One of the first things I did getting out of the Navy was work in a rock quarry Oiling on a dragline, Then I ran the Rock Crusher and welded up the hammers in the Hammer mill on Saturdays. 😳😱. Then I ran the Dragline 😎👍✅
in my late teens i got a job working for a farmer, that owned a quarry, i looked after the cattle and moved the pasture fences as the quarry grabbed up grass land turning it into a hole they turned into a big lake, then the farmer sold the big lake to the county for a landfill where trash is dumped today,working around that loud machinery ruined my hearing, but i loved it!
Great videos I am a technician for a Powerscreen dealer great crushers them magnets are very strong cordless tools don’t work near them don’t let credit cards near them I found that out the hard way
You don't want to be near one of those when cannon ball rocks are dropped into them. Catch them just right and look up and run the other way. I spent ten years working in that line of work.
Chris, you have a signature way of operating that. Excavator. I believe I could tell if you or someone else is operating it. You make it look so smooth.
Some n nifty excavator work there. I'm surprised the camera survived the magnet - I bet you have to watch your phone, camera, pacemaker etc near that thing!
It happens though plus all machines don’t move a half mile an hour. Several kinds go up to 45 miles an hour. Oh in reverse you say it won’t?? Well a motor grader can has 8 gears forwards and backwards so yeah you can get run over. It’s not any kind of a joke. Not saying you were joking but those alarms are important
Stabbing machines with pitchforks doesn't do much. Stabbing them with a forklift is highly effective at making them quieter (after a brief moment of noise).
Don’t work with double decker trailers, especially the new ones, the siren when the decks dropping is horrific, and they removed the button to mute them too 😭😭
@@whobee8868I pulled out that nonsense sirens from both of the backhoes that I work with.It just causes headache when having to listen them 10 hours a day every day.How do I not run people over you wonder?Well i just watch what is behind me when I go in reverse.As everyone should do!It's also getting removed on the dozer by me, yesterday I found out where it was hidden and tomorrow I'ma pull that annoying piece of shit out
That thing will put out some Rock , it seems as long as ya try and keep the pretty clean stuff fed to it...But, that was pretty cool Chris !! Thanks for taking us along ..... Have a Great Evening.....
If you think about it, any time they demolish a building or concrete road, they need gravel before build the new foundation, saves haul out and haul in time and money. Cool machine!
just a query but why dont you use a separator bucket when loading from the concrete rubble pile into the crusher. you would remove a lot of that fine dirt and small concrete content.
A radial stacker would be another great piece of equipment for him to have here. It'd save a lot of time and be way better to stack the finished product, I'm sure.
I operated a Terex Pegson Metrotrack. Not a great design. Little clearance between the bottom of the jaws and he belt, so even modest rebar could jamb the material and stall the belt. Worse still rebar could act as a scribe and cut through the moving belt. The fines belt feed would also get clogged up. I got the feeling from the fitter that when Terex took over the quality dipped. Don't feed sticky muck or fines into the crusher, it sticks to the jaws and acts like a sponge absorbing the motion and energy from the jaws so the concrete or stone doesn't get crushed. It's like substituting the crusher plates with a mattress. We used to use a shaker or screening bucket to feed the crusher so we could separate the muck out first. The less sh1t that goes in, the less down time and sh1t that comes out. Don't stand on the platform near the feed while it's running. People have been dragged into the jaws by being hooked by concrete with exposed rebar, also hard rocks or a piece of steel like a dropped bucket tooth can be ejected upwards when pinched between the jaws. I've had it happen, it's xxxxing scary. It makes a bang like a cannon, and if you're leaning over the jaws when it happens it's goodnight for you.
6:53 Mr. Letsdig with all due respect, please do not do that. My grandfather lost his index, middle, and ring finger on his right hand because he became comfortable interacting with active heavy equipment.
How does the crushed rock business work....he gets paid by the tonne he produces? Who does he send/sell the crossed rock too? How does the machine crush the concrete? The cinder block that went through early in the video seemed to break up on it's own...vibration rather than a hammers?. Interesting video Chris!
I work in demolition in The Netherlands (Europe), most buildings here are built from brick or concrete (or combinations) and on big jobs with more than like 800 tons of concrete we let one of these come to the job site, mostly a 60 ton one. The thing is, never seen one of these bigger machines run for more than a week without breaking down. Also very surprised seeing what kind of size rocks this machine handles while being so small
I hate that small fines belt in the winter it always freezes up pain the ass. Especially in the Midwest we have to blow it out all the time with a compressor.
YOU are a SMOOTH OPPERATOR ! Smooth is Efficient ! Does that get ground smaller to be aggregate for new concrete or go as is as base for roads? What would happen if you dropped a bunch odd clay brick in it? Would it come out as clay chips in the fines or in the reject dirt?
We have problems getting 3/4" lime stone in Florida. I used this stuff once about 10 years ago. It was so inconsistent and filled with metal spikes, I should've rejected it. Most of it was just fine dirt, and it wasn't really worth it. Has it gotten any better?
Here you are an American, tell me please: Do you have a favorite job, you work for yourself, you have enough money, you have a good family, a good health - what more would you like most?
Where are the people hollerin about safety crap for the dude laying in the crusher? He should have hard hat, safety goggles, steel toes, jock strap gloves, arm guards, reflective suit, knee pads, ear plugs, flak jacket, shin guards, respirator and a flashing yellow beacon on his head.
Thanks for sharing and showing chris,it was awesome to watch:) but I'm just wundering can it crush up rocks to or just concert?just wundering, so inerways again good video thanks for sharing!.
Is this machine not as versatile as the one Charlie was using, or is just not set up the same? I', looking at all that dust that is coming out of the chute with the crushed stone, and thinking Charlie's machine would have bypassed that.
@@warrenmichael918 yeah I know that's why I said I'd like to be able to rental price is to high for me to justify unless I found a decent size seam of limestone or decided to start recrushing millings maybe one day tho lol
we have a big contractor right by where i live and they seem to make serious money from theirs. They get paid by guys to dump the concrete and then paid by the same guys who want the rock after they crush it ! They have a pile of crushed concrete that seems to never end ! It looks different than the one here though. It looks like it has 3 or 4 times the hopper capacity but isnt as long as the one in this video. They can make several different sizes of rock, i know this one can to but they didnt show it i this video.
DID YOU EVER THINK THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS OVER LOADING THE BUCKET THE CRUSHER THE TRUCK?????.ETC!YOU MIGHT GET A LOT MORE DONE IF YOU WENT A LITTLE SLOWER....JUST SAYING.
Didn't Charlie have a big separator screening type deal from the same company? had the same color... those guys could have a coop working back to back... and Chris could be sitting in there all day shoveling - just don't sit on the belt...
Originally were makers of peat moss screening. then said oh lets make for dirt then chrushers. But started as a peatmoss screening machines for heat source
Hell yeah Chris, that looks like it would be fun and interesting to see in real life!!! Thanks for another great video for us letsdig18 family to watch!!!
Where are the people hollerin about safety crap for the dude laying in the crusher? He should have hard hat, safety goggles, steel toes, jock strap gloves, arm guards, reflective suit, knee pads, ear plugs, flak jacket, shin guards, respirator and a flashing yellow beacon on his head.
The shot with the crusher and both excavators going is just art. To think that just two guys with those machines can turn literally tons of useless concrete into tons of useful gravel in just a few hours is phenomenal.
SD cards aren't magnetic storage. Perhaps you're thinking of floppy disks, which were on their way out 20 years ago? Or hard drives, which are currently on their way out.
