Think Twice - Dei Owen Plant
“The buckets can be used for agriculture and demolition”
Anglesey-based plant hirer Dei Owen Plant is using a pair of products from Dig A Crusher to give a new lease of life to a 65hectare farm in the middle of the beautiful Anglesey countryside
“The crushing and screening bucket pairing have proved to be highly productive” says Owen, “It took just three days to crush enough rock for our barn bases. And even though we purchased £1,500 of cement, we saved at least £5,000 on materials that would have had to be purchased and brought onto the site. We soon realised the potential of the buckets for demolition work, but we are finding we can utilise them on agricultural applications as well.”
Buoyed by the success of this initial reclamation project, Owen has set about an even larger land improvement programme on the farm. Owen and his team have just finished draining a 1.5 hectare field that was an “unproductive bog”. “Even in the summer it was too soft to use for grazing. This field has been dug with a series of 1.0 metre drainage ditches at 5.0 metre intervals, each filled by the 75 mm grade material. Now the soil has dried out, and it is awaiting sowing with grass seed for a silage crop,” Owen adds.
Having baptised his Dig A Crusher units on his own site, Dei Owen hopes to use the farm to showcase his ideas to neighbours and diversify even further.
“Not only have the Dig A Crusher buckets proved that I can bring unproductive land back into use, but it demonstrated the crusher also has great potential for processing formerly useless rock into a useful product. The buckets have also shown their worth not only on the plant side, for processing demolition waste, but in agricultural applications, particularly on other farms. The buckets can be interchanged to suit demolition and then used for land clearance as well. The 1200R screening bucket is scheduled to be used on poorer farmland, removing rock from the topsoil to provide a better grade of arable farmland. The buckets have proved it is possible to dramatically improve the land, which will be a real boon to the farming community.”
7th July 2008
