ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS
For Safe, Reliable and Efficient Rock Breaking
BOULDER BUSTER POWER TOOL
EXEMPT
The Boulder Buster Power Tool is EXEMPT from ATF user, storage and licensing regulations as long as the tool is used with its approved Power Cartridges.
Engineered Rock Mechanics Solutions
Rock Science LLC is a leading practitioner in the art and science of Propellant-based rock fragmentation systems. Our flagship Boulder Buster affords cost-effective and highly productive rock breaking. Thus eliminating the operational difficulty and excessive cost associated with today’s highly regulated deployment of high explosives in this industry sector.
Rock excavation and rock fragmentation techniques have been dominated by the drill and blast method for more than a century. However, high explosive-based blasting operations have continually expanded in both excessive operating costs and prohibitive regulatory complexity. Our Boulder Buster technology has now reversed that ever expanding cost and regulatory burden by utilizing a rapid gas expansion Power Cartridge resulting in a safe and controlled outcome.
Our advanced Power Cartridge technology is based on a small high-pressure gas-generating propellant cartridge placed at the bottom of a water-filled drill hole. This Power Cartridge is activated by a focused shock wave. The shock wave is generated from a unique hardware device that is placed into the drill hole behind the cartridge. The resulting rapid “high pressure: gas expansion fractures rock and other structural materials in an efficient tensile-hydro-fracturing breakage mechanism.
This technology platform offers great advantages to the mining and construction industries as a true advancement in state-of-the-art rock fragmentation technologies.
INDUSTRY LEADING TECHNOLGY
Compact and portable the Boulder Buster is an ideal tool for reducing and demolishing boulders, rock and concrete structures on projects that demand versatility and power and in locations where conventional explosives are not allowed or are inappropriate. The Boulder Buster makes it convenient to reduce these oversized structures without evacuating the immediate area.
The Boulder Buster is a non-detonating rock-breaking tool utilizing a patented initiation and propellant technology. A pressure impulse is generated inside the rock by the initiation of a high-pressure gas expansion cartridge introduced into a pre-drilled hole. The pressure impulse is directed through a non-compressible fluid-filled column or water or water gel.
The next generation Boulder Buster has replaced the original generations as an advanced user-friendly design that delivers significantly increased productivity and lower cartridge consumption.
The Boulder Buster separates itself from the competition as it requires only a single (in-hole) cartridge to produce effective breakage results. Improved safety is also a hallmark as the Boulder Buster which no longer requires a powerful Booster Cartridge inside the tool itself. All Power Cartridges are placed within the drill-hole and activated by a small Initiation Cartridge in the breach of the tool.
This design not only saves on cartridge consumption but also improves productivity by speeding up the cycle time between shots.
The Boulder Buster is the most powerful, productive and cost-effective low-explosive rock-breaking technology available.
