How to fill in potholes/road maintenance

[DDoug]

You can weld different cutting edge on it and the sides what ever YOU want.
They do come with cutting edges.

 

[CM1995]

What would help is magically making every other operator learn the niche skill of floor building with raw material so I dont have to fix them all the time, I have enough work keeping the face floors where I want them between my normal job of loading the crushing plant without having to worry about fixing the tip head. If I can achieve that then my job becomes twice as easy but those floors always end up downhill toward the hopper. The fact that our site uses loaders to do it is absurd in my opinion.View attachment 362017

Give us a little more background on this operation. Obviously it's a hard core recycling yard but what's going on overall?

 

[AzIron]

I think it would be ground into dust after a week of pushing concrete, ***** abrasive.
Teeth, heel plates and shrouds on my bucket last about a month.
Just need a dozer.
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Loaders are awesome for grading there basically a ruber tire dozer and they have a bucket

Loaders also cost less than half to operate what a dozer does

It sounds as tho the other folks around you lack the skill or care to make the place clean doesn't matter a dozer or loader same problems will persist

 

[aussiechunda]

Give us a little more background on this operation. Obviously it's a hard core recycling yard but what's going on overall?

Concrete/brick recycling trucks bring in the concrete from demo sites and that is tipped off at the tip head, munched with excavators then pushed over down to the tip face where I feed it into the fixed crushing plant, we dont do aggregates just 20mm and 40mm road base, class 2 is straight concrete, class 3 is 85% concrete, 15% brick and class 4 is 70% concrete 30% brick. 40mm is generally also just straight concrete unless its a special order.
Also runs through a pugmill after the plant for wet mix and cement treated in 1% 3% and 5%
Pic related was the floor fixing i did this weekend, honestly the most satisfying part of my work is fixing the weeks damage to floors and then being a live face it never ends.
Before

 

[aussiechunda]

After

 

[aussiechunda]

You can weld different cutting edge on it and the sides what ever YOU want.
They do come with cutting edges.

Sales buckets with a cutting edge dont work at all for it because you are working with raw material, you are building the floors by filling your bucket then the fines dropping out between the teeth of a rock bucket, really its a lot like setting the floor level in a pit mine in a face loader.

 

[DDoug]

Sales buckets with a cutting edge dont work at all for it because you are working with raw material, you are building the floors by filling your bucket then the fines dropping out between the teeth of a rock bucket, really its a lot like setting the floor level in a pit mine in a face loader.View attachment 362094

You asked for a better way, I suggested....

 

[aussiechunda]

You asked for a better way, I suggested....

Your suggestion would work with rocks and i agree with it but we would have it if it worked with concrete, the abrasion factor is why we dont use them the cost of maintenance doesnt make sense in managements eyes but I 100% agree otherwise.
Management also tells me not to dig the heel plates in when building floors but I do and that is how i build floors like the earlier pics without it taking 3 months to do and I couldn't give a **** what they say.
Office people are the worst.

 

[aussiechunda]

For context i am a face loader operator and my floors are perfect, I only do this **** on weekends because others cant my face is smicky