The Grubb DispatcherIssue 21 Volume 7 Spring Company News Report

WHAT’S NEW THIS EDITION: Page 2: • 5th Annual Awards Banquet

Page 3: • Richmond welcomes Misty Buchanan• Baltimore welcomes Gary Linder• Rigging Division completes Blackbird• Wilmington project

Page 4: • Project updates in Richmond, Baltimore and Portsmouth• Congrats to Bob Burgee! Page 5:• Manitowoc MLC300• Wilmington welcomes Derrick Thompson

Page 6:• Crawler Division welcomes Brian Showalter and Lindsay Greene• Portsmouth and Steel Division Projects

Page 7:• Safety Corner

Page 8:• Employment Anniversaries• W. O. Grubb Word Search

Written By: Megan CiesielskiEditor: Michelle Grubb-Solaimani

WHO’S IN THE SPOTLIGHT??

Cecil Griffin joined W. O. Grubb in 1990 and has never looked back. Perfection is what Cecil is all about. You see, everything he puts his hands on

becomes a representation of him, therefore second place is not an option. The pride he takes in everything he does is truly inspirational and is

what led him to be this year’s Willie Grubb Against All Odds winner. It is this attitude that

made him a state champion in 1998 and 1999 in Virginia’s loudest car competition. How loud is loud? Well his car was 165 decibels loud, and to put that in perspective, a turbo fan jet engine is

118 decibels.

Cecil Griffin after all these years, still loves what he does every day and would not change a thing. He

often tells his employee’s “to take things in bite size pieces so it doesn’t overwhelm you.” He was recently asked what he loved about W.O. Grubb and his response was he loves working for a first

class company.

Cecil lives in Chesapeake, Virginia with his wife, Denise. They have one daughter who is married

with a 4 month old son. He is fascinated with solar energy and likes to “make stuff” and “fix stuff” in

his spare time.

Employment AnniversariesJanuary - March 2016

The following is a list of employees that have been with the company for �ve plus years between January and March.

January February MarchQuinton Anderson, Baltimore 8 yearsDouglas Brown, Baltimore 16 yearsDallas Cooley, Alexandria 12 yearsKen DeBord, Baltimore 8 yearsDavid Gerber, Steel Division 19 yearsDaniel Hendricks, Baltimore 15 yearsChris Lewis, Richmond 5 yearsRobert McClenny, Portsmouth 9 yearsFrank Natale, Rigging Division 13 yearsConnie Pulliam, Baltimore 15 yearsRonald Ridgell, Alexandria 16 yearsCecil Wilmoth, Richmond 5 years

Doug Adkins, Richmond 19 yearsDaniel Burchell, Alexandria 5 years

Jeff Collins, Richmond 5 yearsMike Davenport, Richmond 20 yearsNemo Lingerman, Baltimore 7 years

Dorothy Richardson, Fredericksburg 15 yearsWayne Shinault, Richmond 5 years

Robert Belote, Portsmouth 14 yearsJason Buchanan, Richmond 6 years

Bob Burgee, Baltimore 18 yearsDan Criner, Richmond 15 years

Chris Douglas, Richmond 6 yearsRobert Meisner, Alexandria 12 years

George Moon, Baltimore 5 yearsGlenn Parsley, Steel Division 37 years

Michael Kestler, Crawler Division 13 yearsCelerino Perales, Richmond 14 years

Doug Radcliffe, Richmond 23 yearsScott Snead, Richmond 20 years

Mario Tellez-Ocana, Alexandria 5 yearsMartin Van Dyke, Alexandria 12 years

William Waybring, Rigging Division 11 yearsRichard Wyatt, Steel Division 39 yearsGrubb Word Search

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ALEXANDRIAALLTERRAINBALTIMOREBOOMTRUCKCARRYDECKCONVENTIONALCRANERENTALCRAWLERCRAWLERDIVISIONFREDERICKSBURGGOLDHOFERHEAVYHAULINGMAJORPROJECTSPORTSMOUTHRICHMONDRIGGINGROANOKEROUGHTERRAINSAFETYSTEELDIVISIONSTEELERECTIONTELECRAWLERTRUCKCRANEWILMINGTONWINCHESTER

February held the 5th Annual Awards Banquet for the salesmen of W. O. Grubb. The event took place at The Westin in the West End of Richmond, Virginia. The event space was beautifully deco-rated wtih an ice sculpture and candy buffet. We celebrated the achievements of the salesmen for

the 2015 year, and danced all night. Congratulations to all of the award winners!

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February held the 5th Annual Awards Banquet for the salesmen of W. O. Grubb. The event took

2015 Awards Banquet

Silver Level AwardJim Eller, RichmondSteve Hoke, BaltimoreJerry Matthews, WinchesterMike White, Crawler Division

Gold Level AwardWirt Blackwell, RichmondMike Davenport, RichmondOlen Helmick, FredericksburgBrad Yauilla, Portsmouth

Platinum Level AwardJohn Ferrie, PortsmouthTommy O’Donnell, AlexandriaHenry Potter, Portsmouth

Presidents Level AwardBill Crowder, RichmondBilly Brown, FredericksburgEd Walters, Steel Division

Eagle Award: Top performing salesmanNEMO LINGERMAN, Baltimore

Rookie of the Year: Top performing first year salesmanMIKE WHITE, Crawler Division

Small Shackle Award: Smallest single transactionFRED DAY, Fredericksburg

Block and Tackle Award: Most individual transactionsJIGGER TANNER, Major Projects

Big Hook Award: Largest single pickEDDIE DUFFIE, Crawler Division

Out of your Chart Award: Sold the furthest job from their home baseMICHELLE SOLAIMANI, Richmond

Safety Excellence Award: Presented to the branch with the highest record for safetyRIGGING DIVISION

Branch Incentive Award: Presented to the branch with the most increase in sales from the previous yearWINCHESTER BRANCH

Branch of the Year Award: Presented to the branch with the highest profit margins, while maintaining safe work environment FREDERICKSBURG BRANCH

Willie Grubb “Against All Odds” Award: Awarded to the individual who, through selfless attitude and belief in his or her people, with sheer will power and determination, accomplished something nobody thought was possible. They embody the tireless effort and determination that our founder Willie Grubb displayed CECIL GRIFFIN, Richmond

*Check out our Facebook pages for more photos!

Fred Day receiving the Branch of the

Year Award

Nemo Lingerman receiving the Eagle Award

Jerry Matthews receiving his Silver

Level Award

Cecil Griffin and his wife, Denise

Henry Potter receiving his

Platinum Level Award

John Ferrie receiving his Platinum Level

Award

Michelle Solaimani receiving her Out of

your Chart Award

Bill Grubb and Isabell Shearin

Steve Hoke receiving his Silver Level

AwardRay & Mariana Hand, Shawn Mowdy,

Chris Bennett and Jason & Windy Miller

RIGGING DIVISION

W. O. Grubb and the Baltimore Branch would like to welcome Gary Linder as Baltimore’s new Sales Representative! Gary has been involved with steel, precast erection, and crane rental his whole life, but started full time in 1978. He graduated from Towson University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. Gary and his wife Joan have 2 sons Eric and Mike. Eric is a Project Manager and Mike is a crane operator. Along with his 2 sons he has a 7 month old grandson. Gary enjoys boating and driving his 1967 Pontiac Firebird that he’s had since his junior year of high school!

Richmond Headquarters would like to welcome Misty Buchanan as the new Administrative Assistant! She will be assisting Jean Walton with Payroll and Andrea Profitt with the billing. Misty has 20 plus years’ experience in administrative work. She grew up in Chesterfield, VA where she still currently lives. Misty started school for nursing, but had her daughter and decided administrative work was more up her alley! Her daughter, Miyah, is 8 years old and in third grade. Misty likes to spend time with her, fish, hunt, go camping and street race her supped up Honda!

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After a lot of engineering, hours on the job, and nights with no sleep, the SR-71 Blackbird is set in the Science Museum of Virginia! This iconic supersonic stealth plane will be the focal point of the museum’s new gallery, Speed. After taking the plane apart and hauling it piece by piece to the museum, our riggers had to get these pieces in a hole in the wall no bigger than 15x15. Then slowly piece it back together inside the building. Once it was all pieced back together, they had to lift and tilt the plane to get the wings fully extended. An awesome job was done by Frank Natale, John Price, Norman Arthur, Travis Wells, Gene Dubay, Barry Edmonds and Jason Buchanan who ran the Link-Belt HTC-86110, 110 Ton Truck Crane to lift the pieces 3 stories to that hole in the side of the building.

BALTIMOREBaltimore’s Grove GMK5165/2, 165 ton All Terrain Crane setting 51,000 pound trusses at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Ken Debord was the operator and Brandon Jenkins was the oiler.

PORTSMOUTHHenry Potter’s job along with Jigger Tanner and Jeff Collins support for Colonna’s Shipyard. Portsmouth’s first large Goldhofer move was a 375,000 lb barge 110’ long, 30’ wide and a height of 10’.

Crew on the job: Bob Crundwell, Chris Reed, Doug Brown, Johnny Gunnell, Ryan Lewis, Brian Hartung, Craig Anderson, William Stallings and Danny Harmon

RICHMONDJim Eller’s job assembling one of Liebherr’s largest cranes at the Port of Richmond. Doug Radcliff, operator, and Bryan Herndon, oiler, ran the Grove GMK7550, 550 Ton All Terrain while Stump (George Pennington), operator, and Shane Eley, oiler, ran the Grove GMK5165, 165 Ton All Terrain in this double pick.

RICHMOND

Mike Davenport’s job changing out cooling towers on the James Madison Building in Richmond, work-ing for Coastal Services. Alexandria’s Grove GMK7550, 550 Ton All Terrain Crane was operated by Jim Tracey and his oiler, Kevin Roche.

Congratulations to Bob Burgee with the promotion to Regional Manager! The former Baltimore Branch Manager will now oversee the Baltimore and Alexandria branches.

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WILMINGTON

W. O. Grubb is one of the first to purchase 2 Manitowoc MLC300, 330 Ton Crawler Crane. This is the first lift at Morehead City State Port

Terminal in North Carolina. We are loading steel bridge beams onto a barge destined for

a new bridge crossing the Hudson River in New York that will replace the Tappan Zee

Bridge. The crane is configured with 177.2’ of main boom and 474,400 lbs. of counter-

weight.

The Wilmington Branch would like to welcome Derrick Thompson as the new

Mechanic. Derrick has worked in the crane industry since early 2007 as a crane

mechanic. He grew up in West Virginia but has lived in North Carolina for the

past 14 years. In his free time he likes to hunt and fish, also do bass fishing tourna-

ments when he can. He also likes to spend his free time hanging out at the

beach!

Larry Horrell, operator, and David Gandee, truck driver and oiler, on the Demag AC350/6,

400 Ton All Terrain Crane. Wilmington’s second job with this new crane setting bridge girders in

Morehead City, NC.

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Wilmington Update!We closed on our property. We’re going to start moving dirt as soon as possible in

preparation for the new build-ing located at 5531 Barbados

Boulevard, Castle Hayne, North Carolina 28429. The

building will be conveniently located right off of I40. Stay

tuned for more updates.

The Steel Division would like to welcome back James Herndon as General Superin-tendent and Quality

Control Manager. James will be a man of

many hats working directly for Ed Walters.

Be sure to check out and follow our new Safety

Blog!

The final concrete beam being set on the MLK Extension project for Martins Con-struction Corporation. Operator, Bobby McClenny was on the Link-Belt 298HSL, 250 Ton Crawler Crane.

STEEL DIVISIONPORTSMOUTHThe Steel Division, with help from the Richmond Branch and Major Projects, erected a new ride at Kings Dominion. The Deliri-um Ride took a triple pick and heavy hauling to set and erect. Bob Crundwell ran the 4 line Goldhofer Trailer, Van Stowers ran the Link-Belt HTC-8675, 75 Ton Truck Crane, Wayne Shinault ran the Grove GMK5120B, 120 Ton All Terrain, and Stump with the help of his oiler, Shane Eley, ran the Grove GMK6350, 350 Ton All Terrain Crane. The iron workers: Dan Cogar, Mike Gerber, Johnny Brooks, Morris Vicars, Aaron Legum and Richard Rogers assembled the legs, seat, and platform along with bolting it all together. The ride is set to open this spring.

The Crawler Division would like to also welcome Lindsay Greene as an Assembly and Disassembly Supervisor. Lindsay is from Alberta, Canada and very new to the Richmond area. He has been in construction for 19 years working for general contractors and crane rental companies. For the most part on the crane and heavy rigging side. Before joining Team Grubb Lindsay was a crane and rigging superintendent for Entrec. He is a journeyman crane operator. His wife’s name is Candice and he likes to fish, hunt and build diesel race trucks in his spare time.

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The Crawler Division would like to welcome Brian Showalter as an Assem-bly and Disassembly Supervisor. Brian has worked around and operated cranes for 20 years now, and has been around them all of his life. He used to go to work with his dad and stand behind the seat of the crane. Brian has done A&D off and on for about 5 years. Brian and his wife, Chrisanna, have been married for 14 years and have 2 awesome children. Hanna who is 12 and C.J. who is 10. He enjoys hunting and fishing, and collects die-cast scale models. “I'm excited to come to work here. I've wanted the opportunity to work here since the early 90's.” -Brian

SAFETY CORNERMobile Crane Stability

A mobile crane is built around the design principals of balance and leverage. In short, a crane must be capable of lifting heavy loads, through the use of leverage, while remaining in balance.

In material handling, we have to consider the Center of Gravity (or CG) of a load. The “center of gravity symbol”, illustrat-ed by the black and white circles on the illustrations below is used to show the location where an object’s CG lies. The CG of any object is said to be the point in the object where the weight is evenly distributed. Meaning the leverage on one side of the object must be equal to the leverage derived by the other side of the object. (See Photo A) Now let’s look at a balance beam, which is similar to a basic crane model. The beam, balanced on a fulcrum, remains in balance as long as the leverage on one side of the fulcrum is equal to the leverage on the opposite side of the fulcrum. If either of the weights placed on the beam is larger than the other, the beam will tip in the direction of the heavier object. The only way to keep the beam in balance is to move the fulcrum closer to the heavier object, as illustrated below. By moving the fulcrum, the beam remains in balance and each object counter balances the other. (See Photo B) Counter balance is dependent on each object’s leverage being equal. Leverage is the result of an object’s weight, multi-plied times the distance the object lies from the fulcrum. In the illustration below, the load of 300 pounds is multiplied by the distance the load lies from the fulcrum (5 feet). The 100 pound weight is multiplied times the distance it lies from the fulcrum (15 feet). If the two sides of the equation are equal, the beam must remain in balance. The math is fairly simple. You multiply the 300 pounds times 5 feet which equals 1,500 foot pounds. Then multiply the 100 pound weight times its distance from the fulcrum. The result of 1,500 foot pounds illustrates that the same leverage is derived on both sides of the fulcrum (foot pounds is the result of multiplying distance in feet times’ weight in pounds.) (See Photo C) Now let’s apply this to a mobile crane. In the illustration below, the right side of the balance beam is raised up, much like the boom of a crane. As long as each object’s leverage remains equal, the beam remains in balance. (See Photo D) Now let’s take it a step further and suspend the load below the beam, like it would be from a crane. In the illustration below, the beam can remain in balance if the leverage derived from each object remains equal. This example is great, as long as nothing changes, but we know this is not likely to happen. As soon as the weight of the object on the right is increased (like picking up a heavier load) you must compensate by increasing the leverage on the left side of the beam. If the object on the right moves closer to the fulcrum (like retracting a boom), you must compensate by decreasing the leverage of the object on the left side of the beam. (See Photo E) While these examples show how balance is derived, we know a crane must be able to remain in balance under a variety of load changes, radius changes and other factors which influence balance. In the field we think of balance as “stabili-ty”—and the ability for a crane to stay stable while accomplishing the task at hand is the end goal.

Photo A Photo B Photo C

Photo D Photo E

A mobile crane is built around the design principals of balance and leverage. In short, a crane must be capable of lifting

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