple orchards. Many of the remaining farms use heavily-laden, manure-hauling 18-wheeler trucks, which sometimes spill, and more quickly breakdown the edge of any highway. John says, “We get to clean it up. The farmers know their rights. They know when it’s mixed with sand they can spread it wherever they want. When it spills, the DEC can fine them $100.” Funding the New Building With Dollars and Sense In the town of LaFayette, they like to pay cash for things. For example two new Western Star plow trucks purchased from Tracey Road Equipment. The 10wheeler with a unibody design will be used as a sander in winter and a dump truck in nice weather. One model is a 10-wheeler, the other is a 6-wheeler. In addition, John and Steve use their pickups with wings on them to sometimes “hit the hills before the big plow trucks go out.” The town board puts a certain amount of dollars in an equipment fund. In doing so, John says, “We were continued on page 48 44

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More upstate beliefs arrived with the Fox sisters, who launched Spiritualism, the Shakers, and the Oneida Society, a group that favored co-mingling marriages. The women’s rights movement was formally started in Seneca Falls in a building that has become probably the only laundromat in the state with a historic marker. The author of the phrase “burned over” said that the area had been so heavily evangelized that it had no more fuel (the unconverted) left to burn (conversion). Amid this willingness to believe, few suspected the credentials of the Cardiff Giant, a 10-foot-tall supposedly “petrified” man. When famous entertainer and entrepreneur P.T. Barnum failed to purchase the original Cardiff Giant, he had a fake one made. The stone cutting replicator built several more copies of the giant for exhibition — half a dozen of them by the end of the year. “It is rather rich,” quipped the Philadelphia Inquirer while reporting on Barnum’s exhibit, “that we should be victimized by such a fraud upon a fraud.” Having done the carnival circuit, the original giant changed hands again in 1947. The original giant, now called the greatest hoax on America at that time, rests in its forever home at the Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown, still getting the attention it deserves inside the front hall. Surprisingly, the hoax, which cost around $45,000 in today’s dollars to engineer, was not about money, but about god. The originator, George Hull, a cigar maker, an atheist, and a skeptic, found himself locked in a theological debate with a revivalist preacher. George reported being flabbergasted by the preacher’s reading of the Bible, especially the Book of Genesis, which reads: “There were giants in the earth in those days.” So George ordered up a giant made from a five-ton block of gypsum quarried in Dodge, Iowa, claiming it would become a statue of Lincoln! Next the slab goes to a Chicago marble dealer who agrees to the scheme in exchange for a share in the profits. History.com says Hull was posing as the model while the two men carved the gypsum into an anthropological wonder of a man with one arm clutching his stomach, the other at his side. Its lips-drawn-smiling expression remains very creepy, even by today’s standards for horror films. To appear authentic, Hull drove pins into the body to make them look like skin pores, and used chemicals to simulate great age. Where to bury the 3,000 pound giant? William “Stub” Newell, a distant relative in the small valley town of Cardiff, who was sworn to secrecy, had the ideal spot on his hillside farm. Once again the deal was bartered for a piece of the action. On a chilly night, in November 1868, the men buried their treasure under roots to enhance the idea that many years had passed since the petrified man took his last gigantic gasp. Hull went back to making cigars in Syracuse. One year later Newell hired a pair of unsuspecting workers to dig a well on a specific spot and voila — they discover the Cardiff Giant. Within days, a tent was erected over their find, and the cash to peek at him began to flow. Meanwhile the major newspapers in large cities declared the giant, “A New Wonder,” and a “Singular Discovery.” After profiting from the initial gate, the conspirators quickly sold the giant for $30,000 for a three-quarter stake in the manly asset. Aspersions were cast of course. Some sharp-eyed locals remember seeing George Hull transporting a massive crate through Cardiff a year earlier. Barnum displayed his copy as the original and even outsold Hull’s discovery in ticket sales. That’s marketing for you. Barnum’s signage said “Six Million People Have Paid to See Him,” and he was “Taller Than Goliath Whom David Slew.” During court proceedings concerning Barnum’s giant’s authenticity, the judge ruled in Barnum’s favor saying the showman could not be sued for not calling a fake giant a fake. Some scientists of the day clung to the statue theory, but as Barnum once pointed out, there is a sucker born every minute, and some of us still want to believe that giants once walked the earth. Superintendent’s Profile • www.superintendentsprofile.com • November 2015

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Photographed on their wedding anniversary. John and his wife, Kathy, met on a blind date arranged by a mutual friend. After many years of single parenting and bachelorhood, John says he has met his soul mate. Their melded family now numbers four kids — all out of the home.

able to pay cash for the wheel excavator, and cash for the Caterpillar skid steer. We paid cash for the trucks that Steve and I drive.” “If I can get the town board to put money into an equipment fund, it prevents us from having to finance our needs in heavy equipment.” He says he has given the board a 15-year plan for the future, which they may modify or tweak, but which states the needs for equipment over that period of time. To get the community behind the need for a new highway barn, they put out a referendum, which passed easily, with 80 percent in favor of it. “It’s all about transparency,” he says about getting along with citizens and the town board. As for funding the new $3.2 million facility, the town went to a bond. John says they have $250.000 in surplus, but it hasn’t been a cake walk. “When the town finally got the money, we saved another $200,000 in finance charges because the interest rate at the time was working to our advantage.” “It’s hard to budget with change orders and unforeseen circumstances,” says John. “When you do services for the highway department, you have to get three quotes. Then you can’t exceed ‘x’ amount of dollars with that supplier. When you get to that number you have to go back and get three quotes again.” He says sticking to the $3.2 million number was difficult because you have to fluctuate as the work progresses and change orders begin to present themselves. The Softer Side of Highway Work Right in front of the highway garage on Route 81, is a professionally produced highway sign that says, “Nesting Area.” 48

The only one of its kind, the sign bears some explaining. It appeared when a parent of a child who was waiting near the area for her school bus witnessed a baby Canada goose nearly get taken down by the bus. The experience left the child disturbed enough that the mother took the matter up with the town board. So John posted a professional sign that says, “Nesting Area,” to make the world in LaFayette a safer place for everybody, even the goslings.

Lots of consideration was given to having a diesel-run generator for backup. In an emergency, diesel could be drained from the trucks and used to run the generator. The highway garage has been approved by FEMA to be used as a command center and shelter for citizens in the event of some major catastrophe.

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NYSAOTSOH Annual Conference

he New York State Association of Town Superintendents of Highways (NYSAOTSOH) held its annual conference and expo in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Sept. 15 thru 18. The conference set new attendance records and included many members who were attending for their first time. The theme of this year’s conference was “Walk a Mile in Our Shoes” and the event was jam-packed all three days with keynote speakers, educational sessions and numerous opportunities for highway superintendents to reconnect with their colleagues. There were plenty of opportuni-

ties to learn, network and get exposure to vendor products and services. Event highlights included: • A golf outing at the Saratoga Spa Golf Course sponsored by International Trucks with prizes sponsored by Auctions International and golf tees provided by Suit-Kote Corporation • A vendor night and dinner, which allowed for one-on-one interaction with the vendors without whom the conference would not be possible • Speakers and educational seminars • The annual banquet, which was sponsored by Gradall, Vantage Equipment and Beam Mack Sales & Service continued on page 60

Bernie Meyer, highway superintendent of the town of Canaan, serves as master of ceremonies.

Incoming 2016 Association President Jeff Griswold, highway superintendent of the town of Preble, outlines his plans for 2016. 58

This event provides a tremendous opportunity for the industry’s past leaders to offer direction to the current generation. (L-R) are Tom Sears, Beekmantown, N.Y., past president 2007; Eugene Ingelston, Crown Point, N.Y., past president 1996; and John Scoones of the Gorman Group.

Keith Hurtgam, highway superintendent of the town of Hartland, recognizes the association’s past presidents in attendance at the conference.

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Town Super Conference Held from page 58

Vendor Night created a great opportunity to catch up with friends and associates while viewing the latest products available for the municipal market.

Chip Ayres of Beam Mack (L) catches up with Mike Fuller, highway superintendent of the town of Shelby (Orleans County). 60

Jeff Laxton (R) of Auctions International discusses the advantages of managing your inventory by auction with Paul Legnetto, highway superintendent of the town of Camillus.

Jeff Griswold, highway superintendent of the town of Preble and 2016 Association president, operates a virtual Volvo loader at the Vantage Equipment exhibit. continued on page 61 Superintendent’s Profile • www.superintendentsprofile.com • November 2015

Saratoga Springs Hosts Annual Town Superintendent Conference from page 60

Charlene Mustico, wife of the town of Elmira highway superintendent Matt Mustico, picks up her lucky lottery ticket from Tark Croteau of Trius Inc.

Brian Speer (L), highway superintendent of the town of Parma (Monroe County), discusses wood chipping with Mike Nagengast, of Vermeer Northeast.

Kirby Coon (L) of Stephenson Equipment, discusses the equipment needs of the town of Sterling with Brian Soper, highway superintendent of the town of Sterling and his wife, Robin.

Dick Smith, highway superintendent of the town of Spencer (Tioga County), throws a mean bean bag at the Milton CAT exhibit.

(L-R): Tom Weaver, highway superintendent of the town of Clay; Jon Scott, highway superintendent of the town of Kirkland; and Rob Cushing, highway superintendent of the town of Manlius, take time to reconnect prior to the banquet. Superintendent’s Profile • www.superintendentsprofile.com • November 2015

You know that the Gorman Group has a great relationship with its clients when it can convince them to try the hoola hoop. Here Jim White, highway superintendent of the town of Elbridge, watches the hoop fall to his knees. continued on page 62 61

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The “Accents” band provided entertainment, compliments of Mack Truck. from page 61

The hospitality of International Trucks was surely appreciated by all, including (L-R) Bob Welch, highway superintendent of the town of Marshall; Keith McCarty, past Association president and highway superintendent of the town of Springfield; and Fred Wickham, of the Gorman Group.

Cory Bearor (L), of Viking-Cives (sponsor of the pre-banquet cocktail party), welcomes one and all to the 2015 NYSAOTSOH annual banquet. continued on page 64

(L-R): Enjoying the pristine beauty of the Saratoga Spa Golf Course are Jim Guyer, Todd Kaley, Anne Jackson and Matt Flowers, all of Vantage Equipment. 62

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Three-Day Conference, Expo from page 62

The team at Hybrid Building Solutions offered the latest in economical storage alternatives. (L-R) are Brian Merkwa, Hybrid Building Solutions; Bob Welch, highway superintendent of the town of Marshall; Daniel Dalzell, Hybrid Building Solutions; and Mary Louise Merkwa, Hybrid Building Solutions.

Charles Fortier (L), highway superintendent of the town of Mexico, keeps Phil Brisandi of Stadium International in line.

Russ Page, 2015 outgoing president, bids his adieu and welcomes his successor. 64

Jeff Weisbrot (L) of Henderson Truck Equipment, views the latest hydraulic controls offered by Marc Zawadzski, of Del Hydraulics.

Howard Eaton (L), highway superintendent of the town of Norway, and his wife, Debbie, visit Tracey Road Equipment.

Tenco offers the very latest technology and methodology in snow removal. (L-R) are Ken Brink and Shane Chapman, both of Tenco; and Larry Levy, highway superintendent of the town of Geneseo, and his wife Kimberly. continued on page 66 Superintendent’s Profile • www.superintendentsprofile.com • November 2015

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Conference, Expo Packed With Events from page 64

Russ Page (L), 2015 association president, presents a certificate of appreciation to David Cook of Innovative Surface Solutions.

Russ Page (L), 2015 association president, presents the 2015 Vision Award to Suit-Kote.

Jamie Dussing (R), highway superintendent of the town of Clarence, is presented a plaque of appreciation for his service to the executive committee by Russ Page, 2015 association president.

Mark Yandon (R), highway superintendent of the town of Newcomb (Essex County), is presented a plaque of appreciation for his service to the executive committee by Russ Page, 2015 association president. 66

Many of the association’s past presidents were in attendance.

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Doosan Portable Power Shines Light With Introduction of New LSV Towers

Both LSV light towers are standard-equipped with a vertical mast that manually extends to 25 ft. 6 in. (7.8 m) with four 1,000-watt metal halide lamps. A hydraulic actuated tower is available as an upgrade option on both LSV models.

Doosan Portable Power has expanded its line of portable light towers with the introduction of two small-body model light towers — the LSV6 and LSV8. The LSV6 and LSV8 include many of the same features and performance as the midsize light tower, but with a compact design and vertical mast that allow for greater maneuverability, ease of transport and a low operating cost, according to the manufacturer. The LSV6 and LSV8 light towers round out the Doosan Portable Power lineup of vertical mast light towers, complementing the larger model L20. Both LSV light towers are standard-equipped with a vertical mast that manually extends to 25 ft. 6 in. (7.8 m) with four 1,000-watt metal halide lamps. A hydraulic actuated tower is available as an upgrade option on both LSV models. “The vertical mast design significantly cuts setup time compared to the traditional laydown mast,” said Deree Bivins, lighting systems product manager, Doosan Portable Power. “Being able to stow the mast on top of the unit also improves transport safety and lowers transport cost with the ability to fit 16 units on a 48-foot flatbed truck.” The LSV6 and LSV8 are 99.1 in. (251.7 cm) long and 49 in. (124.4 cm) wide with a travel position height of 99 in. (251.4 cm). 68

The LSV6 is powered by a Tier IV Final-compliant Kubota D1005BG diesel engine with a Mecc Alte 6 kW alternator, and the LSV8 is equipped with a Tier IV Final Kubota D1105 engine and Mecc Alte 8 kW alternator. The voltage in both light towers allows operators to utilize the receptacle power function to simultaneously power tools or heaters while providing optimal illumination for oil and gas exploration, construction sites, emergency and disaster relief, as well as drilling applications. Both units have a 42.5 gal. diesel fuel tank with a minimum runtime of 82 hours with four 1,000-watt metal halide lamps. Standard configuration on the LSV6 includes a detachable drawbar for trouble-free towing, one duplex receptacle, a 2-in. (5 cm) ball hitch and a 520 CCA battery. Options on the LSV6 and LSV8 include drip containment, 100 percent containment, combination hitch, electric fuel pump and lockable battery disconnect. Cold weather options include a block heater, block/battery heaters and 1,000 CCA battery. Aftermarket kits are available for both the LSV6 and the LSV8. For more information, visit doosanportablepower.com. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)

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