Ye old crusher buckets

[Giles]

My mates just bought a £20k crusher bucket for his 13 ton, I couldn’t understand why for that size when you can just hire in big crusher for a day or 2 and do a proper job of it.

Looked into the micro and midi crushers and just can’t see how they pay with output wear parts and time taken vs just muck away and buy in quarried.

 

[GazCro]

My mates just bought a £20k crusher bucket for his 13 ton, I couldn’t understand why for that size when you can just hire in big crusher for a day or 2 and do a proper job of it.

Looked into the micro and midi crushers and just can’t see how they pay with output wear parts and time taken vs just muck away and buy in quarried.

Depends how you cost it into your work @Giles I reckoned when I paid 20k for crushing bucket for 8 tonner if it paid for itself in 3 years without needing any money spent on it I'd be happy. Probably took a little over 12 months to pay for itself and now basically pays for the machine its on. Hiring a crusher in is all well and good but you need enough quantity to justify it and someone is making the money off it. You also don't have control over what it produces cos hired in just want to open it up in size to get gone.
Ultimately muckaway and subbase back in is anywhere from £20 to £30 a ton. Crushing myself costs me 3 or 4 quid a ton max so i can often work it to bring £20 a ton in.

 

[pettsy]

@Giles maybe we’re just lucky to have so many quarries locally and easy access to stone

 

[GazCro]

@Giles maybe we’re just lucky to have so many quarries locally and easy access to stone

I have plenty handy quarries but why shouldn't i make the money and not them? £160 hr for 8 tonner with crusher bucket

 

[doobin]

I have plenty handy quarries but why shouldn't i make the money and not them? £160 hr for 8 tonner with crusher bucket

That’s worth it, I just can’t see it on a 2.5t.

 

[TiltyShaun]

My mates just bought a £20k crusher bucket for his 13 ton, I couldn’t understand why for that size when you can just hire in big crusher for a day or 2 and do a proper job of it.

Looked into the micro and midi crushers and just can’t see how they pay with output wear parts and time taken vs just muck away and buy in quarried.

I think the output on the MB type crusher buckets is awesome. The ability to take a tracked machine to the job to then sort and crush adds a lot of flexibility!!
Again it still comes down to the nature of the work you do.

 

[bobthebuilder]

i hire this fella

 

[TiltyShaun]

i hire this fellaView attachment 39445

Which excavator does it fit on??

 

[GazCro]

i hire this fellaView attachment 39445

I often think this type (or red rhino) of crusher would be handy especially the fact that it can be loaded/ran alongside any machine (as long as it can reach to load it). But one thing that's really good about bucket on 8 ton is how little room you need to work (as well as how little outlay a 20k bucket is in comparison)

 

[6feetdown]

i hire this fellaView attachment 39445

Looks a decent size that 1

 

[V8Druid]

this makes interesting reading .... and makes crush/recycled materials even more appealing ... raw can only go up

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[Lancs Lad]

this makes interesting reading .... and makes crush/recycled materials even more appealing ... raw can only go up

Latest report on Aggregates Reserves confirms worrying decline

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More small local quarries like the old days? Stuff the nimbys?

 

[V8Druid]

More small local quarries like the old days? Stuff the nimbys?

can think of several locally that were 'uneconomic' when they were closed ... far from worked out

 

[Shovelhands]

can think of several locally that were 'uneconomic' when they were closed ... far from worked out

Well they seem to be able to dig a reservoir here as an excuse for gravel extraction, setting up weigh-bridge and mobile washing plant, in and out in a couple of years and make a tidy fortune out of it.
There’s plenty left in the ground, but a gravel pit it’s just not what people want to see. But if we want to keep using aggregate then it’s got to be dug somewhere.

 

[V8Druid]

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[Nick...]

I got one of hawkforks demo VHS tapes some 25 years ago they seemed to have a vast range of attachments and machines, from car crushers to root forks.

All seem to be built to withstand a bomb blast I saw the main man at the last plantworks i think it was.
Nice man, nice kit , nice attitude , cant see why the kit wouldnt be worth a try based on all those factors .

Still got mine somewhere
nick...

 

[TiltyShaun]

Still got mine somewhere
nick...

Perhaps you should dig it out and see what interest there is in a 2nd hand one!!

 

[Hg2702]

Perhaps you should dig it out and see what interest there is in a 2nd hand one!!

Can I join the Queue

 

[V8Druid]

Still got mine somewhere
nick...

video or bucket?

 

[Canal Navvy]

Hawkfork rings bells , I think I remember seeing them offering their forks as a kit of bits to self build for farm use. Quite sensible really as the users of the other offerings were having to rebuild theirs after every silage season