Wilcox Vintage Trucks

Wilcox Vintage Trucks 
Crest Precast - Mader Family Museum. 

• 1925 2 1/2 ton truck. 
• 1914 2 ton truck.  

Wilcox manufactured TRUX from 1910 to 1930 in Minneapolis Minnesota.

Crest Central Light Rail Project St Paul, MN

Latest Crest Precast Concrete Project

Central Light Rail Project in  St Paul,  MN.

62 floating track slabs at 30,000 pounds each.  Installed to reduce vibration of train to Minnesota Public Radio headquarters.  Slab and final top concrete area float on rubber pads.

PCI Video: Precast Concrete Wall Panel stands up to flying debris

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PCI Video: Precast Concrete and Sustainable Design

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Crest Precast hosted it's 3rd annual plant tour

6th grade ESL students
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Crest Precast hosted it's 3rd annual plant tour for La Crosse, Wisc. public education 6th grade ESL students.

A class was presented on aggregates, cement, chemical reaction and the use of precast concrete in construction. The summer program included instruction on levers and pulleys so students were interested in over head cranes and rebar benders. At the end each student cast a precast decorated paver and Crest delivered the cured paver to the school.

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New Housing Project Williston Oil Basin in North Dakota

Crest Precast Concrete installed a 12,000 gallon pump tank June 30, 2012 at the Lukenbill New Housing Project,  Williston Oil Basin in North Dakota.  Williston tank housing. CB#: 507-450-4401

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Diversion Trench for the City of Cedarsburg, WI

Crest Precast Concrete engineered and manufactured a 56 feet long special water diversion trench for the City of Cedarsburg, WI. Casting was 48,000 lbs and used to divert waste water from one tank to the next. Unit was placed without disrupting the water treatment process.

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Williston Sewer at Fox Run RV Park

Project Williston Sewer at Fox Run RV Park, 137 Camp Sites, 57,000 gallons of Septic and Pump Tanks. Job completed April 2012.

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Rain Harvesting with Precast

These 25,000 and 20,000 gallon tanks were installed at MN National Guard training center in Arden Hills, MN on April 25, 2012. Tank weight complete for 25,000 gallon is 152,000 pounds and 20,000 gallon is 130,000 pounds.

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Storm Shelter Install

Crest Precast manufactures precast buildings for above ground storm and tornado shelters. Shelters are constructed using FEMA guidelines 320 and 361 and are designed by a structural engineer to exacting standards.

Our company can design community and commercial storm & safe rooms for local approval.

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Grease Interceptor Deep Set!

Project challenge was to install an 8,000 gallon tank to a depth of 30' or 22' over the top. Crest Precast engineered the special cast tank to a depth that places it as the deepest tank ever placed in the USA. Each section was 56,000# and was placed by a 350 ton crane. Tank was tested at 7,000 psi and contains 3% Xypex water proofing.


Buyer Epic computer systems Verona WI.
Installer : Monona Plumbing and Fire Protection

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Shelters becoming popular as storms turn severe

A La Crescent company is leading a nationwide movement in protection against severe storms. Crest Precast is one of six manufacturers in the United States of above ground concrete storm shelters, a small precast building meant to within stand the force of an EF5 tornado.

The need for the shelters has increased, along with calls from concerned citizens, because of the recent outbreak of tornadoes in the Midwest and South, especially on March 2, when the Storm Prediction Center reported 81 funnel clouds.

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Wary of tornadoes, Wisconsin firms installing, selling shelters

Crest Precast was featured in an article in the Journal Sentinel a large statewide Wisconsin newspaper.

Crest Precast Inc., based just across the Mississippi River from La Crosse in La Crescent, Minn., sells commercial and residential storm shelters, said president and co-owner Steve Mader.

The company also has a plant in Barneveld - 90% of which was destroyed by a tornado that killed nine people in 1984. The plant was built in 1994.

Crest decided to get into the storm shelter business in 2008.

The structures are designed and built to withstand 200-mph-plus winds "without sliding or blowing over or collapsing with cars landing on top of them," Mader said.

"We just thought it was kind of a neat product," Mader added. "We've been researching it a long time."

Last year, Crest installed 14 large shelters - they hold 120 people each - for Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Ill., Mader said.

In addition to its commercial business, Crest Precast decided it wanted to gain a share of the residential market, and that meant designing something that people would be willing to put in their backyards, Mader said. read entire article...