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Some ground does not dig, it has to be ground down. We mill surface rock and ledge in place with an FAE STC/SSL rock mill, so a lot that will not take a pad, a drive, or a trail becomes ground you can build on. Nothing hauled off, nothing trucked in.
The head grinds the rock where it sits, in passes, down to the depth the job needs. What comes back up is a mixed fine you can grade and compact, instead of a boulder field somebody has to move.
A pad that hits rock is not a lost pad. Milling takes the high spots down and turns the rock into part of the base, so the slab crew gets a surface that is level and holds.
Caliche drives and rock trails get milled to a running surface instead of rattling your truck apart. The material stays on the property and stays where it is put.
Most of this ground comes to us under cedar and brush. Our clearing crew takes the timber off and the rock head follows on the same mobilization, rather than two separate jobs and two transports.
Same published logic as the rest of the fleet: the machine, the days, and transport. Rock is slower than brush, and how much slower depends on how hard it is and how deep you need it, which is why the quote reads in days rather than acres. Our published price page carries the rates the quote is built from.
Hardness and depth first. Then how much surface has to be covered, how far the machine has to walk between areas, and whether clearing has to come off ahead of it. Photos of the ground texted to 512-400-2693 get a same-day ballpark.
Quote first, walk after you approve it. Same order as every other trade we run.
Photos of the ground and your town. You get an honest ballpark in machine days the same day, no waiting a week for a callback.
Machine days on paper: the machine, the rock head, the days, and transport. Priced from ground we have already milled rather than from a guess.
Once you approve the estimate we walk it together: access, staging, where the material should end up, and what has to come off first.
The lowboy brings the machine and the rock head. We stage where you tell us and work around gates and stock.
The head takes the surface down in passes. You are welcome on site, outside the stay-back distance, and it is loud enough that we mean it.
A slow lap around the finished surface together, against the quote. Fixed on the spot if anything misses.
Crushing processes rock into aggregate you can sell or spread. Milling grinds the rock where it lies and leaves it as part of the ground. We mill. If what you need is base material trucked in and processed, that is a different trade and we will tell you so.
The rock head is not the forestry mulcher with a different attitude. It is a separate FAE head built for stone, it runs slower, and it wears differently. That is why rock is quoted on its own terms rather than folded into a clearing price.
The strongest argument for milling is that nothing leaves. No haul-off trucks, no disposal line on the invoice, no gate torn up by loaded tandems, and the fines end up compacted into the surface you wanted in the first place.
Photographs from our own jobs. Written project pages for this trade are being built; these are the machines and the ground in the meantime.
Limestone milled down across a ridge top, broken rock windrowed off to the side
An RT-120 working a rock windrow beside a finished house
Broken limestone piled clear of the working line, the live oaks left standing
Rock ground into the surface instead of hauled off, machines still working the far end
The RT-135 and its FAE rock head on a finished milled surface
The STC/SSL rock mill up close, and the reason for the stay-back stickerAmazing service and final product. Hunter, Jonathan and Dustin were the operators for both the tree mulcher and the rock mulcher. Their work completely transformed my property. My only regret is that I did not have it done sooner.
Byron Hairston, Google review
Cleared lots of cedars for trails for us on our 14 acres. Cannot wait to have them come back with the machine for rock pulverizing on the rock trails.
Heather Wilson, Google review
The Pierce guys rocked our project out of the park! We had a commercial property that needed some grading and redesign of drainage for future development. They brought in a huge dozer and made light work of our needs.
Chris Neighbors, Google review
No, and the difference matters when you are choosing who to call. Crushing processes rock into aggregate. Milling grinds surface rock and ledge down where it sits and leaves the material as part of the ground. We mill. Nothing gets hauled off and nothing gets trucked in.
It depends on the rock and the machine. The head takes the surface down in passes rather than one cut, so the honest answer comes from the first pass on your ground. The quote says how many days that is expected to take.
Usually yes, if the ground is under cedar or brush. We run both trades, so the timber comes off and the rock head follows on the same mobilization instead of two jobs and two transports.
No, and that is the point. The rock ends up as fines worked into the surface, so there is no haul-off, no disposal line, and no loaded trucks tearing up your gate.
ASV compact track loaders running an FAE STC/SSL skid steer rock mill. That is a dedicated rock head, separate from our forestry mulching heads and built for stone.
Priced in machine days: the machine, the days, and transport. Send photos of the ground to 512-400-2693 for a same-day ballpark, then a written number before anyone mobilizes.
Photos and a rough scope get a same-day ballpark in machine days. Rock is quoted on its own terms, in writing, before anyone starts.