I heard some where about hydralic somthing to break up concrete and dont remember .
Whats my options other than a jack hammer?
Im picking up big chunks with the backhoe. Its doing it but too big to load .
I didnt work very long on it . I was trying to raise a big pices up and let it fall on a chunk to break it but so far it didnt happen. Ive done curbs that way.
Tim
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Rent a skid steer with a hydrohammer attachment. You need a door on the skid steer and ear plugs. Make sure the skid steer has enough hydraulics for the hammer. Should go pretty fast. Roger
The cheepest way I've ever found to have ceement broken up and taken away by calling up the Mexican demolition crew. Unbelieveably cheep. They furnish the air compressor and jackhammer. and about 85 mexican kids under 16. They bust their azzes and get it done in no time.
spoken like a true republican, exploit the cheap immigrant labor to solve the problem
i think the above post should get me back in the quotable thread!
Exploitation is in the eyes of the exploitated. They was happpy, so was I.
Me and 3 other guys broke up a 20' x12' stretch of driveway with 15lb sledges and extra thick tamper bar in about 2 hrs and completely loaded in my dump trailer in another hr.
The trick is to get a crack going break out a piece get under the rest and lift and shove the broke part under the large piece and break it into smaller pieces.
Repeat as necessary.
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as far as i'm concern you have the premier concrete removal tool. how big is to big? what are you loading the pcs into? i have a bobcat and i try as hard as i can to get as big of chunks as it can pick up.
i used a backhoe one time on a 6" -10 thick slab,about 4000sf . i did everything i could with chains around the slab to get picked up and dropped into a 40 yd trash box. could only put about 2' of concrete in the bottom or it was overweight to haul. do you have anywhere there that will take it for free? if i had a back hoe and was going to have to pay to dump i might be tempted to dig a hole close and fill it!!! larry
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Well you sir so far get the milk bones but I was gonna run this past yall.
Im already digging holes . I probably did a dump truck full of burned trash today. Its buried. I needed the top soil anyway so two shot rabbit there.
The driveway is hideous . I started to take it out . The backhoe so far has broke up what I tried to do but theres a big piece laying there I cant pick up . I can DOZE it though to a hole . Theres probably going to be a couple more but I havent got them out yet. Ill probably doze them to the back yard and bury.
IM remembering listening to a tv show now . He drilled holes in the concete and poured hydrallic somthing in them and the concrete bulged and cracked . He said it was easier and cheaper than a jack hammer .
I was trying to break the big one this afternoon by picking up a side and leting it fall. No cigar. I only have about 30 minutes involved so far with it .
Tim
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Mah ol' Ford 4500 hoe with hydraulic thumb (thumb a must) did an easy job on the neighbor's driveway.
Carried the big pieces across the street to my place and used them for the floor of a shed.
Id love a thumb. ON the back and the front
Edited 5/30/2008 9:37 pm by Mooney
Yep, hard to lift a slab high enough to drop and break without a thumb. I was TRYING to keep larger pieces but they broke as I lifted them into the truck (4" slab, had no cracks after 25 years, neighbors were putting in an embossed pattern)
BTW, I built my own hyd thumb in about 5 hours for a cost of under $400 in parts (hoses, cylinder, controller, mostly scrap steel plate)
I still say the easiest way to break anything is to tell your children that (whatever it is) is very expensive and fragile and not to touch it.
I would think that if you can lift the concrete up with the backhoe dropping the slab on something uneven (a chunk of concrete or the edge of the next slab)should help break it.
I thought so to . LIft it up and let it fall on a rock. Didnt happen yet .
Tim