ALLU offers new crusher bucket

The Nashville, Tennessee, office of Finland-based ALLU says it soon will introduce a concrete crushing bucket attachment that has been developed to work with excavators in the 25-to-45 ton range.

According to ALLU, “This new attachment brings powerful crushing performance directly to demolition and recycling sites [and] allows operators to process concrete, bricks and asphalt efficiently on site.”

The crushing attachment can help contractors and subcontractors minimize material handling and transportation costs, and in some cases may be able to substitute for a rented mobile crusher.

ALLU says the new concrete crushing bucket can process up to 100 tons of material per hour and can accept material up to  feed sizes up to 300 millimeters (mm) or nearly 12 inches in size.

The device’s counter blades are adjustable, says ALLU, allowing for output of either a 50 mm (2 inches) or 100 mm (nearly 4 inches) fraction.

ALLU says the bucket has been designed to process steel-reinforced concrete and has been fabricated with a “robust heavy-duty structure built for demanding demolition work.”

The company says the crushing bucket has been used in applications in which 1,000 tons of concrete and brick rubble has been processed to 4-inch-and-under pieces in 10 hours, with “quick and simple pick replacement” it says kept downtime to a minimum.

ALLU says its concrete screening and crushing bucket is ideal for demolition and recycling work is on compact job sites. “The ALLU is an excavator-mounted screening and crushing bucket designed to process concrete and brick rubble right where it’s generated, so you can turn bulky demolition waste into usable material without bringing in a separate mobile crusher for every job.”

On the logistics side, ALLU says of its new attachment, “Instead of hauling piles back and forth or waiting for a crusher slot, you bring the processing to the pile.”

ALLU lists concrete, bricks and large fragment recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) as materials it can handle effectively.

The company says its concrete bucket is “still under final testing and will be available in the market” later this year.