According to a new straw poll conducted by the National Skip Hire & Recycling Association, there is a huge differential in the sums charged by local authorities for skip permits.
Apparently, a lack of standardisation is allowing some local authorities to charge ludicrous sums, according to a new straw poll from the National Skip Hire and Recycling Association. Indeed, based upon a sample of 18 local authorities selected at random, permit fees vary from no charge in Leicester up to a staggering £26 per day PLUS a £72 application fee in Kensington and Chelsea.
So, is this a reinforcement of the North-South divide? We’d love to hear what you’re paying in your local area so please let us have your thoughts using the Leave A Reply box below.
Full details of the straw poll can be found by clicking here.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
I have returned from my guest speaker slot at the last of the 2008 Institute of Demolition Engineers’ roadshow events (8 August 2008). The event took place at the superb Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey and brings to a conclusion what has been a great series of events for us which started several months ago in Glasgow and which also made a stop in the Midlands.
It has given us an opportunity to speak face-to-face with some of the UK’s leading demolition contractors, many of whom were seeing the Dig A Screener and Dig A Crusher products for the first time.
Details of the roadshow event can be found here: http://www.ide.org.uk/ and a brief review is also viewable at www.demolitionnews.wordpress.com
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