Jacksonville, Florida is the venue of a multi-million dollar auction on Thursday 16 August when Wood-Hopkins Contracting Company clears out its fleet.
The equipment, including many cranes and several of them unused, has become surplus to requirement since the company was acquired by Mitchell Construction in 1998.
“When we purchased Wood-Hopkins in 1998, we always knew that one day we would be merging Wood-Hopkins with Mitchell Construction and subsequently relocating both to a new facility,” said Rick Mitchell, president of the two companies.
There are a large number of items of late model construction and marine equipment for sale in the unreserved public auction, including crawler cranes, barges, dredge tenders and conventional truck cranes. Also for sale are hundreds of marine support equipment and attachments.
The equipment auction is being run by Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers. Territory manager Steve Robbins said: “We have an excellent selection of equipment for the auction, specifically the cranes.” Some of the highlight crawler cranes in the Jacksonville sale include a 1992 American 9230 (250 US ton capacity), a 1994 American 9310 (225 US ton), a Manitowoc 4100W (230 US ton) and a Manitowoc 3900W (140 ton).
A full list of the equipment being sold is available on rbauction.com.
Founded in 1906, Wood-Hopkins Contracting Company is a large heavy marine contractor that has completed numerous projects in the southeastern USA. A sample of some of the most recent undertakings include the C.A. Bill Benedict Bridge in Sanford, Florida; an elevated roadway for passenger terminal at Jacksonville International Airport; and the Explosive Handling Wharf constructed for the United Sates Navy to load and off-load trident missiles from the fleet’s nuclear submarines.
