Innovative Rock Breaking

Hey, sorry for the delay!
thank you so much for the knowledge, pointed me right where I should be looking.
Dgo, thank you! made reading the schematic much clearer, and yea we ll hopefully go simple
Jdof and LANx, sweet idea, weren't too hot on it, but I'm keeping it on the board.
hey colorado digger, bringing you up thinking we should have a competition between the techniques, and if you hear of any face work or digging foundation lets say, in massive solid rock where we may be able to test tunneling techniques (the game changer) let me know

We'll work with it as it works now(ain't broke don't fix it) and I guess another carrier is just that, I selfishly like the Volvo though.

, Niall

Ps: auto save saved the post perfect thanks techs. Dang battery

I see you guys are coming along. I inquired about one of your system several years ago. Also most of the hydraulic cylinders will need load valves so the drilling position does not drift while drilling. I wonder how it would work here on the east coast. tomorrow I will back on a rock job in NJ. It is Basalt very dense fine grain rock. In most areas I have to run a min of 2 Darda splitters to start to get the rock to open up.

Cheers, yea they have been up down
some recent pics
Its my bosses invention, not so good at marketing, but im trying, because yea this should market itself but it needs to get out there.

There was something similar used in my hometown where holes were drilled in to hard Canadian Shield (mostly granite) and some kind of foam was put in that supposedly worked in other places (I'm thinking softer rock like sedimentary type rock) but it hardly broke anything. In the end a blasting company was brought in with an air track and they blasted the basement in a couple of small shots.
Have you guys tried using your technology in the Great White North? People have tried using conventional concrete breakers here without much success so it would be interesting to see how it would fair in some of the toughest rock conditions in Canada and the U.S.

They have worked in canada but doing tunneling&mining detail work, and i believe there are still 2 of the white (first post) machines cracking away
Big market wise here's the thing, they are facing some variability that just isn't quantifiable, thus results from the shop simulator can only be translated subjectively in the field. It is still so young of an idea, but quite game changing I think. The current attempts to reduce fly rock(though I believe it is already negligible) by reducing air charge creating the foam, is not proving too to well. I like the idea, but in the operator shoes, I want the rock to break, first shot, first try, and leave the adjustability to me? Well that's staying at the comfortable "full" then.
Staying cranking away though, busy simplifying my spaghetti and cleaning hasty mockups from the quick build into something workable.
Keep you posted.