A drill rarely dies out of nowhere. Look after a machine and it can outlast its rated life by years. Ignore it and you might be rebuilding it inside one season.
Every quarry begins with creating a hole. Prior to the splitting of the stones into blocks or the blasting of benches, the first act to take place is drilling into the rock
Cutting granite or marble blocks looks fairly routine from the outside, but anyone who has actually stood beside a running rig knows how fast things can go wrong.