Why not a small PTO rock crusher?

[4570Man]

steve tyn don't give up just keep crushing rock a little at
a time and you will have a drive way full before you know it

willy

The country that made that rock crusher has laborers to work for like 12 cents per day. There’s no way anyone that actually values their time can load 20 tons of rock through that for what a dump truck load delivered cost. It didn’t look all that safe either launching rocks out of it. The $5000 that the rock crusher cost would buy a big pile of crushed stone delivered. Probably more than the guy that owns that tool would ever manage to crush. And when I’m buying gravel from the quarry I can get whatever size I want. That tool is only capable of making crusher run. The next problem is where are you going to get rocks of the proper size to go through that? I’m sure most everyone has a pile laying around that they have picked up over the years but what about after that’s gone?

 

[Peter 315]

A rock crusher just beats itself to death every time you use it..

 

[steve tym]

It's not really that I'm trying to produce gravel, more trying to get rid of rocks.

 

[Peter 315]

It's not really that I'm trying to produce gravel, more trying to get rid of rocks.

Just make a wall with the rocks.

 

[steve tym]

I could make a lot of walls.

 

[Smokeydog]

That’s what Ms Marjorie Shipley did with all stones picked up from fields and pastures. 600’ wall, 4,000sf house. Structural walls some 4’ thick.

 

[CliffordK]

My Dad gave me a rock crusher when I was young, a 5lb sledge.
After I became a teenager he "upgraded" it to a 10lb.

Not every one of my father's ideas from when I was a kid seems like a good idea today.

At one time my father thought we should cut our firewood with bucksaws and bowsaws. And I cut quite a bit with them. However, today I'm not at all excited about the idea of cutting a cord of wood by hand. I do like using an axe, but am also happy enough to cut round branches into firewood.

I have no problems grabbing a hand saw to cut a 2x4, but not 100 2x4s.

We also used to drill all the holes for gate hinges using a brace and bit. But, that was before cordless tools were so nice.

 

[newbury]

Not every one of my father's ideas from when I was a kid seems like a good idea today.

At one time my father thought we should cut our firewood with bucksaws and bowsaws. And I cut quite a bit with them. However, today I'm not at all excited about the idea of cutting a cord of wood by hand. I do like using an axe, but am also happy enough to cut round branches into firewood.

I have no problems grabbing a hand saw to cut a 2x4, but not 100 2x4s.

We also used to drill all the holes for gate hinges using a brace and bit. But, that was before cordless tools were so nice.

I too had all my 4 children cut firewood with bucksaw, axe, bowsaw and use a brace and bit. And use handsaws for cutting 1 x 6 for small projects, like a birdhouse. At least twice.
Then as soon as battery operated tools became widely available they all got starter sets.

(I learned those skills, plus sharpening etc. from my Grandfather and Father before I was allowed to use circular saws and drills. Brace and bit came in handy. In Vermont we tapped a lot of maple trees while I was growing up in the '60's. No electricity in the field, all holes done with brace and bit, all sap collected in buckets.)

 

[quicksandfarmer]

We also used to drill all the holes for gate hinges using a brace and bit. But, that was before cordless tools were so nice.

Brace and bit was the original cordless drill!

 

[steve tym]

I'm looking at that stone wall thinking I could crush every one of those rocks.

 

[CliffordK]

I'm looking at that stone wall thinking I could crush every one of those rocks.

I'm wanting to build a brick workshop. Stone is expensive (and heavy). Unfortunately I don't have enough stone here to make my own rock. At least I don't think so, we'll see when I do a little excavating.

Mom won't be happy if I come over to dig up her pastures looking for rocks, although she did have some petrified wood. Hmmm, that reminds me, I know of a secret stash of petrified wood. I haven't seen it for nearly 30 years... could any of it still be there?

 

[Renze]

If it were run off a PTO, it would make quick work of your PTO clutches, or worse….

At 300rpm the power surges are less than a baler at 75 strokes per minute. Next to that, they are usually belt driven which softens driveline vibrations.

 

[steve tym]

If it doesn't destroy a 20 hp Honda engine, I don't see how it could destroy the PTO on my tractor.

 

[texas42]

You need to go to a quarry and watch a jaw crusher work. Most jaw crushers have a large flywheel and belt drive to take the shock off the power unit.

 

[oosik]

AH - HA. I saw a potential use for that crusher you are looking at. Yesterday - visited the neighbor. He and his wife are just finishing up the yard and landscaping. At little bit of "rushing the season" but - hey - it's like spring around here.

The wife had several piles of different shape, size and color "beauty rock". A local contractor handles/delivers this stuff.

She will be using it for landscaping, in her planters and to offset various land shapes and features.

Not my bag. But she is one of those "artsy" types.

 

[JeepHead]

Take it from a guy who worked for one of the largest aggregate companies in the US and have been on and in many stone crushers...a crusher is not something you want to purchase and attach to your tractor.

 

[2diamondfarm]

I ran across a video recently of a guy that bought one. they used a snip of his video for promotion. Mobile Pe200x300 Stone Ore Rock Granite Jaw Crusher Machine - Buy Jaw Crusher,Stone Jaw Crusher,Jaw Crusher Machine Product on Alibaba.com

The original video:

I seem to have an endless supply of field stone I would like to try one

 

[steve tym]

Mine should ship shortly (yes, fully paid for and the EA thing has me a little sceeved out). It probably won't get much use until spring. I'll update as I can.
JeepHead, why not?

 

[Renze]

Take it from a guy who worked for one of the largest aggregate companies in the US and have been on and in many stone crushers...a crusher is not something you want to purchase and attach to your tractor.

 

[steve tym]

They tell me my 8x12 shipped from mbmmllc