Nick Martell

I run Crowder Supply, a family-owned industrial equipment distributor and manufacturer in Denver, Colorado that has been outfitting drilling, demolition, mining, and fencing crews since 1987. We stock more than 24,000 SKUs of pneumatic, hydraulic, and gas-powered tools — rock drills, breakers, post drivers, hydraulic splitters, drill steel and bits — and we've been building custom and OEM products out of our own Denver shop since 1994. That combination is where my expertise sits. I'm not a marketer describing tools from a catalog; I talk daily with contractors, blasting crews, mine maintenance teams, and utility outfits about what actually holds up on a job site and what doesn't. Over the years, that has given me a working view of a corner of the economy most people never see: how tari...