Joe O. ya wanna be a "Rock Star"?

Dave Parks

Dave Parks

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Thanks for the info on those Browning O/U barrel inserts. If they were not skeet & skeet in every gauge I may have gone for it. That was weird yesterday when I called you while sitting in the shade by the pond and had that deer walk by me and a few minutes later watch that dang Osprey dive into the pond and that a 10" bass out and fly away with it. A few minutes later just after Judy came down, we had that same doe walk back across teh dam and it hung around us feeding for over 20 minutes not 40 feet from us.

If you ever wanted to be a "rock star" you could come out here and oversee the new rock crusher operation. It's up and running and seems to work fine making little ones (2" minus) out of 18 inchers. Here's what the quarry looks like now. By friend Nick, his foreman John and I spent friday afternoon getting the big crusher set-up and going.

Left to right: Excavator, water truck, rock crusher, rock dump truck.
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This is the articulater rock dump truck I told you about.
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Nick uses the excavator bucket to loads the crushers hopper with rocks and the belt takes the crushed rock up and into the rock truck.
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Here's the first dump truck load. Nice stuff for road base with some 3.4" minus over the top of it. Nick is going to re-do all my roads for me.
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I don't think we will run out of rock very soon, gotta whole mountain of it.


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Nick asked me if I wanted the big boulders put down around the ponds and I'm thinking about it. When we get ready for it, Nick will bring in a blaster friend to drill the solid rock and blow it with dynamite. That should be fun to watch!

Dave
 
Glad I could help on the tubes.Neet articulated truck.Don't believe I've seen one before,but then I'm not a Rock Star.LOL:>)
One day you're going to have to tell me how to post pics with text in between each pic,like you have set here.
 
Dave with your luck they will find a gold vein in that hillside. I can hear it now. The streets were paved with Gold. hee hee
 
Back when I first went to work for the State 13 years ago, I was responsible for regulating asphalt plants and stone quarries. I was always impressed by the machinery they used, big stuff, lots of steel and dangerous. Fall into a crusher or move in front of a moving loader and your day will be completely ruined.
So, do you have to have an air permit for portable quarries? Is regulated under the SIP or is it subject to the NSPS under Subpart OOO????
Oops, the regulator in me came back out for a second. : )
 
you need to go down to your local Neff rental and get a 330ex with a 12k breaker. bust up the big ones before you put them in the crusher.

spoken like a true salesman
 
It would be nice Pete. Actually, here in the next couple of weeks I will be digging a 36" trench with the backhoe that will run a little over 100 yards so I can lay 220 V wire and 1-1/4" PVC from the barn down to a new well 100 yards west of the barn.

The area we will cross with the trench is where placer gold was found in 1890 and was last worked in the 1930's. I will pan out some sample dirt every few yards to see if I can find any color.

All I want is to dig up a 3' diameter nugget! :^)

Dave
 
Lee pretty well summed it up..........No Revenuers or the like allowed! The last one who tried got Post-Holed! :^) You doing any fishing?

Dave
 
Nick put in a full day today by himself and I was amazed he stacked 21 truck loads by late this afternoon. I sure would hate to fall into that crusher while it running. I saw that thing eat up 18" rocks today like it was nothing. Here's some pic's of the operation in action:

Nick is a one man army, he's up on the excavator one second loading the hopper, then he jumps down and clears a jam in the crusher and the next minute he jumps in the dump truck when it fills up and runs it over to the dump pile and empties it, then starts all over again....CRAZY MAN!
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Here's Nick loading the crusher's hopper with the pre-sorted rock at bottom of photo.
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Here the finished 3" minus rock falls into the dump truck. I have a 1,500 foot driveway on the north end of the property that will see a lot of this 3" rock as a road base and then we'll adjust the crusher jaws down to make 1" minus for the roads finished topping.
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Never a dull moment around here Lee!

Dave
 
Gald I didn't work in your area!!!!

Did a little fishing from the beach last weekend. Caught a couple of spanish mackerel and a nice bluefish. The wife made mackerel sushi the next night, good stuff.
 
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