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Bobcat Service
Machine-with-Operator Service
Description and Function:
Primarily to breaking up concrete, but can also be used for loosening frost, rock, and other hard and breakable materials.
Price:
$ 250 per day - rental rate
(additional to hourly charge for the basic bobcat that it needs to run it, with operator)
Applications & Purpose:
The sole function of a breaker is to break up hard materials. This will primarily be concrete, but can also be frozen ground, asphalt, tile, rock, or shale etc. Most effective with hard and shatter-able materials, the most effective being concrete.
The depth of the conrete, the age and type (strength) of the concrete and whether it is reinforced by mesh or rebar will all be factors that impact greatly on the ease or difficulty with which it breaks and the speed of the breaking progress.
Old footings, driveways, pads, and walkways, sidewalks, curbs, really anything that is poured concrete that needs to be demolished and removed is a good application for a concrete breaker.
Compatibility:
All bobcats with modern couplers and standard flush-faced quick-attach auxilliary hydraulic fitting will run the concrete breakers.
That means that nearly all of our bobcats in the 4, 5, and 6 class will work. (The 3-foot size could work, but its coupler is somewhat different and we would not recommend it normally, not to mention the weight of running the breaker on the small machine would leave it poorly balanced and underpowered. We do anticipate at some point soon acquiring some breakers specifically for the smaller, 3-foot class machines, We will announce here when we have done so.)
Worth noting - for some applications a breaker mounted on a mini-excavator may be preferrable - especially when needed to reach down deep to do the breaking - for example when breaking up pld footings, or down into a pool when breaking up the sides and bottom for pool fill-ins, etc.
Availability:
Most of our branches stock concrete breakers.
6-foot bobcat and concrete breaker
Concrete breaker for bobcats
Play the video below to see it in action:
This is a pretty good 1-minute video of a concrete breaker in action, working on breaking up a residential concrete driveway, mounted on a bobcat. (Our own video demonstrating this attachment will be forthcoming once we finish its production.)
Bobcat Attachments
Concrete Breaker
Tip:
If breaking up reinforced concrete, be sure to have a labourer on hand with some sort of tool to cut the mesh or rebar and separate it. A cut off saw, cutting torch, bolt cutters or other such tools would be useful.
Handling the concrete pieces after the breaker has broken it up (to load up into a bin or truck, for instance) may be most efficiently done with forks, a toothed bucket or even a grapple bucket, depending on the size of the pieces, the layout of the site, and so on.
Alternative - mini-ex with breaker
