Barrett Paving enjoying its difference-making dredge

A 16-cu.-yd. bucket made by Supreme Manufacturing is one of the key dredge components. Photo: P&Q Staff

With a new processing plant in Fairborn also in Barrett Paving’s plans, Meckstroth says the operation’s intent is to connect the dredge directly to the plant.

This will happen in time, he adds, as the capital for a plant upgrade was recently approved. Meckstroth can see Barrett Paving maximizing the dredge’s 800-tph capability once the new plant is in place.

“Right now, we’re averaging 400 or 500 tph with the dredge,” Meckstroth says. “But it’s very capable of doing [800 tph].”

A key reason Barrett Paving gravitated toward Pennsylvania-based Supreme Manufacturing is because the company is based in the U.S. and somewhat “local” to the Fairborn operation. Most of the components Supreme provides are made within a day’s drive of Fairborn, Meckstroth says, and Barrett Paving has easy access to Supreme representatives and many of the other equipment suppliers who helped bring the project to life.

“We can talk to the people working on the electrical,” Meckstroth says. “We can talk to the people who made the winch – they’re right in Pennsylvania. Everybody’s within four or five hours of here.”

The “American made” concept is important to Barrett Paving, Meckstroth adds, even though it is a foreign-owned company.

“We try to keep things as local as we can and work with local suppliers,” he says.

A number of other vendors – including McLanahan Corp., Conn-Weld Industries and Telsmith –came together to support the dredge with vital equipment. Photo: P&Q Staff

Telsmith, Conn-Weld Industries and McLanahan Corp. are among the other vendors who supplied equipment to the project.

“At the top of the machine, there’s a 50-ton hoist manufactured by Virginia Crane,” Hoobler says. “It’s powered by a 750-[hp] electric motor. Going down, the cables are connected to a 16-cu.-yd. bucket that’s manufactured by Supreme Manufacturing.”

From there, material is dumped into a hopper and metered out on a Conn-Weld 8-ft. x 24-ft. screen.

“The sand gets pumped in a McLanahan cyclone, and it disperses onto a McLanahan fine recovery screen,” Hoobler says. “All of the material is then dewatered and goes out onto the floating conveyors, which are manufactured by Supreme.”

The dredge is configured with 400 ft. of floating conveyors. A 2238 jaw crusher from Telsmith is built into the system, as well.

“They (Supreme) were flexible with us buying screens from Conn-Weld or whomever,” Meckstroth says. “They gave us choices. What we went with was what we felt was best for us. We have more of these pieces of equipment around because we already know them.”

This particular project was somewhat unique for McLanahan in that it worked hand in hand with Supreme versus an end user.

“I think my first experience with them (Supreme) was in 2006,” says Stephen Shortsleeve, regional sales manager at McLanahan. “I’m their contact. They feed me the information, and McLanahan selects the appropriate equipment. We’ve been working with them for many years providing components.”

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