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July 18, 2022 - Brock’s Rocks held a ribbon cutting event Tuesday, July 12, 2022, to celebrate their opening and let the community know about their available services.
Stephanie Elswick, Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Ambassador President, welcomed all present and introduced Jason, Brandy and Brock Filz.
Jason Filz explained they have recently purchased the property where they have their scales and equipment directly across the road from their rock pit located on FM 139.
“[We] purchased new equipment to make production what it needs to be to meet the needs of the community,” said Filz.
He described the wide variety of products they offer and the benefit of the accurate scale they have to weigh everything coming in and out of their facility both for safety and accuracy of the customer’s purchase.
“This is the only rock pit in Shelby County with the screening. We actually have two screeners and they are big screeners, and one crushing plant, three wheel loaders, three excavators, we provide about nine full time jobs,” said Filz.
He hopes what they can provide to the county as a local service will prevent the need to outsource beyond Shelby County and help reduce that expense in fuel cost, and also provide a superior product.
They have the first layer which is the top soil followed by blonde sand. The next layer is the red dirt before hitting the iron ore and then the blue iron.
The majority of the products Brock’s Rocks currently offers include:
- Top Soil - Top layer of soil, screen it to be good top soil
- Blonde Sand - Provides good drainage which is commonly used for horse arenas
- Red Dirt - Commonly called 60/40 or select fill often used for house pads and road sub bases or oilfield locations. It is good to compact and hold weight up.
- Iron ore layer, Fill Dirt - Good for low spot in yard or driveway. Shifted/screened from the iron ore road base.
- Iron ore layer, Road Base
- Iron ore layer, Rock 2x4
- Iron ore layer, Decorative (riprap)
- Blue rock layer, Road Base *Bottom layer, rock is very hard.
- Blue rock layer, Clean Rock 1 1/2
- Blue rock layer, Rock 2x4
- Blue rock layer, Rock 5x7
- Blue rock layer, Decorative
"We want to thank everybody that came out to be a part of this, we know it's hot out, it's just that your faith of what we're doing and your eagerness to help support us, and we really appreciate that," said Filz to those attending.
Brandy and Jason also own the sister company, Timberwolf Lake Works. Timberwolf Lake Works can build your house pad, mobile home pad, take care of all dirt work as well as gravel or sand for driveway repairs or installations, build and repair boat docks and replace flotation, erosion control on lake property, dozer and bobcat work as well as land clearing.
Brocks Rock’s is located at 24544 FM 139 in Shelbyville. To contact Brock’s Rocks call 936-590-8784. Hours are 7:30am to 5:00pm Monday thru Friday.
