Pit & Quarry, February 2014
OPERATIONS Rene Trevino left manager of New Beginnings worked with Tribal Administrator Don Spaulding to cultivate a program dedicated to helping at risk tribal members to learn a new trade and maintain employment Casino Texas only casino as well as building a school justice center medical clinic 2500 vehicle parking lot community center government building gaming commission building convenience store roads and 40 homes in a new subdivision So far the construction division has produced more than 400000 tons of material Into the aggregates business We noticed that there was a lot of opportunity for the tribe to make some money off of its own projects Spaulding said We thought Why are we paying somebody else to provide this material So we figured wed try to get into the aggregate business since there was so much base material needed and there was so much readily available here on the reservation that belongs to the tribe But creating a construction division that could run an aggregate processing plant with little experience and equipment was no easy task The material comes from a caliche pit on the reservation and is a calcium carbonate mineral classified as a Texas Department of Transportation Type 2 material often substituted for crushed limestone in road building and construction in southern Texas Its a sandy material with a lot of fines that compacts really well Spaulding said Its good material and weve been using it everywhere After comparing a number of manufacturers Trevino and Spaulding developed a relationship with Larry Smith manager of T K O Equipment in Texas and John McGimpsey regional sales manager for KPI JCI and Astec Mobile Screens With the help of Larry and John we were able to determine what kind of equipment we would need and we developed a pretty extensive inventory of machines Spaulding said Initially starting with a Kolberg 271K screen Trevino and Spaulding soon realized they would need higher production equipment to produce the wide variety of material the reservation required including a 3 in minus for select fills and sub base for roads a 15 in minus flex base oversize material from 4 in to 9 in for gabion baskets as well as 2 in 15 in 3 8 in and 5 8 in for landscaping stones and pipe bedding From there the tribe purchased two 30 in x 80 ft radial stackers two 30 in x 60 ft radial stackers a FT2516 Fold n Go and a SuperStacker all from KPI JCI and Astec Mobile Screens The operation also considering purchasing a variable frequency screen for finer materials Spaulding said A KPI JCI and Astec Mobile Screens SuperStacker stockpiles material from a caliche pit on the reservation The material is a calcium carbonate mineral classified as a Texas Department of Transportation Type 2 material www pitandquarry com February 2014 PIT QUARRY 69
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