Services

Built for hard ground.

Six service lines, one standard: controlled, safe, on schedule. If your project starts with rock, one of these is the answer.

Every scope below is delivered the same way — a disciplined drill pattern, careful explosives management, and a controlled shot executed by a crew with decades on the tools. We work design-build with owners, engineers, and contractors across British Columbia and Alberta.

Worn tungsten-carbide drill bits and drill steel resting on a steel deck plate
Blasted pipeline trench through rock with pipe sections staged along the right-of-way

01 — Service

Pipeline

Rock work is often the hardest stretch of a pipeline spread. McCaw's crews handle the drilling and blasting scope end to end — loading explosives, tying in detonators and patterns, and safely executing controlled blasts on right-of-ways, highway crossings, and river crossings across Western Canada.

  • Right-of-way rock excavation
  • Highway and river crossings
  • Explosives loading and detonator tie-in
  • Controlled blast execution and management
Open-pit mine benches with a controlled blast dust plume rising at dusk

02 — Service

Mining

McCaw's provides production drilling and blasting built around responsible mining practices — high-quality results delivered with the highest standards of integrity, safety, and environmental care.

  • Production drilling and blasting
  • Pattern design and blast execution
  • Explosives management on site
  • Environmental care on every program
Drilled blast-hole pattern marked with cones on a quarry bench floor

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Quarry

Consistent fragmentation starts with a disciplined pattern. McCaw's drills and shoots quarry benches with the control that keeps crushers fed, walls stable, and operations on schedule.

  • Bench drilling on tight patterns
  • Controlled production blasts
  • Fragmentation tuned to the operation
  • Wall control and highwall safety
McCaw's drill rig and excavator working a rock cut at a BC ski hill

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Civil Works

McCaw's started on highway projects across Western Canada in 1977, and heavy-civil rock work is still core to the company. We work design-build — collaborating with owners, engineers, and contractors to deliver efficient, cost-effective rock excavation.

  • Highway rock cuts and grade blasting
  • Municipal development rock work
  • Design-build collaboration with engineers
  • Urban and infrastructure-adjacent controlled blasting
McCaw's excavator-mounted drill installing anchors beside a lakeshore

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Piling

By the late 1980s McCaw's was installing permafrost piling in Yellowknife, and the company has been drilling anchors and piles in hard ground ever since. Overburden anchor drills and a deep equipment bench let us take on piling scopes other outfits pass on.

  • Anchor and piling installation
  • Overburden anchor drilling
  • Permafrost piling experience since the late 1980s
  • Rock and soil anchoring
Rock-bolt anchor plates and steel mesh reinforcing a granite slope

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Reinforcement

Slopes, cuts, and foundations need holding. McCaw's installs rock and soil anchors, slope reinforcement, and grouting programs — backed by specialized slope-work equipment and nearly five decades of ground experience.

  • Rock and soil anchoring
  • Slope reinforcement systems
  • Grouting programs
  • Specialized slope-work equipment

Not sure which scope fits?

Describe the ground and we'll tell you straight what it needs. Call the Vernon operations office, Monday to Friday.

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