Rodney Black started his business in 1990 working on natural gas and crude oil pipelines. He did various jobs, but specialized in road boring and blasting primarily in the Southeast Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. These jobs consisted of blasting and rock road boring. In the end of 1999, he worked frequently in Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, and Southern Alabama doing wet work, water sand, and wet ground. Black has experience doing pipeline work on all sizes of pipes from 12 inch through 52 inch casings, concrete coated pipes and slip joints. In 2000, he was involved in construction collector wells and doing tunnel work up to 144 inches. He put time into concrete pipe jacking, rib and lagging, steel casing, as well as liner plates. Furthermore, he is now starting to build electric machines as opposed to gas and diesel engines, also including electric conversions. Stephen Ceasar broke into the road boring industry in 1990. He worked with Conex for 3-4 years boring sewers. In 1994, he transitioned to a company called Helm and Sons. He worked in Salt Lake City doing road bores and pipe rims. Under the same company, he worked in Las Vegas, Nevada with Piedmont Goldmine and on a nuclear plant in Idaho. As he remained in the industry, companies and methods seemed to change but Ceasar maintained a consistency in the boring industry. Fowler in Dallas, Oregon where he worked on micro tunnels. In 2008, his network linked to Rodney Black. Since that time, he has worked with pipe line companies in Las Vegas, Louisiana and Seattle. Mark Ryan started working in the industry in 1977, doing pipeline and construction. He continued the pipeline and construction work until 1996. At this time he began as a labor/foreman boring machine operator. The materials bored included dirt, rock, water sand, and sand. From 1996 to 2013, Ryan worked for numerous companies doing boring work. These companies included: Henry Mills, Springfield Missouri Utility Department, Piedmont Gas in Winston Salem, Carolina, Lakehead, Vector in Hal, Michigan, Brain Tree in Massachusetts, Carl Lee Smith in Pennsylvania, Kern River in California, Rocky Mountain Express in Ft. Morgan, Colorado, Trans Western Gas Transmission in Farmington, New Mexico, TNT Mechanical Contractors in Kansas City, Missouri, Kinder Morgan in El Paso to Casa Grande, Arizona, Trans Western in Phoenix, Arizona, Rex Project in Cater, Illinois, Trans Canada in Troy, Missouri and Augusta, Kansas, Bernard Construction in Salt Lake City, Dominion Gas in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, Emeridge in Hal, Michigan, and Sheehan Pipeline Construction in Bikini Bottom, West Virginia. With Mark Ryan having 34 years in the industry, Rodney Black having 25 and Stephen Ceasar having 24; the 3 possess a combined total of 83 years of experience in this thriving business.
