Testing CHEAPEST $5,000 Chinese ROCK CRUSHER (on Alibaba)
Unboxing my new $5,000 Chinese Rock Crusher - gravel maker. Buying the cheapest jaw crusher rock crusher I could find on Alibaba. Part 2: Coming Soon.
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I know this sounds crazy, but I'm a 57 year old woman who is obsessed with gravel. It's the perfect ground cover for us living in the country. And i love hearing it crunch under my feet or under cars. Great drainage, soil protection and decent weed barrier. My husband thinks I'm a little weird about this, but i TOTALLY understand your happiness with the new crusher. You, my friend, can now actually MAKE gravel. You're my hero!
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@@ModernSelfReliance if you are now obsessed with rock crushers and addon stuff yo might add... at 22 minutes into this video kzhead.info/sun/g5yBkq1laHxtlJ8/bejne.htmlsi=aQxmgfr8EBGaXSyS you might get ideas for projects.
I'm right there with you. Gravel is the best.
This thing looks like something I could use.
@MikeOrazzi I was watching Itchy Boots traveling through parts of Africa on her motorcycle... some of those roads have so many rocks that need to be turned into gravel to both reduce rocks and fill potholes... An idea for a KZhead channel could be 'Graveling around Africa'... who would object to road improvement?
The rocks get pitched out because you are putting rocks in one at a time. It is designed to have the hopper filled all the time and the rocks that are getting pinched are held in by the weight of the rocks on top of them.
And, he is running it faster than I run a crusher that small.
Need hopper or you will destroy that engine with flying/falling rocks bro
You are what I like to call “correct”!
I thought the same thing - engine speed may be too high, thus the flying rocks.
Good point.
Cover that water entrance, or you'll likely fill it with rock dust. Also, those crush plates can be fixed up by hardface welding them as they wear. Don't let em get too worn out.
I work in a rock quarry and run a jaw crusher that can fit a car in and I agree about not letting those jaw dies wear out. Once those teeth are gone the rocks will eat a hole through it and the entire jaw die is garbage. My jaw dies are made out of manganese
The jaws typically are cast austenitic manganese steel, also known as Hadfield steel. They can be repaired by welding with a matching filler metal. Hadfield steel work hardens with impact and to some extent abrasion which is how it develops it's maximum hardness.
I don’t believe you can hardface them
@@blacksheep9734 if they are in fact Hadfield Steel you absolutely can. Remove the work hardening by grinding, butter with a layer of E307-16 CrNiMn austenitic stainless, then finish with EFeMn-A. Finish the surface as needed by grinding.
And even if those get worn out, well get most of it out of the machine, make steel replicas out of those plates and put the hard weld on top and those last least half of what original will last.
The little lever is your decompression Kevin it holds one of the valves open so u can spin up the motor easier it will save your starter
Good to know for sure. I found by trial and error it was easier to start with it pushed! Thanks!
Kevin I didn't see you fill the oil pots any? I would assume each use they would need filled to save the oil impregnated bushings. What type of oil did they say it needs?
@@richardnott9587 It looks like ALL the Instructions are in Chinese.
@@randallanderson4999 *_ See GOOGLE TRANSLATE _* 🤗🤔
Do these come filled with vegetable/rapeseed oil in the sump as shipping oil? It may be a country specific thing but all the engines I've recieved from China had veg oil in place of engine oil due to shipping regulations
I bought nearly the exact same a few years ago, there is an old quarry on my place and it's a great source of FREE building material and now gravel !
how's it holding up?
Put it on a hill (or blocks). Then put a corrugated chute under it so the fines and rocks fall separately. Cut slits in the bottom corrugated for a fines outlet into a diverter. You can screen the gravels from there or not. It probably compresses better with some variety. Wish I had one of those on my WV property!
If looking to make a driveway, keeping it all together is best. “Crusher run” is what is used for our farm driveways, and after some compaction is gets really smooth.
If you do want to separate some sand you could buy a sheet of crusher screen with the correct size hole guage you want, sand falls through.
I love how you come with new things and use what resources you have to build things
Great video. It’s like watching a kid with a new toy. I don’t know what got you more excited… crushing up those man-made pavers/blocks or watching it vomit out those rocks it didn’t like. I am envisioning gravel trails all over your land, thank you for the unboxing and the walk around. Not sure how long before you begin modifying/rebuilding those parts that seem a little less than ‘perfect’. Thanks for sharing!
So you will find certain material is harder hence some of those rocks don’t crack well. It’s called a splash cooled diesel. Essentially the cylinder is just splashed with water. Very handy. You can use literally any water or you can use proper coolant. The amount of time you get from the plates will vary depending on the material being used. Also. Having used similar products I recommend going over everything after an hour or two of use. Possibly grinding out any cracked welds and re welding. Check bolts etc.
Good advice. I would just add check it regularly for crack and loose bolts with ongoing use too. Cause of vibration.
The cylinder is surrounded by a jacket of water. I think you're confused by the term "splash lubrication" where the connecting rod has a dipper that splashes oil everywhere....
NICE!! addition to the Off-Grid property Kevin. That looks like A LOT of fun filling n cruching all that variety of product.. Cool for sure
Sweet toy! This should be a big help with the stream install. I look forward to your many gravel purposes down the road! Stay safe.
Nothing else says youtube at 1am like a canadian playing with a rock crusher LOL
You are the best!! I learn so much from you. Thank you! This was so much fun to watch
You started it correctly. These types of engines are common in asia especially in cement mixers
I would definately change the oil after the first hour of runtime, maybe twice for good measure, considering what came from coolant system from factory!
pretty cool Kevin. I can see lots of places this would be handy thats for sure. good way to recycle the patio blocks.
Like mash potatoes... Really crushes patio stones like nothing.
@@ModernSelfRelianceYou may be you may be able to go to your local dump and get a bunch of old cinder blocks and stuff❤❤❤❤
I love how happy this makes you. 😆
I’ve never seen someone so happy about gravel, but I get it. ☺️
Should have tried to get some during the covid lockdowns. I can totally relate to the happiness
At over $600 per truck load I can see why he is happy
@@ironsales5669if it cost 5000 for the crusher, and a truck load is 600, that is approximately eight and a half loads, how big a pile is eight and a half loads, and how much crushing time will it take to get that quantity?. I totally go with being self sufficient, but the quantity/time would be interesting to work out. Don't care I want one😊.
Watching you crush rock into gravel especially all those mismatch pavers and patio stones was super satisfying.
Really enjoyed the video have been waiting for the rock crusher content. Now that im 45 i find myself liking things i never thought I would lol. Have a good day and stay safe Jimmy from North Attleboro Massachusetts
I'm in Eastern Manitoba and many people in this area buy that 'blue rock' better known as black granite and pay a pretty good buck for it. Round rock is always harder to crush and granite being the hardest and you being in Northern Ontario will likely have lots of it around. It's also highly abrasive and will wear out your wear pads in the crusher a lot faster than concrete or limestone.
Your delight is infectious!
The plates are manganese vary hard and and be welded back up with hard surfacing rods after they get worn down. Next you’ll be getting a hammer mill or cone crusher
Very interesting.. I got a spare set just to be sure.
This belongs in one of those "oddly satisfying" video compilations. I enjoyed it way more than I imagined I would!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are having way too much fun!
Always!
Pressing the little lever on the exhaust valve is likely the proper way to use the decompression valve while starting
Brilliant purchase for a remote property. Everything will be cleaner and dryer thanks to your gravel. Provided it doesn't require much repairing over time it will pay for itself quickly.
Oh boy….a new toy! Kevin the Krusher👊🏻👊🏻
Looks like a lot of fun. Wear a good quality mask though, silicosis is no joke
The build quality looks a little janky, but the results look good. I'm sure you'll end up beefing up the trailer. Gravel self-reliance. Another box ticked! I love this channel.
The good ones cost way too much though. You need to get gold and gems out of it if you buy the American made.
Like many things you buy...you grind out the welds and reweld everything! You take the bolts out and use loctite. You goi over everything with a wrench and socket. You do inspections quite regularly during the time you are running it. Leave nothing to chance!
seeing good gravel get made is like finding a really good stick. It's just good, no explanation needed.
Ha! As soon as the video started and you couldn't wipe the smile off your face.....you definitely ARE the kid in the candy store! I realized I was smiling too! You're contagious.
Beautiful. How many people do you know that own a personal rock crusher? "As of today......one." BTW....that appears to be lime stone and and I think the fines mixed in with the mids make great road foundation with the larger rock then spread over it. Once wetted, the fines tend to cement together with the smalls into a fairly solid base. Depending on the makeup of the limestone the fines could also be good for lowering the Ph of soil, if necessary, which enhances plant growth. Awesome little machine.
You're going to have a blast with this! Glad its finally arrived. Let me know when you're ready to start crushing and I will be your assistant
Merry Christmas to you and yours Kevin . Love the channel.
This would be great for making little roads and paths for all ur machines and no more muddy boots
I worked at a rock Cory for years and never seen anyone so excited about smashing rocks. You need a hopper on the top those hard to crush rocks do better if there is more wait on them from other stones keeping them going down. I see your landscape is going to change quickly love it and all your videos keep them coming.
All those years working but you never learned how to spell quarry...
@@NotSureJoeBauers bite me I was talk texting didn’t proof read before sending
Guess you don’t want any followers on your site rudeness is a defiant cancel subscription and words spread fast Think First then don’t send anything!!!
@@NotSureJoeBauers and you never learned to be polite and stop correcting people when you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Not everyone is typing.
@@CaliMel184it was an interesting education about speech to text, I have my own issues with spellcheckers... reading the text I was guessing a bit of a technology issue rather than human error. I generally don't bother with other people's spelling issues.
Now you can make your own railroad ballast.
Thanks Kevin, I enjoyed watching this.
I worked on a similar jaw crusher but much larger one summer, it was a highway project near the town i lived in. I was told if we were to ever run gravel pit stone, round rocks, to always make sure i had a good mix of gravel and smaller rocks. The large jaws would spit huge round rocks high into the air if i didnt have ballest on top. Luckily we were able to stay in the blasted rock quarry.
That’s really impressive for something off alibaba. Was not expecting it to be as effective as it is with how it looks, but damn that broke down the rocks like a champ
To be fair it is a old very simple design so hard to puck up. The only issue is how long will that chinese engine last and how long will the crushing plates last (But at least those can be fixed up with welding on more and proper material)
It's already cracked in several places and rusty not looking good
I laughed so hard when you said "Im like a kid at Christmas, i don't know why I wanted a rock crusher & i guess im gravel independent now". At 1st i didn't think it was doing anything until you showed the ground shot while using it the 1st time. By the end of the video I was surely impressed with it.
We were thoroughly entertained my friend. That may be a good addition to OUR Cabin.I'll get you up to speed when we see you soon.
Ur gonna need to find yourself a conver belt and a hoper to make that sucker really work but you will be able to cover your driveways with crush stone in no time thats pretty cool Kevin man
Wow. That was fuuuuuuun! I reckonnyou could make a channel just for rock crushing....ankther for milling... I could watch milling and crushing all day! I guess thats what age dies to you. Nice addition Kev. Get some drone footage of your before and after gravelling of the property's paths and driveway...or maybe with time lapse. Also get yourself a hard hat and some safety glasses. Finally, enjoy!
Also...a product/tool review channel.... But not just blowing smoke (like with ecoflow) for the sponsor...but being critical as well. And a channel for Kev's buddy trips.... With your metal man, tree surgeon, etc
This crusher was not sponsored...
Very awesome! You might want to add lubricant to the back of the drum spinner in the three bolts on top. Product page says Regularly lubricate the machine every eight hours. 😅 I love and watch every video.
Yeah they sent me that the day after. I added some grease nipples to easily pump it full...
LaClears were excellent rock breakers in Michigan already. Now you went and took it to another level. ❤
It was so delightful to see your infectious happiness - was SO happy for you 😃 ...like a kid opening their presents on Christmas morning 😀😃😄😁
I did not know that I needed one of these!
I like your new toy Kevin!
I loved this video, really amusing. I wouldn't dare to spend 5k on alibaba, especially for a machine like this but I was hugely impressed. Subscribed, love to see more of you (we also live off-grid, in Portugal).
The bolt and spring in the motor side of the crusher I believe is the throat or size adjuster for the crusher, if you shorten the exposed part (tightening the spring) it should narrow the opening for smaller stone
Oh now that is an awesome toy!
Best Quote: "I am in the gravel business!".
Donny DIY made a rock crusher… I’ve been looking at the China-made options. Great demo! Totally enjoyed your enthusiasm and excitement!
Very good operation, everything is perfect, thank you very much.❤
I'd probably add a small hopper to the top of the machine for those harder rocks. If you have a load of rocks piled up in the chute then it will help to push them through without them getting yeeted into orbit! There is also a big metal plate on the underside of the crusher jaws, held in place likely with a big spring. If the crusher can't handle a rock or tries to jam, the metal plate will fall out of place to protect from those flywheels from destroying everything.
That's good to know.
this made my morning. tks
that looks like a lot of fun! good luck with your new toy.
Way cool.... I could see screening out some sand for many uses.
This video and machine is fantastic!
Now that is just awesome
Fun guy with christmas gift ! Bravo for the show..
I used to operate a walk-beside aka pedestrian three-wheeled chain trencher for a major telco. It had a single cylinder air-cooled 15 hp Yanmar diesel, also with a decompression lever. In its original form it had no electrics at all, being hand-cranked. Once I hadn't spun it over fast enough and upon releasing the decompression lever it started running backwards, crank handle spinning backwards instead of disengaging, black exhaust smoke coming from the air cleaner and sucking air in through the exhaust. Fortunately there were stop controls on both sides, a co-worker shut it off safely from the other side. After this incident the machine was returned to the manufacturer and fitted with electric starter/generator and battery.
I never thought the giant coffee grinder (big cone grinder) we use at work would seem safe by comparison.
Merry Christmas Kevin to you and your family. Your excitement over your new toy is fitting for Christmas time. Thank You for the laughs!😂 Please consider wearing a face shield. I'm curious if you could also make your own wood mulch with the new crusher?
It has to be brittle to crush.
Good morning from Minnesota USA! Very cool!
Crushed concrete is wonderful stuff it can lock in the sandy places real well.
As always, great video! You must have sent a lot of traffic their way as they are now using a screenshot of your crusher in front of your sawmill shed on their product page!
This is really cool. Now if you wanted you can make gravel paths to your cabins and around your syrup trees so you don't need to worry about tredging through mud!!
I hate mud season.
You should get some sort of conveyer to move gravel from the machine.
I see they say the plates last about 4 months. Maybe you can provide some feedback if they truly last that long? Maybe a 6 month review? Thanks and have fun with your new toy. Merry Christmas
If they last 4 months of run time that is a pile of time.
We have piles of feild stones from the farmers feikds that have accumulated over the years and i was just saying to my dad how nice itd be to be able to make crushed stone from it..i would love to rent one of these for a week! Awsome little gravel crusher someone in the usa should start making these!
Mount Baker Mining and Metals makes crushers and more in the USA! MBMMLC. Their videos are on youtube.
Super fun Kevin. I'm getting more than my money's worth out of your videos. Happy Festivus.
Wow! Perfect for a homestead that's got extra rocks laying around. It's too much for me, but I can see it would be pretty handy.
Kevin, if you find many limestone chunks you could build a kiln and bake it into lime to use for making free cement. You could also make some sort of deflector to deal with the rocks flying out. At least then you can try and aim them away from anything important?
like the top of the engine?
@@CuriousEarthMan like a metal flap to act sort of like a lid for the hole the rocks go in to stop them flying back out so dangerously…
@@glawenclattuc3127 I completely agree! I was giving an example of one of the important areas that needs to be protected from flying rocks. I would make the guard concave, so rocks flying up into it do not get deflected off of it, and fly out the front, for example.
Hey Kevin could you do a few tests with Granite peices? Would be interested in getting one here in Manitoba. Very cool machine 👍
Add me on Instagram and when I accumulate enough small granite I'll give it a whirl, they said it will do it no problem..
love how they now use your video on their site
Yes Kevin that's awesome!
FYI, for the water Drain. After Testing the unit, they might have pushes compressed air thru to fully drain the system and tank and then pushed some thick oil thur as well to coat the inside of the tank then drained the tank again. As a way to Prevent Rusting. So that bit of why it wasn't draining at first Could have been a little bit of thick oil at the drain that was left over.
Thick oil from China😂, first thing i’ve learned to do on the few things I have imported from china with motors or need for lubricants is to drain out the Chinese honey first thing.
probably full of all types of aquatic parasites and diseases.....and the bottom of the motor was already rusted 🤣
The unknown lever will be a decompression lever to decompress the engine while it winds over then when the starter motor is up to speed you can let the decompression lever go and start it. Probably helps a lot with those giant fly wheels being permanently connected to the engine adding more strain to the starter
lol, they are using your video in the ad now. Great video, thanks!
Wow Kevin, you got yourself a Goldmine with that rock crusher. That would be so fun doing that and possibly making a profit and saving a whole Lotta money on projects that you could use that on. As always enjoy watching your videos take care..
Just like Christmas except that if you're not careful, you will need 2 front teeth! 😂🎄👍
Bahaha
Very cool! I have an odd fetish with making gravel, lol! It's also interesting how the old timers did it before engines were a thing, it be cool to try and build something like that. Essentially big pounders that were raised and dropped using fulcrums and pullies. What you have is much easier though 😂 Be interesting to see how it holds up, hopefully you get your money out of it and a lot more.
I was thinking of making a heavy thing that drops.... But then I bought this thing.
They used big hammers and muscles. We got to see it in jails in the south. Also Mr. Nobel invented something else to help with the big rocks!!
@@MrHyde2k haha, that's one way to do it! But I was referring to the two story machines they built that would raise a big heavy plate and drop it. A guy or two could work it, pretty ingenious machines.
I think your talking about stamp mills, they pounded gold ore to dust for gold extraction@@tradermunky1998
That small lever you was talking about on the cylinder head is actually a compression release valve for starting
this is one cool machine! and the yield is really good
you do cool things
Hi Kevin I love that crusher!! If you read my previous comment, I don't know now where it was, but fairly recent, this is another great money maker. Rocks should be cheap to pick up anywhere. Sell gravel in small or fairly large lots. Bob's your Uncle!!!!!!
Yep. Easy Peasy.... Japanesey... Errr Chineseasy
Also I had an idea to make it even easier to run. If you made some chutes and had the crusher raised slightly you could have the gravel slide straight into a trailer or something. You could also make a chute that you could just empty the tractor bucket onto so you don’t have to hand load it?
I’d probably install a heavy rubber mat over the top to help with keeping the rock chunks in if they happen to explode out the top.
You should build a ramp for it to sit on, that filters the various particle sizes, you could do multiple sizes with a single platform, and have them roll down to different areas. Sand below, 3" behind, 2inch to the right, 1inch to the left, etc.
I have to wonder if there’s a way to adjust the crush-plate spacing to produce smaller gravel. Maybe spacers behind the crush plates if nothing else?
Yes you can adjust down to 10-15mm the size it's at is perfect for my application
@@ModernSelfRelianceI used to work in a quarry years ago. We never had any problem with rocks spitting out like that. Drop a singe big rock in and some would bounce a bit until it got a grip on it, but as soon as it got the first bite the rest was history. But we never made small gravel like that on the primary crusher, there was a second pass through a hammer mill for that. So the jaws were opened up a lot more than that. I'm wondering if open the bottom up a bit bigger makes the jaws closer to parallel thereby reducing the tendency to spit those hard stones back out? It will be a cost thing. Shorter jaws and the associated frame they are mounted in are cheaper to make. However the shorter the jaws are for a given opening in the top, means a greater angle between the jaws, cheaper, but also greater chance of spitting rocks out again? Still a very cool little crusher for the price though. Love it, I'm jealous! Another thing/trick I just remembered, for the rocks bouncing instead of getting grabbed and crushed we would slow the crusher down a bit until it grabbed and then it could be sped up again. For those hard rocks perhaps it's going too fast?
Rounded river tumbled rocks are all generally hard on a crusher of this size and gap. It's decently easy if in the small batch like probably a hundred pounds at a time, run it out to the largest gap first, run your larger rocks in, crank the gap to half, rerun the result on down to what you want. Those really hard roundish ones, put one of those in followed immediately by another like one of those paver stones that'll basically hold the harder stone in place for the jaws to crack it and begin the breaking/crushing process. Old bricks, oyster/clam shells, waste bits from stone counter tops, some construction debris like its of concrete, pavers and assorted field stone. Bring it out to the place in your driveway that need more gravel, crush up a few pounds.
Now that was cool !!!
I think the agitator needs some giant googly eyes on it :)
"Game of Stones" is probably a good name for it 😂
Baha.. love it!
Impressive piece of kit ! 👍
Also, like others said, a chute would improve safety immensely. Get super gadget like and make it a one way trap door. Even a wooden one would at least slow down the projectiles where they might not be so potentially lethal :)
Watching it crush rocks was oddly satisfying to me. Very cool! 👌