A Yorkshire-based plant hirer has added a Dig A Crusher attachment to its equipment fleet, pairing it with a 16.5 tonne Case wheeled excavator. The company is now offering local customers one of the most mobile and manoeuverable recycling solutions available
Simpson Plant Hire has become the latest hirer to embrace the recycling capabilities of the Dig A Crusher attachment with the purchase of a 700 model. But unlike other users that have opted for a track mounted carrier machine, Simpson has paired its new purchase with a 16.5 tonne Case WX165 “rubber duck”. The company is now offering its highly mobile and manoeuverable recycling solution across its native East Yorkshire and beyond.
Laser Levelling
Established in 1945, Simpson Plant Hire Limited is a specialised plant hirer that operates an equipment range that includes wheeled and tracked excavators, grab lorries and an extensive transport fleet. Since 1994, the company has been under the direction of managing director Nick Simpson, son of the founder Keith and has earned a strong reputation locally for its reliability and ability to innovate. The company’s reputation has been enhanced still further by its laser levelling work on high profile projects including the Millennium Dome and the all weather football training pitches at premiership clubs including Arsenal, Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers.
Perfect Solution
The company has made a gradual move into the recycling market, acquiring its own recycling site which regularly holds 2,000 tonnes or more of construction and demolition waste. But, as Nick Simpson explains, he has avoided adding a dedicated crusher to his fleet. “We have never bought a large, mobile crusher because of the capital outlay and, having looked at some of the smaller units, I found them to be impractical and inflexible,” he says. “But the Dig A Crusher bucket had the flexibility of being able to fit to virtually any machine in our fleet, was as cost-effective as any attachment, and did not require special licenses for transport. It was the perfect solution.” That perfect solution is now being applied to the redevelopment of a former sand pit near Scarborough in preparation for the construction of a new housing development.
“The previous site owner went bust and the pit was then bought by a local farmer who used it for inert landfill before being granted planning permission to build holiday homes on the site,” Simpson says. “All that material now needs to be sorted, processed and crushed for use as sub-base. We’re working with a mixture of limestone, soil, concrete waste and tonnes of chalk wold and the Dig A Crusher is coping with all those materials.”
Having already pushed 20,000 tonnes of mixed construction and demolition waste through the Dig A Crusher 700’s 550 x 700 mm jaws, Simpson clearly believes that his purchasing decision was correct. “I like the fact it will fit on a range of our excavators so we can use it for plant hire, civil engineering and our own in-house projects,” Nick Simpson concludes. “The operators report that so long as you can get the machine on to a site, the crusher will then deal with anything they find. As a result we are finding more and more applications for it. It has proved very popular with our customers. We are generating business and saving money.”
