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Hercules Building Wrecking Company Inc. of Brocktonand East Taunton, Mass., is celebrating 50 years in operationthis year and, as its name implies, the firm has torn downsome of the most unusual buildings in Massachusetts. TheHercules’ motto is, “Demolishing the past to make clearpaths for a better future.”Hercules was founded in 1964 by Duke (Harold) Monsini

Sr. who, at age 73, is still on the job every day handling officeoperations while his son, Hal Monsini,supervises site work in all of its technicalaspects. Hal was born the same yearHercules was.

From Duke to HerculesDuke started completing small demolition jobs by hand,

using his only piece of equipment, an old dump truck.Hercules was incorporated in 1973 and is capable of all typesof demolition, specializing in total demolition, selectivedemolition, gut outs, debris removal, concretecrushing/breaking and offer roll-off container service.No task is too large or small for the mighty Hercules. “My Dad is the original owner. I’m his oldest son; I’m the

second generation. It has been quite an interesting business,”

Fit for the Gods: Hercules Stays StrongAfter Fifty Years in Massachusetts

By martine PowersTHE BOSTON GLOBE

BOSTON (AP) It turns out that they just don’t make bridges the waythey used to. One year after the launch of the sweeping Longfellow Bridge recon-

struction project, contractors are getting an education on the constructionpractices of yore, poring over century-old bridge building manuals, reviv-ing obsolete metalworking techniques, and scouring the region for build-ing materials that have long disappeared from the market. Rockport granite, with its inimitable grain? That stuff stopped being

excavated during the Great Depression. And the art of riveting metal? Its heyday — which calls to mind black-

and-white photos of fighter planes and posters of a bandanna-wearingwoman named “Rosie’’ — has long faded into the past. “People really haven’t been riveting for quite a while,’’ said Mary

Grieco, metals control engineer of the Massachusetts Department ofTransportation. “It’s a learning curve for everybody. There are no speci-fications anymore that tell you how to rivet, so we make the best engi-neering judgment on how to do it.’’ The primary purpose of the Longfellow project is to strengthen the

bridge, which has long been considered structurally deficient. Andthough construction crews usually rely on modern practices for bridgerepair projects, the Longfellow Bridge’s status in Boston history ledMassDOT officials and historic preservation commissions to require that

Longfellow RestorationTurns to Old Methods

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all the construction techniques be true to the bridge’s early-20th century origins — down to the smallest pieces of metal. The estimated $255 million cost of the bridge overhaul,

which is scheduled to be completed in September 2016,includes the expenses of hewing to historical accuracy.Contractors who signed on to the project were given advancenotice that they would be expected to go to extraordinarylengths to uphold the structure’s antique character. To ensurethat construction would not be delayed, for example, con-tractors began ordering and stockpiling rivets early on. “Obviously, it’s an iconic bridge, and is literally unique in

many of its aspects,’’ said Charles Sullivan, executive direc-tor of the Cambridge Historical Commission, one of thegroups advising the Longfellow contractors on historicalpreservation. “When it comes to design and the method ofconstruction, we thought it was important to replicate thoseaspects.’’ The rivets will largely be used to piece together the verti-

cal steel columns underneath the bridge, which shoot upfrom the steel arches and support the deck above them. Inplaces out of public sight, construction workers will usemodern bolts that are welded to have the smooth look of riv-ets. The art of riveting went out of fashion a half-century ago.

The practice involves heating rivets, cylindrical metal shaftswith round heads, up to 2,000 degrees, until they glow brightred, then quickly jamming them into a hole before they havea chance to cool. It’s slow, costly and dangerous. That’s whyconstruction largely switched to nuts and bolts that can moreeasily be screwed into place. “The technology never totally went away,’’ Sullivan said.

“But you no longer see pictures of people standing on theframe of the Empire State Building throwing rivets throughthe air.’’ As the MassDOT prepared to award contracts for the

Longfellow Bridge project, they had a stipulation: The con-tractors had to promise to learn how to perform a variety ofarchaic building techniques. Some of the contractors attended a seminar on riveting in

Michigan. Others looked to 1930s-era manuals on rivet tech-niques — their best guide on the subject. “Most people are very excited because it’s something

they’ve never done before,’’ Grieco continued, “and maybewill never have a chance to do again.’’ Grieco said contractors ordered custom-made rivets early

enough, and in large enough quantity, that they’re not wor-ried about running out. Much of the riveting work is beingperformed by Cianbro Fabrication and Coating Corp., whichis welding larger pieces of the bridge in Georgetown. RobertSmall, project manager of the company’s work on theLongfellow Bridge, said it’s the company’s first major proj-ect that relies on rivets. “We use rivets very, very rarely,’’Small said. They’ve sought insight from the most seasoned members

of the staff. “There are a few people left around here that used to do

it,’’ Small said. But rivets aren’t the only challenge of this project. Finding

the right replacement granite has proved elusive. The partic-ular granite hails from quarries in Rockport that began toclose just after the Wall Street crash of 1929. Concrete was cheap and easy to make, and became a more

popular option for construction.

Now, Rockport granite is impossible to find freshly cutfrom the earth: Anything now on the market has beenreclaimed, stripped from an existing structure. And mostpieces available are thin slabs — not the great big blocksnecessary for the work on the Longfellow. As part of a new design for the bridge deck, contractors

had already planned to strip the existing granite curbbetween the vehicle lanes and the T tracks. They had hopedto repurpose that granite to construct new stone stairs andbarriers on the side of the bridge. “We thought we had our answer on the bridge, and we had

hopes of being able to use that for the replacement,’’ saidSteve Roper, historic resources supervisor at MassDOT. But the stone alongside the train tracks is known as Deer

Isle granite, which has a lavender hue — not the black-white-and-gray speckled look of Rockport granite. “People who know stone said, ‘Oh, it’s Deer Isle, that’s

not going to work,’ " Roper said. “They’re different grains,and they will not look good if you put them side by side.’’ Thus commenced a yearslong hunt by contractors for the

right kind of granite, which they knew would probably havebeen cut at least 80 years ago. They also needed blocks that were large enough to create

huge stone steps, another complicating factor. “We looked all over New England trying to find matching

granite,’’ Roper said. What they didn’t know: Biz Reed, co-owner and execu-

tive vice president of Wakefield-based Olde New EnglandGranite, had exactly what they needed. In 2010, on a whim,Reed’s company had purchased 3,000 tons of historicRockport granite that had been stripped from the HinesMemorial Bridge in Amesbury during a reconstruction proj-ect. He had no idea what the company would do with such a

large amount of such a particular form of stone, but theycouldn’t pass it up. “Little did we know it would be the right match for the

Longfellow,’’ Reed said. “We just happened to be in the rightplace at the right time.’’ When Reed got word that a team of MassDOT officials,

historical preservationists, and construction contractors wereall on the hunt for the Rockport stone, he gave them a call. “I was in seventh heaven,’’ Reed said. “I told them that we

have the granite here. There’s no need to look anywhereelse.’’ Roper, too, was relieved. “It was tremendous,’’ he said. So far, the contractor that is fabricating the stone parapets

has spent more than $100,000 for about 250 tons ofRockport granite. Reed’s company is still in the process of shipping the 5-

ton, century-old blocks of stone to the fabricator. The hunksof rock sit piled up in the company’s storage yard inWakefield, with each slab labeled to indicate the spot on thebridge for which it’s destined. “It’s classic, that salt-and-pepper grain,’’ Reed said, pat-

ting the stone lovingly — a perfect fit, he added, for a struc-ture nicknamed the “salt and pepper bridge.’’ There is one historical technique that MassDOT officials

decided to forgo: the perfect blend of paint for the bridge’siron fencing. Originally, workers used a complex, multistageprocess to create the look of weathered bronze. The opera-tion is painstaking, and involves four different colors of paintapplied by hand in quick succession. “We decided it was overkill,’’ Roper said. “Especially for

the maintenance guys in the future who will need to patch upthe scratches.’’ In this case, Roper said, a regular coat of paintwill have to do.

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said Hal Monsini, who alsoworks with his brother andsister. “Dad is 73. He’s inhere every day, does the esti-mating and handles theinsurances, the day-to-daybusiness. He’ll never retire.“He started out with one

dump truck and himself,”said Monsini. “He was oneof 12 kids. When he got outof the service in Quincy, heworked briefly for anothercompany and thought, ‘Whymake money for him, when Ican make money formyself?’ He decided to ven-ture out and started his owncompany.”Like his company’s

namesake, the legendaryGreek strongman, DukeMonsini remains just aboutthe strongest man his son hasknown. He gave his son Halan invaluable educationfrom a young age.“I read your newspaper

[CEG] and I really enjoy thestories about the second gen-eration learning machines attheir father’s knee,” saidMonsini. “That was mewhen I was a kid. I couldn’tget enough of the backhoes,the bulldozers, the cranes. I was always inthe machines with him, learning. I wasalways in the machinery, tinkering around.But it’s quite different today, with all the reg-ulations, the environmental controls andinsurances.” The Monsini construction family line

goes back even farther than 50 years.“My Dad worked for Duane Wrecking in

Boston with his father and five brothers. Itwas owned by John J. Duane. At the time, itwas the biggest wrecking company on theEast Coast. My father basically worked theresummers, and when he was out of school.He went from high school directly to theservice, but my grandfather, had more of thestories,” said Monsini. “They worked on theWest End of Boston and the Central Arteryin the 1950s [the main highways that lead toand from Boston]. They did a lot of the dem-olition out there in order to build the originalCentral Artery. My God, there were quite afew stories there, kicking around, betweenmy father, my uncles and my grandfather.”

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Hercules itself has beeninvolved with some of themore famous demolitionsand implosions of notewor-thy buildings in the state.One of the most fascinat-

ing was in January 1985 andinvolved a live broadcastduring The Super Bowl.“We did the implosion of

a 27-story parking garage forInternational Place inBoston. That was probablyone of our biggest jobs. Weworked with the DuaneCorporation, which was asubsidiary of DuaneCompany, started by JohnDuane’s son,” said Monsini.“We worked alongside hiscompany and actually toredown a couple of city blocksin downtown Boston. Webrought down several build-ings, but, by far, the biggestwas the parking garage. Wedid this also with a companyin Maryland calledControlled Demolition Inc.,CDI for short. “They came in and they

drilled holes in columns,then they cabled off thosecolumns, and, on Super

Bowl Sunday, 1985, Miami Dolphins versusthe San Francisco 49ers. They put up bigbanners on the building that said, ‘Boston isBooming!’ And, at the Super Bowl, at half-time, CBS showed the parking garage get-ting imploded. Viewers saw the garageimplode. I don’t know how they pulled it off,but they did it.”Another noted Hercules project years ago

was a demolition along the MassachusettsTurnpike which resulted in the removal of alandmark Coca-Cola sign that sat in a large,three-cornered spike above the state East-West, mid-central highway.“The sign on the Mass. Pike was over the

old Coca-Cola bottling plant, said Monsini.It was a three-sided sign that had to be twostories tall by 100 feet long. They were likethe big CITGO sign in Kenmore Square, thatfamous,” said Monsini. “There were actual-ly three of them on top of the buildings. Wetook them down and stored them in achained yard along the Mass. Pike. Theywere supposed to be reused, but I don’t

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demolition of two other famous locallandmarks; the Belmont Hotel in WestHarwich on Cape Cod, and the demoli-tion of the 11-acre Zayre’s Warehousefor Campanelli Corp. These days, Hercules completes

work for private owners, contractors,businesses and municipalities. The firmcarries all necessary insurance, and isbonded and is certified through theDivision of Capital Asset Management(DCAM). Behind every job, withfounder Duke, operations managerHal, eight full-time employees and var-ious sub-contractors at the ready, thereis a talented team of educated profes-sionals dedicated to complete each jobefficiently, neatly and to the highestpossible standards. All operators and laborers are

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Great Finds, Grim FindsHercules Building Wrecking Co. has

diversified in unusual ways, not only inservices, but with many members ofthe Monsini family working summersand during other times. The companyalso evolved and streamlined, whatHall calls, “a kind of downsizing.”“Many family members have

worked at Hercules over the years. Inthe 1980s, Hercules was a large com-pany, and employed many of Duke’sbrothers, and nephews. Lots ofnephews interned here over the sum-mer and during school vacations whenHercules had a salvage yard,” saidMonsini. “We incorporated in 1973,started out small, and built up. Over theyears, with the recessions we had, we

kind of downsized, doing mainly whatwe know, demolition. In summer, sev-eral relatives, cousins, come out andearn a few dollars, here and there. Mostof our family has passed through ourcompany on the way to college.”More recent projects have included

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This year the show generated a total of 80 vendorsand more than 600 attendees. Aspart of its annual tradition, theRoad Agents nominated WayneRobinson, road agent fromBrentwood, N.H., employee ofthe year for exhibiting excellentwork ethic and going above thecall of duty. Funds from theMountain of Demonstrationwent toward the N.H. RoadAgents Scholarship program, inwhich two students received$1,200 college scholarships.

(This story also can befound on ConstructionEquipment Guide’s Web site atwww.constructionequipment-guide.com.) CEG

N.H. Road Agents Association Hosts Mountain of Demonstrations

Blaine Fish (L) and Jeff Barnes, sales representatives ofBeauregard Equipment on hand at the Mountain ofDemonstrations event.

Bob Hunt and Deb Foss of AndersonEquipment demonstrate their Komatsuwheel loader.

Davin Cass competes in the tractor loader backhoechallenge in the John Deere/Nortrax exhibit.

(L-R): Jonah Yezzi, product solution specialist of Wacker Neuson;Brandon Lothrop of Woods CRW; Michael Dineen, MJS Atlanticregion of Wacker Neuson; and Steve Abbott of Woods CRW talkabout the demo day.

Mike Robinson (L) of Milton CAT and longtime friendKen Roberts goof around at the event.

Andy McLavey (L) and C.B. Hart of Bobcat were onhand to answer questions.

(L-R): Scott and Rick Polish of Chadwick BaRoss talk with loyalcustomer Jim Mantford of the city of Keene.

William Harvey (L), territory representative, and AlanHammersley, chief operation officer of Northland JCBtalk at the event.


Tyler Equipment251 Shaker Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028(413) 525-6351(800) 292-6351

Parts: (877) 255-6351

1980 Berlin TurnpikeBerlin, CT 06037(860) 356-0840(800) 352-4473

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C.N. Wood Co., Inc.200 Merrimac St.

Woburn, MA 01801(781) 935-1919

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Johnston, RI(401) 942-9191

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Joseph Equipment Company300 Gay Street

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and says one or two cents on it, not dollars. Ihaven’t had them appraised yet.”Some of his discoveries were tragic. “We’ve had to help the recovery of miss-

ing persons in fires. We’ve had numerousones, but the hotel fire in Brockton yearsago, was the worst,” said Monsini. “Four orfive people were missing in the fire and ourjob is to go in and take the building downand still allow the fire department to checkthe debris.“So, we take the building, drop it in the

street,” Monsini said. “They take it piece bypiece, where they sift through it, looking forbodies or body parts. They did find three inthere. I was a young man at the time. It was,probably, the most difficult thing I have everdone.”Safety and communication are paramount

in all jobs. For such efforts, Hercules hasbeen given several safety awards. The com-pany’s half-century in the industry sparksword-of-mouth referrals and testimoniesfrom contractors and clients who use themon a regular basis.There is a long-standing relationship

between Testa Corp. of Lynnfield andHercules. Recently, Hercules worked withTesta Corp. on the demolition of WhitmanHanson High School, as well as many small-er projects. They are currently helping to ren-ovate 900 housing units in Boston.In the past, Hercules has collaborated with

many other companies including: • Duane Corporation of Boston • P&K Contracting of Randolph • Carney Brothers of RaynhamRepresentatives of Jordan’s Furniture of

Taunton have high praise for the firm.“Hercules Building Wrecking Company

is the only demolition company we call.They are professional and very accommo-dating.” “Hercules is an awesome company. They

are my one and only call,” said representa-tives of Hawkeye Fence of Abington.

Issues, Causes and Anniversaries“But the industry has become much more

complicated, said Monsini. “You have tokeep current on all environmental concerns.It is a much longer process. It has changeddramatically. Everything we do now isgeared toward the environment. There areasbestos concerns, lead paint concerns,issues with the possibility of contaminatedsoils. Everything is checked and studied andtested before we actually do a demolitionjob.”But some jobs remain modest and inti-

mate. Hercules likes to help out local chari-ties, school programs and programs for peo-ple with disabilities. One is very dear toHal’s heart.“My sister, who works with us, has a son

with autism. We try and do several thingsover the years to help kids with autismwhether that is a fund-raiser or somethingelse,” Monsini said. “That cause is very bigto us over here.”Hercules Building Wrecking Company

Inc. is celebrating its 50th anniversary, butno party is planned.“We celebrate our anniversary by com-

mitting to working hard in the upcomingyear. We have lasted so long in this businessbecause we have been able to keep our costslow, and by downsizing before the economytook a big hit,” said Monsini.And of course, there is the sheer joy in

imploding things legally.“The fun part of our work is demolition.

There’s nothing like it. Who doesn’t like tosmash or break things?” said Monsini. “Letme tell you a quick story. At one job, therewas an 80-year-old man watching me. Wedo the whole job and he just watches. At theend, he asks me, ‘What are you going to dowith that pane glass window?’ I said, ‘We aregoing to get rid of it, why?’ He said, ‘I wantto throw a brick through it.’ He was 80. Idon’t think he had ever done a bad thing inhis life. I gave him the brick and he smashedthe window. You never saw a guy so happyin his life, to get out his aggressions. He saidit was the best thing he had ever done. That’sthe part of my job I like, to smash things andbuild them up again.”For more information, visit www.her-

culesdemolition.com or call 508/558-3390or 508/588-3394.

(This story also can be found onConstruction Equipment Guide’s Website at www.constructionequipment-guide.com.) CEG

Hercules Strives to MakeSafety Paramount on All Jobs


Another noted Hercules project yearsago was a demolition along theMassachusetts Turnpike which result-ed in the removal of a landmark Coca-Cola sign that sat in a large, three-cor-nered spike above the state East-West,mid-central highway.

NEW ENGLAND SUPPLEMENTADVERTISER INDEX

The Advertisers Index is printed as a free editorial service to ouradvertisers and readership. Construction Equipment Guide is not

responsible for errors or omissions.

ARGUS INDUSTRIAL COMPANY ....................................1

ASTRO CRANE ..............................................................10

BARRY EQUIPMENT CO..................................................8

BRUNNER & LAY ............................................................11

C N WOOD CO INC ........................................................16

CHADWICK BAROSS MA ................................................6

CLASSIFIED ..................................................................10

CONTRACTOR’S CORNER ..........................................10

DOOSAN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND ......................15

FACTORY AIR ................................................................10

FOLEY MARINE & INDUSTRIAL ENGINE ......................1

GORILLA HAMMERS........................................................1

J R VINAGRO CORPORATION........................................1

KRAFT POWER CORP ....................................................1

LORUSSO HEAVY EQUIPMENT LLC..............................5

LOU GIZA EQUIPMENT....................................................1

MILTON CAT....................................................................10

MOUNTAIN TOP RENTALS ............................................10

NATIONAL ATTACHMENTS..............................................7

NORTHLAND JCB ............................................................7

ROGERS BROTHERS ....................................................13

SUMMIT SUPPLY LLC/MULTI MACHINE ........................1

T-QUIP SALES & RENTAL INC ........................................9

THE N.I.C.E. COMPANY ..................................................8

THE W I CLARK CO ........................................................2

TYLER EQUIPMENT CO ..................................................3


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