The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:59 pm**

he reckons it can do 10 tonne per hour and he charges Â£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 Â£100 per hour!
thats a good return!

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:09 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:11 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:40 am**

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

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:48 am**

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:35 am**

cookiewales wrote: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 Â£20k,so no go there. So for the moment we are stuck with paying to get the slurry pumped out by the "stool bus"

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:37 am**

ambient wrote: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!

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:28 am**

London Stone Paving wrote:Finally managed to get a few shots of the crusher. the stuff its producing is really good quality.

One thoughtâ€¦

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

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:41 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:41 pm**

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 Â£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

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:45 pm**

ringi wrote:One thoughtâ€¦

What about separating out the different colours of stone and then running the output through a grader - you could create some really interesting â€œgravelsâ€� 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.

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:07 pm**

London Stone Paving wrote:
cookiewales wrote: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 Â£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

Posted: **Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:46 pm**

cheaper than red rhino parts were and much better machine

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

Posted: **Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:05 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:36 pm**

digerjones wrote: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 Â£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.

The Brew Cabin

Use of concrete crusher to create subbase.