Rock Excavation

If you do utility work long enough, you know the feeling. You hit solid rock and the whole job changes. Now what should have been a straightforward trench starts slowing down. Production drops. Costs start climbing. And the job can get harder than it needed to be in a...

When you have been around hydraulic breakers long enough, you know the feeling. The hammer stops hitting the way it should. The machine slows down. The operator backs off. And everybody on the job already knows what is coming next. Downtime. That is one reason more...

When a job hits rock, most contractors usually look at two options first. Break it or blast it. And on the surface, blasting can look like the cheaper way to go. But that is usually only true if you are looking at the cost to break the rock. That is not the number...

If you are dealing with slow production, oversized spoil piles, and the constant repairs that come with hydraulic hammers... ...a drum cutter may be the upgrade your project needs. Drum cutters give contractors a faster, cleaner, and more predictable way to remove...

The Arizona Mining Demonstration Results... ...at Western Mining and Minerals came down to performance under real quarry conditions. After recovering our KEMROC cutters from the Arizona Strip and getting them mounted on the machines, the focus shifted to measurable...

After two days of chasing equipment across the Arizona Strip... We finally stepped into the quarry to do what we came to do. Episode 3 documents our gypsum mine cutter demonstration at Western Mining and Minerals, where performance in real rock mattered more than...