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NEW FOR 2008! The National Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator has complete labor, material, and manhour prices for estimating most earthmoving projects. You'll find how to read site plans, what’s necessary in site preparation, how to determine site cut and fill quantities, how to determine soil swell and compaction, how to work with topsoil, slabs and paving, road work, curbs and gutters, and trench excavation. National Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator includes factors affecting equipment production and how to include it in your estimate, as well as production rates for excavators, trucks, dozers, scrapers, compactors, graders, pavers, as well as blasting, ripping rock, and soil stabilization. Includes a FREE CD-ROM with an electronic version of the book with National Estimator, a stand-alone Windows estimating program, plus an interactive multimedia tutorial. Included with National Estimator CD-ROM: Job Cost Wizard – turns estimates into invoices and exports both into QuickBooks Free Online Technical Support – for the National Estimator Software Free Monthly National Estimator Updates – Updates to the 2008 costbooks and zip code modification factors are updated monthly. Monthly price updates on the Web are free and automatic all during 2008. You'll be prompted when it's time to collect the next update. A connection to the Web is required. National Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator includes: Site preparation -- Surveying, site clearing Cut and fill operations -- Cross section method, average end area method, zero (daylight) line Topsoil, slabs and paving -- Topsoil volumes, net cut and fill volumes, land slope affecting topsoil quantities Roadwork -- Centerline profiles, road cross sections, mass diagrams, asphalt quantities, curbs and gutters Soil swell and shrinkage -- Fundamental states of soil, ground loss Spoil, borrow and soil balancing -- Site balancing, interim spoil and soil piles Basement excavation -- Determining quantities, safe bank slope, pencil plane method for volume calculation Trench excavation -- Depth and shape, footing trench excavation volumes, utility trenches, dewatering Grade beams and drilled piers -- Calculating volumes Excavating equipment -- Production rates, bucket capacities, power shovels, draglines, clamshells, trenching Moving vehicle performance -- Grade resistance and assistance, travel time charts Loaders -- Productivity, soil state cubic yard conversions Trucks and wagons -- Excavator and hauling unit production rates, turning and dump time Tractors and bulldozers -- Dozing techniques, dozer blades, dozer productivity Scraper -- Uses and limitations, scraper varieties, scraper cycle time, push loading, maneuver and dump time Soil compaction -- Testing, grading, calculating dry density, compaction, stabilization Rock blasting and ripping -- Blasting, ripping Paving -- Aggregate, binder, bituminous and aggregate surface treatments, asphalt paving, compaction, recycling Includes: Book with CD-ROM By: Dan Atcheson Published by: Craftsman Book Company ISBN: 978-1-57218-191-5 340 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11, Shipping Weight: 1.80 lbs. 2008 National Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator neh-c08 $57.00 For your convenience, this Yahoo! secure shopping site accepts payment via Visa, MasterCard or PayPal.     © Artemis Hunt, Inc. Contractor City™ is a trademark of AHI Contractor City 343 Soquel Ave #303 Santa Cruz, CA 95062 customerservice @ contractorcity.com