Granite muncher

Post by **kcpoole** » October 3rd, 2015, 10:00 am

One of the components of most bonsai mixes is crushed granite.
I saw this vid this morning and thought " Thats cool", Wonder if everyone else knows how we get small grades of soil our componnents.

http://digg.com/video/jaw-crusher-granite

Enjoy

Ken

Elmar · Post by **Elmar** » October 3rd, 2015, 11:03 am

G'day Ken,
interesting web-surfing there... Having worked at mining Labs (because I can lift heavy things) we used a variety of these - but thru safety, you can get no where near the opening maw! Now-a-days they keep these out at the actual mine site as rocks can and do jump out and hurt people...

First thing I thought is "He's NOT going to stick the camera over the top of the jaw!" and he did

... funny how we've grown up with this ueber-safety life style ...

Interesting to see it in action, tho!

Ulf · Post by **Ulf** » October 3rd, 2015, 11:41 am

Sorta hypnotic watching. I could really use one of these.

time8theuniverse · Post by **time8theuniverse** » October 3rd, 2015, 11:49 am

Wow! Those are some big fly wheels turning the crank. It would be making a lot of pressure at face to crack granite like that. There is no way I would put my head over the opening (It's not that valuable but I like it where it is

)

Thanks for sharing I found it interesting Ken.

Post by **kcpoole** » October 3rd, 2015, 1:16 pm

Yes the Workplace Health and Safety aspect of the video is horrifying!

but it is cool to see it all in its naked glory

Ken

Elmar · Post by **Elmar** » October 3rd, 2015, 2:10 pm

kcpoole wrote:Yes the Workplace Health and Safety aspect of the video is horrifying!
but it is cool to see it all in its naked glory

Ken

I like naked! It's so ... free

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