Portable Plants & Equipment , June 2017

To feed the crusher and manage stockpiles of concrete and asphalt Goree Backhoe Excavating uses this Komatsu WA470 wheel loader Roger Goree right and Jeff Smith RoadBuilders district sales manager have a business relationship that dates back more than 20 years Goree Backhoe Excavating A look back at the history of Goree Backhoe Excavating shows that the companys diversification has been gradual Gordon Goree started the business in 1976 performing underground utilities for a local plumbing firm Shortly afterward sons Roger and Greg joined the small construction business Roger was named president in 1992 and directs the companys management and Greg plays a key role in supervising work crews The company has grown substantially by adding site development projects trucking and concrete work as well as demolition crushing and recycling services Today the company has 24 employees and performs jobs of all sizes in Fremont Nebraska and the surrounding areas Weve grown and added people services and machines as needed Roger says Luckily the Fremont area has been good to us and we dont have to travel far Our crew stays busy and goes home every night OPERATIONS Nearly half of the material that comes in is from our work and we also use roughly half of the material we produce Roger says The rest comes from outside businesses We gladly accept concrete and asphalt from local companies and if someone needs material were more than happy to provide it to them The decision certainly paid off for us he adds We save money on our demo and concrete projects and our truck drivers are consistently busy The crushing recycling has helped the divisions work together and become more efficient Roger estimates that the new crushing recycling operation which typically only runs when stockpiles get too large or material is needed can process nearly 200 tph and produce up to 1500 tons of material per day On one particular job Gorees crushing recycling side was in full force The company was contracted to demolish a 20000 sq ft building before a new expansion took place It tore down the building hauled the material to its facility crushed it and used the recycled material to develop the site for the new building Its a great example of all our components coming together Roger says We used our demo trucking crushing recycling and site development aspects all on one job Long relationship Rogers decision to turn to RoadBuilders for crushing recycling equipment was an easy one Roger has called on Smith in particular for parts and service for more than 20 years Roger and Jeff also collaborated on the purchase of several Komatsu machines over the years Currently Goree Backhoe Excavating has six Komatsu wheel loaders two WA250s two WA320s a WA450 and a WA470 in its fleet We use the machines for loading trucks and moving material on site Roger says The WA320 usually moves to jobsites and the WA470 is at our facility and is paired with the crusher The company also has a Komatsu PC210LC excavator which it uses on dirt projects The PC210 is awesome Roger says It has great power and handling and its versatile we can do a variety of jobs with it In addition the company relies on RoadBuilders for service including Komatsu CARE Komatsus complimentary service program for the first 2000 hours or three years of the machines life on its newer Tier 4 loaders and PC210 excavator PP E Information for this story courtesy of Komatsu America 30 PP E June 2017 www portableplants com