[Greenbuilding] Crushing Clay
RT
Archilogic at yahoo.ca
Sat Aug 6 15:06:04 CDT 2011
--- In SB-r-us at yahoogroups.com, Black Bean Beel ("Bill Steen" <bill at ...>
wrote:
>
> I'm kind of intrigued by [Stronzo di Nord's] log spitter idea. Sounds
> kind of kool and feasible.
Well, that's a good enough reason (for me) to discard the log splitter
idea. Probably too much wasted up-and-down motion, wasting time and energy.
But thinking about the problem some more got me to thinking about the
hydraulic pump part of the afore-mentioned hydraulic-powered portable log
splitters.
The pump's innards are basically two gears in the same plane rotating so
that their teeth mesh together.
Now if it were chunks o' clay instead of hydraulic fluid being fed into
those meshing gears, the clay being hopper-fed from above, then we'd be
cooking with (bio) gas.
The gears might be salvaged flywheels from junked tractors or maybe diesel
locomotive or army tank drive train parts (if one happens to have a
salvage facility for such in one's neighbourhood).
Maybe one might pre-break the larger chunks by rigging up discs salvaged
from old disc harrows (which seem to dot the countryside ) before dropping
the clay down to the gears for further grinding ?
As to how such a rig might compare to using something like the
Derelict/Marcus' Chile Roaster or the Dutch Crusher vertical-axis grinder
, don't ask me, cuz, I don't know. I'm more of a toss-it-on-a-screen
sifter-kinda-guy rather than a mechanical crusher.
While I have no doubts that the cement mixer with stones or steel balls
tossed in would do the job, I also know that it would be noisier and
dustier than #$%%, and a very slow/low-yield process.
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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot C A >
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