The right choice for your toughest silo cleaning challenges.
Bridged. Ratholed. Hard-packed. Hydrated. If you’ve ever poked, rodded, jack-hammered, air-lanced or sledged a silo to make material flow. You live in the world of bulk storage handling. We exist to solve that problem without sending anyone in.
Any silo. Any bin. Any bunker. Material build-up is unavoidable.
Virtually any silo, bin, bunker or other bulk storage vessel will eventually suffer from bridged, arched, ratholed, lumpy or hydrated material. The variables are endless, vessel geometry, moisture, temperature, particle size, dwell time, the list goes on, and the problem is essentially built into bulk handling itself.
What isn’t inevitable is the cost. Once flow is restricted, productivity falls every hour the problem continues. Reduced storage capacity, slowed throughput, missed shipments, idle equipment, the impact lands on the P&L immediately.
Three degrees of difficulty. One company that handles all three.
A typical bell curve puts roughly 60% of cleanouts at medium difficulty and the remaining 40% split between low and high. Most contractors only handle one band. We handle the entire curve.
Low Degree Of Difficulty
Often handled by in-house maintenance using poking, rodding, air-lancing, jack-hammering, sometimes with confined-space entry. Even small vessels carry serious risk; a contractor with proper PPE and training minimizes liability.
Manual MethodsMedium Degree Of Difficulty
Vessels under ~40′ diameter x 100′ high with bridged, arched or compacted material. Solved in days, not weeks, with our Junior 360°® whip system or Arch·Master® drill, deployed as a contracted service or rented for in-plant use.
Junior 360°® / Arch·Master®High Degree Of Difficulty
The biggest, hardest, most hazardous cleanouts on earth. Big·Mole® system, high-capacity vacuums, dust collection, CO₂ purging, fire suppression, hydro-blasting, customized purpose-built rigs, all from a single turnkey contractor. There isn’t another like us.
Big·Mole® Turnkey
The only company that can take an HDD project from start to finish.
Mole·Master® is currently the only bulk-storage cleanout contractor capable of safely, reliably and consistently delivering full turnkey services for high-degree-of-difficulty projects, including all of the equipment, training and certifications required.
- Big·Mole® remote cleaning system · nobody enters the silo
- High-capacity industrial vacuum & specialized dust collection
- CO₂ purging & fire suppression for combustible-dust environments
- Mole-Blasters® (CO₂ pellet blasting), portable crusher de-lumpers, hydro-blasting
- Wet or dry pipe cleaning, structural inspection, M-LAS 3D scanning
EMR under 1.0. MSHA 5000-23. OSHA-trained. Every crew. No exceptions.
Many corporations now refuse on-site access to any contractor with a Workers’ Compensation Experience Modifier (EMR) above 1.0. Ours sits comfortably below that threshold, the result of decades of disciplined operations and remote-first equipment design.
Every Mole·Master® technician is MSHA 5000-23 certified (Parts 46, 47 & 48) and trained to comply with all current OSHA standards: OSHA 29 CFR 1926 Construction, OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Industry, Confined Space Entry, Lock Out / Tag Out, Hazard Recognition, Hazwoper, DOT, and Right-To-Know. Combined with our remote cleaning technologies, unsafe silo entry is eliminated by design.
Tell us what you’re storing and what’s gone wrong.
We’ll classify the project (LDD / MDD / HDD), tell you whether no-entry cleaning is the answer, and give you a real number, not a sales pitch.