My new client and Quarry update

Corley5 · April 20, 2024, 02:07:21 PM

Are the Chinesium trucks common in CR?

teakwood · April 20, 2024, 07:07:22 PM

Quote from: Andries on April 20, 2024, 10:29:34 AMIt must get noisy at your house with that size of machine tearing up the rocks.
But, that might be the sound of money coming in, right?

no noise, only the sweet sound of cha-ching !!!

teakwood · April 20, 2024, 07:10:04 PM

Quote from: Corley5 on April 20, 2024, 02:07:21 PMAre the Chinesium trucks common in CR?

They are getting more and more common, this ones are Sany, a well known brand, but there are names out there you never heard of.

if you compare a 140k $ dump truck to a 240k $ mack, inter, mercedes, scania,...

Southside · April 20, 2024, 10:30:34 PM

See any hippos in Columbia?

teakwood · April 24, 2024, 07:52:08 AM

No, no hippos, but nice mountain range, the Andes.

Just some pics, it's going great. 7 days a week they are crushing and hauling. trying to get as much material to the project before rain season.

The Excavator is gone and the D9 is back. (they have a lack of big machines for extraction in all of the 7 quarries they own)

teakwood · April 24, 2024, 07:56:34 AM

customsawyer · April 24, 2024, 11:06:05 AM

In the one picture, what is the loader loading? Looks to be on the wrong end of the crusher.

teakwood · April 24, 2024, 08:37:52 PM

They were loading brute material directly from the cut, without crushing. needed to fill some wet spots inside the project, so it had to had bigger stones

customsawyer · April 25, 2024, 06:59:58 AM

Thanks. Just had me scratching my head. I thought about yelling at the picture that he needed to put it in the crusher first.

teakwood · May 04, 2024, 07:50:24 AM

we are getting into some serious rock now. that blue ones is a very good quality

mudfarmer · May 04, 2024, 10:59:04 AM

Cha-CHING! Looking good

Peter Drouin · May 04, 2024, 06:54:46 PM

You would think a little TNT would make the job easier.
And not so hard on the dozer.

Old Greenhorn · Reply #287 - Re: My new client and Quarry update

Probably the wrong thread to drop this in, but it will do.

So it's come up a few times about you shipping some packs of wood stateside, and there are the obvious hurdles, shipping cost being one of them. You may or may not have read a couple years ago where I shipped about 400 mushroom logs from upstate NY down the Hudson river on a sail freight Schooner for delivery in Brooklyn, NY. Since that whole project I have been following the whole sail freight thing.
Last week this article popped up in my reader about a sail freight operation that is trying to get off the ground in Costa Rica. They have a good part of their ship built, but a lot more to go. This vessel will carry some serious cargo. I know you are a planner and a forward thinker, that's pretty dang obvious. Perhaps there is an opportunity down the road for you. I have no idea how far this project is from you, but maybe you could help them out, and they can help you out? I don't know but I do know, you never know until you ask.

Anyway, HERE is the article I read. That article talks about the Appolonia sailing on the Hudson which is the ship I worked with and why I caught this particular article.
At any rate knowledge is power, they plan to sail to NY if I read it right. You never know. Stranger things have happened, but first they gotta get that ship in the water and based on the size, several packs of lumber will barely be ballast in that ship. The Appolonia only carried 10,000 pounds if I recall and I gave them their heaviest load up until that time.
Just a thought Ramone. See you in Augest.

teakwood · Reply #288 - Re: My new client and Quarry update

That is quite impressive and i like the boat with all the lumber, very beautiful.

Economically i don't see how that will work out.

Nebraska · Reply #289 - Re: My new client and Quarry update

I doubt its intended too without subsidy via higher rates or donation, but I like the intention and the art it takes to build it..

Old Greenhorn · Reply #290 - Re: My new client and Quarry update

Well, i's not as complicated as it seems, and I can't say how their bottom line will work out. But that ship they are building will carry an awful lot of cargo which spreads out the cost, and there is no fuel costs to speak of which provide a huge cost reduction. They will likely have a small diesel kicker for docking and departing. The voyage time is longer of course.
The local schooner here travels the Hudson river here regularly from May until November and I think they use about 5 gallons of diesel for the season. They run from Brooklyn and NYC ports up to Hudson, NY then back again with a bunch of ports they stop in. Their financial model gets better every year, the crew is paid a living wage.
SO there must be something to it. Getting in on the ground floor is sometimes an easy way in and you could help them out on the finishing lumber side for decking, etc. in return for reduced shipping costs.
Hey, you never know, I just threw it out there.