We believe that smaller crushers including those mounted on excavators, will facilitate the recovery of materials from smaller and more remote contracts that would normally have gone to landfill. Furthermore, the introduction of small screens has aided the segregation, cleaning and washing of these materials, bringing materials resource efficiency to even the smallest construction, building or demolition project.
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We have found another interesting use for our Dig A Screener product by putting layers of grass into the screening bucket and then letting the screener do its work. What happens is that the good soil is regurgitated and then the sod stays in the screener. Another way of making money out of otherwise useless materials.
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We received an enqiury from a well known plant hire company in North East England. Their local council needed a mobile crusher that would crush waste kerbs and concrete on their sites. Their needs were it had to be safe, quiet, easily unblocked, operated by any driver and must work in a confined area.
The plant hire company first saw Dig A Crusher working at SED in 2007. They visited the web site, contacted us and after a brief discussion bought a Dig A Crusher 600 over the phone.
The client explained their desire to create a high value -20mm crushed concrete to be used for concrete mix. The customer tried the Dig a Screener 700 R and was so delighted with the results that he bought that very machine also.
Now the client has reduced his tipping costs and expenditure on bought in materials giving him savings of £17 per tonne.
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We hold live demonstrations each week near our yard at Middlewich, Cheshire. We are located 5 minutes from junction 18 on M6.
Dig A Screener S Series
We can show our full range of crushers and screens in action. There is a wide variety of material on site so the machines can be tested in tough conditions. Visitors are welcome to have a go and try them out. Give us a ring and we can fix a date to suit you. Tel 01606 835544.
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Loading Shovel washing non ferrous metals in a container
We have the ability to wash all kinds of materials for example scrap metal with the R series. This can be mounted on either a front end loader or excavator. This is a cheap and simple way of removing dirty fines from an otherwise valuable and useable material. No blockages, spillages or digging out from blocked up conveyors. The bucket screener stays in the water for as long as the operator decides is necessary.
Before Washing
As the Dig A Screener R series is on a mobile machine the required working area is very small. Customers no longer need to have large amounts to be processed. Now it can be profitable to wash even the smallest amounts of material. Unlike conventional washing plants this screening bucket is not expensive, does not take up a large amount of of room and can be operated safely by any driver.
It can be used to wash aggregate, sand, wood, rock, ballast etc etc
In short it turns a low value product into a high value product at a very low cost.
After Washing
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Dig A Screener S Series screening wet sticky shale from rock
We recently sent a Dig A Screener 900 S series to a quarry in Lancashire where it was required to screen shale from rock. After prolonged rainfall the material was highly saturated and was proving difficult to screen with conventional flat screens, no matter how aggressive the screen box was.
The material was a mixture of shale and sandstone rock. The objective was to recover as much clean rock as possible which was later to be crushed and made into aggregates. There was a high percentage of saturated shale in the material - as high as 80% in parts. The 900 S coped with it in its stride, recovering the clean rock and casting it to one side. Tonnages averaged at 90 to 110 per hour of total material processed. It proved to be a very cost effective solution to a very sticky problem.
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From 16 to 18 September 2008, you’ll find us together with a whole host of Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher products at the NEC in Birmingham for the Recycling & Waste Management exhibition and conference.
We have supported this show for the past few years and have been very impressed at how it has grown to become the foremost show of its kind.
If you’re in the recycling and waste management business, then be sure to visit us on Stand 126.
Further details of the exhibition and conference can be found here: http://www.rwminfo.com
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I am a regular visitor to the website of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (http://www.demolition-nfdc.com) and have been alarmed by the numerous recent reports of attachment thefts hitting contractors in this sector.
While they’re not, perhaps, as high profile as the theft of an excavator, these products are quite clearly being stolen to order, a fact that suggests a worrying organised crime involvement. Furthermore, many of these attachments are valued at well over £50,000 and their loss often halts production on a demolition project.
Although our customers have thankfully been largely theft-free to date, we would urge Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher customers to protect them with the use of the many anti-theft products on offer today and to ensure that their attachments each has a unique Thiefbeaters ID number http://www.thiefbeaters.com/plant.html
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I read an interesting piece at demolitionnews.wordpress.com on the forthcoming National Recycling Awards 2008. Although entries close later this month, the organisers are “calling on companies in the construction sector to enter the Valpak Waste Minimisation Project of the Year category”.
As a manufacturer and distributor of equipment, we are not permitted to enter in this category. However, according to our calculations, Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher products have been directly responsible for eliminating several million tonnes of material from the waste stream and we would encourage users of our products to seriously consider entering this prestigious competition.
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