100 Tons of Gravel!! - Extreme Torturing Testing CHEAPEST $5,000 Chinese ROCK CRUSHER (on Alibaba)

[@dropshot1967]

If you mount the feeder table on incline down to the crusher, the shaking of the machine should feed the rocks on the table into the crusher.

[@SilvaDreams]

The hopper should be feeding over the engine, that hoop on top of the crusher is suppose to attach to the hopper to shake it and feed it.

[@unimogdave]

I have an 8x14 with a 6ft tray sloped down. This machine only bounces because its on wheels. Mine is stationary and does not bounce and so wont self load. I ended up mounting the tray on springs and making a simple vibrator with 1/2 hp electric motor running from a generator.

[@lukasgut1391]

You don't need much of an incline. Just put a vibrating motor on the bottom with like a 10 precedent incline. They are used for concreat and are relatively cheap.

[@khunangkaro]

So Boring

[@TheGuruStud]

@@unimogdave 200 IQ

[@derick-smith]

"You know how a machine kinda tells you when it's time for a coffee break?" This is something that only comes out of the mouth of someone who has put in some hours and seen some stuff. Well done, as always!

[@wrenchdoozer]

My back is sore from just watching you pick up rocks. lol.

[@ModernSelfReliance]

My back is fine.... My arms are tired... ;-)

[@barrydano1701]

​@@ModernSelfRelianceI've been in the aggregates trade for 30 years. Done my fair share of crushing. Your handy, why couldn't you make your own stacker out of an old hay elevator? If you keep the jaw full it will work better and you won't get as many popping back out.

[@american7169]

My back is out, for 2 weeks now, I wish I could bend over to pick up a rock😢

[@russellwatters5891]

I second that...😅

[@gloriousapplebees]

HAha I was just thinking that

[@poolcrusher90]

I used to work at a commercial rock crushing company and we crushed river rock. The jaw we had was three times the size of yours. There was a screening deck that fed the jaw the larger rocks. The smaller rocks fell through and were sent either to cone crushers or another screener to sort out round rock for concrete. We easily had two miles of conveyor belt to transport the rock into the crusher area. Our jaw crusher didn't crush down as small as yours; we used cone and roller crushers to dial in the aggregate sizes we sold.

[@MrSexyPsycho]

Snores

[@SilvaDreams]

Ironically the hopper when you put it on initially is actually backwards from what it should be. It should be feeding from over the engine which is what that hoop on the top is for as it attaches to the hopper to shake it. The shaking action of the crusher will automatically feed the rock in with the proper chute and will keep it from launching those harder rocks. Also you need some way to move the rock away from the exit point, be it a hill side, a raised mound or a pit with a exit chute.

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

Small conveyor belt feeding onto a trailer............

[@jwk4567]

All of your improvements were very impressive! And in this version no rock flew directly at your head! But the greatest addition was Don.

[@selfretired3025]

Dig a pit on the down side of a hill, place crusher at top with conveyor belt speed to match the crusher and a large hopper to fill & walk away from while it works

[@mikeshannon7975]

You know the gravel coming directly down is probably a major part of the problem with it. You already have it elevated a bit, you could get a used slide from a kids playpark or something and mount it right underneath to guide the gravel off to the side a bit where its easier to get with the loader. No need for a belt.

[@MattWeber]

Main benefit of him using it to make gravel for the driveway is he literally could move the crusher on the driveway, crush some, move it forward, crush more.. then just grade out all the little piles.

[@alskjflaksjdflakjdf]

It's kind of cool how the Alibaba listing now includes a snippet of your first video with the crusher. Thanks for posting this - I remember picking rocks was my least favorite job on the farm. My brothers were older than me and got to pick all the big rocks, so I was relegated to not even the fun rocks. I had to pick all the little ones. :P

[@johnvanderburgh4502]

@@3_Klos1122 funny how those rock picking memories stay with us !

[@MattWeber]

Hopefully they asked permission. So many sellers will do stuff like this and give 0 accredation to the content creator or some form of kickback from the sales jump generated at least.

[@ogreunderbridge5204]

Thanks for the show. A little security note; find out what a chain curtain is and build your there hence fully enclosed hopper funnel to gravity feed ( by adjustable floor angle). Rock projectiles are the oldest skull crushing hair pullers we have :)

[@upidsta]

This is the new Red Green Show. "If women don't find you handsome at-lest, they will find you handy"~Red Green

[@willong1000]

Hmm, where's the duct tape?

[@Artanis1000]

He kept his stick on the ice.

[@paulweakley3440]

This is the most sustainable version of gravelling a driveway i've ever seen. Helping others and turning waste into something useful.

[@TheGuruStud]

30 tons delivered to my house is about $110. It's cheaper if you buy the left over stuff that isn't perfect clean rock (has minerals and crystals in and irregular shapes, which I think is actually pretty cool, b/c it's not boring).

[@littled6698]

​@@TheGuruStud 60,000 lbs of rock TO your house is $110?!?! I couldn't even get the load trucked 25 miles round trip to my house for that much. Where do you live?

[@L10N3SS4EVER]

He said “he got a rock problem and I need rocks.”😂😂😂😂

[@skyw4278]

Hello there

[@selfretired3025]

You can compare the current crusher plate to one of the new spares to determine wear

[@jkh7901]

If you put your loading deck at a 20ish degree angle and made it super ridgid to the structure of the crusher it may become its own vibratory funnel. Have the loading deck loading from the side like you currently have it and then have a conveyer coming straight out of the bottom under the loading deck for stacking the gravel. Vevor has some conveyers that are cheap you may be able to modify to work

[@MrRiorust]

You beat me to it. Rock on!

[@jettim912]

Well done, I love watching videos like this, where people buy various machines to deal with the problems they encounter, and then find shortcomings in using the machines and think of ways to improve them, using readily available materials as much as possible without spending too much money.

[@jamesellsworth9673]

Version 2.0 is a big improvement. Don seems to be a necessary upgrade to the process!

[@ModernSelfReliance]

It's true, very valuable...

[@rogerbarrett2237]

I think that if the table was raised to about 5 degrees tilting toward the crusher, the vibrations of the machine itself would cause it to self feed.

[@asbestosfiber]

The way I've seen these things at little gravel pits is the unit is up on a rise and you can dump directly into it and there is a good area under it for the gravel to build up. If someone is going to stand right there and feed I'd definitely rig up some sort of water spray, lot's less dust when the rocks were all muddy

[@-Kreger-]

Great suggestion, Simple solutions to make the process much better.

[@sheilam4964]

Man, have you ever been busy. Thx for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us.

[@RyanMclain]

Glad to see don back. Was concerned.

[@CuthbertNibbles]

2:25 "As far as I know, is that farmers _dislike_ picking rocks". Your delivery was comedic gold.

[@rongray4118]

De-crated and put together yesterday. Going to start-up and test today. Thanks for all your posts in regard to your crusher - lots of ideas to modify loading material. Greatly appreciated!

[@elbertmoore7876]

Wow that is a lot of rock to be picked by hand. Much respect to you for putting in the work to get what you have a need for.

[@twohandsworking896]

Thanks for the exercise,I thought It was doing me some good till I realized it was you doing the work

[@duwomaiishgabrielle9498]

You are crushing it with your channel Don☺️

[@sherrylawrencelewis2544]

😄😄😄😄😄☺️😊

[@cindychaney7205]

Kevin. You are not afraid of hard work!! Love your videos.

[@schwabrichard9829]

The loading table is a keeper. If it was on four tires you could move it around!

[@ermakers1297]

My wife and I have been watching your videos on the rock crusher with great interest! We have an off-grid property with a large quantity of very large limestone boulders that we would like to turn into gravel. Our road needs helps and this would work perfect. The manufacturer now has your videos featured on their product page too :)

[@ModernSelfReliance]

Well it certainly can crush limestone

[@rongray4118]

My wife and I are ordering ours' today/tomorrow... we are off grid north of Reno-Sparks, Nevada.

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

@@rongray4118 How did your crusher work out?

[@danny88dh]

5:33 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂no Kevin more like 2 birds and millions of stones😅😅😅😅😅

[@danl455]

nice! thanks for the content and so nice to see don!

[@plasmaman9592]

You can get air powered vibrator that they put on dump trucks for $40 or something like that from Granger or online. It's a 1 or 2 bolt install depending on the model and they are extremely powerful. I put a on my 10' salt spreader and it vibrates the whole thing and stopped wet sand/salt from sticking or jamming up the hopper

[@ModernSelfReliance]

I was having a similar idea, but using an out of balance furnace blow motor.

[@noon9346]

The stones on this guy...🤯

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

Keep them out of the crusher...!!!

[@marilynharlow8720]

I ❤️ your ingenuity I can watch your videos for hours! Thanks

[@OriginalLictre]

If this becomes a permanent installation, I think it might work well to build a raised platform for the crusher, where the new gravel will drop onto a sharply angled slope below, going off to one side. For example, looking at the crusher from the engine, rock is brought in from the right, gravel drops to angled channel going to left, where it can be pushed away using the power-blade of your choice. Lots of labor setting up the installation, cement to make concrete, but it should be cheaper than buying and maintaining conveyor belts. You could probably have a minor side hustle of performing gravel conversion for people who bring their own rocks(except the blue ones).

[@chandrasutton4669]

Good to see Don back, and helping again!!!😊🎉❤ Happy Easter!!!

[@Aussie_Entertainer]

it is going to look good with all the hard work putting into it

[@Aussie_Entertainer]

adding the funnel was a great idea

[@wesgardner4322]

If Colin Furze and early Wranglerstar did a collaboration, that would be this channel. Love the content!

[@Dav3Campb3ll]

This is huge Your drive ways going to be awesome

[@ryangrissom3532]

Do a big flat bed you can dump a bucket of rocks on and use an old wood slipper hydrologic ram to push/ feed the table into the hopper

[@ModernSelfReliance]

That's pretty genius.

[@ryangrissom3532]

Should have kept watching before I commented, but keep this table but add the ram to feed for you

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

@@ryangrissom3532 That's like the coal feed to a chain link rolling bed steam boiler my father used to be in charge of... multiple small rams of solid steel pushing coal dropped onto the rolling bed outside the boiler and going into the boiler through a curtain of steam to discourage the coal catching fire outside the boiler... In this case the "kickers" could be rotating cam operated...and a water spray could clean off all the mud and sand..... dropping it through grates before the large rocks get booted into the jaws

[@feckjr]

Good video Kevin! That machine really does work well. I think that the second modification you did to it really worked better! I would think that by crushing your own rocks you saved a lot of money by doing that, hopefully not stating the obvious their! Was good to see Don their working with you! Enjoyed the video man!

[@desert-walker]

Also, good to see Don out and about 😊

[@gameknight0130]

I always had a satisfaction with these types of crushers, stationary and mobile. at my old job we had a jaw crusher that we could run about 3000tn per day through. one of the biggest in our company. 40 inch by 48 inch with somewhere around 80-85tn (160,000-170,000lbs) of crushing force that rock you're crushing looks like a mix between Limestone, Gneiss, and Granite. not sure about that bluish rock, though. we've got a good bunch of blue/green rock similar to that and our geologists say that it's almost always limestone

[@BenjaminKlahn]

I want to know more about these blue rocks.

[@andynicoll8566]

Now you're ready to go gold prospecting!

[@rb3425]

That crusher is holding up much better than I originally thought it would. I am impressed! It still looks like really hard work though.

[@jcgjcg3844]

Good thing I am keeping an eye on u, and I was on youtube. Another alert I did not get just lucked out this time. Kevin, do you post these videos on Rumble to?

[@ModernSelfReliance]

I haven't looked into Rumble yet.

[@edwardhammock24]

Wow, well done collecting the rock in the first place. That's some dedication!

[@vansenMachinery1513]

So cool modification design.such a powerful crushing ability. It is really amazing Kevin.👍👍 You make our machine more interesting and valuable.

[@jpol3808]

Lol Now that's the way you get more done faster..... Stage 2.1......... Call DON! 👍🤣😂 LOVE THE CRUSHER! Great build!

[@glawenclattuc3127]

You might have been better with a square funnel like they have on wood chippers?

[@bloodknottrevelian3396]

Your shute into which you load the rocks would appear to be vibrating quite well. If the angle were to be increased I reckon it would self feed into the hopper.

[@michygoss7148]

I can’t wait for mine to come!!! 🤩

[@RollingwiththeRoss]

This video rocks, you guys are really crushing it out there today!

[@MiscMitz]

So satisfying watching and listening to this!

[@richardwhite4277]

@ 25:00 in the video, the front corner jack nearest the tire is spontaneously lowering itself / or you have a ghost ?

[@jimgriffiths9071]

Brilliant bootstrap engineering, version 2 so much better, enjoyed every minute!

[@c.a.g.1977]

oddly satisfying stuff this! Great to see Don back in action!

[@hoamai2734]

Hey Kevin! Glad to see another episode of your creative ways to build things and repurpose items. I recently found access to the back area of a furniture building buainess where I have found enough scrapwood to cut 2 meter long 2×2's. I used 2 front tires from old scooters and built a trailer. I often thought " what would kevin do?" During the build. Hope to see your bro in your vids

[@fishinghole333]

Hi Kevin! I'm your biggest gravel fan! That chute and Hopper are true genius. If I had that machine, I would crush rocks all day, every day! I wonder if you could make a water powered conveyor? It could dump into a giant, shallow pan that's slightly tilted. When it's full, you could drag it with your tractor and spread it where you want it. Sorry, I know you've probably got better things to do, I just love that machine 😊 I think WAY too much about gravel.

[@jonpomerance-trifts6113]

I hear you! So satisfying, isn't it?

[@jamessmith707]

You need a grain transfer ager ( the short one ) to sit under it and allow you to load your trailer or pile it up off to the side

[@sueyates3555]

The money you’re saving, and if you can sell this hopefully you’ll pay off what you paid for the machine was well worth it. Thanks for a great video Kevin. Happy Easter to you and your family. Good to see you, Don. Happy Easter to you and your family also..

[@darrinrebagliati5365]

The cut off heating oil tank from your sap boiler would make a nice feed chute. Would make a nice outfeed slide too. I would consider a log stand to put the crusher up, over a trailer and a ramp to an infeed chute. How high will those legs lift it?

[@jayaar5978]

I like your ingenuity -- I operated big Rock Crushing systems (Jaw/Cone/Rolls) for 8 years. I stood inside the crushing chambers and lifted heavy rocks up over my head to the next guy, many times. Don't be offended at my critique/suggestions...I want you to be successful (and live)). Hard Hats and Safety Glasses are Mandatory -- for the feed man, the loader operator and for bystanders. Those round rocks can jump 12 feet into the air, and do when you're not looking. Even with a hardhat, they will knock you silly. Knife-sharp rock shards are continuously being shot out of the crushing chamber. If you value your sense of sight, you will have safety glasses on, and don't stare into the chamber with rock going through. They can hammer your forehead also (actually, should have a face shield AND safety glasses on underneath, if looking in. Develop your sense of the crushing sounds to be your eyes, to know if it is running low, overloaded, or if a round one(s) are stuck at the bottom and won't crush, backing up the feed. DON'T poke that steel rod below the top of the crushing dies. If it gets between the die and a rock it can break your wrist, or shoot back out and into your skull (it's been done many times before). Don't let anyone convince you to dangle a chain, or weld a backhoe tooth on the steel rod and poke it it there -- people have died or become dismembered doing this. If plugged, let it run for awhile to get any fines to possibly pass through and create voids. If you have a gap between the Moving die and the first rocks, you can add some small rocks there to get them to hammer the bigger stuck rock forward and get a shift to take place. Then it might start crushing again. For a bouncing rock that won't get a bite, you first try to slowly reduce the throttle incrementally, but not enough to lose your torque and stall out, smoking the drive belts -- kill it quick if this happens. When you hit the right speed, gravity holds the round rock down so that the dies can get a bite without spitting it up into the air. If you end up shutting down to dig out, then first secure the flywheel -- like with a chain through the flywheel hole and around the frame, cinched with a binder. Otherwise, if you get a stuck rock loose, the flywheel can start turning and the dies will be moving, pinching arms, legs, feet that are working in the chamber. Next is to dig a gap between the Stationary Die and the bigger rocks, to give space for the rocks to move forward into. Get out every small rock you can -- you need voids to get the big stuck rocks to shift into. Pack small rocks into the gap between the Moving Die and the first big rocks. I always liked to dig a hole, if possible in the corner(s) of the moving die. That's a sweet spot for getting a shift to take place and then get a bite and crushing resumed. I don't know if your engine will have the power to start with a full chamber. (First remove the chain securing the Flywheel) Engage and Disengage / repeat to get a rocking of the flywheel. Time it so that you engage just when the flywheel starts rocking forward (after rocking backward). Go forward until it is peaking, then disengage and let it roll backward. Then engage when going forward again. Once you get a full revolution going, you should be good to go. Start at the minimum speed you can run without stalling, but will quickly need to speed up if you hear the crushing bogging down. You should be able to crack the offending rocks at the slower speed. Empty completely before entering new feed. Need to get it up on stationary wood blocks -- solid. You'll shake it to death sitting on rubber tires and the leveling jacks. The rear right jack handle is rotating constantly while in operation, so it is continuously going down and the unit is running out of level - and shaking. Don't fill above the jaw dies -- they are manganese alloy. Any other steel above the dies will eat out in no time. I cringed when watching the excavator filling the snowblower up to the brim. I like your second method, of hand-feeding it off the plate, as the jaw takes it and no more. Ask Santa for a controllable vibratory feeder. )) You might need a guard (mesh screen) on the inside of the flywheel for the drive belts. Even a 1" fly rock can knock 1 belt out of it's groove, and then it wipes out the entire rest of the belts -- been there, done that! Torque your die bolts every day, or twice a day, until you know they are holding. A loose die wears it's backing steel out quickly. Well there you have it, I wrote you a mini crushing manual....don't send it to China! Stay Safe, and Keep it Fun! ))

[@ModernSelfReliance]

This is great! Thank you for taking the time to do this.

[@jayaar5978]

​@ModernSelfReliance A lot of what I said about getting unstuck won't apply until you wear the ribs of the dies down close to flat. The ribs put all that energy into a focus, to make the rock explode. When flat, the rounded rocks won't get a bite and will just want to squirt upward. Sometimes adding a bigger rock on top will hold it down to get the bite. Sometimes you then add more feed on top of that. And then you might be digging it all out when fully plugged. But I was working crushers I stood inside to wrap chain and pull the offending 4-foot diameter boulder out with the front-end loader. So I'm probably making a bigger deal out it with your situation than what it is. Hopefully your dies are designed to flip, when the bottom half is worn flat. Look close at the bottom, to see you haven't worn the die past to where you are crushing against the mild steel base support. Rebuilding with electrodes and a hand grinder is a b__ch! Best Regards, and Stay Safe! ))

[@davevillaire2990]

I see they are using your 1rst video on their sales site hope you're getting paid for it. 👍

[@rongray4118]

They just received our order! I appreciate seeing this video!

[@PugFaceMusic]

The probably sent him this crusher for free as a promo. Very common marketing. The link to is has a affiliate code so he probably gets $200 every time someone orders. I think that's fantastic by the way. And the fact that his title says $5,000 when it's really $3,200 is further marketing to make people think they're even getting a better deal than he did.

[@annewendt8434]

Can you add a slight incline to your little platform so that gravity can help you feed the shoot without messing up your ability to dump rocks onto it?

[@ModernSelfReliance]

I can only go slightly higher before I can't load.

[@jonpomerance-trifts6113]

​@@ModernSelfReliancehydraulic lift on the end of the flatbed. Flat....dump/fill...lift...crush...repeat.

[@martinwinlow]

I see the jack (front, right 24:26) is merrily unwinding itself as work progresses... I might have missed it but is the a way to widen the crushing jaw gap? If so, you could do that and then crush the blue stones larger, initially, and then re-crush them smaller... might get around the 'pop-corn' effect?

[@jonw3550]

Don is back! I'm happy he is doing ok. I hope to see many more adventures with him?

[@kevins1927]

Just for curiosity sakes, what’s a tandem load of crushed stone worth where you are ?

[@kevinharding2099]

Strangely entertaining. You would be a fun guy to work with.

[@cindyfinn4845]

Kevin it ain't pretty but people that can take this,that and a few other things to make something that benefits your homestead,I like it.

[@jeronethompson1059]

Nice job Kevin and Don, and the mighty little crusher. Thank you for sharing your adventures

[@allenenabnit7078]

My favorite show is back was concerned after nearly three weeks of no Kevin and Don. I can’t believe you hand loaded all those rocks who needs a gym to get a workout

[@Gmango10]

When you made the first video with the rock crusher this was the exact video I was hiping for in the future.

[@tomlarsen5451]

Time to look for Gold in the crushed lock. Great video.

[@gribordy]

How many hours total to crush 100T.?

[@ModernSelfReliance]

3.5-4hrs

[@stephengrimmer35]

​@@ModernSelfReliancethat's what, a 12" jaw crusher? 3-5tph max.!

[@oldinuselesshancox5194]

Thanks for posting, always fun and a very learning experience

[@darrylsiemens7638]

You need to make a small conveyor system for your gravel to your dump trailer. Love your videos Kevin ❤ cheers from Saskatchewan.

[@darrylsiemens7638]

A old square bale conveyor with the right modifications made to it would work 👍

[@Sausketo]

Sick vampire canine you got man

[@exogator]

It's amazing how little rocks are on the fields edge, where I am in Australia you can find fencelines lined with mounds probably 4ft high, 6ft + wide and 100s of feel long., I've picked tonnes up from one spot and barely made it 20m.

[@TheGuruStud]

glacial deposits?

[@exogator]

@@TheGuruStud what?

[@kennethfraser9006]

How much does it move when not on the stands? Could you put a tow hitch on the blade and just work your way through the rock moving crusher with digger as you go? Even if you had to put stands up and down .

[@Bill-ct3sg]

Great video Im looking at same or similar machine a 200mmx300 May i ask how much was it and how many days until shipped?

[@chrisdzisiak7540]

Just a little help. I’ve made miles of stone fence lines (47years farming). They make narrowly spaced tine stone forks. Way easier than bending over to dig out and lift smaller stone. The other thing is that you can use that same fork to load your crusher(easier on the gloves and back)

[@desert-walker]

I would’ve just gotten a couple dump trucks of Bluestone but hey, I’m lazy lol I rather throw money at it😊

[@chandrasutton4669]

This was a really cool project!!!😊🎉❤

[@chrisduff5619]

Great vid Kev!

[@glawenclattuc3127]

The snow blower was helping as a rear deflector. If you cut away the front you could combine it with the loading bed.

[@RoadTripMan4U]

Do you wash the rocks also? looks like you have lots of clay attached to the rocks

[@justanobody0]

10:30 shows snowblower nicely attached to stone crusher (and removeable too) well, if the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy

[@zdrux]

14:20 that dog is having NONE of this nonsense

[@Acc_220]

Does the drain empty the engines coolant passages? I would be concerned with water trapped in the engine freezing.

[@4runningyota]

Have you been able to find oil and fuel filters easily?

[@GeraldineWilliams-e3c]

Nice crushers, best to all yall.

[@gutsngorrrr]

Keep an eye on all your local machinery auctions for conveyors, they come up quite often.

[@JustinVManes]

Way better than I was expecting! What is the max sized rocks that it pushes out? Do you think this has the right composition to work as road base?

[@sebastiaanwildeboer1983]

Welcome back Don. God bless you.

[@jeremydobbert1287]

Cool little setup! Might help if you box that hopper in and raise the back and with the vibration from the jaw it might self feed itself.

[@daddyg5654]

When your rock plates wear down you can just use hard facing welding rods to rebuild the jaws.

[@rongray4118]

We ordered "spare plates" with the unit we are getting. This will be what happens "if" we wear the first plates out in our lifetime.

[@Bill-ct3sg]

Hi Great video I bought one also is arriving in 2 weeks. The shipping company is charging me about 1400 xtra for its fees, pick up in Mississauga. Doew that sound reasonable? 10" crusher was just under 5000 CAD

[@ModernSelfReliance]

Seems about right.

[@Bill-ct3sg]

Hi It's working great The only thing is it didn't come with alot of info in the manual and put high end gear oil in the 3 holes (where you put grease nipples) instead of grease The manufacturer hasn't gotten back yet. I'm wondering if I need to drain it.

[@blueclothes1]

Nice to see don helping a bit 😃

[@CharlesBundy-z9n]

Had to search for you this morning. So glad to see you guys. Happy Saturday!