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Soosan America’s Rock Commander Gives Flynn Brothers Inc. Confidence To supplement their teacher incomes, brothers John and Jesse Flynn started an asphalt patching and driveway paving business in the Louisville, Ky., area in 1973, working from the back of their pickup truck. Flynn Brothers Inc. took off and younger brother, Ed, joined the company in 1980. In 1982, Jim Rice came on board to serve as a partner in the business. Under this management team, the company grew, with operations expanding to take on paving, sitework and utility projects. Flynn Brothers Inc. became an employee-owned company in 2004 and its operations have continued to Flynn Brothers was awarded the contract to conduct site work and excagrow. Major projects include a total vation for Republic National Distributing Company’s new facility. pavement replacement on a heavily trafficked stretch of Interstate 65 in Brothers relies on employees equipped reduce operator fatigue, the unit feaLouisville; excavation, clearing and with reliable and highly productive tures a large cab design and tilt console sanitary line installation for the 40-acre equipment to accomplish the task on for greater comfort. Available options Buechel Basin Wastewater Storage time. For drilling rock, the company include an extendable boom, water Facility; and site work, underground turns to Rock Commander rock drills. suppression, angle system and longer utilities and asphalt paving for the Flynn Brothers has used Soosan mast. Paddock Shops, one of Louisville’s America’s Rock Commander rock largest shopping centers. drills for the majority of its drilling Rock Commander JD800E-II Noted for its experience and expert- needs since 2018. The company curThe newest addition to the Rock ise with projects involving the area’s rently has three Rock Commander Commander lineup — the JD800-II — uniquely hard limestone, Flynn drills in its fleet: a JD1400E-II and two is smaller than the JD-1400E-II but Brothers was awarded the contract to JD800E-II drills. shares a majority of the large machine’s conduct site work and excavacomponents. The JDtion for Republic National 800E-II features a large Distributing Company’s new cab design and tilt console facility. Republic markets and and can operate with T45 distributes wine and spirit or T51 drill steel and can products to bars, restaurants, handle hole diameters hotels and liquor stores ranging from 2.75 to 4 in. throughout Kentucky. The The JD800-II is powcompany has more than 300 ered by a Cummins employees and handles more QSB6.7, providing power than 50 percent of wine and for operating the almost half of the bourbon sold hydraulics, compressor in Kentucky. The new comand the YH80A drifter. plex, located on Blankenbaker The JD-800E-II is used by Parkway in Louisville, will construction and developinclude a 326,000-ft. ware- Flynn Brothers currently has three Rock Commander ment contractors that need drills in its fleet: a JD1400E-II and two JD800E-II drills. to drill a mid-size hole house and office complex. Jim Slinker, head of Flynn without breaking the Brothers’ drilling and blasting division, bank. was on site in October to begin the Rock Commander JD1400E-II With more than a year’s worth of project. Slinker estimates that there are Designed to be economical yet work complete on this project, down80,000 yds. of mass rock along with dependable, the JD1400E-II is pow- time has been kept to a minimum due storm sewer, sanitary sewers and water ered by the Cummins QSL9 engine, to Soosan’s simple to maintain syssupply line access that requires drilling with a GHH Rand compressor and the tems. Rock Commander drills are front and blasting. Drilling depths for the YH135 drifter. The JD1400E-II can and center on Flynn Brothers’ latest project will range from 10 to 21 ft., drill deep holes from 3.5 to 5 in. in project, as well as hundreds of other based on the current plans. diameter, with fast drilling rates and projects currently under way throughWhile Republic National low maintenance cost, according to the out the United States and Canada. Distributing Company relies on Flynn company. For more information, visit rockBrothers to get the work done, Flynn To improve overall productivity and drills.net. CEG
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