Cat Operator Challenge Veteran Offers Pointers for a Championship Run

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5 Steps to Finding and Hiring Loyal Employees for Your Construction Business

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5 Tips for Maximum Equipment Maintenance ROI

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5 Reasons to Buy One Brand of Equipment for Your Business

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Three Steps to Starting a Successful Construction Business

December 5, 2022

Labor & Workforce Development

5 Steps to Finding and Hiring Loyal Employees for Your Construction Business

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Ballmann Earthworks owner/operator Jon Ballmann started his St. Louis, Missouri-area business in his 20s and has since achieved much success. Here, he shares tips for finding and keeping great employees.

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5 Tips for Maximum Equipment Maintenance ROI

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Here, Jon, with the help of his Fabick Cat representative Junior Gilliam, give their tips for getting the best out of your equipment with scheduled maintenance.

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5 Reasons to Buy One Brand of Equipment for Your Business

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Successful construction businesses are often built on the brand name and reputation of the equipment they operate. Missouri-based Ballmann Earthworks is no different. Owner/operator Jon Ballmann works with Fabick CAT to ensure his company's success.

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Three Steps to Starting a Successful Construction Business

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Ballmann Earthworks owner/operator Jon Ballmann started his St. Louis, Missouri-area business in his 20s, and his rise to success was paved with great ideas that were also well-executed.

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S1.E11: How Renting Equipment is Helping Solve a Contractor’s Labor, Materials-Availability Issues

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When Johnson & Galyon traded its equipment for rentals, they freed up people and buildings where they can stage materials with long lead times. Here’s how it helps them get the ‘very best pricing’ from subcontractors.

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S1.E10: Some Benefits that Convinced Johnson & Galyon to Spend More Renting than Owning Fleet

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In deciding, the general contractor was ‘confident’ renting all of its equipment needs would cost more. Here’s how the move improved project and fleet management to make it a good investment.

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S1.E9: Contractor Counts the Ways Renting Improved its Equipment Operations

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When Johnson & Galyon decided to rent all of its equipment needs from a single rental partner, they expected machine performance to improve but CEO Doug Kennedy seems a little surprised at how deeply the value penetrated into his company.

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S1.E8: The Surprises that Eased Johnson & Galyon into a Rental Partnership that Adds Value

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How the east-Tennessee general contractor made it look easy to ensure pricing, quality and service it could depend on in structuring its commitment to rent all of its equipment needs from a single partner.

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S1.E7: What Changes Convinced Johnson & Galyon to Trade In its Equipment Fleet for Rentals?

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One of East Tennessee’s biggest general contractors took the long view of challenges presented by new equipment, vendor practices and labor availability to gain big improvements in equipment performance.

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S1.E6: How Jon Ballmann Turned a 5th Grade Dream into an Earthworks Business

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Drawn to construction by the heavy equipment, Jon Ballmann’s fascination for earthworks has spread to all aspects of the business and kept his right-sized company growing at just the rate he wants since graduating from high school.

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S1.E5: Contractor’s Smart Investments Recruit Just the Equipment Support His Company Needs

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Small earthmoving contractor Ballmann Earthworks continues to grow well beyond its owner/operator stage with the leader’s commitment to enlisting dealer fleet support so that he can nurture his business.

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S1.E4: Smart Grader Blade Satisfies Earthmover’s Quest for Versatility that Grows

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Ballmann Earthworks is built on machines that not only do a lot of different jobs but also are efficient doing a lot of different sizes of jobs. Here’s how Jon Ballmann weighs the cost and payback on a ‘Cadillac’ grader attachment.

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