In 1968 I had the privilege of resurrecting a large Cedar Rapids 30 x 42 jaw crusher powered by an inoperable Cat D-17,000 engine. They had been brought by the US Navy to Ponape an island in Micronesia but never used as a quarry site could not be secured & the Cat engine had been mistimed sometime in its prior history so wouldn’t start. After many rope pulls & Magneto work I was able to get the Pony motor going & spin over the Main V8 Cat motor but it wouldn’t start. I had worked on several of these Cat engines prior to this & was lucky enough to recognize the injector timing was 180 degrees off. Finally after more than two weeks we got it going & began our quarry, however eventually we used a much more capable portable unit made by Pioneer (also abandoned) with both a jaw and a roll crusher powered by a much more modern Cat D342. One thing I learned was that with hard granite, blasted rock would not pop out of the jaws much less frequently than river rock. Be very careful flying large rock is very dangerous.
The big railroads have gone 100% to roller bearings. The only place that you can still find the plain bearings is on old cars used on tourist railroads. I used to volunteer on one of those railroads and we ditched using oil soaked cotton waste in the early 70’s in favor of sewn pads. I recall that we used Hennessy Journapak pads because I was one of the guys who changed them out. When you do get around to packing those lube ports consider cutting up an old towel, fill with pieces of cotton, and sew it up to make a lube pad. Otherwise you get bits of cloth that are picked up and carried into the bearing, defeating the purpose of lubrication.
"Working on things is just as fun as using them" Ain't that the truth! A lot of people seem to not agree with it, but I sure do. The magic of RU-vid is that you can work on something you've always wanted, but you know wouldn't be the best financial decision under normal circumstances.
"You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older, and deeper in"--hey, wait a minute. You get crushed stone. With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford. I love that song. 🎶"I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine. I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine."
Love that manual. I know setting up cameras and editing take a lot of your time but it is great that you are financially rewarded for having fun restoring old iron like the D2. Keep up the good work. 👍👍
This is a truly amazing video for my family and I. My ancestors used to own the ACME Road Machinery Co. in Frankfort N.Y.. Some people won't believe me. It is amazing what they used to produce in that factory, as shown just a little bit here. They built a lot of different things. My great great grandfather(David B. Cook) is credited with inventing the snow plow! Unfortunately though ACME Road Machinery burnt, twice. Between that and bad financial decisions the factory did not survive. So, I was never able to walk or even see the factory, but my father did. The Photo in that manual at 2:20 showed an overhead crane that my father used to talk about. I think the scale of that photo is a little off, but that is just old photography. The factory was huge and the street it was on was called ACME road, go figure. I want to thank you saving this old piece of machinery, it means a lot. I wish I could write an essay here, but I cant. *If anybody has any questions about ACME Road Machinery I will try my best to answer them in a timely fashion and to the best of my ability.*
I grew up in MARBLE country in West Rutland, Vermont. The lime plant was just down the road from me. They had a crusher in there to crush marble blocks down to dust for farm and "everything else", lime. The crusher was HUGE. It was probably 50 ft. tall. It was powered by a huge 3 phase electric motor that was about the same height. The marble company produced it's own power which also powered other processes in Proctor, Rutland, and other surrounding towns. People don't realize it, but lime is in everything from farms to cosmetics.
To food! They used to cork top bottle-it and sell it as a "spoon every meal" supplement, if you can believe that. Had a Hydrated Lime plant in my hometown, was gone lon, looong before my time, unfortunately.
They just did it differently back then, didn't they? Look at that manual, how much extra stuff they put in there. One of the primary differences, in my estimation, is the amount of pride and appreciation shared between the fraternal ranks of persons in an industry, and how readily they accepted and sought to help grow their respective industries through meticulous trade publications, comprehensive industry health & growth almanacs, industry specific social orders, societies, perfunctory region-wide provincial functions, regional and national management organizations, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Pride, character, brotherhood, reliability, strength of one's solemn assurance in as simple a phrase as, "I will be there." Different time, folks had a bit more honor and accountability generally speaking, I think this is reflected everywhere in the things they left behind for us to marvel at.
Is the product literature available on line? I suspect that Keith Rucker would be delighted to scan and digitize them for his Vintage Machinery web site.
I have witnessed a small rock crusher come to a sudden and complete halt. It was being driven very slowly by a flat belt from a portable steam engine. The belt was thrown off. All because a large lump of Cornish Granite was fed into the crusher. The consensus was because the crusher was being driven very slowly there was not enough stored energy in the flywheels to crush the granite. Usually when these machines are being shown at working days the opportunity is used to crush broken concrete and recycle it. Broken concrete is easier to crush than granite.
I used to be a crusher operator in the UK, years ago, much bigger crushers, electric and diesel cat 966 engine crusher, the only thing that used to get my immediate attention, was once in a while l used to get a cannonball try but go through the crusher, standard procedure was to turn off the crusher and run. It wasn't so much dangerous as the ball would always go straight up, about 80 feet, but it would shoot out like a bullet and then return for another go until the crusher was stopped. Them good old days.
Thanks! The manual was terrific, the photos/pictures really were eye-opening for me! I appreciate learning about "watch minutes". A new term for me. Things begin to make sense why things are done and the manner of their presentation by the channel operators. Your straight forward, no nonsense style and honesty continue to bring me back. My watch minutes will be increasing! Be well, be safe!
Wild idea - team up with a sawmill and/or carpentry channel to build a hopper. Harvest some of your woods. Doing it yourself would pull you from the main projects. You do what you do best, and let another do what they do best.
Beautiful back scenery with the leaves turning. I have watched every one of the videos on the Dozer restoration. I am looking forward to seeing the same on the crusher. Thanks as always for bringing us along.
Can't wait to see this in the shop and you bringing it back to life. I love seeing the old work horses getting to work again. Squatch you reclaim our forgotten past and remind the younger ones of what we had and how hard we had to work.
This project will probably never make it inside the shop. It’s just too heavy to get in there unless it’s disassembled and brought inside in pieces, then it would have to be reassembled in the same manner. Everything removed would involve “crane” work which would require overhead clearance, something his shop doesn’t have much of. His engine hoist won’t lift high enough to use it for very much of the work, so he’s limited to the Kubota bucket for his heavy lifting jobs if it comes to that.
This is cool! I worked for Universal Engineering in the the late 70's early 80's. They were a division of Pettibone at the time and we made jaw crushers and hammermills. These went all over the world,we built all sizes. Universal started pre WW1, and I saw some old units similar to yours. It was really interesting work and good God was it hot, dirty and heavy work. There was an aisle where they did mostly hard facing and those guys looked like coal miners when they came out of there. Welding 'light stuff ' as we called it was anything under 3/4" inch thick.1" to 3" plate was common, jaw sections were made of 3 to 6" plate. Alloys were sometimes required to be preheated to 400⁰ before welding. I loved the work and my skill set at the time; much as I missed it when the layoffs came I do believe it was better health wise that I didn't spend 15-20 yrs in there.
The literature was worth the price you paid. I love looking through those old manuals. I had a father-in-law who was an electrician and was a stickler for saving information. It Is very cool looking through old installation instructions and electrical catalogs. Happy reading Ps those manuals would keep me from sleep until I read everything in them at least once.
Very interesting piece of machinery indeed! Love learning a little more about how all that worked in its hay day’s! Looking at the manual, is like looking at a time capsule! Thanks for showing us around the machine and manual.👌😎👍
Thanks squatch!!! I worked in a quarry that still ran this model for crushing down to 2” and the big jaw crusher took 3’ boulders and pounded them to a 1’. Powerful machines. I hated cleaning the tailings out from under the crushers.
Around here anyway every major road had a quarry every 10mi or so that the country crushed rock out of to build and maintain the roads with. That went on until the 60s when paving became more common. That meant a whole bunch of little crushers!!!
One of the crushers we had at the operation was a Farrel Bacon. It used a wax type lubricant with water spray in the bearing box journals. If you have stone jumping out of the jaw you have to feed more to fill the jaw up then shut the feed off to let the jaw work. A learning process, Good luck !!
That would be awesome to see in operation at the local tractor show in Darke Co. Ohio. The show is called Darke County farm power of the passed. I'm big into old tractor and prospecting. That's awesome you saved it from a scrap yard. I give yah a 5 star.......
When you are done with it it's not like you don't have any rocks to crush. The repair videos of the rock crusher will be as awesome as j1113 d2 which is very awesome. Keep up the awesome videos Denis from California.
The Kennecott Copper Co. Jaw crusher at McGill Nevada was located under the rotary car dumper and swallowed the contents of an entire railroad car at once. Very scary.
I ran a crusher for a few years at a local quarry. Its funny to me that nothing really changed on jaw crushers in 100 years the only thing different from the one I ran is the size.
Watched some videos on some yters building a rock crusher. They did a great job. The tens of thousands of tons of stone that was put through this machine. This Acme model 9-1/2D gets a second life.
I love watching your episodes and I like your reasoning and the fact they generate revenue for you to do what you do. I hope it alsi provides a good income for your labir especially because it's a labor of love.
Can't imagine trying to keep it full of stone while at that speed and also feeding and watering a steam engine to keep it going at the same time. Between the exposed flat belts, fire, hot steam, shooting stones and crown sheet/boiler danger it seems totally insane yet exciting at the same time
Great video 👌 when I drove a loading shovel in the quarry everything was put through the plate crusher before going to the cone crusher our crusher now and again you had to climb down inside it to tighten the bolts holding the plates in 💪💪💪 really looking forward to seeing this crusher back in action 👍
Looking forward to seeing that old beast come alive, and everything you do to make that happen,,, as an aside, so nice to see the things you and Senior do, but so also,, its nice not to hear so much unnecessary colorful language,(spent four years in the US Navy, so I not only heard, but learned enough of that stuff to serve me well,,,,,but a time and place for everything). Thanks again!!
I'm a new subscriber, I'll be keeping an eye out for a something similar. Out here in this small town ppl are wanting gravel for their driveways but there isn't any clean material out in this area for miles. So it'll be exciting to see your Rock Crusher up and running..
A friend of mine has a "mini" crusher with a 10 or 12" flywheel. There's a handle on the flywheel and you turn it by hand. Pretty cool, I haven't seen for a few years so I don't remember the name but it was painted black and red, not sure if those were original colours. Keep smilin.
Love it.🥰 Oh and by the way ...My 1919 & 1922 Fordson F do have brake of a sort, with internal, mechanical friction considered sufficient to stop the tractor when the clutch pedal was depressed. with the worm drive you stop quite fast as long as you are in gear. when depressing the clutch about half way it is in neutral full depression locks clutch plate's so they don't move .
*- The jaw plates both look pretty dard good.* *- For Aggravation Reduction {/increased crushing speed-efficiency} time spent hard-facing and/or build-up of the plates' scolliping will be the most rewarding of all refurbishment activities.* *- I know from 14 hr days crushing the stuff no one else could get through the machine.*
Well done and I missed the Wiley Coyoty comments lol but I get it ACME has been a world wide name even in cartoons bud and I really enjoied your purposed planning for content that puppy should generate lots of that for me I love the mechanical and buildable content you provide and I'm still hopeing X231 makes a surprise appearance kinda fell in love with that old tractor and its neat uniqueness.
awesome video it's a good thing that you put the belt pulley back on so Kyle doesn't lose sleep over it lol . The q and a and service literature videos are always very interesting
Nice Crusher. Too bad you do not have the original parts lists and drawings. Not impossible to reverse engineer or pull from the patent docs. Crusher rpm’s are similar to current crushers (I do tech support on them). The harder or slippier the rock the lower the speed. Feed size is roughly 80% of the published opening. Make sure you address the flywheel fit before the published speeds. All the springs will likely need a refresh (or could upgrade to hydraulic). The jaw dies may still be available today. Check the dimensions. Be careful welding on them as they are usually manganese. I suspect one of the modern suppliers of crushers has this manufacture as part of thier stable meaning drawing “may” still be available. Very interested in following your journey
interesting thought, this rock crusher started life as a Iron ore, then was mined, crushed by that huge crusher and, shipped via great lakes. Only to crush it's own.
