Rebar Defeat I've Crushed All I Can Do

I'm looking forward to some road building or pond work! I'm all crushed out. 😊

Enough is enough - when there is no other option on hand - 'shut it down' and move onto the next project. Achieved an immense amount of road base all in all. Great work and series LetsDig18.

Robert is a good man to have around. Watching him drop that single piece of concrete into the hopper made me laugh. He was a definite help to you, along with Zach. Yes sir, when the effort costs you more than you gain, it's time to cut your losses. And when you think of the time you spent preparing those piles, sheesh. Hopefully, you got enough to finish the road. Thanks for sharing, Chris. Your adventures are fun (for us) to watch.

Your comment about “if ever doing this again”, was right on. If you were to take the project from the beginning, I’d bet it would be a TON easier and done right…

I feel there was a cost/benefit analysis done on how much the remaining concrete/rebar mess was worth vs the cost to repair the crusher. probably a wise move to call it done.

It’s such a cool 'transformer' the way it folds all up! Been a great project to follow except I need a mouth guard now from clenching my teeth! Rebar!! 👏👏👏👍👍👏👏👏

Great having Robert around to help you in this job, that seems to have become a much larger job than I originally thought. besides the minor hich ups that you have incountered with the crusher machine, seems to toherwise being doing well. Andrew Camarata has one, I think a bit smaller, but works well for him, as it has helped him in crushing up some of the blasted rock on his mountain property and thus creating small rock for his roads. Amazing. He is now in the disgning stages of building Castle #2 up there, and will be awesome to see it as he continues. Shame you could not go up and help him, since I think he would really appreicate it, knowing and seeing your experience. Sure with Geoff you have a lot going on though. Love and enjoy your Continued videos Chris. Appreicated.

Ya did a lot better than I expected. Crushers are enough trouble without feeding them rebar , mud and raccoons. 😅

Don’t blame you for calling it good, the rebar and fabric sure can jam things up. It was a good series to watch and it also had to be somewhat frustrating at times with break downs. I would agree with you on your statement that if you were to do this again you would want to be on it from the very start of demolition, I think you could have prevented a lot of headaches you encountered. Thanks for the update sir, appreciate the video series, learned a lot from it.

You certainly put those machines through their paces Chris 👍

that alarm on the crusher would peel the enamel off your teeth if you listened to it long enough.

Product looks good!

Job well done 👍🏻

People pay good money for good material like that

Yay the crushing is done! I bet that is a huge relief on your shoulders! Wish there was more crushing to do but not with all the problems

Looking good

Sometimes you have to know when to fold them!

THANKS!

you have been doing a great job. well done. cheers.

It might be interesting, when that new style fiberglass rebar starts showing up in demo jobs.

Robert is a great helper and friend. It makes it harder when you go behind someone that just half ass stuff. Thanks for the video

We love us some letsdig18, around here.😊

that kinda ended unceremoniously

That is certainly an impressive machine.

I take my hat of for you, Chris !! You persevered despite all the set-backs. Time to give it away. You can be proud of what you have done there. Greetings from Australia

It's moving along seems like there's a lot more to go great video thanks Chris and Robert

I did this everyday for a job. We put everything through our crusher that your not suppose to. Metal rebar grid would plug it up. 8x8 wood is the worst thing, the crusher would stop dead in its tracks.

Thanks for sharing. I would love to have a crusher. Looks like a great machine to have.

I absolutely love your vids! Thx 😎👍

Think you left out some valuable parts of the video. Like the explanation 😂😂😂😂

Can't wait to see the explanation next video. Looking forward to see what you are gonna make with all that crushed rock!

Hi Chris! That is a lot of concrete and rebar. Nice piles of product. Too bad there isn't portable hydraulic rebar nipper... it would be handy... Ron...

For what you had to work with,you accomplished something I’m sure not everyone could do.weather,breakdown,all the foreign pieces of wood,plastics,and of course the rebar.great job, great video.impressive what you were able to produce for useage for projects.on to the next project.😎😎😎👍👍👍

That's it? All she wrote! Will there be a large pit digging soon? Can't wait for roads. Have a good week Chris.

Don't know all the steps for demolishing and crushing but have to agree that doing the whole process yourself would be more efficient and probably way more profitable for you and more cost effective for your customer.

Those are some large piles of crushed concrete. Clear evidence of the work you've done.

Nice job guys. Know that was aggravating.

Thank you and have a great day.

If nothing else, it'll be a guide as to whether or not the crushing business is one to get into :-)

Chris, You and Robert work well together. This has been a muddy but amazing series. God Bless.

Robert crushed one rock. He can say he has rock crushing experience now. 😅

Been an awesome few videos of this crusher working pieces of concrete into road base bro, ya have had some great help along the way too. Safe travels. Ken.

Git er down you do great work

Let's dig some ponds!

The Romans obviously knew something we don't, the Collesium doesn't have any rebar

I'll take it

Another crushing defeat!!! Have a great rest of the week Chris,take care and God Bless!!!❤😊

good crushing video

i like your video

Crushing demolition concrete is probably the final boss of finishing someone else's job. You cold spend a week on that pile with your sorting grab, and it'd still be a mess.

I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO CHRIS 😊

As much rock as Robert put in the crusher he has proved himself valuable lol. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

I'm sure you're VERY happy this part is done! Now you can start hauling and finish some roads. Thumbs up! Stay safe. Jim

Good job ,1 thing to consider is a muncher ,the time you spent with the wrecking ball may have been near the same with a muncher ,plus your reebar recovery would have been better

I am NOT CRUSHED that you are done crushing.

Thanks for presenting the crushing operation. One thing that strikes me is that the conveyor system raises the crushed rock higher than what is needed. In other words the engine driving the conveyor belt is doing more work, ie adding energy to the rock, than what the rock ends up having when it comes to rest piled up. Diesel fuel is what provide that energy. So how much extra fuel is this? I did some back of envelope head scratching best I can figuring you do 900 tons per day and while doing that the crushed rock goes on average 10 feet higher. The excess height starts out high and then decreases over time. Assuming the diesel engine is 45% efficient as an engine, which it is probably not that efficient and then also figuring the conveyor system is at best 70% efficient, I think we are talking in the range of 5+ gallons per day of extra diesel fuel being used. That is something.

Sounds like someone got tired and cranky of having to shut down and crawl down into the hole to pull rebar chunks out. 🤣🤣

Probably everything that farmer sells for the next ten years will include the cost of renting that crusher. Haha.

Well you got to do what you got to do. You don't want to ruin the machine. You're only renting it so you got to pull it out. You pull it out so all you can do. Got to protect yourself and your reputation. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦

Yeah. I have had jobs like that. Hope the 220 is not damaged.

Hello Chris. Your videos are very educational. However you must think of the future. Please consider making up a shopping list for:- one additional wrecking ball, two double eyed wire strops for use with the wrecking ball, and a first aid kit unless you have one already

You work with the Crusher, and make a great Heap to the next. It's to see that You have still Dayd to Work to All Stone and Concrete is a Gravel. The Video however Interesting Tanks. Gladden my of the Continuation. 👌👍💪

Yeah, I wondered when you was going to call it myself !! That has really been a pain in the ass, it seemed like the whole time you had it man, just one thing after another every day !! You gave it hell ,that's for sure Chris, And I'm sure you have other jobs that need getting too instead of wasting your time every day babysitting that damn machine !! But, you did get a lot of finished product, that can be used... Great as always Man !! Have a Great Evening, And, On too the Next !!

have been on a few sites in the UK that have had a Mccloskey crusher on hire and they dont seem to mind putting rebar in them

I'm sure you learned those long pieces of rebar aren't fun to work with. We tied into a pretty tough project right out of the gate with our crusher setup. Couple things that helped us were the fact that our screen is a stand alone independent outfit separate from the crusher. This gave us more visibility on what was coming across the screen debris wise, and was easier to clean out for the same reason. The other thing we had in our back pocket was that we bought a Genesis multiprocessor. Basically for every day we crushed, we also were running the multiprocessor sorting out those long pieces of rebar that I'm sure you noticed gave you quite a bit of trouble binding things up in the crusher. I know a guy that has a multiprocessor that isn't hydraulically powered that does quite a bit of crushing. He seems to get along pretty good, but that Genesis of ours just has a scary amount of power!

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I thought the rebar in the back piles might be a deal breaker. What a mess to try to work with.

Hey Chris !!!! The ""RENTAL "" Co. gona pay for your ""TLC"" of their machines ??? Guarantee it won't happen again !! Nice job & DON"T blame you for NOT finishing the crushing with ALL the rebar in it !! Now,, you can finish the road you started a while ago !!!

Well done and informative! I will try to copy your video style on my new demolition channel. Great job on your vid

Wow it looks like you need a pre-crusher just to free up that rebar. Nice video.

The rebar was designed to help human strengthens man made structure,it did an excellent job and now got blamed for something that it wasn’t designed to do,messing up another man made structure.

How many tons or rebar came out of what you cherished all together ?

Man I'll bet you're glad to be done with that, don't believe I would want to be a concrete crusher, you gave it a good shot no doubt, it would be interesting to know what the cost per ton on this project is.

LetsRock18!

Im ready for a pond build..

Lets put steel re-inforcement in cement to make it stronger. Sad that the crusher is consuming all your valuble time Chris. Cutting the losses is your best move.

Chris does all that concrete dust play havoc on your machines as apposed to dirt? I would think that the limestone in the cement would affect the mechanical movements of the machines more so? IDK🤷🏾

He left a huge pile uncrushed

I think you did well with the material you was working with. Maybe a different machine in a month or two.

I wonder what crusher they use on the interstate jobs here. They crush and re-use the concrete and the rebar goes to a scrap yard.

Do you have to powerwash it to return 'clean' or just get the big bits off?

I bet you’re happy this nightmare is almost over.

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🙂HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FROM FIRST START OF MACHINES ON THE PROPERTY TO END OF SENDING LAST MACHINE OUT ???🙂

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I wonder if a jaw type crusher might work better with the rebar than the rotary hammer style?

I’ll be interested to hear why it’s leaving with material still left to be run…. 🤔

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Love the videos . I have worked on a few stationary rock crushers , its a full time job just crushing hard rock in a quarry and alluvial material out of old creek beds . We had two crushers going , the main one was producing road base and the smaller one I was on crushing to produce sub base but using different materials one was hard rock from the quarry and the stuff I was crushing was a black type of big round volcanic type rock , when they got the tests back the sub base from my little crusher turned out to be better road base then the road base from the main crusher but it was a full time job because the bloke on the loader feeding the crusher kept putting oversized rock in the feeder and blocking up everything so it was sledge hammer time not nice especially when he would not get of his arse in the loader to help with breaking up the big mothers to fit in the jaw to be crushed. That crusher you have there is an amazing piece of machinery whats your thoughts on crushing all that cement with so much reo in it I would reckon that was a bit of a nightmare for you .I have been watching all your videos for a few years now , The Bealy Good jobs and heaps of others jobs done by yourself amazing to watch and amazing what you get done by yourself. Thanks for your Great Videos Watching from Nth Queensland Australia.

Dig through all that looks hard on teeth are you going to have to replace them when you’re done?

Enough is enough even cake & ice cream

Me for one are glad to see the last of concrete crushing,lets get back to some pond's MATE !

“Something’s no longer with us” 😂 Ya think? 😂

For as expensive as those darn crushers are, they sure are a pain in the butt to keep to working profitably. Though I guess it wasn't exactly prepped well by the rental company either, which didn't help the affair any.

I think you need a high torque shredder to finish processing that rebar and concrete.

Can anyone who’s been following this concrete crushing series give me some Cole’s notes? Where did this concrete come from and why is he spending so much time and money crushing it all? And is there a planned end-use for it all? Thanks

You'll be glad/relieved that you can get back to dirt digging . Probably a few days of grooming the Volvo and Hyundai back to shining examples of what they normally are . Can the leftovers be used as erosion control somewhere?

youve been at war with that concrete Chris. that was some nasty nasty stuff you were dealing with in no so ideal conditions. client should be happy you were able to get much usable material out of that mess as you did. both your machines let out sigh of relief, schedule a dentist appointment

Swapping out that crusher for a jaw crusher and make slightly coarser grade material an no worries about the rebar and you'll have all that done in 2 days.

I was going to comment about if you had done the demo etc instead of some other yahoo, how much cleaner and pre separated the concrete would have been, but then seconds later you said the same hahaha