Compact Crushers can turn Debris into Money

Can only big companies make money from crushing and screening? Small contractors can now turn debris and construction waste into money by crushing and screening using compact crushing and screening equipment from manufacturers who have packaged crushers & screeners into small and compact machines. These compact equipment offer benefits to almost any construction contractor — large or small.

Compact crushers can be set up in as little space as it takes to park a few cars and these machines can be towed by a Mahindra Bolero, Camper or any small truck. These crushers are also available on tracks.

Crushing and Screening buckets have come a long way and have become very useful. You get speciality crushing buckets for crushing demolition waste, asphalt etc which can pay you back in no time. These attachments are now available even for mini excavators and skids to do small jobs, roadside crushing and screening.

Making Money

The first thing that will happen after you buy a compact crusher or crushing & screening buckets, is that you will start seeing money everywhere. Driving on city roads you will see pile of debris lying everywhere and would want to crush it to produce your own quality aggregates. You can often make the EMI payments on a compact crusher by running it for as little as a few hundred hours a year.”

Transportation of debris and construction waste is a big part of this equation. Every time you touch the material it costs money. The fewer times you have to handle it, the more profitable it will be. If you rip up a footpath or a road and throw the ripped material in a dump truck to haul it off to be crushed at a remote site and then haul it back to be used as base material, you’ve just incurred double cost for that material. Onsite crushing eliminates not only these labour and transportation costs, but also the costs you pay for buying new aggregate.

And even if you just dump the material at a construction landfill, the transportation and dumping cost alone can run into lakhs of rupees. Besides, you have just wasted an opportunity to make millions by discarding “Black Gold” Asphalt. Asphalt gets hard and compacted over the years with vehicles driving over it and is a very good material for using as aggregates for sub base of new roads.

You can generate tremendous income by recycling or processing by-products from demolition waste such as concrete, block and brick, glass and granites. “You can even use this gravel on your own internal roads. The decorative gravel business can be huge as well with some material fetching big money per ton.

Applications Unlimited

The number of applications for compact crushers are:

• Urban construction sites where streets and buildings restrict transportation access. Demolition sites where room to manoeuvre a crusher, conveyors and screens or the loading machine is limited.
• Landscaping and earthmoving. Whether its old concrete or brick structures or boulders and environments with large rocks, compact crushers can eliminate the problem and if needed provide aggregates for the next phase of construction.
• Recycling. Municipal dumps and construction landfills can take advantage of on-site recycling and generate new revenue streams by selling the finished material.
• Interior demolition. The smaller sizes of compact crushers can work inside buildings such as warehouses and industrial facilities.
• Large aggregate operations that need convenient, short-term crushing work. You may set up several concrete recycling drop sites and save big in transportation costs.

Choosing the right type of crusher depends on factors such as the type of material, the desired product size, and the production capacity requirements. Jaw crushers use compressive force to break down materials. The crushing chamber has a fixed jaw and a moving jaw. The moving jaw is attached to a pitman that moves back and forth creating a swinging motion. Jaw crushers are generally more affordable and best suited for hard rock and an initial reduction in size. Jaw crushers produce a coarse non-spec material. Jaw crushers have a simple structure, and maintenance is generally easy.

Operational Tips

A skid steer or mini excavator is sufficient to feed the compact crushing machines.

• Excavators typically don’t hold as much material in the bucket as skids and are less likely to overload the crusher.
• Skids have the advantage of being able to sweep the site clean of debris and move stockpiles when not feeding the crusher.
• With an excavator you can see what’s going into the bucket and avoid dumping large chunks of metal, tangled rebar or over-sized material in the hopper.
• Using the bucket, a good excavator operator can sort and segregate these unsuitable materials. An experienced operator is worth his weight in gold. If he sees a piece of rebar that might get tangled up inside the crusher or tear a hole in the conveyor belt, he can prevent that from becoming a bigger disaster.
• Depending on the job, a compact excavator with a breaker attachment may be useful in reducing concrete slabs to manageable sizes. This can also be done with an attachment on a skid steer, but excavators are better at it.
• Excavators will also give you flexibility in jobsite layout. Wheeled machines require a V-shaped path from the point where they load to the point where they dump, whereas an excavator can swing back and forth between the pile and the crusher without having to reposition itself.

If you are interested in crushing materials to a specific size and shape on a regular basis, a common setup is to use jaw crusher with a conveyor to feed a mobile screening plant to segregate your aggregates to meet various engineering specs. Screening plants can also serve double duty and screen topsoil, mulch and other materials used in landscaping operations.

Crushing may be a brutal process, but it takes a bit of science, knowledge and experience to do it efficiently. Before you buy a compact crusher, call us to advise you on economics of crushing & maximizing profits. A key point to remember is that if you can’t reuse or sell your crushed material you have accomplished nothing.

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