They Make $4,000 a day with a Mobil Crusher ?!?

alright guys I stumbled upon a panel discussion on how to get started in crushing and recycling and I got to interview a couple of these guys and learned that they're making upwards of $4,000 per day so we're gonna find out how they got started in this business and how its transformed the way they operate so let's dive right into it make a decision for themselves in New Jersey we're getting right around 4,000 a day for the crusher operator and a ground man so that started August of 2004 by February I had to buy a second crusher since i blatantly know nothing about this industry I'm gonna ask these guys point-blank where do you get business and how do you get business and then take a closer look at some of the equipment you need alright guys this is Ron and Ron can you just kind of tell me your story briefly you know what's up because you guys used to do yeah so we we've been doing paving and site work for about 35 years that we realized that we couldn't afford to pay to dump material anymore so we entertained the thought of buying a crusher back in 2005 and it helped our business be more profitable and another contractor came and asked me if we could come to their site and crush and before you know it it developed into a business that we didn't know we were going to be in so we have we now do on-site crushing we've since sold the paving business it's more profitable in the sense that we know our cost of doing business whereas in a site where business there's a lot of hidden things where it's a gamble so we know the cost of what we do and we were prepared every day with where parts and extra parts on the job so our guys we have two machines that we keep jumping them on jobs and we go from job to job as a subcontractor to crush for other people we charge by the day and soon we're gonna be charging by the ton but more so by today and we tell we tell our customers what our production would be by the day and a lot of times I'd look at a pile because we've been doing so long and I'll give them an estimate of what it would take to do the pile how many days but we also go step further we cap it off for them so they have our comfort zone so I would I would look at the pile and I'd say I'll cap this off at five days five rental days if it takes me six days it's on me if I work less you pay me less so they're just paying me by the day but they have a capped off price we currently have an army D and an RM 90 and we just actually purchased a HS 5000 screener and a stacker in New Jersey we're getting right around 4,000 a day for the crusher operator and a ground man and then the customer would supply an excavator for us to operate to feed the crusher and a loader to move the finish material but we also offer them if they don't have an accessibility to an excavator we will supply it you know we would rather supply it because we know we're gonna work all day and not break down and have glitches during the day we give them as little or as much as they need now we're daj on-site crushing out of New Jersey we covered a whole state of New Jersey it's easy you could go online be AG on-site crushing calm and or call us you could just look in the blue book we're in a blue book and really available to give anybody a rate or look at their job and see what their needs are one last question easier for you as a business versus before maintenance management no it's actually it became a little easier because we have more control what we're doing we're doing one thing we're putting more effort into one thing our operators are we're also trained as technicians and mechanics so we send them to the job I don't have to worry about my guys on the job I just have to worry about getting work for them visiting with the customers and getting paid so it's a lot easier for me just a just word-of-mouth and one to the next and recommendations and we have a milk route now and we go to the same contractors five six times a year we work for dPW's around the state and it's just no we never did that we thought it happened automatically by accident because we had it for our own use and one guy asked me to come to his yard and I did and they saw that another guy asked me to come through York we never intended to be in the crushing business we didn't know there was such a thing but it became a business okay yeah I'm standing stands good Asuma so I was told you were the guy to talk to I know nothing and I'm guessing a few of the guys maybe they don't know anything but they're interested you can kind of walk us around just tell us the basics so essentially a rubble master as far as our crushers ago are a compact recycling unit designed to be used by contractors for concrete asphalt natural rock recycling okay walk us through the basic components of a crusher and what to look for if these guys are first looking at sure buying one or taking the next steps what do they want on a crusher and what don't they want you'll notice with rubble master that we have a low mount engine which means that the engine is mounted into the rear the reason for that other other engines oftentimes it can be mounted way up high out over here up above the magnet so we tried to look at the world differently let's not the engine in the rear let's keep the operator's feet on the ground let's have them do all his daily checks while he's safe and sound on the ground let's mount the system here this is our crushing chamber this is actually where the reduction in size of material happens what do you notice as I'm standing here I'm taking a look at the rotor we've got very simple very common-sense solutions right we need the rotor to be safe we need it to be pinned so that way a guy can get in there take a look and make sure everything's okay so they'll have very complicated systems where they lock in we we try to look for common-sense solutions what's something that anybody can understand anybody can use and this comes from years and years of development and that's Dave how you doing good all right so your whole life right you just got into it recently is that right 2004 you can tell me how you got into it because it's kind of a big investment we would do [Music] building demolition offer concrete all of our concrete masonry asphalt and then a place you could go is either be a landfill or a quarry that did do he's crushing then we do the civil work after the building's gone so we're buying aggregate and bringing it back in so trucking off and trucking in it was kind of ridiculous in my mind so I started researching mobile crushing and the main thing was how can I make a great old gradable aggregate right here at the site so we rented a few pressures mobile track pressures were user friendly and they weren't compact enough really to go site to site okay until we ran into the come across the rubble master well that was February of 2004 we bought one midsummer game in the last week of July we started crushing on August 1st I was taking down a hotel we made 11,000 tons of a great little aggregate and I sold it back to the new construction right there and the phone started ringing so to come here and crush and crush her and crush there that was not it was never done in our area okay so I started in of course I had to figure out how what to charge so we had to create our own learning curve on that okay and so that started August of 2004 by February I had to buy a second crusher I was so busy so we may you went in August you started I started with my first I had to buy a second correctly right our customers know their business very very well they know what it costs to get rid of material they know what it costs to purchase material we can sit down and do a very simple analysis of how much are you hauling away how much are you paying to get rid of new material I'm sorry to purchase back new material right we do that analysis it's a debit and credit column when we compare that to the cost of ownership it's very transparent process well know the guys that I talk to Jeffrey they didn't buy this unit actually one of the bigger can we go look at one of those yes I kind of want to see what they started with because if so here at context but we've got essentially two sections tour booth we have the contractors corner this is designed for contractors that are looking to get into the business so we've got a small scalping screen that's used for dirt soil recycling aggregate recycling and we've got the crusher which is used for concrete asphalt natural rock but if we make our way over here we're getting into the producers side and the producer side is where the tonnage comes in these are guys that are looking to push material this is our flagship machine this is the RM 120 gun is this the next size up from that one this is actually three full sizes up from that well scale we have an entire scale understand that's exactly right okay absolutely and I see the motors mounted on the bottom I'm just looking at like hey you know what from my perspective the motors on how the heck do you get these things out to a site they look very simply they move on it any any contractor who's moving say you know a 25 tonne excavator is overly qualified to move this machine and that's the whole idea on a lowboy and that's the whole idea behind it you know if you go back and you think of what we saw over there at the RM 70 and now we look at the RM 120 right so our customer who got started with a 75 years ago and now his business is taking off for him to get into an RM 100 an RM 120 is a very simple transition they're not two totally different machines there are two machines with different capabilities but they share the same DNA they have different capabilities they have different capabilities because of their capacity bottom line it's a bigger machine you can put more material through it so it's really just the same piece of equipment just on steroids exactly right we sweep scaled it up to meet the needs of our company of 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