We offer in-place rock crushing of rocks up to 12 inches in diameter, and soil remediation that is a mixture of rock granular and clay soils. These services are best suited for parking lots, building pads, in commercial construction, and farm fields where rocks are a problem. These services are needed to meet compaction or proof rolls.
Our services are perfomed by first windrowing the soils with a bulldozer. After the soil is windrowed, we pick out all rock larger that 12 inches with rock buckets on skidloaders.
Then the crusher rides over the windrow crushing all the rocks to a 2 inch or less diameter depending on the need for the job.
One of the benefits of this operation is that the crushing adds aggregates and mixing of the subsoils in to a uniform product that can, in most cases, be compacted very easily and meet density requirements.
The Crusher acts as a rototiller as well, throughly mixing the soils together to make a uniform product.
We can perform crushing of forestry roads and recreational trail for Atv's, hiking, and horseback. Ususally, there are large rocks showing in the road or trail. Large, irregular shaped rock, can be hazardous to safety and damage equipment. When the rocks and base are crushed they are mixed thorougly to make a stable aggregate base for the new road or trail.
In august 2010 Andy's Excavating was contracted to perform soil remediation for a general contractor who was building a large retail store. There was a problem that the site had been filled with a mix of soils ranging from clays, silty sands, sand, gravel rocks, and boulders. The parking lot and all other paved areas would not pass a proof roll prior to paving. There was no way to compact the different range of soils and rock together. The specifications manual for the job also stated that no rock larger that 2 inches could be in the upper 2 feet of the subgrade material. The site was 392,000 square feet and we had to go down 2 feet below subgrade. The total cubic yardage was just over 29,000 cubic yards that had to be crushed.
The general contractor had a deadline to make to get the parking paved and turn the store over. We mobilized in and worked 23 days straight 14 plus hour days to get the job done. The work involved, was the windrowing of subsoils and, the picking of the large rocks over 8 inches. We picked 125 semi truck loads of rock ranging in size form 8 inches to over 4 feet in diameter. After rock picking of the windrows, the soil was crushed, then either pushed into a stock pile or graded and re compacted in place. We used off road trucks to move some of the soils on site before remediation activities as the truck would leave rutting where we drove them. After the replacement and compaction of the crushed subgrade there was no rutting or deflection from the loaded trucks. The site was re-graded utilizing GPS guided equipment.
Agriculture & Farm Field Stone & Rock Crushing
In farm fields rock problems, rocky knolls, and hills have plagued farm equipment for years. We can crush the rocks in the field making less damage to tillage and harvesting equipment. Rock crushing promotes drainage when the aggregate is mixed in with the soil and aids in adding minerals to the soil.
This type of crushing can be very beneficial in agirculture.
Potato fields, where the harvester places rocks and debris into rows that can be easily crushed and tilled back into the fields. Crushing rocks in the field can lead to improved potato quality. According to a study conducted in Carleton, N.B., the number of seriously damaged tubers fell from 38 per cent to 17 per cent after a rock crusher was used on the field.
"No till farming" would benefit greatly from rock crushing prior to turning the land to "no till" by reducing the quantity and size of rocks that the harvesting and planting equipment will encounter year after year. You may want to contact your insurance company to look into rock crushing after damage to a forage harvesting equipment.
Recent research from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada shows that removing rocks and stones completely from fields significantly lowers water infiltration rates during rainfall and increases soil compaction. This, in turn, leads to increased surface runoff and soil erosion. Researchers are recommending farmers crush stones in the field as a way of minimizing the adverse effects of stone removal.
Andy's Excavating LLC. 207 Front Street Burlington WI 53105 262-206-1297 Fax 262-539-2483
Andy's
Excavating provides rock crushing, crushed rock, & concrete recycling
services to Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and UP Michigan.
Excavating services the entire state of Wisconsin including, Burlington,
Milwaukee, Racine, Mequon, Kenosha, Waterford, Mukwonago, Oconomowoc,
Beloit, Janesville, Appleton, Madison, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Green
Bay, La Crosse, Oshkosh, Sheboygan, Wausau,
