We’ve kinda already touched on the best mass grading contractors who work in the dirt. Some of the California contractors, and a few others that have been through the dirt wars and shown their abilities. But who are the best mass grading contractors that specializes in rock?
When it comes to big rock jobs involving large amounts of material movement/grading, difficult changing conditions that often require innovative methods of handling the material to maintain profitability, who are the guys at the top of the game? Who’s set up with the equipment, the personnel and knowledge base, and the tools/subcontractors to handle the variables involved with mass grading rock to consistently turn a profit on these jobs?
Who’s got the Vermeer T1255 Terrain Levelers, Iron Wolf’s, has their own air-track drills and certified blaster?
Who has the maintenance department that’s set-up and trained to perform the vital preventive maintenance to dozers, excavators, grinders and crushers to keep them running while working in hard rock materials job after job? Anyone can do a single rock job with their iron and often do alright. But to be able to do successive jobs in the rock requires a very well managed fleet of equipment to maintain profitability.
I’ve seen a few different contractors get rock jobs, sub out large portions of them to different contractors that offer rock solutions (like those who own grinders, crushers or blast) and lease/rent the proper equipment to deal with the material and do it right; then go back to more typical dirt work on the next job. But whose set up for rock, and job after job, can consistently handle rock successfully?
Thinking of all the different contractors I’ve been around and seen work in hard rock materials, American Asphalt & Grading Inc. of Las Vegas (www.aaandg.com) get my vote as the top mass rock grading contractor that I know of.
My reasoning: they own Vermeer T1255 Terrain Levelers that allow them to use scrapers in hard rock applications as well as Vermeer trenchers for utilities. They have loaders with Iron Wolf grinders mounted on them for varying rock solutions, from processing material for scrapers to sizing material for crushing, etc. They’ve got a fleet of 777’s and two 200 ton excavators as well as several 992’s, and a D575. They have their own blasting crew and a crushing/material processing division. Simply put, I haven’t seen many other contractors handle rock as successfully and profitably as American Asphalt & Grading does, job after job.
But who else is there? Who specializes in rock and rock grading work? Who’s got the fleet of 40 ton ADT’s and 385’s, specialty rock tools such as grinders and air-tracks, small hydraulic shovels and big loaders to couple with their 100 ton rigid-frames? As well as the operators and supervisory staff with the knowledge and experience to handle rock correctly and profitably?
Who are the top contractors when it comes to mass grading rock?
When it comes to big rock jobs involving large amounts of material movement/grading, difficult changing conditions that often require innovative methods of handling the material to maintain profitability, who are the guys at the top of the game? Who’s set up with the equipment, the personnel and knowledge base, and the tools/subcontractors to handle the variables involved with mass grading rock to consistently turn a profit on these jobs?
Who’s got the Vermeer T1255 Terrain Levelers, Iron Wolf’s, has their own air-track drills and certified blaster?
Who has the maintenance department that’s set-up and trained to perform the vital preventive maintenance to dozers, excavators, grinders and crushers to keep them running while working in hard rock materials job after job? Anyone can do a single rock job with their iron and often do alright. But to be able to do successive jobs in the rock requires a very well managed fleet of equipment to maintain profitability.
I’ve seen a few different contractors get rock jobs, sub out large portions of them to different contractors that offer rock solutions (like those who own grinders, crushers or blast) and lease/rent the proper equipment to deal with the material and do it right; then go back to more typical dirt work on the next job. But whose set up for rock, and job after job, can consistently handle rock successfully?
Thinking of all the different contractors I’ve been around and seen work in hard rock materials, American Asphalt & Grading Inc. of Las Vegas (www.aaandg.com) get my vote as the top mass rock grading contractor that I know of.
My reasoning: they own Vermeer T1255 Terrain Levelers that allow them to use scrapers in hard rock applications as well as Vermeer trenchers for utilities. They have loaders with Iron Wolf grinders mounted on them for varying rock solutions, from processing material for scrapers to sizing material for crushing, etc. They’ve got a fleet of 777’s and two 200 ton excavators as well as several 992’s, and a D575. They have their own blasting crew and a crushing/material processing division. Simply put, I haven’t seen many other contractors handle rock as successfully and profitably as American Asphalt & Grading does, job after job.
But who else is there? Who specializes in rock and rock grading work? Who’s got the fleet of 40 ton ADT’s and 385’s, specialty rock tools such as grinders and air-tracks, small hydraulic shovels and big loaders to couple with their 100 ton rigid-frames? As well as the operators and supervisory staff with the knowledge and experience to handle rock correctly and profitably?
Who are the top contractors when it comes to mass grading rock?
. Ames does alot of rock work, they have there own blasting crews and
