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concrete crusher pc200

gwhammy

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I may have a demo job coming up with lots of footings. Is a pc 200 big enough to put a concrete crusher jaw on and do they make one for this size machine? Crushing the concrete will make it a lot easier to haul of and not destroy dump beds. I have a hammer on a 18,000 lb. excavator but don't really want to do that much jackhammer work and the old 200 doesn't have aux hyd. to the boom. I have a 973 to do the heavy lifting.
 

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What size are the footings?
 

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What size are the footings?
Would a bucket crusher take something that big? I never saw it in operation, but they tried one at our quarry on a 350 excavator, and they said it was not really fast, and anything bigger than 8 or 10 inches was too big, or slowed it down a lot......... On the other hand, it was a few years ago, and I just watched a few videos, and they seem to work good. They even make them for mini machines now. Not sure how hard the rock they are using for the demonstration is, but it seems to do the job
 
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If it's only a footing and not that wide, once you get a few pieces you should be able to break it quite easily by dropping pieces on each other. Or get a massive boulder to drop to break them. A 200 will tear out a pretty serious concrete pad without too much trouble.
 

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That's the type I was thinking. I've used one on a 400 tearing out a couple bridges, it's amazing how big of concrete they will crush on a machine that size. Like to have a 3 or 400 just can't justify it. Several are interested in my old 200 if I found the right machine to replace it.

Don't know the size of the footings, it's a two story brick building with the second story floor being concrete also. Also tall gym walls of brick and some basement areas. It's almost to big of a job for me but looks like a couple other owner operators will be working on it also.
 

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Gwham that sounds like a big job for just a 200 size machine. What's the scope of your involvement in the project? By the hour or hard bid? The reason I ask is you said other owner/operators will be involved.
 

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Gwham that sounds like a big job for just a 200 size machine. What's the scope of your involvement in the project? By the hour or hard bid? The reason I ask is you said other owner/operators will be involved.

I'm with CM on this one, unless there are only a few feet of small residential stuff to break up a 200 would not even be able to feed a mid size jaw crusher much less nibble it down on it's own.
 

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Hourly no hard bid, no time schedule. They are trying to do it as cheap as possible, small town with little money and no grants available to help. Sounds like a no win situation right? I think I've got a lot of the brick gave away for loading them. I feel the concrete needs broke down, no one wants to haul large slabs of concrete and no one wants them. We'll see still a few months off.
 

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Obviously gwham by the hour is the least risk to you. If you think you can get enough hours and get paid for said hours from the city for your hoe and the investment in a crusher, I'd say go for it.

Old/used brick is quite the commodity if you have a way to clean, stack on pallets and market them. Might be a profitable side line for you to salvage the bricks but it is labor intensive. Maybe you could offer up the idea of the city salvaging and selling the bricks with their labor as a value added option for the job and they pay you for the mechanical demo? Just a thought.
 

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This is almost all farm community, the bricks will probably go to farm ditches and roads. If some outfit wanted to send trucks to load in bulk that would work. I'm guessing if we could find a company that wanted to salvage the brick on their nickle that would work. Demolition I've done salvage not so much. I got pulled into this being local and having equipment, if it went another way that would be fine I have more work than I can do without this.
 

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Don't know if I did that right, but it is a link to a video of an area here called French Fort cove. There was a mill there long ago. The smoke stack in the video has been falling down for years. They put a tender out in December to tear it down. We didn't really want it, and put a high bid in for $500,000. The next closest was $375,000 ish. Keep in mind that you don't want it to fall in the river. We have a 470 Hitachi, 4 350 excavators, including a dredging boom for one of the 350s. Dozers, any amount of loaders, trucks, a hammer for the 350. The lowest bidder, took it for $85,000. They had a JLG boom manlift, a generator, a couple of guys with electric jack hammers. Brought the layers of bricks down inside the thing, then cleaned it up with a couple tandem trucks and what I think was a 300 excavator. They kept a big pile of bricks off to the side, and people just took them to get a piece of history. So either those guys, out of towners to, lost their shirt, or the $375,000 bid was going to make a mint, cause obviously we really didn't want it.
 

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I've took a smoke stack down, held a guy in a man basket to get it short enough to use a headache ball on it. I wanted to chisel out one side and drop it but the school wanted the press there if I did it that away. This one was around 110 foot tall. Didn't take long at all, worst part was the little 25 ton hyd. crane was barely big enough and I rained down bricks on top of myself for awhile. Took the windows out and layed lexan and boards on the cab. Aw, the good old days.
 
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