Fuel Savings With Portable Screening Plants
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Aug 22, 2008
Aug 22, 2008
By TIZ
Filed in Construction
Years ago, many contractors dealt with the removal of rocks from building sites by drilling, blasting, excavating, and then removing the material via trucks to a dump site. Quarries were often used as dump sites, if they were conveniently located in relation to the excavation. The quarries would then crush the material and send it through dirt screeners only to turn around and send it back to the site to be used as substrate beneath roads, for backfill utility trenches or to fill below-grade inclines.
These days, the cost of such a practice is prohibitive due to rising fuel prices. Hauling the rocks and other material away from the site to dirt screening plants, only to have it returned via heavy, tri-axle dump truck, just does not make sense. An economic alternative to this procedure is for contractors to purchase portable screening plants.
Today, the emphasis in construction is often placed on more economical and eco-friendly alternatives. It only makes sense to keep as much as the excavated material as possible on-site, without having to needlessly transport it back and forth and incur prohibitive costs. The reclaimed material is easily used for road base or as general fill, adding to the contractor’s bottom line.
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