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 · May 08, 2024, 08:16:48 PM

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 · May 09, 2024, 07:43:43 AM

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 · May 09, 2024, 09:02:14 AM

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 · May 09, 2024, 10:05:56 AM

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.

teakwood · May 25, 2024, 06:36:21 PM

Some updates
http://www.youtube.com/shorts/9qDYhwYVtKk

nice eggs popping up

teakwood · May 25, 2024, 07:02:05 PM

24/7, squeezing every dry day out of the end of dryseason

Magicman · May 25, 2024, 07:19:08 PM

Wow, what an operation. Looks like that monster is hungry.

thecfarm · May 25, 2024, 09:10:04 PM

WOW!!!
The gravel pit crushers rocks about a mile from me.
Thier land abuts up to mine.
I can hear that crusher just a banging at my house.

barbender · May 25, 2024, 10:35:33 PM

When you work on a crusher, the worst sound you can hear is SILENCE! There is a rhythmic sound to the operation of the crusher, and when it gets quiet it's never good. Best case scenario is that the loader fell behind and the jaw crusher went dry, so it falls silent. But often, it means that a component somewhere in the production line broke.

A torn conveyor belt is common, maybe something caused the cone crusher to quit, it could be many things.

What it means usually, is that the feed at that point will be spilling and piling up. Say a conveyor belt broke. The point where that belt is being fed, whether from another belt or off of a screen deck, will be having material dumped on it into a pile until you can run and hit one of the master shut offs.

It usually happens somewhere that you get to shovel it all out by hand. Shoveling a 4 yard pile of rock put from under a conveyor is loads of fun😊

Tip your hat to the crusher guys, it's one of the hardest jobs I've been around.

Southside · May 25, 2024, 11:22:03 PM

Do you know the geology history of how that material came to be there?

teakwood · May 26, 2024, 07:42:11 AM

My geologist explained to me that the whole area was pushed up from underneath. It's not that i was lucky to have this material on my land, the whole area is the same, every other guy with a farm here has the same stone. some more contaminated some with more clean layers (like my quarry) The hard thing is to obtain the permit for a quarry.

X2 on the post @barbender made, that's exactly how it is. the crusher operator is one tuff guy, he earns 2400$ a month, which doesn't seems much for you guys but here it's a pretty nice paycheck, for example his helper, the one that shovels dust earns 800$.
both eat dust the whole day, with that incredible noise and hard work, they fix and patch up the crusher when ever it's needed, sometimes at night. the operator is around 50 years old and i ask him why he doesn't use ear protection??? "i'm used to it, doing it since 30 years" ,..... yeah right!