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New Quarry equipment
Released on Sunday, 08 February 2009
Stornoway Quarryinghas recently invested in new equipment specifically designed to improve efficiencies and output at the northern Tasmania quarry site in Breadalbane. The SCS TC1235 Cougar cone crusher is making a dramatic difference to operations at the quarry and the new machine (with direct feeder and right-angle hopper) is part of the first stage of the infrastructure company’s $1.25 million investment in new rock crushing and screening equipment. The three-stage $5 million plan will more than double Stornoway Quarrying's workforce.
The features of the portable SCS TC1235 include its reliability and durability, the large feed size, increased crusher reduction, good clearance under the cone for discharging crushed material and the large 40-litre accumulator.
With all his extensive experience in the industry, Quarry manager Brett Hoyle, had never heard of Christchurch-based SCS before purchasing the TC1235.
“I spent about four months researching all the different types of cone crushers and portable cone crushers from suppliers all over the world but had never been involved SCS until now” said Hoyle. Hoyle eventually settled on the SCS cone crusher for a number of reasons, primarily being the flexibility and capability of the feed size and the depth of crushing within the cone chamber. “We liked the adaptability to add a feed hopper on the main unit which made the Stornoway Quarrying machine the first to do so” he says.
“The flexibility of the machine is incredible. We have just recently moved it off site for the first time for a contract crushing job and had to take the feed hopper off. Within an hour and a half it was ready to load onto the truck. It’s a difficult job because it’s very high off the ground." Even when the cone crusher hit the ground at its end location it was ready to go again in five minutes as the feeder was not required for the next job due to the rock for this job being small – it can simply go straight over the screening plant and into the crusher.
“We can do it very comfortably just with the crusher and feed hopper, rather than the screening too, which cuts down customer expenses and time.”
The company uses the cone crusher in its own quarry about 80 percent of the time, with the machine utilised for outside contract crushing work the remainder of the time.
“The cone crusher has helped us bring the quarry into one of the leading quarries in northern Tasmania,” says Hoyle. “The material that we’ve crushed previously by contractors was at a tonne rate that was a lot lower per hour, but we’re putting out more tonnage per hour than contractors were doing. The material we had crushed previously never came into specification, but with this machine it comes into specification automatically.”
Hoyle says Stornoway would definitely consider purchasing another SCS cone crusher in the future. “It’s a machine that I think SCS is new in developing. I feel that another 12 months’ down the track SCS will become one of the leading suppliers of these machines, due to their robustness. I can’t see any reason for them not to be on top.”
