Dig A Crusher has once again sponsored an important Demolition News podcast, this time featuring footage from the recent annual general meeting of the National Demolition Training Group (NDTG).
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David and Graeme Reid
With the Credit Crunch having a tighter grip on our economy, the impact of Dig A Crusher continues to grow. With rising fuel costs, higher landfill bills and fewer jobs, more and more companies are turning to Dig A Crusher as the new solution.
As David Reid from Ayr admits “Most of my jobs are less than 500 tonnes. It is not economical to send out an excavator, tracked crusher and loading shovel to process 500 tonnes. With Dig A Crusher I just turn up with my JCB 130 excavator and am crushing within minutes. I am quite happy living of the crumbs that the big boys leave behind”
“The work has got tighter” comments David. “I have to be as competitive as I can. I do not know any cheaper way other than Dig A Crusher of crushing on site. It keeps me ahead of the pack”
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We received an enqiury from a well known plant hire company in North East England. Their local council needed a mobile crusher that would crush waste kerbs and concrete on their sites. Their needs were it had to be safe, quiet, easily unblocked, operated by any driver and must work in a confined area.
The plant hire company first saw Dig A Crusher working at SED in 2007. They visited the web site, contacted us and after a brief discussion bought a Dig A Crusher 600 over the phone.
The client explained their desire to create a high value -20mm crushed concrete to be used for concrete mix. The customer tried the Dig a Screener 700 R and was so delighted with the results that he bought that very machine also.
Now the client has reduced his tipping costs and expenditure on bought in materials giving him savings of £17 per tonne.
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Doosan 300 Crushing Slag with Crusher Bucket
Taylor Site Services of Cardiff has recently taken delivery of a Doosan DX300LC excavator equipped with a 900 Dig A Crusher bucket in order to tackle a back-log of oversize slag produced by the nearby Celsa steelworks.
A small mobile crusher was the initial choice of machine but a demonstration showed it to be totally unsuitable for the job as every time a piece of metal was inadvertently loaded into the hopper, the crusher jaws became jammed and the process had to be halted until the offending item had been retrieved by hand.
However, the new excavator/crusher bucket combination has proved perfect for the task because if any metal is scooped up, the excavator operator immediately senses a different sound from the attachment and can simply rotate the 3.5 tonne unit to empty out its contents with minimal delay and without leaving the cab.
Once the back-log of some 3000 tonne of material has been dealt with, the machine will only need to be used for a couple of days per week to keep pace with oversize material and for the rest of the time the excavator will be put to work as a conventional machine elsewhere on site.
The 30 tonne DX300LC is the sixth Doosan machine to be purchased by Taylor Site Services, all of which have been supplied by local dealer Construction Plant Services, also located at Cardiff Docks.
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I am a regular visitor to the website of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (http://www.demolition-nfdc.com) and have been alarmed by the numerous recent reports of attachment thefts hitting contractors in this sector.
While they’re not, perhaps, as high profile as the theft of an excavator, these products are quite clearly being stolen to order, a fact that suggests a worrying organised crime involvement. Furthermore, many of these attachments are valued at well over £50,000 and their loss often halts production on a demolition project.
Although our customers have thankfully been largely theft-free to date, we would urge Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher customers to protect them with the use of the many anti-theft products on offer today and to ensure that their attachments each has a unique Thiefbeaters ID number http://www.thiefbeaters.com/plant.html
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I read an interesting piece at demolitionnews.wordpress.com on the forthcoming National Recycling Awards 2008. Although entries close later this month, the organisers are “calling on companies in the construction sector to enter the Valpak Waste Minimisation Project of the Year category”.
As a manufacturer and distributor of equipment, we are not permitted to enter in this category. However, according to our calculations, Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher products have been directly responsible for eliminating several million tonnes of material from the waste stream and we would encourage users of our products to seriously consider entering this prestigious competition.
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I have returned from my guest speaker slot at the last of the 2008 Institute of Demolition Engineers’ roadshow events (8 August 2008). The event took place at the superb Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey and brings to a conclusion what has been a great series of events for us which started several months ago in Glasgow and which also made a stop in the Midlands.
It has given us an opportunity to speak face-to-face with some of the UK’s leading demolition contractors, many of whom were seeing the Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher products for the first time.
Details of the roadshow event can be found here: http://www.ide.org.uk/ and a brief review is also viewable at www.demolitionnews.wordpress.com
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