This 385-hp, 133,160-pound PC600LC-7 is the
largest of eight Komatsu excavators crews from Vanderpool Construction,
Inc. count on from Road Machinery & Supplies Co. Here, the big excavator
works at a site-development project called Airport Crossroads, south
of the Des Moines Airport.
Vanderpool Construction counts on a team of experienced employees including (L-R) truck driver Denny Adamson, foreman/operator Gary Mercer, general manager Toby Vanderpool, foreman Steve Roush and truck driver Paul Songayllo.
Vanderpool also recently started a new business doing precast concrete septic tanks, which the company installs in countryside residential developments.
Some big jobs the company has done include a municipal swimming pool for the city of Indianola; numerous projects at Simpson College, such as installing a new, artificial-grass football field; and several large food and retail stores throughout the region. Currently, Vanderpool is helping build Airport Crossroads, a commercial property south of Des Moines; Lincoln Ridge and Trail Ridge subdivisions in Indianola; and almost all the site work for a company called the New Home Store, which builds premanufactured houses.
Mike Vanderpool (left) and his team at Vanderpool
Construction work closely with veteran RMS territory manager Bob Newman
to meet the company's equipment needs.
Toby Vanderpool loads aggregate into one of the
company's dump trucks with a Komatsu WA50
wheel loader at Vanderpool's office and shop complex
in Indianola.