Digacrusher

It may be six months away but we have already shown our commitment to customers North of the border by signing up for the ScotPlant 2010 exhibition.

The exhibition, Scotland’s premier plant show, is scheduled to take place at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh of 26 & 27 March, and it will provide Scottish customers with a great opportunity to catch up with the latest developments in the Dig A Crusher and Dig A Screener product lines.

The ability to produce 6F2 material using a 900 Series Dig A Crusher excavator bucket crusher has dramatically cut the disposal costs of hardcore and fines for a transfer station near the centre of London.

“It’s the best bit of kit we’ve ever bought,” commented Colin Phillips of IOD Skip Hire. “We’ve nearly halved the bill for the removal of fines from site, which has paid for a 22-tonne Doosan excavator that is now dedicated to crushing hardcore.”

Based in Canning Town, London E16, next door to the 2012 Olympic Park, the company serves east London from a two-acre site. On average it processes 1,500 tonnes of waste a week, of which 60 per cent is inert and the balance commercial. Approximately, 70 per cent of all material is recycled.

Because space is limited, the company finds it difficult to store hardcore and fines from screened C&D waste. Therefore, it has to have them removed from site either free-of-charge or, in the case of the fines, at considerable cost.

“With the Dig A Crusher bucket attachment we are now able to reduce our hardcore down to 50mm and mix it with fines to produce a certified 6F2 general fill/capping material, which is then supplied to contractors for sub-surface work,” explained Colin.

“As space is at a premium, the excavator/attachment arrangement is ideal because it has such a small footprint and as the crusher bucket can be easily detached, we also have the option of using the excavator on other jobs.”

The company acquired a 900 Series Dig A Crusher, which has a 0.75m2 capacity, two years ago after seeing a demonstration at a nearby construction site in Barking.

An added bonus has been the reliability of the bucket. As Colin pointed out: “There’s really nothing to service and besides general wear and tear, quality has not been an issue.”

To see the Dig A Crusher 900 in action at IOD Skip Hire, please check out the video below:

As regular readers will know, Dig A Crusher managing director has just spent the past seven days cycling from the Northernmost to the Southernmost tip of his native Ireland to raise money for the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity. Saddle sore and weary, Sean has just sent us this message:

I finished the challenge on Friday afternoon when we reached the most southerly point of Ireland after seven tough, enjoyable and fascinating days.
I learned that what Marie Curie do is to care for patients at home when they are dying. Their family want to care for them, but the reality is when they are left on their own it is so exhausting to do this. Then the first thing to go is love. Marie Curie nurses take care of the patents and so allow the family to take care of their loved ones in their final days.
We had some amazing moments during the trip. The best one was the weather. Sunshine and a tail wind all the way. You couldn’t make it up!! Then there was the individuals including Margaret a 55-year old nurse from Waterford but now in Aberdeen who said she hadn’t been on a bike for two months because she didn’t want to injure herself before the trip!!
I also leaned that someone has made the hills in Ireland a lot steeper over the last 20 years because they were a lot harder to get over, especially the hills between Buncrana and Derry. We had early starts with wake up calls at 6.30 and were on the road for 8am. The days were longest on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday when we didn’t finish before 5pm.
But the crack was great. We went as individuals and came away as a group. 41 did it and great friendships were made along the roads. The banter with the locals was brilliant as we were shouting support to all the farmers, walkers and anyone else who gave us a sideways glance along the way!! “Come on the Banner” will ring in my head for a long time as we passed through Clare. I wouldn’t normally put the words “beautiful” and “Strabane” in the same sentence but I was amazed at the views and scenery into the town as we cycled along the wee roads from the Sperrins above.
Overall I am glad to have done it. Sometimes in life you have to give a lot to get a little back. I have just experienced that last week.

Congratulations Sean and to all your fellow riders; what a spectacular achievement.

Dig A Crusher managing director Sean Heron is currently in the midst of a charity cycle ride that will take him (and his fellow riders) from the top to the bottom of Ireland over a grueling six-day ride in aid of the Marie Curie Charity.

And, through the wonders of modern technology, we have a photo of Sean leading a breakaway pack as they cross the Foyle Bridge in Derry.

We wish Sean and his fellow fundraisers all the best for their mammoth ride, and promise not to laugh too much at his saddle soreness when he returns to the fray!

Here at Dig A Crusher, we’re just getting ready for our annual trip to Birmingham’s NEC where we will again be taking part in the UK waste and recycling industry’s premier exhibition, RWM 2009.

However, in addition to displaying the very latest additions to both our Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher product ranges, this year will be slightly different. For the first time, we will be hosting a “tweet-up” for the individuals that follow our news output on the social networking site, Twitter.

So, if you find yourself in Birmingham on 16 September, please swing by our stand (number 126) and be part of our first-ever tweet-up.

And, by the way, the organisers of the RWM Exhibition has just issued a new show preview which you can read by clicking here.