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hiring a stone crusher (or how to reuse old concrete)
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. -- Steve F |
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