In late summer 2012, Pipestone, MN-based Carstensen Contracting, Inc., learned about an opportunity to bid on an Oklahoma pipe-laying project. Prior to bidding the job, company president Ricky Carstensen decided a screener crusher bucket would work well in the area’s rocky terrain and allow his company to reuse the material onsite. This would give them the opportunity to underbid other contractors, who would have to haul in rock-free bedding material.
Carstensen did some research and talked to contractors who had owned different screener crusher bucket types. Two contractors told him they had tried several buckets, but the only one they had any success with, and the only one they would buy in the future, was the ALLU Screener Crusher attachment. Satisfied with these contractors’ first-hand reports of success, Carstensen discussed his needs with ALLU Group, and he ultimately purchased an ALLU Screener Crusher. Carstensen Contracting successfully bid the Oklahoma job in September 2012, and began work on the project in the spring of 2013.
“We were significantly cheaper than the other bidders because of that one particular bidding spec,” Carstensen says. “You could either import bedding from a source about 30 miles away, or you could screen and use the existing material by taking the rock out of it. We were the only contractor bidding with that thought process. It virtually saved the project for us, because we didn’t have the added expense of using dump trucks to haul in the bedding.”
