Waste tarmac

jack101 · Post: # 101653Post **jack101** Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:13 pm

hi, i have a large amount of waste tarmac that i have ripped up. i dont know exactly how much but estimate about 250 tons. ideally i would like to process it cheap as possible into something useable. i have a digger on site. i am getting a crusher in for some concrete but im not sure this will crush the tarmac as it is more flexible than concrete. what can i do with the tarmac?

crush it?
sell it as is?
extract some soil from a pit and bury it? is it allowable to bury it?

any other ideas?

thanks

Post: # 101654Post **msh paving** Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:46 pm

cant go to land fill, as you have crusher coming crush and sell it on or use it yourself,round my way its crushed and sold at all the agregate pits, this time of year its cold enough to crush no probs MSH

jack101 · Post: # 101655Post **jack101** Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:03 pm

ok thanks, hopefully the cold weather will make it more brittle.

Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:01 pm

large crusher will have no problem with it unless its 40 degrees, we ere on a job and the demolition lads stripped a 1000m2 car park went straight into there terrex 50 ton crusher and came out as useable 6f2

Captain Concrete · Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:20 pm

What size and age crusher? older smaller crushers will struggle with tar-mac hot roll is better because its more brittle but even then its normally stuck to road base and base course which are both relatively soft, are you hiring the crusher? if yes I would talk to the hire company.

Post: # 101671Post **Dave_L** Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:15 pm

The RM60 we hire copes with tarmac, no problem.

dig dug dan · Post: # 101672Post **dig dug dan** Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:59 pm

You need a toggle crusher like the one dave suggests, an impact crusher will not cope with it unless you mix in some hardcore

jack101 · Post: # 101774Post **jack101** Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:25 pm

im waiting on delivery of the crusher. hire guys dont know for sure. im doing concrete anyway so will try the tarmac as well. will post an update with the results. it is a jaw crusher.

jack101 · Post: # 102623Post **jack101** Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:16 pm

hi, just thought i would give an update on here. we got the crusher in and it coped very easily with the tarmac. it was suggested to reverse the jaw action but we didnt have to that.

the concrete was another matter tho! bloody steel mesh was a nightmare. if anyone has to do in future i would suggest getting some kind of hydraulic/electric/pneumatic cutters or else a oxy-propane torch. some crushers cope better than others tho.

dig dug dan · Post: # 102625Post **dig dug dan** Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:35 pm

jack101 wrote:hi, just thought i would give an update on here. we got the crusher in and it coped very easily with the tarmac. it was suggested to reverse the jaw action but we didnt have to that.

the concrete was another matter tho! bloody steel mesh was a nightmare. if anyone has to do in future i would suggest getting some kind of hydraulic/electric/pneumatic cutters or else a oxy-propane torch. some crushers cope better than others tho.

what machine was it?

neatcon · Post: # 102630Post **neatcon** Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:10 pm

You should have no problem getting rid of crushed waste tarmac, farmers will love it...

jack101 · Post: # 102666Post **jack101** Sat Feb 07, 2015 6:14 pm

it was a j-1175 from terex-finlay
i will be using the crushed tarmac myself