In The Dirt

Feb 11 2025 87 ep. 47 mins 8
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Join Mack Plovie In The Dirt with featured industry guests as they discuss, dissect, and explain trending topics in the construction & mining industries. If you like learning about new technology, industry hot topics, business, heavy equipment, and anything dirt related for that matter. This podcast is worth a listen. Find Mack on social media @earthmovers_media and check out our website for more! https://earthmoversmedia.com

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Building Buckets and Engineering GET - Hensley Industries w/ Ryan Parker & Fred Duling

Feb 11 2025 48 mins  
How are buckets designed and built? Mack sits down with Ryan Parker and Fred Duling of Hensley Industries to talk everything buckets and GET. They discuss the history of Hensley Industries, engineering/designing a bucket, what makes Hensley buckets unique, ground engaging tools (GET), metallurgy of GET, designing buckets for customer specific applications, and more! Learn more abou

Why Companies Should Invest In Operator Training w/ Jay Collup

Jan 21 2025 54 mins  
Why is operator training so important for the modern day earthmoving or mining company? I sit down with Jay Collup of Collup Enterprises to talk everything operator training. Jay has an incredible background working for Caterpillar at Tucson Proving Grounds and other Cat dealers, which has made him an incredible resource for companies looking to train their people on all types and

Manufacturing Equipment Attachments & Growing a Business w/ Ed Lingel

Jan 07 2025 52 mins  
Mack sits down with Ed Lingel, President of Daequip Premium Attachments, to talk everything buckets and entrepreneurship. The episode details the Daequip story products they offer, how they work with customers to spec custom buckets, the new Daequip quick coupler, their new facility in Abbotsford, Dormel Roll off bins, where the company is headed, and more! Learn more about Daequip

Marketing a 40+ Year old Earthmoving Company w/ Aria Morgan

Dec 17 2024 48 mins  
What is marketing and why should earthmoving contractors market themselves? Mack sits down with Aria Morgan, marketing director for Plateau Excavation, an earthmoving company based out of Kennesaw, Georgia. They cover everything marketing for earthmoving contractors, from where to start, what value social media provides, websites, generating content on site, role of a marketing dir

Setting the Standard in Winch Assisted Slope Work w/ Kelway Cox

Dec 04 2024 55 mins  
Revolutionzing the logging industry many years ago, winch assisted logging has enabled contractors to harvest previous unreachable timber resources. On this episode, Mack sits down with Kelway Cox, President of Timbermax USA, to talk all about the Timbermax product. They cover how/where the idea for winch assist slope work started, the origin of Timbermax product and how it is buil

Mining More with Komatsu Electric Rope Shovels w/ Nicholas Voelz

Oct 21 2024 52 mins  
Learn all about the largest earthmoving machines in the mining industry, the electric rope shovel! On this episode Mack sits down with Nicholas Voelz, Sr. Manager - ERS Product Management for Komatsu electric rope shovels. They dive into the history of the P&H rope shovel, current Komatsu ERS product line, application for rope shovels in mining, technology on these machines, an

Telling a Story with Construction Dioramas & Boardroom Tables w/ Ryan Haasen

Aug 12 2024 34 mins  
On this episode Mack sits down with Ryan Haasen of Civil Craft Studio to talk all about how Ryan designs, builds, and delivers the incredible board room table dioramas he is most well known for. Ryan has a long history in both construction and building things with his hands, originally starting wood working he soon found himself building construction dioramas and eventually the fir

Clearview Demolition Grows the Fleet with Link-Belt Excavators w/ Brad Morrison & Mark Williams

Jul 28 2024 51 mins  
Clearview Demolition has a long history clearing the way for tomorrow demolishing buildings, bridges, pulp mills, and more. They recently began to acquire Link-Belt excavators, and now operate the largest fleet in Western Canada at 17 machines. Mack sits down with Brad Morrison of Clearview Demolition, and Mark Williams of Inland Group to talk all about Clearview's fleet of LBX mac

Buying, Selling, and Renting Heavy Equipment in the Mining Industry w/ Cody Harman

Jul 13 2024 47 mins  
When most people think of renting equipment, they think mini excavator or bobcat, not many people know mining companies rent large haul trucks, dozers, wheel loader, excavators, and more! Mack sits down with Cody Harman, President and Founder of Harman Energy LLC, a large equipment rental outfit based in Bluefield West Virginia. Mack and Cody talk all about the business of renting

Shattering Stereotypes & Breaking Barriers, Women in Canadian Construction w/ Amanda Duong

Jun 12 2024 38 mins  
The construction industry is changing, while it is still a male populated industry, more women are entering at all levels as operators, trades, managers, even CEO's. On this episode Mack sits down with Amanda, grader operator, to talk about her career, barriers she faced when entering the industry, what she enjoys about heavy equipment operation, and shares advice how other women c