...is really about how many rigs we can put on a job, how many crane barges we can put under them and how many deck barges we have to support them,” he says. “It is not a monetary thing to me.”
Effective equipment management also is about managing people, he adds, and that nitty-gritty detail work falls to Thad Pirtle, the firm’s vice president of equipment. He came to Traylor in 1983, interestingly, to assemble one of those old model 9310 American crawler cranes like the one Chris helped fix. “I was working out of the union hall in Terre Haute,” Pirtle says. “I came out for a one-day job; been with the company ever since.”