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Panzers: I break rocks thread

Louis Winthorpe III said:
That is a lot of fuel in my world. What kind of money is that pile worth? How much does fuel cost per gallon out there? I think red is still over $5gal in commiefornia.
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Fuel is $3.18 a gallon + 5.5% sales tax or so. 28,000* $8.00/ton = $225,000 in 1.25” gravel
5500 x $9.00/ton = $49,500 in breaker stone

Total $274,500 or so. I probably have $50,000 in cash stuck into the pile between fuel and wages. That’s Not including the overhead, ins, depreciation ect.

If I was custom crushing for someone else I would charge $4.25/ton so about $125,000 in work.
 
I saw this a few days ago and thought of you. Owner said they only use it when they need rock for personal use, their business is monuments and cut stone. I should have got a picture of data plate, engine came from a railroad crane of some sort.

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Boys got their recycle project all done. Not 15 mins after the shut down 10 loads of rock showed up:lmao:
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I got my recycling done with the impactor. 14,000 ton total done up there. At the end he wants some clear breaker stone. Pretty slick you can rotate the recycle conveyor out open the curtains a bit and bingo.

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Steel showed up this week to make the links for the loader. Should be a quick weld and bore.
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Bowe said:
I saw this a few days ago and thought of you. Owner said they only use it when they need rock for personal use, their business is monuments and cut stone. I should have got a picture of data plate, engine came from a railroad crane of some sort.
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Don't see many bucket chain excavators. Now it's just the big strip mine operations.


Here is a small old one in a working museum.
 
Got a bunch of stuff done or close to being done . Bottom holes in the quick coupler got finished. Turned out nice

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I measured the top holes and they were .025 bigger than the pins. Way too much for my ocd. I like .003.

So of course this is gonna be a tough one. The bar the bucket latches too is extremely close to the top pin hole. So I had to but some ball bearings to use as supports because the pillow blocks did not fit.

A hour at the mill and had plates for the bearing to sit in.

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I got them aligned and tacked into the coupler. Hopefully tomorrow I get them bored and re welded up. Won’t get to the final boring until next week.

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I got the links all done for this same loader all done.

A little welding
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Then boring and tapping

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Need to bend a 1” x 3.5” piece of bar stock to finish up the mini loader rebuild. So I whipped up a bottom die for my break press. I figure I’m gonna be at 49 tons to bend this.
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Just need to mill a groove to drop a guide in it to lock it in the rail on the brake press.
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It seems I spend more time maki g the tools to do the job then actually doing the job :homer::lmao:

Boys started on a timing belt job on my deutz in our bomag compactor. Need to find some timing pins to get this project done.
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ThePanzerFuhrer said:
Boys started on a timing belt job on my deutz in our bomag compactor. Need to find some timing pins to get this project done.
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Sometimes you think to yourself 'maybe I hate germans too much'
but then they put a timing belt on a pushrod motor where the cam's close enough to the crank that you'd only need the two gears
or fuck, a short little double roller chain even

oh well, at least they make for cheap skidsteers when they break
 
Sold 6500 ton of the breaker and 1.25” recycle gravel allready. Made enough to cover the fuel bill and most of the labor:smokin:

Yard looks empty now
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Finally got to slide the Kta genset into the trailer.

I lifted with one loader while my brother slid it in with another. 0% sketchy doing it this way.

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Once it was in far enough I used the forks to get it where we wanted it.
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Looks good in there with all the lights on.
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Put In an exterior door with a window so we can see the status of the genset without having to go in by the noisy thing.
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While it was outside did a mock up of where the fuel tank is gonna go. Should fit nice. Need to make some c channel c’s to hold it up and give it a place to bolt to the floor.

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Tool/parts room with the lights on.
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bgaidan here is what it looks like to tear the boom out of a telehandler. The cat guys are fixing one that the owner let the chain get too loose then it broke and wadded up all the hoses and wires in the boom. Big job to get that tore down.
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ThePanzerFuhrer said:
bgaidan here is what it looks like to tear the boom out of a telehandler. The cat guys are fixing one that the owner let the chain get too loose then it broke and wadded up all the hoses and wires in the boom. Big job to get that tore down.
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Yeah, fuck all that. Luckily mine's only 2 section so it'd be like 2/3's as much work. :idea:


But I can afford a lot of pig mat for the amount of aggravation I'd want to avoid doing that job.
 
bgaidan said:
Yeah, fuck all that. Luckily mine's only 2 section so it'd be like 2/3's as much work. :idea:


But I can afford a lot of pig mat for the amount of aggravation I'd want to avoid doing that job.
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Make sure you check the tension of the chain if your has one. The chain wasn’t tensioned correctly and caused the come apart in this one.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
Make sure you check the tension of the chain if your has one. The chain wasn’t tensioned correctly and caused the come apart in this one.
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I have to look at the manual, but pretty sure this one is all rod (gigity) as I haven't noticed anywhere where you'd access to adjust a chain.
 
So Panzer, do you personally do most of your machining? It just sounds like you have “the boys” pull this or that, but machining is always in the first person. I’m guessing hard to find good help for that kind of work.
 
WaterH said:
So Panzer, do you personally do most of your machining? It just sounds like you have “the boys” pull this or that, but machining is always in the first person. I’m guessing hard to find good help for that kind of work.
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I do all the machining the tedious welding and fitting I have the guys do. The guys do most of the mechanic work. I do the diagnostic and they tackle it. I do all the electrical stuff. I do try and delegate as much as possible but there are some jobs I need to do. When there is something stupid like slide a 10,000lbs genset into a trailer im there to direct the shit show so nothing goes wrong.

My guys are operators first then mechanics. I teach them the ropes and for the most part they can handle most of the smaller repairs on the crushers. Bearing changes belt replacements/ patches ect.

This week we had to put new bushings in the walking beams of my dump trucks. I helped with the first one because it was the first one we ever had to do. They were able to swap out the second one by themselves.

The ones we pulled out will need some bore repair as the rubber wore out and the tube started rubbing the beam. I’ll get them fixed up to be sent out to get new bushings pressed in. Takes a 100 ton press to put the new bushings in so that’s out of our wheel house. The guys who press the bushings in have a $900 a beam core charge so it’s worth the time to get them repaired back to factory specs.

I am trying to show one of the guys how the line boring stuff works but this year we have been behind the eight ball so I haven’t had the time to work with him more.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
I am trying to show one of the guys how the line boring stuff works but this year we have been behind the eight ball so I haven’t had the time to work with him more.
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I'd think if you could find the right guy you could make this a full time position and pick up work from others when he runs out of your stuff to work on. From what I remember us paying for line boring on welding on our shit, there has to be some decent money in it. Especially if you already have the equipment laying around.
 
bgaidan said:
I'd think if you could find the right guy you could make this a full time position and pick up work from others when he runs out of your stuff to work on. From what I remember us paying for line boring on welding on our shit, there has to be some decent money in it. Especially if you already have the equipment laying around.
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I could but I don’t have the bandwidth to deal with stuff like that. Honestly I can make way more money hiring more crusher operators than a guy like that. I am working on hiring a kid to be a full time mechanic for me. I have been prodding him for the last year to come over. He is really thinking about it. That would take a ton of stuff off my plate.
 
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