Thats me at Con Expo 2005 in the Link Belt Rodeo

Hi!!

My name is Brian Borich and I am 35 years old.  I live in the Metro Detroit Area of Michigan and I love collecting scale models of construction equipment.  I started collecting scale models when I was about 18 years old and have been an avid collector ever since.  This is a fun hobby for me and I enjoy it very much.  I have over 150 pieces of scale model construction equipment in my collection.  It consists mostly of 1/50 scale models, but I have a few 1/35 pieces and a 1/16 piece also.  My scale models include brands from Caterpillar, Case, John Deere, Dresser, International Hough, Komatsu, Demag, Liebherr, Grove, Manitowac, Link-Belt, Terex, Hyster/Hypac, Blaw-Knox, Bomag, CMI, Wirtgen, Vermeer, Nordberg, Volvo, Lee-Boy and a few others.  I also have a few Tractors and Lo-Boys that consist of Peterbuilt, Kenworth and Freightliner tractors with Talbert, Trail-King and Rogers trailers.   

Manufacturers include NZG, Conrad, ERTL, JOAL, Diecast Promotions, Spec-Cast, HiMoBo, Motorart, TWH Towsley's, CCM, and a few others.  I have everything from Excavators, Hydraulic Truck Cranes, Lattice Boom Crawler Cranes, Asphalt Pavers, Asphalt Compactors, Rubber Tired Dirt Compactors, Steel Wheeled Compactors, Rubber Tired Backhoe Loaders, Milling Machines, Pulverizers, Soil Boring or Piling equipment, Motor Graders, Crawler Dozers, Crawler Loaders, Rubber Tired Front End Loaders, Articulated Dump Trucks, Elevated Scrapers, Open Bowl Scrapers, Trenchers and Skidsteers.

Collecting construction equipment is a great passion of mine and I am proud to share it with the world!!!!

Our asphalt crew paving

I make my living in construction.  I am employed for a large paving contractor here in Michigan called Ajax Paving Industries, Inc.  Paving, its the only thing we do, Black or White. Ajax has their own hot mix asphalt plants and concrete batch plants and we pave alot of projects primarily in Michigan, Florida and all over the Midwest.  I work in the Materials Division called Ajax Materials Corporation handling our Hot Mix Asphalt Retail Sales and everything that is involved with it.  I have been indirectly around the construction industry all my life.  Relatives in my family have been employed by a few major contractors here in the Metro Detroit Area for many years, primarily in the concrete side of the construction business.  I just followed in their footsteps.  Construction is my passion, my life and it's in my blood.  I could not image working in any other industry other than construction.  Maybe another state or region, but I couldn't leave this industry.  There are days when you want to throw in the towel, but I get up the next morning and do it all over again.  When I was in college, I had the opportunity to work at a Heavy Equipment Dealership, primarily a Caterpillar Dealership.  I fell in love.  After college, I started my career in construction selling construction equipment.  I have represented such brands as Case, Komatsu, Blaw-Knox, Hypac and few other brands.  I worked for a few local dealerships around the Metro Detroit area, and eventually was offered a job by one of the contractors I called on.  That was the start of selling materials instead of selling iron.  I have loved it ever since.