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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.
The advantage of a concrete breaker mounted on a mini-excavator over one on a skid steer, is the difference in reach and flexibility. A breaker on a mini-ex can reach down into a trench to break up old footings deep in the ground (well below the frost line), and it can reach down into a pool and break up the concrete floor - for fill-in purposes. As a couple of suggestions.
Compatibility:
Many of our mini-excavators from the various size categories that have auxilliary hydraulics will run a breaker. The question is more of a matter of coupler compatibility - so depending on the model a breaker may or may not hook up to it. Just check when ordering, please.
Availability:
Most of our branches stock concrete breakers for at least some models of mini-excavators.
Small mini-excavator and concrete breaker
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 concrete parking pad, mounted on a mini-excavator. (Our own video demonstrating this attachment will be forthcoming once we finish its production.)
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 skid steer loader and forks, a toothed bucket or even a grapple bucket, depending on the size of the pieces, the layout of the site, and so on. If the bin or dump truck is located close enough to the mini-excavator, it may be able to load the broken pieces - will some difficulty - with the bucket, or better still, if the mini-excavator is equipped with a grapple or thumb.
Attachments
(for mini-excavators)
Concrete Breaker
Concrete breaker for mini-excavators
Compact mini-excavator and concrete breaker
