Volvo 480E Excavator Digging Broken Concrete

[@bradsmith7106]

That looks like one of those jobs you let someone else do lol

[@smldemolition]

Lol I do demolition work, and I've had a few pieces of rebar swat the machine, fortunately below the glass and nowhere near the hydraulic lines. I always use a machine with a thumb but that stuff ain't nothing fun to play with. Really gets kinda stressful when you grab and scoop full, clamp it down and go to deposit and the continuation of one or more of those pieces of rebar is under the tracks. It sometimes makes you want to get out and remove it by hand, but then you realize how heavy and strong that stuff is...and how much of a PITA it is to move when its all mangled up.

[@cj14dalh]

Best way to deal with that spaghetti mess is with a cruncher. Its essentially a grapple that only opens a little bit and uses teeth and the curl hydraulics to disintegrate the concrete leaving only the rebar. I did it for a whole summer, its monotonous, but you end up with an essentially metal free concrete product that we would then process through our mobile Eagle crusher. Be thankful though rebar is easier to work with, processing span-crete planks with cable in them is even worse.

[@danieltravis2850]

Didn’t know you were a pilot...Justin breaks it up and you pilot.

[@macrossactual]

That's a lot funnier than it probably ought to be.

[@macfarms]

hahahaha

[@janvandenbos7085]

Very nice again Chris, helping Justin out, digging broken concrete with Volvo 480E excavator not easy with all that rebar , you need an electro magnet, or a hydrolic thumb, I hear you say Justin getting a Volvo 220 excavator ? have a nice saturday Letsdig 💥😲💥😲💥😲💥😲💥😲💥😲💥😲💥😲

[@dylanchalmers6231]

@letsdig18 i think this should be renamed part 2 of the first video filmed which was justin breaking up the concrete pad from an old warehouse.

[@kengamble8595]

Well, I was gonna say that you need to do the Jedi thing and THINK your way around the rebar....... but looks like you're doing pretty good as it is ! 👍 Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍

[@dixiz28]

Hope you get a video of the crushing operation.

[@lathamarea1437]

that's a huge pad to bust up and haul, how would you bid that job.? per day plus haul costs.?

[@jimmystrain883]

Chris ,how do you like the 480e

[@Todd.Roberts]

Is this in Smithfeild ?

[@jimmystrain883]

How do get all that rebar out

[@joneth781]

Will you have to go through and break any concrete off the rebar after you’ve separated it?

[@hlbford]

One of the business i worked for had a new building bilt had two layers of rebar in 6 inch sqaure bottom row and 4 inch square top row rebar in concrete pad . When the guy that put lifts in had to drill holes in concrete to bolt them to floor, went through about 15 to 20 concrete bits before he got all the lifts in . He was not happy.

[@MrFboyle]

I don’t do demo. Except the barn, trailer, old farm house and....

[@williegardner9290]

You need some type of screen around the machine to help keep the rebar at bay.

[@regsparkes6507]

Man that IS an awful lot of rebar. What was on that pad, Chris ?

[@briangardiner1015]

Is Justin in charge of crushing the concrete also?

[@andrewjenkins9252]

Is that 480 faster then the 290, it looks it is

[@randallwescoat9224]

They sure didn't want that friggin pad to go anywhere! Holy spaghetti!

[@BornRandy62]

What does he do with the rubble? Here it is used for wash out fill or reclaim it with a grinder. Or bury it.

[@zbudda]

Randy J depends where they truck it too, if the place has a recycle shredder that screens rock and rebar? If the job had the budget, a mobile recycle shredder, would save on the dump truck fuel bills, and make money on the finished product.

[@46rambo49]

are those 50 cents a piece rebar?

[@super6954]

Hi Guys, I bet Justins hearing TAP TAP TAP in his sleep right about now. He's probably just about far enough into this job now ,to realise he wasn't the winning bidder either with all that mess to deal with. The winning ones are the guys that quoted 300% more than he did , and are working doing something easier for their money. !!!!!!!!!!!!. Take care, see ya next time.

[@JohnSmith-ud9ex]

Chris, does no one supply an electromagnet for machines like that ? Surely Justin would be better off finding one considering how much pad there is. Damn sight more profitable considering the hours and fuel spent picking….

[@letsdig18]

John Smith it wouldn't get half of the rebar as most of it is still stuck in large chunks of concrete. Getting a machine with a thumb

[@SirFatboy97]

Curious about the "spurs" on the sides of the bucket; do they have a specific purpose or just to help cut into hard soil, etc?

[@joshuatowner4315]

Ride Now look a little different but I would say serve the same purpose, save a bit of wear and tear on the bucket, and to help cut.

[@FishFind3000]

Prob just cutting edges

[@bobbymorris3350]

Let's git him to 100,000 subs

[@KevinA-zp4li]

Chris, this machine seems to have faster response than your big machine.

[@jasonking2943]

Too bad it's rebar and not copper!

[@stefanaxelsson513]

Damn it must be so much frustration when you just can't dig in like you want too

[@pjexc5500]

going to have a big load of rebar to haul out

[@chrisanderson9856]

Why don't you have someone with a torch or cutoff saw to cut the rebar so it can be moved without damaging the machine? I know it works well with good operator and laborer. I used to do it back in my days as an operator. Just saying. Great videos!!!

[@micheal1725]

Looks like painful work, but being in the 480 would make any job a good day.

[@randycarpenter2914]

Good way to break a window, no fun in that work

[@farmallchris]

Concrete dumps will be pissed with all that rebarb in there holy some of those crushers will complain about everything though

[@stanpatterson5033]

They don't send the rebar to the crusher, it all has to be separated out. The steel rebar is worth money, so you separate it out, and take the steel to the scrap dealer.

[@farmallchris]

Stan Patterson I haven’t seen to many companies doing that up here in MI. not saying that they don’t but I haul to the crusher a lot we typically don’t separate it on or jobs probably boss doesn’t want to spend time doing that but they have dumpsters full of it at the crusher

[@farmallchris]

We currently are doing a job where we are separating metal off concrete sheet metal there’s money in hauling to the scrap yard

[@stanpatterson5033]

Well, I suppose that either arrangement could work.... whether the stuff gets separated before the haul to the crusher, or at the crusher site, I guess it depends on how much each party along the chain is getting paid for their work. Maybe some crusher plant operations don't mind doing the work and hauling the steel (to scrap dealer) themselves. It would be a royal PITA for the actual haulers, bringing in the concrete with the rebar sticking out of it. That mess has got to be tough on the load tarps.

[@cardiackidjones2848]

I hope Justin bid this job well enough to make some money on this job. Looks like it is a little difficult to make good time on a job like this. A touch dangerous as well, dag gone rebar spring up and take out a windshield or injure somebody.

[@letsdig18]

working by the hour

[@wkrot4245]

You need an electromagnet to get that stuff out.

[@delcoshootingsupply]

The is exactly what I was thinking. I wonder if using a magnet is a recommended way to separate the rebar from the concrete crumbles. What he is doing looks so tedious it is almost painful to watch.

[@OnlyTheEd]

They put a little concrete in the re-bar, I see.........

[@watchthe1369]

Tappin' dat slab!

[@bborkzilla]

The contractor that put that in must not have wanted any callbacks...

[@danielswartz1788]

Looks like fun

[@davidmicheletti6292]

There you go having fun again. Lol

[@farmingsimulatorfan4337]

Nice machine

[@sawdustmaker3]

Is that 480 nearly as quick as the 290? from here it looks like it is.

[@leniczek1992]

Dudley Lewis those 480 Volvo's are fasttttt

[@evandickens3917]

You need 5k more

[@leol1682]

Like the demo videos but this one is not you need a thum .

[@remypetrucci7668]

Looks like a good time lol

[@stanpatterson5033]

Has your cold snap ended yet down there ?

[@KylesLawnCare]

Stan Patterson oh on not here in NC we still have more days to go before it warms up

[@Highstranger951]

-4 this morning at my house

[@throttlebottle5906]

came to see a broken cab window, disappointed now ;))

[@WalkerOutdoors]

Looks like a damn mess

[@RolandElliottFirstG]

Could be worse , could have been full of cable instead of re bar.

[@kepplec]

Yeah, you can tell you haven't run across much heavy commercial pads... haha.. Its not a house pad there!

[@zbudda]

Chris Kepple he said it was a warehouse pad, but that floor must've been rated for CAT manufacturing machines?

[@FishFind3000]

zbudda pretty sure cat didn’t work there plus the building isn’t big enough. I’ve seen there Peoria plant and it’s the size of a large town. It’s HUGE!

[@zbudda]

FishFind3000 yeah, I was actually talking about the concrete psi hard stand specs for parking heavy equipment on it, similar to the types of floors that the giant news paper printing presses are based on.

[@kurtballard1450]

Ya should have cut the slabs into 8' squares before ya busted the dog shit out of it. Just sayin!

[@FishFind3000]

Kurt Ballard that’s a lot of pointless cutting.

[@danielroy8411]

What a mess

[@ryanlafond8087]

First. Nice vid