Recommendations for hand held electric pavement breaker please

[MAX-24-Dean]

You guys live in different worlds. For me to hire a contractor they charge a 2 hour plus travel fee for what I'm still fully capable of doing.

I feel your pain on the rental, its a 120 mile round trip drive for me. Any demolition hammer that weighs around 60 lbs will work for a small job.

If you are hauling away the concrete out of the 100' drive, it may be easier to saw cut and lift the concrete with tractor forks.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I had an HF Chicago Electric hammer for 20+ years . Similar to the 66lb Hercules. I used it mainly for breaking up rocks or hard pan to set fence posts. Worked well but it was a bear with a three foot point on it. Still had the original brushes when I sold it at a flea market.

If I needed one for occasional use, I think I would go for the HF Hercules. At $650 for the 66lb hammer, it's about double what mine was. They did have the 20/25% off deal the weekend.

HF also has a dedicated Hercules handcart for the hammer. Really handy ad on. With or without the case, they are rather unwieldy to store or move around.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I bought a gas powered jack hammer on Amazon for about $300. Looks just like this one, but the one I got has been discontinued:

https://www.amazon.com/Stroke-Demolition-Hammer-Concrete-Breaker/dp/B0BZZH219K

I don't know how long it will last or if I'll be able to get parts if it needs fixing, but I've broken a lot of concrete with it already.

 

[4570Man]

Thanks, I'd been looking at the Vevor.

Thanks

I hope to handle a lot of it with the tractor, but I need to be prepared to break out problem areas, versus getting stuck and having to drive to town for more equipment.

A lot of it is cracked and broken already. If I do it I plan on doing a section at a time, oerhaps 10x10.

A 10x10 section is about 1-1/3 yd. That’s a workout to do by hand and would drastically increase the overall cost to call a truck 10 times.

 

[ponytug]

I've nothing against renting tools I probably won't use again or that take a lot of upkeep.
But to have a good tool at the ready it's well worth the tradeoff of having to store it.
As I was checking things out for this thread I was reminded of setting Tposts and similar with a decent jack hammer. I'm also wanting to do a bunch of that.
And

thanks for that referral.

I bought a really well made T-post driver (Temco) from Amazon for the demolition hammer.

Amazon.com

The only downside to the whole thing is that you really need a man lift or good cage around an FEL to use the demolition hammer 8' in the air.

All the best,

Peter

 

[fatjay]

thanks for that referral.

For the price, it's hard to beat compared to a rental price. It just keeps coming in useful.

 

[workinonit]

Around here there are companies that will come demo and haul it away for the concrete. Crushed concrete is a huge business in our area.

 

[4570Man]

Around here there are companies that will come demo and haul it away for the concrete. Crushed concrete is a huge business in our area.

I doubt they’re working without payment. There’s not that much money in reclaimed concrete especially a small amount. A 12 ft wide 100ft long driveway is about 15 yards at 4” thick or 18 yards at 5” thick. It’s about 2 tons per yard. Demoing and removing that size driveway would be at the low side a 2k job. I wouldn’t be surprised to see 10k bids in high living cost areas. That’s far more than the retail cost of 35 tons of crushed aggregate. Locally you’re doing good to give away busted concrete with delivery included. New gravel is cheap here and recycling it is non existent.

 

[workinonit]

I didn't write that for my health or because I didn't know what I was talking about. The guy came to my house with an articulating loader, scooped it up and loaded it. He accumulates enough to grind in a day then sells and hauls it. I got a load of the crushed from him. I have no idea what it would cost anywhere else. If he didn't do that around here he wouldn't get very much concrete. He fills up about a 2 acre lot and has a grinding day.

 

[Popgadget]

I have had excellent luck with the Bosch Brute, but at the current pricing, I’d give serious consideration to the Harbor freight at less than half the cost.
Back when I bought the Bosch (over 20 years ago) there were no other viable options as far as performance or durability.