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Cat rental generators and air compressors from Peterson helped power Kiewit’s jobsite during the spillway project
on a boat and headed upriver. It was pretty intense stuff there at the beginning. And all of it was 24 hours a day.”
By the time Kiewit was finished, Peterson’s service totaled 16,600 man hours. That’s basically eight technicians-worth of work for a year. “I have six guys in the Chico field crew, and sometimes all six would be out there on the dam at once. When you have multiple things going on, or you need two guys on a repair because the equipment is so large, that’s when the other Peterson stores would chip in and help out with our regular customers. It was definitely a whole team effort.”
CITY ON A HILL
In addition to all the earthmoving equipment, Peterson had several generators on the job. They were the life blood of the entire operation. The site was like a small city—30 miles from Chico—so all their electricity had to be produced by generators. And they needed a lot of it. From office buildings and A/C and computers to light towers, batch plants and pneumatic hand tools, the project was huge and needed power to keep it running. The spillways also required a lot of generators to pow- er lights, tools, and hydro-washers. And all those generators needed support.
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