Homemade Wrecking Ball

[Dozerboy]

You never swing a wrecking ball with a hoe. You always drop it or use the stick in and out.

 

[Reiscon10]

We used to used a big granite rock we found somewhere it would bust anything. We break alot of sand stone dump rock out of an old quarry around here and sell. use a big steel square rounded end breaker don't know what it is really we use a thumb have a big chain pinned to the drop ball with an old airliner tire to grab on to with the thumb because its like 16 or 20 ply a semi truck tire gets shredded in a day or two been using the airline tire for awhile broken more than 600 loads of dump rock with it in the past year or so

 

[alskdjfhg]

Making one wouldn't be too bad. If get a stack of plate (say 1"), make some circular burnouts how ever big you wanted and weld layers togeather. Is make the layers so there was a cavity inside to revive a heavy dog (think the dog that attaches a forklift mast to the lift chains) and have that turn into a chain. It Woudnt be sperical, would look cylindrical.

I woudnt use CI, way too brittle in my mind.

 

[Tugger]

Id rather leave the counterweight on the old crane and use a real ball.Excuse the cheeky answer,im a crane operator.

 

[SeaMac]

Just a thought, if the poured walls are stripped bare on the inside and the size isn't too large a basement you can score the walls with a concrete saw about 2' on center vertically which should weaken the wall enough once pushed inward with an excavator. Demo'd an old wet-well -lift station- valve structure this way and it worked like a charm. Was given this sage advice from a friend whose been cutting 'crete for two decades.