In message .com, Fitz
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Hello all,

Glad to say the garden has benefited from a nice long easter weekend.

I've got a big pile of old concrete I've taken up from a knackered path
that was cracking and ugly. I'm wondering whether I can save the money
I might pay for a) a skip and b) 'crusher run'/bulk bag of hardcore for
the planned patio by crushing all the left over concrete.

I've tried a couple of google searches for stone crushing and only got
hits for large scale quarry plant manufacturers. Searches for 'Making
hardcore' had predictable and unhelpful (in this context) results.

I've found one passing reference on this group in an old message
suggesting that stone crushing is not a DIY task. Short of starting my
own chain gang and smashing the lot with a trusty old sledgehammer I'm
a bit stuck.

Any thoughts? I thought some kind of mini-roller based mangle type
thingy on a trailer would be easy to hire for a day but certainly
Jewsons have nothing of the sort. Maybe the potential for catastrophic
'ooo my gloves are caught' type injuries is too high for insurance to
bear... or maybe I'm the only person who wants to do this.

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Steve F


Hi,

I did the same last year by hiring the HI-C40 machine from TCP. GBP
120+vat day hire but I managed to wangle a weekend for a days rate. You
need a fair amount of hardcore to crush to make it cost effective
though. I did around 25tons over a weekend, loaded by hand. I estimate
to have saved somewhere in the region of a grand by crushing rather than
disposal and buying back.

http://www.tcp.eu.com/

On their site they have (or atleast had) a video of the machine in
action.

Hth
--
Someone