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Rock excavation can make or break a job. If you have been in construction long enough, you know one of the fastest ways to lose money on a project is underestimating rock. Rock excavation can make or break a job. Bid it too high and you lose the project. Bid it too...

If you are working in rock... ...and you are trying to decide between a chain cutter and a drum cutter, picking the wrong one can cost you a lot of time and a lot of money. That is why this question matters. Contractors ask it all the time. Should I be using a chain...

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...

Episode 2 starts with a hard truth. Our KEMROC cutters were not at Black Rock Mine where they were scheduled to be demonstrated. They were sitting miles away in the Arizona Strip, one of the most remote regions in the United States. Before any gypsum cutting could...

If you searched for rock excavation equipment... ...you probably have a rock problem that needs a real solution. For years, contractors relied on blasting, hammering, or trenching because there were no other options. That changed when KEMROC cutters arrived in the...

We run the largest fleet of KEMROC cutters in the United States... and this Arizona mining demonstration did not begin as planned. Scott traveled from Kentucky to Las Vegas and then drove into northern Arizona for a scheduled gypsum mine demonstration at Black Rock...

If you have been in the rock business for any length of time... ...you know the classic three ways to remove rock: blasting, hammering, and trenching. That has been the playbook for decades. But now there is a fourth method changing how contractors handle trenching...