Bill Doyle Trains Union Workers

During the month of May, Bill Doyle, who is married to the middle daughter of the FFN's founder V.P. Fieg, trained about a dozen construction workers in his local union on the use of a remote control-operated excavator called a Brokk 100.

Bill called the machine, which is made in Sweden, "a jackhammer on tracks." It is about half the size of a V.W. Beetle, though they can be as large as a pick-up truck  The demolition devices are used inside buildings to break up concrete and are also used to knock down bridges and other structures.

He trained the crew one at a time on the use of the controls at the union school near his home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.  "If you can use an excavator, you can use this," Bill assured me.

Bill's wife, cousin Diana Fieg Doyle, mentioned that Bill is now working at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, and that "he comes home all aglow."  Let's hope not!