C40 enters test production

The first pre-production versions of Taylor Construction Plant's (TCP) C40 mini crusher are ready to enter service for full evaluation. The crusher is mounted on a 700mm-wide Hi-T500 tracked undercarriage and has 60t of crushing jaw force. It has a crushing capacity of 3t/hr to 10t/hr of material ranging from soft red brick to kerbstones and granite to small quantities of asphalt.The 400mm square hopper is 1.2m high to allow hand loading and the crusher comes complete with a short conveyor to load the crushed material into a barrow. Alternatively, it can power an additional 3m stand-alone conveyor to load skips. Finished product size can be adjusted between 20mm and 70mm by moving spacer plates from one side of the jaw pivot to the other. The dust suppression system is fed from a domestic garden hose. Power comes from a single-cylinder 7.5kW diesel engine with 104dB(A) noise emissions. Service intervals are at 250 hours. All the wear plates are made from Hardox steel and are bolted on for easy replacement, while the main jaw bearing is made from carbon fibre and does not require daily lubrication.The machine, which weighs 750kg and has a set-up time of five minutes, has a list price of £18,000. Skid-mounted and trailer-mounted options are being considered and these could be slightly cheaper. TCP managing director Andrew Barker said he had been looking for a small crusher for several years before deciding to build a model. After 12 months of development, the machine was shown at SED to gauge customers' reactions and comments leading to a few modifications.Barker said both hire companies and end-users are interested in the machine and he would like to see production levels running at 15 to 20 units per month.