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Panzers: I break rocks thread

arse_sidewards said:
Or some bureaucratic hell wherein you can't get rid of at the dump, spread or bury old brick or CMU because it's "building debris" but you can crush it and spread it on a driveway.

I can see Tracyb having to deal with shit like that.

Or some 486 basement shit. Screen the fill you're excavating, let the rocks roll into the crusher and out the belt into your agregate pile. Would greatly reduce the mass that needs to be transported up and out of the basement.

I'm a cheapskate who'll happily do things the hard way and I couldn't justify a machine like that unless it was free.
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They make excavator attachments that are perfect for that. One of the local concrete recyclers has one and it works surprisingly well.

 
Wouldn't one with a hydraulic motor running an ecentric box be way quicker? Less jaw movement but at a much higher frequency.
 
there is a tiny plate crusher that the local granite shop uses for all their rems. (maybe not all, I think there is some stuff they have it doesn' tlike) makes sense for them, and makes a really good base material.

I built a chute for it many years ago, and haven't done anything to it since. its still crushing for everything they need. i do regularish work for them and i know its been good for them.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Or some 486 basement shit. Screen the fill you're excavating, let the rocks roll into the crusher and out the belt into your agregate pile. Would greatly reduce the mass that needs to be transported up and out of the basement.
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Starry bra: I knew a hippy who bought a landlocked acre on a mountaintop in Vermont. He decided to build a geodesic dome, so he started carrying materials up in a backpack. When he got enough conduit stashed, he decided he needed a gravel base. So he took an 8lb sledge, and spent the summer crushing native rock. :shaking:
 
subybaja said:
Starry bra: I knew a hippy who bought a landlocked acre on a mountaintop in Vermont. He decided to build a geodesic dome, so he started carrying materials up in a backpack. When he got enough conduit stashed, he decided he needed a gravel base. So he took an 8lb sledge, and spent the summer crushing native rock. :shaking:
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Yeah that sounds about right.

Did he do a rammed earth tire retaining wall while he was at it? :laughing:
 
tracyb said:
there is a tiny plate crusher that the local granite shop uses for all their rems. (maybe not all, I think there is some stuff they have it doesn' tlike) makes sense for them, and makes a really good base material.

I built a chute for it many years ago, and haven't done anything to it since. its still crushing for everything they need. i do regularish work for them and i know its been good for them.
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What are they using the output for? Seems like a waste to spend money to crush trash unless that trash could be not trash after being crushed.
 
arse_sidewards said:
What are they using the output for? Seems like a waste to spend money to crush trash unless that trash could be not trash after being crushed.
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he's on an island, so while there are an inordinate number of quarries around there for being an island, maybe that extra haulage cost plays into the calculations
 
[486] said:
he's on an island, so while there are an inordinate number of quarries around there for being an island, maybe that extra haulage cost plays into the calculations
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Yeah islands are all sorts of fucked up. Especially if they got a bunch of people rich enough to just use money to solve problems they themselves created on them.
 
Boys are digging in my hard rock pit for the last few weeks. He almost has the shanks wore off one of the big buckets. I hate the teeth that were on it, way expensive and they like to fall off. So I told him to wear through the teeth and then burn the shanks off. Might as well get as much metal wire off as possible. It also forces me to put new shanks on:lmao:.

Being this bucket is going on a hoe with a quick coupler all the bucket needs is soft pins. So a trip to the steel yard and $900 later I have enough bar stock to make 5 pins. I need 2 100mm and 1 110mm pin right now. The old c10 had her ass dragging:lmao:

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Need one pin for the frost tooth and 2 for one of the buckets we rebuilt last winter.


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Weighed it up and it was at 5180 lbs for just the bucket:lmao:. Good thing this is the small bucket:lmao:.

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A couple hours on the lathe and they were now metric.

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Just for a size reference :lmao::flipoff2:. And yes that is sitting on a f450:lmao:

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Pocahontas said:
All the local landscaper suppliers have skiddys to load everyone and a larger wheel loader for big loads and unloading semis.

I would think if it was just a 10-20 fee applied to all loads on not on a commercial account it would easily pay for someone working the weekend and the equipment. That is assuming you have 10-20 people every day. Harry homeowner is going to be willing to pay double or more what a commercial buyer will, the problem is dealing with the public.
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I always get a kick out of having my bags and tires to 110lbs in my f250 when pulling up to the local yard and asking for 2 yards (7k lbs) of class2 base in my pickup. The guy always gets a giddy look as hes about to crush my truck and then it hardly drops.
 
arse_sidewards said:
What are they using the output for? Seems like a waste to spend money to crush trash unless that trash could be not trash after being crushed.
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crusher was a cheap auction buy and the cost of the crusher and crushing and having a usable or even wanted trash has made the costs up quickly.


currently all the material is being used to slowly make a runway at a guys house. they crush it into his truck he hauls it off and does other favors in return.
 
2big bronco said:
I always get a kick out of having my bags and tires to 110lbs in my f250 when pulling up to the local yard and asking for 2 yards (7k lbs) of class2 base in my pickup. The guy always gets a giddy look as hes about to crush my truck and then it hardly drops.
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I used to own a 91 HD 3500 single wheel Chevy truck. I'd use a tape measure to measure loads of rock and sand, 3 1/2" of drop was 4000 lbs. The guy on the loader had to get out and ask how I knew that every time I loaded. I showed him the calibrated sharpie lines on the left bedside :lmao:
 
too big of pins to use old scarred up rod cutoffs?
converted to freedom units it's like 4" and 4 3/8" so yeah probably lol

but I'm the guy that throws dollars away with extreme prejudice in order to pick pennies up
Jealous of your camlock spindle (and the IIRC L spindle on the DSG)
 
[486] said:
too big of pins to use old scarred up rod cutoffs?
converted to freedom units it's like 4" and 4 3/8" so yeah probably lol

but I'm the guy that throws dollars away with extreme prejudice in order to pick pennies up
Jealous of your camlock spindle (and the IIRC L spindle on the DSG)
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Yeah nominal inch sized are just too large to work:mad3:. All excavators now have metric sized pins to them. Pretty dumb here in the us. I’m sure in the rest of the world that has access to metric bar stock it’s no big deal.

The dsg has a cam lock style chuck also. Unsure is it’s a d series or their home brew taper. Never had it off as I only have one chuck for it atm.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
Yeah nominal inch sized are just too large to work:mad3:. All excavators now have metric sized pins to them. Pretty dumb here in the us. I’m sure in the rest of the world that has access to metric bar stock it’s no big deal.

The dsg has a cam lock style chuck also. Unsure is it’s a d series or their home brew taper. Never had it off as I only have one chuck for it atm.
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you gotta get that thing powered up, cut your lathe time down significantly being able to gronkulate off bigger thicker chips, especially if you can set it up to kick the feed out at a stop
 
[486] said:
you gotta get that thing powered up, cut your lathe time down significantly being able to gronkulate off bigger thicker chips, especially if you can set it up to kick the feed out at a stop
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Yeah I moved it and the brake press to the other shop which has enough 460 to run it. I got the brake press working . The only issue with this is now I need duplicate tooling/measuring devices . If I start carrying them between buildings the shit will get lost.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
Yeah I moved it and the brake press to the other shop which has enough 460 to run it. I got the brake press working . The only issue with this is now I need duplicate tooling/measuring devices . If I start carrying them between buildings the shit will get lost.
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haha the joys of having tools in many places

Fuckin hell man, I've got tools spread across five shops and about 90-100 miles, now.
I really gotta do that RV skoolie service truck I been thinking about.
Just gotta wait a few months so when I transfer the title on the bus I don't gotta buy a full year's worth of plates as a bus only to trade them in for RV plates...
 
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