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FINFROCK CONSTRUCTION CO.
Has Been Growing 33 Years

A few of the 21 pieces of modern construction equipment owned by Finfrock Construction Company are shown across the top of this page and immediately to the right. Equipment represents a $250,000 investment. Left to right across the top is the firm's rubber tired loader, its earth mover, its grader and its back hoe. At right are two of the huge dump trucks, used frequently to haul gravel fill from the firm's gravel pit to streets it has under construction. Paul Finfrock drives one of the trucks, and his brother, Roger, pictured with his dog, Boozer, handles the other one. The firm's headquarters are in a building located on 18 acres of land that includes a gravel pit near the Stillwater. Part of the garage-like building, which is used to maintain the equipment, can be seen behind the grader in one of the top photos. It was built in 1957.

BIGGER and BETTER EQUIPMENT IS HELPING US TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY MORE EFFICIENTLY
		Roger Finfrock, left above, founder of the firm which bears his name. He is pictured here supervising some curb and gutter work in Covington sometime in the 1940s. He retired in 1964.
Finfrock Construction Company has been growing for 33 years, and it expects to continue growing as America starts its third century. The company was founded in Covington in July of 1943 by J. R. Finfrock. At first it worked mostly in Covington digging basements, putting in sidewalks, pouring curb and gutter for some of the town's east end streets. In those days most of this work was performed with simple hand tools like picks and shovels. As the years passed Finfrock Construction expanded and so did its equipment. It now works all over Miami County, particularly in new subdivisions in Troy and Tipp City, and at times it accepts contracts in Shelby and Darke counties.	Tom Finfrock, son of the founder, is president of the company. Other regular employees are Richard Overholser, foreman, Gary Meyer, Roger Finfrock, Paul Finfrock, Jerry Hodges and Hazel Griffin, who is the company's office clerk. Ron Phillis and Jim Hardesty are being employed this summer. The company's regularly employed crew averages about 10 persons, which is not a much bigger work force than was employed years ago. But the firm can do much more work much faster and better now than was the case then. This is due to improvements in equipment and to making the heavy investments required to own it or lease it. Photos on this page help illustrate why this is the case.

OLD WAY---

NEW WAY ---

These two photos illustrate the old way and the new way of laying curbs and gutters along streets and they also show what modern machinery can do in terms of stretching manpower. Directly above is crew of men installing curb and gutter on Wenrick Street in Covington about

1949. If you'll count the men, you'll find 10 persons in this crew. With the help of the company's first cement mixer and its first dump truck which can be seen in this picture, this size of a crew could lay 100 feet of curb and gutter in a good day. At the right above is the new way. Pictured is an

automatic machine which pours curb and gutter into the required shape without the use of forms. The machine is operated by one man, Hollis Henry, left, who was consulting briefly with Tom Finfrock, when this photo was taken in the Bicentennial Summer of 1976. It is fed concrete

from a ready-mix truck, whose driver keeps his truck unloading and moving along at the same speed as the pouring and molding machine. Some hand labor is required behind this machine to finish the curb and gutter and to keep the machine operating. There were eight persons in the

work crew the day this photo was taken. Tom Finfrock said they had a good day, because they and their expensive machines laid and finished 2000 feet of curb and gutter on a street in a new subdivision in Troy that day.

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FINFROCK CONSTRUCTION CO.

473-3141 - 473-2127

COVINGTON