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Going in the hole

Lexington, KY (September, 2010) The JW Fowler Company’s 200-ton (182-mt) 248 HYLAB 5 lowered boring equipment into a shaft on a project building storm and sewer lines in Portland, Oregon, USA. The 84-inch boring tool will cut horizontal tunnels out from the shaft. The 248 is the workhorse for the tunnel crew. Wherever the crew goes, the crane goes too.

The crew must be extremely precise in lowering the boring equipment. “If you are not lined up right and you can’t come up an inch or half an inch--I’m talking about lining it up a sixteenth of an inch--the outcome will be wrong! That machine must have very fine controls,” said Mark Dilworth, Superintendent for Fowler. “We are working on only a one percent slope and if we’re not on the money, we’re not going to make that 1200-foot distance exactly like we want it to be. We just won’t be there. That boring machine, when it’s coming together has to be precise...and that 248 is a big tool in accomplishing that. That crane is very fine where you can feather it. And, I’m amazed how quiet that machine is,” Dilworth continued.

Precision and attention to detail are hallmarks of the JW Fowler Company from Dallas, Oregon. New methods, new technology, and equipment like Fowler’s Link-Belt 248 HYLAB 5 have helped save the city of Portland millions of dollars.

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