Can they be used by themselves or do they need specific attachments?
As it has been explained in the previous sections, carriers’ purpose is precisely to give power and allow movement to the attachments which they are going to be used to carry out a specific job. So, they do need specific attachments to work.
There exist in the market a lot of attachments for demolition and recycling, being the most common ones the attachments described below.
- Concrete Cutters/Crushers: They are specifically design for breaking concrete. And they are used for very thick concrete wall structures, such as building foundations or for very tough applications, such as long front demolition where the operator has restricted visibility.
- Steel/Scrap/Mobile Shears: They are specifically designed for steel cutting, being very efficient tools for demolishing steel structures where large steel plates or steel girders must be cut.
- Pulverisers: Pulverisers are attachments that cover both, demolition and recycling applications. Their purpose is to crush concrete and separate it from its reinforcement. This way the material can be recycled.
- Multi-processors / Multi-systems / Combi Crushers: These attachments offer the combined functionality of both shears and pulverisers. They have interchangeable jaws to cut steel and crush concrete.
- Grapples: They are used for demolishing, material handling and sorting of all kinds of materials, such as rocks, scrap, and other debris.
- Hydraulic hammers / Breakers: These atachments are powerful percussion hammers which can demolishing concrete structures and asphalt pavements, both outdoors and indoors, ad rocks.
- Magnets: A Magnet is an attachment that creates a magnetic field below its bottom plate in order to hold metallic materials. Being holded, they can be transported to the chosen place and then, with rapid demagnetizing the materials will drop immediately.
- Hydraulic Rippers: The purpose of rippers is to tear, break and demolishing, stone, concrete, asphalt etc. and it is mainly used for moving away the demolition material to clear an area.
- Crusher Buckets: They are used to crush the demolition material on a jobsite to be used for backfill for a new building or to be transported.
- Screening Buckets: Screening buckets are very use in demolition processes during the site clean-up, as they sort a large number of materials including topsoil, peat, rubble and quarry rock, as well as for backfilling, composting and recycling.
- Drum Cutters: They are attachments with rotating drums equipped with picks that perform the cutting job.
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