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Tuesday, October 2.1979
University Daily Kansan
Quarry worker's road not rocky
By BRETT CONLEY Staff Reporter
As Steve Stevens plots his dust-cover Chevy pickup truck past mountains of gravel he lists the names and uses of each type of rock that Hamm Quarry produces.
"Well, that is CM-7 which is mostly used for cover material, and this right here is a bit different," Stevens draws. "That there is SAX which basically just unwasher SAX and over there."
Stevens has been in the quarry business for nearly fifteen years, and, as forensmen for the police department, he is in charge of the entire operation from plashing and digging to crushing and breaking.
"The whole process just comes by experience," Stevens said. "There's a lot of it."
trial and error and eventually the type of rock you want to make come out, but you'll get fooled sometimes."
THE QUARRY produces more than 2,000 tons of rock and gravel every day for asphalt, petroleum processes and concrete.
A newcomer to the quarry has difficulty telling Stevens apart from the fourteen other men who work for him.
A chalky white dust covers his hunting boots, faded blue jeans and demin work shirt, as it does all the workers in the quarry.
"We've got 160 acres we're working on at our location in Lansing, ledges - Platmouth, Leavenworth, and Toronto," Revenes said. "The top level is 18 feet from the water, only 21 inches on the ground, so it's fine for the lawn."
**WE BLAST ABOUT every other day.**
First we have to drill the holes, then load them and then shoot them. But we have to wait until after five 'o' clock to shoot so
"We usually load about a thousand pounds of explosives, depending on the condition of the airplane. But because we delay the charges by a few milliseconds, so it's more like a loud explosion."
everyone who lives around here can be notified.
"People always say to me, 'Wow, you work with dynamism. Isn't that dangerous? But, you know, it is not any more dangerous than it was. It got to be careful with how you go about it."
AFTER THE ROCK is blasted it's loaded in Caterpillar dump trucks, Stevens explained, and taken to the rock crusher where it is ground up.
Then the rock travels down a maze of convevator bites to more crushers. The rock eventually reaches the bottom of the hill for size, consistency and chemical content.
"everybody likes rock but nobody like
quarries." Stevens said. "When we're done
here we will have to reclaim the land, and
we will be able to farm it, but it will
will look all right."
By mixing the three types of rock Hamm mines, Stevens produces gravel suitable for road-building.
"THEY NOT MY Worry because getting out my car is not going to do the job that I did with my coyote good crew now, but I can tell you good help is hard to find. It’s hard for anyone who can do it."
"It's hard to find anyone who wants this type of job anymore. Practically everything you need is in your back up somewhere, and it has to be done with a dirty type label. You have to do it, and it has to be done.
"I was taught to do the best job you can wherever you are, but I've hired a lot of guys that are only here for quitting time and the paycheck."
AS STEVENS SWERED to avoid two dump trucks on his way back up the hill, the rock crush and conveyor belts came to a stop only a minor breakdown, Stevens said.
"The way you learn to fix this machinery is to just watch someone else do it, and if you have ever to work on it you just try to do it the way they did it."
"We average a major breakdown about once a month where we have to be shut down anywhere from one to three days," he said. "We just get everybody on work it."
The quarry workers managed to get the conveyor belts and crushers running again after only 15 minutes.
Stevens climbed back in his truck and headed back down the hill past a truck watering roads to settle the billowing dust.
"RIGHT NOW WE are getting ahead on most of this because this machine there will be hard to get into. We have hard to run the machinery," he said. "It's too much movement around in here the time."
"it's sort of company policy not to start anything if it's ten degrees or colder, so we just try and repair the machinery for a couple of months. When the wind is from the north and it near zero, though, it hard to find bolts and tap as apart the machinery."
After checking in at the weight house near the front gate, Stevens climbed back in his truck to head back up the hill again.
"It's not much of a job to write about," Stevens said, "It's just something that has got to be done."
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Steve Stevens, Hamm Quorum foreman, points out the different rock types in the quarry to crane operator Roy Frater. Stevens and Frater are standing in front of a 40-foot-high wall.
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