Use of concrete crusher to create subbase.

[dig dug dan]

he reckons it can do 10 tonne per hour and he charges £10 +vat if you pick it up or more delivered
that stuff looks great steve

when you look at it like that, the crusher is earning £100 per hour!
thats a good return!

[lutonlagerlout]

well you have a man and a 17.5 machine loading it plus diesel,but you are getting money from recycling waste
LLL

[dig dug dan]

true, but that man was normally paid to throw the stuff in the skip. here he throws it in a crusher! plus not paying for the skips.

[ambient]

when you empty bag there will be plenty of fines its similar crusher to mine you find all the stones go to outside dust stays in middle.
we took a buff block paved drive out yesterday crushed on site and put back in as sub base

[ambient]

[London Stone Paving]

NICE steps what sandstone is that and ball park price waste stone looks good some limestone dust would bind it lovely

The stone is 50mm Yorkstone. Not sure what the price is TBH Cookie. They had to be hand cut and hand bull nosed whihc is very time consuming. We have been looking at a new CNC machine which will do it automatically but its going to be a good few months before we can even think about buying it.

Our stone cutting produces plenty of slurry which could be dried out and turned into dust but the machine costs about £20k,so no go there. So for the moment we are stuck with paying to get the slurry pumped out by the "stool bus"

[London Stone Paving]

when you empty bag there will be plenty of fines its similar crusher to mine you find all the stones go to outside dust stays in middle.
we took a buff block paved drive out yesterday crushed on site and put back in as sub base

Thats what I call recycling. great stuff!

[ringi]

Finally managed to get a few shots of the crusher. the stuff its producing is really good quality.

One thought…

What about separating out the different colours of stone and then running the output through a grader - you could create some really interesting “gravels� that match the stone you sell. It is pity to use a nice stone just for a sub base.

[dig dug dan]

nice machine ambient. Heard spares were a nightmare in terms of price and availability. I noticed it looks like you have added a platform the side of yours too!
nice to see riddling bucket prior to crushing. that makes all the difference and gives a cleaner end product

[ambient]

spares are a pain if not in stock usually takes two weeks but not broke down much in 18 months only replaced a feeder belt £200 and just been having trouble with electric fuel pump keeps packing in (hence the jump leads) pricewise cheaper than red rhino parts were and much better machine

[London Stone Paving]

One thought…

What about separating out the different colours of stone and then running the output through a grader - you could create some really interesting “gravels� that match the stone you sell. It is pity to use a nice stone just for a sub base.

We discussed it last week Ringi. Were planning to put the Yorkstone crush on the website and sell as Yorkstone chippings.

[digerjones]

NICE steps what sandstone is that and ball park price waste stone looks good some limestone dust would bind it lovely

The stone is 50mm Yorkstone. Not sure what the price is TBH Cookie. They had to be hand cut and hand bull nosed whihc is very time consuming. We have been looking at a new CNC machine which will do it automatically but its going to be a good few months before we can even think about buying it.

Our stone cutting produces plenty of slurry which could be dried out and turned into dust but the machine costs about £20k,so no go there. So for the moment we are stuck with paying to get the slurry pumped out by the "stool bus"

if you had the slurry go into a tank, you could dig it out and put it on hard standing and water would drain back in. i would think it be cheaper to put it in a skip than pay for it to go in a road tank. plenty of uses for it rarther than cart it away. just my thoughts duck

[dig dug dan]

cheaper than red rhino parts were and much better machine

rhino supposed to be british,yet more expensive. yet another black mark against them!

[ambient]

got a new pump kubota one fits perfect £70 genuine komplet £138 and two week wait

[London Stone Paving]

if you had the slurry go into a tank, you could dig it out and put it on hard standing and water would drain back in. i would think it be cheaper to put it in a skip than pay for it to go in a road tank. plenty of uses for it rarther than cart it away. just my thoughts duck

The slurry pit is about 1800mm deep, so we would need to invest in a digger to dig it out which we cant afford at the moment. The stool bus charge us £120 to pump out the slurry pit. It needs pumping about once every 4 weeks, so its the cheapest wway to do it at the moment.