A third-generation plant hirer from Devon is maintaining the company’s tradition of innovation with the purchase of a Dig A Crusher 900 excavator-mounted crushing bucket
Moores of Froxton, a Devon-based plant hirer and groundworks contractor, has maintained its tradition of innovation and pioneering of new markets with the purchase of a Dig A Crusher 900 bucket from sole UK importer Worsley Plant. The 0.70 m3 capacity bucket, which utilises traditional jaw crusher principles, offers a crusher throughput of up to 70 tonnes/hour and is seen by the company as an ideal companion to the Moores’ plant hire fleet.
Family Concern
Moores of Froxton is a third generation family business. Founded by Alfred Moore in 1950 with a tractor and muck spreader, the company soon diversified with the purchase of a baling machine and an Allen drainage machine. Drain repairs became the staple of the company and it purchased a Dutch-manufactured drainage machine in 1980 because it had over two years of work lined up for it. “At the time there was a lot of money about in the form of Government grants for land improvement and drainage. This dried up in the 90s when government policy was changed,” explains Wesley Moore, Alfred’s son and current co director. “We looked for more lucrative work and turned our hand to agricultural contracting. We have since diversified again, moving into haulage, environmental projects, plant hire, groundworks and site clearance.”
It is this willingness to innovate and diversify that has stood the company in good stead. With Wesley and his brothers Brian and Raymond at the helm, Moores of Froxton now has a workforce of more than twenty and operates an equipment and haulage fleet that comprises a range of Hitachi hydraulic excavators and Scania low-loaders.
Space at a Premium
The company’s eagerness to innovate and pioneer new markets also led it to purchase the new 3.5 tonne Dig A Crusher 900 bucket. “We went to the SED exhibition in 2006 specifically to look for innovative, new additions for our equipment fleet and we were immediately taken with the Dig A Crusher bucket,” Wesley continues. “Many West Country sites are small and simply cannot accommodate a stand-alone wheeled or track-mounted crusher. The Dig-A-Crusher seemed ideal for site clearance as it meant one machine with a collection of attachments could do the demolition and recycling, reducing the space requirements and optimising utilisation levels on our new Hitachi ZX225 USR LC excavator.”
Although it is early days, Wesley is clearly pleased with the performance and customer acceptance of the new addition to his company’s equipment fleet. “The Dig A Crusher allows both ourselves and our customers to tackle all their demolition and recycling processes with a single carrier machine together with some specialist attachments. As well as using less space, this solution reduces vehicle movements as material doesn’t have to leave the site to be processed,” he concludes. “The Dig A Crusher bucket has also proved to be highly versatile. “So far we have used it to crush reinforced concrete, demolition and road building waste, kerb stones, and sleepers; all without any problems. We are now hoping that word of the new crusher will get about and that our customers will realise the enormous potential of the machine.”
