American Stone–Brazil Indiana

When American Stone’s 20 ton hoist quit working, the local landscape stone business came to a grinding (sawing) halt.

The 20 ton crane is used all day long to lift heavy stone to feed the saw that cuts them into beautiful sliced pieces resembling a deli’s meat-cutter.

The diamond tipped saw blade is 10 foot diameter, and provides a water cooled slice through native Indiana limestone, granite, and sandstone.  The blade travels horizontally via a rack and pinion drive and is automatically lowered 2 ½” at each end of travel via chain driven dual ball screws to achieve consecutively deeper cuts until the stone’s sliced all the way through, then sent off to be landscape rock.

The crane was repaired after a long day of troubleshooting, all with no new parts required.  

Vigo Engineering does landscaping too! (sort of)