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Different Types of Concrete Crusher Excavators

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Concrete Crusher Excavator is an amalgamation of excavator and concrete crushing equipment. It is the perfect tool which finds its application for harsh purposes such as recovering and destroying roads, buildings, pillars and foundations. A concrete crusher excavator is also used in gravel crushing since it cleans up gravel in a very environment friendly manner. It is simple and cost effective heavy equipment.

There are a variety of advantages in recycling concrete instead of removing it in a landfill.

  • Storing concrete debris out of landfills helps in saving the landfill space
  • By utilising recycled material as gravel decreases the requirement for gravel mining.
  • Using recycled concrete for road reduces the menace of contamination engaged in truck material.

The different types of Concrete Crusher Excavators are:

The Crusher Bucket-It provides the most innovative and effective solution to a construction site by fulfilling all the crushing requirements. The crusher bucket can be attached to several excavators. Due to the efficiency of crusher buckets in crushing any immovable material contractors are depending heavily on it. Instead of opting for mechanical equipment they have started investing on the crusher buckets. This enables them to reduce their transportation dumpsite and management costs.

The Hydraulic Cutters– The hydraulic cutter is an effective device which serves the purpose for cutting through metal. The cutting is done by the Jaws of Life, The jaws are made up of blades. Sometimes particularly to its capacity to cut a hard spherical steel bar, these are mainly and generally used to slice through a vehicle’s structure during an extraction procedure. Cutter blades are disposable and the blade is developed in such a way that it is able to deal with the innovative car safety technology.

It offers elevated crushing of any material in just one bite with high breaking force. This means it saves fuel and consumes less time. It mainly finds application in cutting of brick, stone, sandstone, granite and other masonry purposes.

The main characteristics and benefits of hydraulic cutter are cutting jaws made up of steel, hydraulic rotation which can rotate up to 360 degree, push able cylinders and replaceable blades and teeth.

Screening Bucket-Screening Bucket is a concrete crusher that is compatible with any excavator. It is a perfect tool for crushing innate materials. The screening bucket is easy to maintain due to its simple structural design and guarantees good ability even with that materials that are wet. Most of the material load is borne by the screen combs situated at the top reducing the burden on drums and bearings.

Hydraulic Pulveriser-It is a type of Concrete Crusher Excavator that is beneficial in secondary demolition purposes. It has the following technical advantages:

  • Offers good resistance to wear and tear
  • Have longer life span
  • Broad jaws which makes the working surface large
  • The Hydraulic Cylinder is fully shielded
  • Endowed with removable and exchangeable tooth.
  • Lower jaws which are flat scooping for easily collecting building blocks from land.
  • Easy to maintain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How To Install Hydraulic Thumbs In Excavators?

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Construction excavators are made to design to lift heavy objects. The hydraulic thumbs in the excavators assist it to hold the freight. The thumbs are mostly detachable which moves both in the forward and backward direction to let the bucket slide around a heavy object. Steel of high quality is used to design it. It has hype bracing which adds to its strength. The working of the hydraulic thumb excavator is managed through a series of controls and levers strategically positioned to operate the machine by permitting the bucket to work like a mechanical hand. It drags the bucket towards it by squeezing the load against the excavator’s bucket. The bucket easily picks up the load and shifts it to some other place.

Applications of hydraulic thumb excavators

The Hydraulic thumb excavators are mainly manufactured to handle and load various objects with ease. They are used in the construction site to lift rocks, debris and the like which is not otherwise possible for the bucket to transport alone. You can also take out the thumb while doing normal work of excavations as it back off against the stick.

To install the hydraulic thumb in the excavator is not tiresome at all. In fact, it includes some simple steps which should be carried out carefully.

Steps to install hydraulic thumbs in excavators

  • Park your excavator on a level and smooth ground surface. You have to drop out some space to adjust the forklift in order to place the hydraulic thumb.
  • Now, place the hydraulic thumb close to the edge of the excavator’s arm on the ground. Slightly lower the machine’s arms to line up the arm’s holes with the holes in the hydraulic thumb.
  • Mount the Thumb pad to the stick of the excavator and then connect it with the hydraulics.
  • The gap between the bracket of the hydraulic thumb and the bucket should be at least one inch. The bucket should not touch the base of the thumb plate in curl up position.
  • Lock the thumb properly to prevent it from jiggling and down drifting.
  • The teeth of the excavator and the bucket should be aligned in left to right direction. To do this, you have to pull aside the bucket and lengthen the thumb. Check all the positions of the hydraulic thumb to make sure that the thumb hooks align with the teeth of the bucket.
  • After that, go for welding the arms of the equipment. Welding should always be done in parallel with the axis of the excavator’s arm.
  • The sealing and the lubricants should be replaceable one. Try to use pins and bushings which are already treated with heat so that heat cannot damage it easily.

You should perform some tests to nail down that the bucket and other connectors squeeze the hydraulic thumb. Any kind of failure to carry out the test will have adverse effects on cylinders, pins, sticks, brackets and thumbs. Don’t just waste your time in thinking, go forward, think straight and install the Hydraulic thumb to enlarge the sphere of the excavator’s application.

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Check out the list of some useful attachments of heavy equipment

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There are many names of heavy equipment, another name of such equipment are earthmoving equipment. The name of such equipment makes it clear that these are very heavy and also can handle many functions at a single time. Skid steer also is a very flexible handy and adaptable piece of heavy equipment machine. It also has some other names like slide loader or slide steer loader etc. The skid steer is very much similar to a small sized excavator and this machine can perform various types of tasks.

The skid steer is considered as the most versatile and also unique machine and the main reason behind this is its capability to move different kinds of heavy equipment through its attachments. These attachments are made to perform many specialized tasks.

Check out the list of the skid steer attachments and also the tasks that they actually perform

  • Dozer blades: This is a very useful attachment for grading, reshaping or pushing purposes.
  • Hydraulic spreader: This attachment is used for spreading sand or salt on ice during winter seasons and in summer it helps to spread grass, fertilizer and grains.
  • Backhoe attachment:  It is a very useful machine and it helps to perform tasks related to excavation.
  • Bucket sweeper: It also helps to perform many tasks especially the heavy cleaning tasks. The other name of this attachment is angled broom.
  • Hydraulic breaker: Through hydraulic breaker people are able to break some harder materials like rocks and concrete.

There are some other attachments also that are used to perform several other works like demolition, truck loading and fence-hole drill.

  • Trencher attachments: This attachment is used to digging trenches ‘ranging from two – six feet deep’.
  • Pallet Forks: This attachment helps pick up pipe and pallets.
  • Pallet box rake: This attachment helps to tear up the grasses which are older and also help to remove debris and stones from field at the same time.

The above attachments are very popular as you can see such attachments during the time of road construction or even for tree clearing operation and other various operations. In this modern era where people experience development every day, you also can see new attachments with the help of technology and such attachments will work faster.  Some modern techniques also will be invented in order to operate such attachments easily.

You have to make sure that whether all the attachments are lowered or not. If you are using a bulldozer or backhoe then you should put down all the arms and blades. When you will shut down your machine then you should also carefully notice that whether these attachments are secured or not. People use heavy straps, a chain or thick rubber bands along with a hook to secure the attachments. In order to move your equipment you need to secure all the attachments very carefully.

Different teeth to put on heavy equipment buckets

Heavy bucket teeth and their role play

Heavy equipment industry is the ultimate achievement of mechanical engineering do far, if not of all time. The most salient feature of this sector is its dependence on other ancillary markets like small parts industry. Once we delve in to the knowhow of the bulky tools which are supposed to withstand the load of tonnages of goods; it is needless to say that little to great extent of damage the equipments can undergo. The most common structural element of every such bulk units is undoubtedly the cutting-edge teeth. Teeth, as it can be presumed, are pointed ends or rather ‘modified ends’ used in shovels or heavy duty buckets such as excavation bucket that provide the much-needed sting to the excavation or other groundwork tools.

Evolution of teeth built:

No matter how much adjunct the term ‘teeth’ sound with the modern time industrial advancement; their use is much primitive that goes a long way back during the dawn of industry concept- the Industrial Revolution. Paul’s Spinning Engine or Otis Steam shovel are some earliest of manufacturing tools that evidently possessed teeth structure. Befitting to the era sans technological brilliance, the Steam Shovel had unit piece design that was forged with the edge of the shovel. Intriguingly enough, the aforementioned Spinning Engine teeth, instead of pointing from center of the wheel along the radius, they turned little to form a shape like the bottom of ‘L’. The most ‘teething problem’ with these predecessors of later time ‘crimp on’ tooth was the rigorous maintenance by cutting the blunt lip and re-profiling to keep its razor sharp scathing action. This degree of ‘shape-up’ work was due to the fact that all the teeth were, back then, riveted to the ends of shovels, dredgers or buckets and thus manufacturing technique itself rendered the teeth blunt. Later as electric arc was incepted; it brought about immense improvement on the on the maintenance front. Much after this, in decades of 70’s & 80’s, flex-pin with its coming-of-age shapes like helical thread-like; diamond pin arrangement or quadrilateral design propagated the productivity by leaps and bounds. Jump cut to 21st century; the IT revolution ushers in computed designs for flawless self-sharpening teeth which coined the idea of ‘hammerless teeth’.

Teeth variation and impact on ‘buckets’:

Unlike the common household pail that is used to contain thing(s); heavy equipment bucket’s role is not confined to keeping things. Rather the buckets are of a wide range of shapes and sizes catering to the needs e.g. dredging; moving earth; digging mines or helping to douse fire as happens in helicopter fire fight. The real boost in the teeth use for bucket came in the form of Track loader by Hough followed by refined or seminal designs of two-part forged/cast or fabricated teeth group. Their wedge shaped base was simple in design and can easily be replaced with hammer and chisel which also eliminated the need of expert craftsman. The cost for maintenance, ergo, was reduced largely giving upstart diggers a breather in the market.

Hydraulic Hammers – A Must in the Construction and Mining Industry

If you think the construction industry is all about breaking old establishments and building a new one in its place, then you are partially correct. Though it is not all about just breaking whatever old you see around you and replace it with a new building but it’s about many other things which we don’t see. For instance, for constructing a hotel in an open plot, you do not need to break any old settlement. However, you can’t distance the subject of breaking things from this industry and therefore when we talk about breaking establishments, we are indeed talking about good strong hammers that can break off the old stuff without denting itself.
Just like one particular medicine can’t cure all the ailments, in the same manner one type of hammer can’t be used for all the breaking purposes. There are different series of hammers that are used for different work based on the type of work it has to do. Here we would be discussing about hydraulic hammers and different series of hydraulic hammers used for various purposes.
Light weighted hammers:- You need these light weighted hammers on small construction sites where you have things which are not very huge and strong and can be perished at few strokes from a light weighted hammer. Alternatively, it is used on machines which are considerably smaller than the ones we see on huge construction sites. These machines are used at sites which have problems with space and can’t allow access to big machines.
Medium weighted hammers:- Then we have medium weighted hammers which are used in mid-sized projects. They are comparatively stronger than the light weighted hammers and hence has the potential to break down stuffs which are quite strong. They however have to limit themselves in demolishing huge structures. These hammers are also known for consuming less fuel and are highly productive.
Heavy weighted hammers:- These are considered as the most powerful hydraulic hammers which are used by big construction houses. If we talk about big construction companies, they prefer to keep all sets of hammers as they may require either of them at any point in time. However, it is the heavy weighted hammers which are used extensively by them. These hammers are required in projects which are mighty big and need hammers which has more power and can work for longer duration. It’s important to note that heavy weighted hammers are available in huge range of series and that each type of hammer is used for its own specific kind of work. Therefore, the kind of hammer one chooses entirely depends on the kind of project he would be requiring them at.
After having understood about the different kinds of hammers, let us change our focus on buying them. It’s often advisable to buy used hammer rather than spending money on brand new which would also cost more to you. You can buy them online on any online selling site. There you can get in touch with the seller and may seek a better deal.

Do Heavy Equipment Require Different Attachments for Demolition – Find out Here

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Heavy Equipment if not the soul then they are definitely the backbone of the construction and mining industry. Without them, it is unimaginable to do work with the same level of speed and magnitude and it might take several days for a small work to get over with. This will definitely cause good sum of loss to the project owner and that can even bring his project in jeopardy. However, the construction or the mining industry is not only restricted to heavy equipment but it has something more to do than that. It is the demolition attachments.
Heavy equipment are undoubtedly the power behind the demolition attachments but it is eventually the attachment that does the trick. A number of attachments can be installed in heavy equipment provided it should be compatible enough to get them fitted in it. What sort of attachment should be fitted on the machine depends largely on the nature of work as every attachment is used for a specific kind of work. Therefore, the kind of work determines the sort of demolition attachment needed on the machine.
We would be discussing in length about the different form of attachments and for what purpose are they used.
Buckets:- A bucket is installed in a heavy equipment to move earth and dump it in a truck so that it can be moved from one place to the other. Most of the buckets have sharp clips which are used to dig the earth and then with the help of the hook that is attached to the bucket, it takes off the mud from the earth and fill it in which is then carried and dumped in the truck. At times, the buckets are also used to break a wall which may not be that strong to hold it for long.
Rakes:- Rakes are found in different shapes and sizes and each of them are built for specific purposes. However, the one which are fitted in heavy equipment are big strong ones with sharp iron fingers bent towards the bottom which facilitates to dig deeper in the ground. These rakes are specifically used for agricultural purposes and may not have much use in construction business. Rakes of various types are available right from cleaning the grass of your garden to ploughing the field. It is considered to be one of the most essential attachments.
Grapples:- This is an important tool which is used to hold a stuff and pull it from its surface and place it at its designated position. The grapple has a claw which is used to hold things and moves it from one place to another. Hydraulic grapples are used in many heavy types of equipment which gives it more power to perform things with precision. It can be fixed with a tractor or an excavator and the end of its arm which is powered by hydraulic and allows it to move heavy things. The grapple is controlled by the operator of the machine who manoeuvres the arm of the machine in every possible direction and makes the toughest work look simple to perform.
Also don’t forget about Hydraulic Hammers!!!!!!