No stupid intros. No sponsored content. Doesn’t over talk everything. No begging for likes or subscribers. Just gets in and to the point. Makes his money off the views. The way RUclips should work. Yes, there is a ton of behind the scenes work no one ever sees. Good job my man!😄
Having the material 4+ is ok, it won't wash away in Heavy Rain. Getting it packed in is good, later you can top it off with smaller size material. Save that old belt can be used as a patch if the new one breaks. The Crusher needs daily grease and fluid/oil level checks to keep running smooth. Good job.
That rock crusher is long overdue for your projects. Your road projects are going to have a much more finished look now, without all the crushing down with heavy equipment. Great stuff!
Am laugh at that comment too...seems they don't give a hoot abt tree when we need to save the plant. Nice that Andrew Caramata thinks ecologically as well. Cant help but love the man....
@Ithecastic Ya'll realize trees aren't the most oxygen producing thing by a long shot? It's actually plankton. That being said it's still important to not chop down every tree we have, but taking out a few trees is absolutely fine.
I love your channel. I watch all your videos. Just a little advice. Befor you set the crusher up. Make a flat pad then dig out a 2 foot trench right in the middle. Then straddle the crusher over the trench so belt doesn't get bound up from the fines falling down between underneath
@@berty1422 Andrew always does it his way, and normally has similar results, that’s one of the draws of the channel, watching him mess up, and figuring out how to fix things, and make it work his way,
The rock crusher is quite satisfying to watch. Between this and your mower are my two favorite videos in your series. Ill be happy to watch more of the rock crusher and yoru mower any day.
been watching Andrew for many years , he cares about his viewers and makes sure we have the best views ! Im amazed at his abilities to fix anything and operate any machine and the quality of his work for his customers ! what i like about him most of all and what sold me on following him is his love of Levi ,Cody ,Lisa ,Daisy and Blue ! he loves his dogs as much as I love my little 14 yr old girl chihuahua Pnut !!!
As a retired Navy F/A-18 combat pilot I blew up lots of stuff, but I gotta admit, watching you blow up shit is a lot more fun. Nice work young man. Thumbs up!
Andrew, I love seeing how your life has become doing whatever you actually want by buying the right equipment and figuring it out as you go. There is no better way to live than to be constantly problem solving and making progress. Thank you for sharing the journey with us.
Andrew, you can adjust those jaws to make smaller-sized rocks. Depending on the brand of jaw crusher as to how to adjust the throat width to make it narrower, hence smaller rocks. Also if you keep the jaw fuller it will make a smaller rock size as well.
I like how much control you have over that excavator, you make it do things i can only dream of my little backloader does. Crush up the rock, manuver rocks, nice full buckets and load accuracy. Can tell this isnt your first time on the machines. Great vids
Its a steep learning curve. You need to make a pad for the crusher to sit on. The vibrations will ensure it will slowly sink...lol. I guess you will be learning to repair the conveyer belt as well. The shale is soft and easy on the jaw crusher, dont worry about the crushed size, traffic will bring it down to grade. You only need the cone crusher if bringing down hard rock like basalt. Good for Video content though Andrew..... You will be clipping the conveyer belt together in no time.
Thanks, Andrew and hope you had a Happy New Year! Running that equipment with no help has to be tough! Great video (anytime you're blasting, I'll watch it 2-3 times), it's cool to watch and your camera shots make it that much better! Thanks for sharing and for the time it takes for you to get all of this ready! Be well, be safe!
Merry Christmas and happy new years to Andrew, his parents, of course Cody and Blue, and others/friends we've seen in andrews videos and to "all us viewers" !! Bring on 🥳2023🎉 !!
Watching equipment break down and how you fix it, or improvise, is more entertaining than just watching you move equipment around. Love your content. Moving a mountain is not for the faint of heart.
Another great video. Andrew just keeps bringing us better and better videos. Impressed with he and his partner getting work done. Quite a couple. Livin and learnin as you go. Good luck with the crusher belt.
My kinda guy makes his own gravel... Knows the value of natural resources and uses what is available... Wish I knew somebody around here that made gravel.
Thank for all the content. Been watching you for years. Had a work place accident a couple of months ago running heavy equipment and cannot for a long time. It’s a lot of fun watching you work. I live just a couple of hours away upstate and always amazed at all the nice blue stone you have down there!
@@maxam0713 oh it's absolutely beautiful up there. I grew up snowmobiling up in the Adirondacks. Been to old forge, big moose, Lake George and all of the other amazing places up there. I'd like to go back up there someday
Yea growing up here you don’t realize how beautiful it is. I lived out in Brockport for a little while and have friends in Chili. There is something to be said for all those canal towns. I love it out there too.
Andrew you have the patience of a saint. Thanks for sharing all your hard work this year its been amazing. Wishing you all the best for 2023 with good health and happiness. looking forward to the next installments short or long xx
first video I watched of yours was the blasting of the shelf behind the castle. Ever since then I have watched every video. Thanks for the amazing content Andrew. Keep up the good work.
The blasting scenes could make a person believe he had been teleported into a Demolition Dave video. That pile of rocks should keep Andrew busy for a couple days. Happy Holidays to all.
It was really great that Mike The Dirt Boss could help you out for several days to grade out your camp road and letting him put 2 shows on his channel so we could see the progress you are making . Mike and The Cat 973 really got that rock base down nicely before the snow came .
You are an outstanding operator... I do mechanical failure investigations, one I have done was on a 330-ish loading rock just like you are here. The arm/stick fractured because the operators there were impacting the stick with the rocks (no thumb)- the repeated impacts resulted in fatigue. I was about to post about that, but noticed when you operate this, you rarely let that rock hit the arm/stick. Awesome! Love watching these videos.
@Andrew Camarata Your videos are awesome, they gave me the courage and inspired me. Thank you and only you for that. they inspired me to get a wheeled Liebherr excavator , it got the inline 6 aircooled Deutz Turbodiesel engine - i will use a tractor dump trailer with the excavator as kind of a selfloading dumptruck , it got hammer lines and hydraulic functions are ok.
I laughed out loud when he said that. Also right before that when he said the people "didn't know how to put the trucks in 4wd and slid into trees for no reason." Haha
If you go frame by frame during the blast, you can see the fuse buzzing from the switch through and from each line. Pretty neat to see that and the slowed down footage as well.
When you bought the rock crusher the guy told you to set it up on a compacted and level location and to bring rock to the crusher. You also hit the trees with the belt or conveyor a couple of times. Other than that, great job!
Great stuff Andrew . You will find keeping that crusher up and clear underneath is the most important maintenance you can do to help your production . You will want a Big compressor with a long wand made from pipe. To blast all the fines that are going to buildup and want to rip your conveyor belt. Keep the great content coming J.B retired Operating Engineer 35 years mining
But just think if Andrew did it all correct he wouldn’t have any video content. Very odd times where doing it wrong and and opposite to specifically instructed results in wrecking something is an actual benefit. 🙄
I'll come down from Canada and help you Andrew. 9 hour drive. Sounds like that big excavator needs a dump valve or something. That motor shouldn't be falling on it's face under heavy load. We have a Yanmar dumper too, it is an awesome little machine for road building. The drivers seat and hydraulic controls spin around so you can drive it forward with the load in front of you, but essentially the same machine with cab and heat.
It's been really helpful this year as I have done hands on work / fixing things, to have such a great role model as yourself Andrew. Seeing how you react to things that don't go as planned, helps me know end to know when things don't go as planned on my work that (a) that is normal and (b) taking things methodically a solution will appear.
Andrew, you should have placed your dump truck at the end of the conveyor to catch the tailings so you can move the rock to a different place so you wont have any problems later
Yeah a pad and then you need to choke it. Load it faster and that will help with a lot of the large flat rocks. When you choke it it put more in the crusher which allows everything to be broken up the right way. I would also get yourself a staple kit and learn how to staple your conveyor. This will help in the long run cause as soon as you find out how much those belts are, you are not going to be happy. The only reason you replace a belt is that its worn down so far that you see the threads and then you flip it over and do the same thing on the other side. You get even wear this way and longer belt life.
I almost need a bigger excavator. I was having a hard time keeping up, (especially since it was the first time, and dealing with the drone too). I think ill get better with time, it would be nice to load it only rotating 90° instead of 180°
@@AndrewCamarata Thanks. I think you did a good job. Maybe just a bigger bucket? Looks like a bigger bucket would work if you were doing the 90 degrees load. Other than that I super love you videos!
@@adamluke1289 I think it’s better off without the thumb, it might get in the way, the buckets able to get under most rocks, and picking them up and dropping them. I did this a lot more than just this one day.
@@AndrewCamarata Yeah, a thumb has nothing to do with rockcrushing! Don't bang on the crusher with the bucket when you get hangup / stuck stones in it! thats when stuff gets beaten up! Need a bar of somekind for the excavator and since you have no quickcoupler you have to go the hard way, weld a rod like 125mm dia to some hooks that fits between the bucket teeth so the rod is under the bucket hooks infront and inside, add a sturdy chain and shackle thats tight fitting to the lifting point on the backside of the bucket to the back end of the rod so it stays and don't fall of. Now you have something to poke at the stones that hang up in the crusher. Also you can be sure that the further away and harder to reach you leave that thing the more stops you get! As other have said, solid setup on solid ground is key when using a crusher... they are part pricey but expectable cost if you do it right, need to keep the Cash / Ton under control. Being hard on these machines is a quick way to toss away massive cash! Guessing by recent price here in Sweden a belt like that would cost aprox 5500 - 6000 usd with labor hotvulcanized (not sure of the hot plate method in English) imho the only way to connect a belt. Staples is to fix a small belt damage in limited ways that is going to fail soon anyway. You have already fixed this i guess, i hope you got a good thick belt if you got a new one. If you starting to think about a stage 2 setup, you have 2 kinds of cone crushers to consider: The regular Conecrusher, Good for making the small stuff bellow 1.5'' but small intake size unless you go really big like 200 - 330kw machines. Also don't like big flat rocks that you get when not having the Jawcrusher full. Start & Stops makes these pizza sized flakes. Gyratory crusher is my bet if you don't go bellow 32 mm / 1.5'', they mostly don't like smaller size settings since it puts a great deal of sideways load on the main axle. They car alot less about larger size flat rocks thats a pain in the arse on cones. I think a 130kw one should be nice for your use. I am a big Sandvik beliver when it comes to simple to fix and maintaince ease. We have had and have some Metso stuff to but they ain't easy to wrench on and way to complicated, like putting a computer on a breaking bar...🤮 Hope you find something of my post interesting, I am a little to much into crushers! Crushaholic deluxe! 🤣🤣👍 Been fixing / running things like these for 20 years. Here is a Couple clips (if sharing links works out) i will post future videos on this channel, not the one in the links. ruclips.net/video/3hv6Ogk_bWI/видео.html ruclips.net/video/16S6qov49qc/видео.html Have a nice day and cheers from Sweden! 😄 ps have you had a chance to clean of rock with a old tyre yet that i mentioned long ago?😉
"You can't crash into trees that don't exist". I appreciate your frustration Andrew, since you've always figures a way out of things and those guys were acting like prima donnas. The corrolary is "a bolt cant be stuck if it's molten'" which you and others have proven true time and time again. Great video Andrew!
It’s weird watching Andrews videos over the years, going from trips to the quarry to get stone into buying land then building a quarry and making stone!
Andrew bluestone goes for a lot of money in New York so you could have gotten that all rocked out of there for good money! Love your work so satisfying!
Seems very handy that you can move the crusher whenever you need to while sitting in the excavator even thou it apparently led to a breakdown this time.
My favorite piece of equipment you have used to be the green CAT but now I think it's that track dump truck. I'd love to find something like that locally. And the track boom also! assuming you still have that one also.
Andrew Camarata videos are real world earth projects and are no joke that require a skilled and knowledgeable person. As well he can operate and run mini to heavy duty excavating machines. This gentleman Andrew Camarata is All-Pro at what he does.
I think you can adjust the jaws closer together if I remember correctly for smaller material As for the belt you can run a rope thru the machine and pull it back on with a skidder In college i had a job working around these crushers as a laborer and it was almost normal to rip belts off and change them This was the method that was used there and it worked pretty well
Watching these last few videos, watching her get greasy, climb into a rock truck and moving gravel... she's a trooper! You better keep this one Andrew!!
Andrew , tearing off the belt. Remember I said to dig a shallow trench where you are setting the crusher so you dont tear up the belt. Your doing good now loading the hopper but should be cleaning out a path so you can move the crusher back as you get deeper into your pile of rock. and continue digging that trench for the bottom of the conveyer doesn’t get damaged , it gets expensive. The cleaner you keep the site around the crusher the better also always raise that conveyer up when moving it. your rubber tire loader might be a better choice to load with , it wont tear up the ground so bad when loading. you dont really need a cone crusher. you could also readjust the jaw to a smaller opening . I mostly had ours set at 4” that would give you a top size of 4” down to dust . while your repairing your belt you could readjust the jaws.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch Andrew, dein Material ist einfach ein Traum. Kaum Abraum und relativ unkomplizerter Abbau. Ich war Bauleiter für eine 10 Hektar große Kies- und Sandgrube inmitten eines großen Waldgebietes mit steiler Zufahrt. Mir kommen Andrews Probleme mit seiner Zufahrt sehr bekannt vor. Es würde mich interessieren ob Andrew ebenfalls so viel Ärger und Auflagen für die Abbaugenehmigung mit den zuständigen Behörden hat.
Looking at the size of your operation I am beginning to think the crusher is too small! Sorry it broke. Hope getting a new belt on it won't be too difficult. I have no doubts about you getting it done. Have a pleasant and peaceful holiday weekend.
@Kenjero Not junk, paid well for it. Managed to bend the end of the belt roller drive first day against a tree... The belt didn't survive rubbing against the ground and stones - just as warned by the bloke who delivered it to him. The belt is only a few inches off the ground on a hard pad, once the tracks sink the belt is on the ground and nothing will survive that for long...
Unfortunately Andrew broke it before it crushed a rock. Bending that hydraulic drive on the tree and THEN wrecking it by not following the previous operators advice. Andrew always breaks his machines.
Andrew, with the huge amount of leaves dropped every fall, will you have to lay new gravel every few seasons? Leaves compost down so quickly, its seems over time they'd ruin the gravel base, turning it into a soil layer and making the steep hills too slick to drive. Have you thought about an industrial blower attachment for one of your rigs to clear the leaves a couple times each fall? Seems easier than laying more rock. Love the vids. Your property is the ultimate real-man's playground. Best part is all the tonka trucks are full size, haha!
Traction may be a problem with decomposed leaves and the rock as it is will break down more and more to sand with time. Andrew has covered a lot of road with this stuff through the years so he probably knows about these effects. Unfortunately this material is not real gravel.
@@colorado1088 Yeah, I'm sure he knows...so many deciduous trees in upstate NY. He probably doesn't care cause he seems to like the projects and any excuse to buy more heavy equipment, lol. Cheers and Merry Xmas.
Crushing rock all day every day is my job, we have a Metso 125 now, but I started on a mobile Compass crusher, couldn’t tell you much about it since we didn’t have it long, but they do pile up fines under your discharge belt, so you need to move it and clean out under it at least once a day or expect many more issues, we did end up trenching out between where the tracks sit just to give it more room to build up.
Good to see you popping in Dave, I watch your channel as well. Blasting Granite Boulders in Oz. Yup, I dont know why grease guns fail. one minute they work fine, the next time you pull them out - they don't. I reckon there are grease gun gremlins that steal them at night.
Those big solid pieces should be put aside for a video of the jackhammer attachment on the Kubota....that one video you did jackhammering a huge solid bolder that was in the driveway got 5 million + views.... thanks for the Xmas present of the 3rd blast video. Safe to say that your viewers absolutely love this content, after watching I was bummed when it ended. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into documenting this great journey your on, and letting all of us come along for the ride.
Making gravel and putting it down on your roads very satisfying. Really cool how you are able to use your hillside for gravel for your roads and make more useable space at the same time.
They always say that steepness/grade doesn’t appear well on video , but when he was about to go down that “Hill” in the dump truck that looked kinda sketchy lmao
Es un trabajo increíble, y muy lindo de ver. ¿Piensas pavimentar, o echar piedras, hacer camino de piedras, en todas las calles de tu propiedad? creo que es bastante grande, jaja, pero al final será genial poder verte entrar y salir con maquinas sin enterrarte, por primera vez.
If you build a solid pad for the crusher you can dig out the center to prevent build ups underneath longer, loader pulling would or could get a small stacker for bigger storage piles
If you are a newish viewer go watch some of Andrew and his mates with their 4WDs in the forrest tracks ... super good / funny watching ... I can recommend it. 😊😮😊😮😊😮.
I've fixed those belts before and I'll tell ya, if you can repair the old one, you'll be further ahead. New belts stretch " a lot", but not before you have the tensioner backed all the way off and struggle to get the connecting rod fished all the way across the belts. Feed mills use the same belts, rubber encased thread. The crusher probably has wear resistant material also. Can't be touching anything underneath. Another great video, thanks for taking the time out, hopefully Santa will bring you a helper.
Andrew, you have the determination and patience to get the job done, credit to you for that. Crushing rock is an expensive business, adding a cone crusher, which I sense you may be considering will increase your expenses significantly. I'm not suggesting you couldn't make it work, if anyone could you probably could. Cone crushers are an expense that should not be underestimated. If you want smaller material could you not reduce the gap, bring the swing plate in ½ inch.
The learning curve on the rock crusher is pretty steep….. it won’t be long before you master it and are getting all roads on the mountain passable for even two wheel drive cars up,and down with out a problem.
Been waiting on this 😜👍🏼 I was thinking you might want to invest /hire a large breaker for that machine (pipe work already in place by the looks of it) and get rid of those larger boulders ,the material looks like it will split with minimal fuss with with a decent breaker. Ex Combat Engineer and Plant Operative 😬
Grizzly Bars are usually used to screen out large rocks. But he is shifting Shale and large pieces can slip between the bars. The Operator (Andrew) can easily break the bigger slabs into smaller pieces with the bucket BEFORE they go into the hopper. He can make life easier or harder for himself. Patience can be a virtue.
As long as you just have watch them they are cool. It's when you start working on them they loose a lot of their coolness. Dirty tight areas, everything is heavy and covered in dirty grit.
AHH-HAH!!! THIS is that blast I missed seeing before!!! SOMEHOW it only JUST TODAY showed up in min feed, EVEN THOUGH I have you on all notifications, AND I've been subscribed more than 3 months now! It is showing that you posted this video a month ago and it is only just now showing up. Makes me wonder if, because it has to do with explosives, they are choking back its viewership.
@@AndrewCamarata You know these days, ANYTHING [legal, or whatever else you wanna excuse it as] can get shadow banned if the YT censors or their shipple police report it. I have a different channel which got 100% shadow banned for talking against commu-youknow... Now I do, in fact, self censor. So nothing that might make too much light, noise, smoke, or break too many rocks... I tend not to record for here.
For Andrews Christmas present from us, give this guy 100,000 likes on this video. He's provided us all year long with entertainment beyond description. If you are a fan, click like. Let's get this over 100,000 to show Andrew our appreciation! Just now as I look, 41,000 people have watched or are watching right now and he's got only 5,000 likes. C'mon fans, make this one 100,000!!!! Merry Christmas Andrew to you are your family. Thank you for all your content, it truly appreciated.
Rubbish. Likes are meaningless. It is VIEWS that earns Andrew 400K/Year. If you are struggling to get Subs, then Likes are always good, but Andrew is on 1.2Mill subs. He deosnt care about likes, only the cash. If Andrew wanted likes, he would tell his viewers...lol. RUclips revenues triple at Christmas, and Andrew is pushing content in as fast as he can. If you want to give Andrew a Christmas present watch this months vids time and time again. He LOVES Views/month.
You should get yourself one of those old little-sized wrecking balls and use it as a drop weight to break up some of those bigger pieces, just a thought.
@@warrenmichael918 Rock hammers require hooking up to the machine and flow from the hydraulics to make them work, with a wrecking ball used as a drop weight there's no hooking up needed, and no hydraulic oil need to make it work. you just pick it up and drop it on the rock and splat goes the rock.
Hi Andrew, Awesome video. I've driven a few 360 Excavators over the years where the rev's drop under load, the problem has always been fuel starvation, and it will be the fuel filter being partially clogged up, in some cases it's been clogged up air filter. change the fuel filter and that should sort the problem, if it doesn't then it will be a weak fuel pump which is unlikely. Wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas, all the very best for the New Year
@@AndrewCamarata Yeah it's annoying when the rev's die like that, the Machines I've worked on, it's always been the filter. with moving the Crusher around, you must pay perticular attention to the end with the conveyor end to ensure it never hits anything, not even skinny trees, that is the only way you can damage a crusher, as you know. always stand at the conveyor end when moving it around. Andrew could you subscribe to my channel please, I've got some good videos of me driving Excavators at work. I need to get my backside in gear and edit some more content lol
No stupid intros. No sponsored content. Doesn’t over talk everything. No begging for likes or subscribers. Just gets in and to the point. Makes his money off the views. The way RUclips should work. Yes, there is a ton of behind the scenes work no one ever sees. Good job my man!😄
No begging for subs, likes, no commercials. And still everyone can't wait for next video... Because everyone watch him because he's awesome.
Could not agree more. Love the guy's videos.
And no off kilter background music either, just some rhythm and chill tunes
Andrew doesnt need to advertise - he makes about $400K/year with his subs after tax.
I'll sit through whole commercials for this reason, so he gets paid better hopefully.
Just imagine all the hard work and countless hours Andrew puts in that isn’t filmed. Merry Christmas and thanks for all the entertainment this year.
dont skip the ads
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@@sentuhankecundang7351 lol who doesn't use ad blocking these days 🤣
@@Trump_Won_AGAIN i do
@@Trump_Won_AGAIN I pay for premium. So I don't see ads.
Having the material 4+ is ok, it won't wash away in Heavy Rain. Getting it packed in is good, later you can top it off with smaller size material. Save that old belt can be used as a patch if the new one breaks. The Crusher needs daily grease and fluid/oil level checks to keep running smooth. Good job.
That rock crusher is long overdue for your projects. Your road projects are going to have a much more finished look now, without all the crushing down with heavy equipment. Great stuff!
Another example of Andrew's endurance and persistence not to mention impressive challenging work conditions. Great job Andrew! thanks for sharing.
You can’t crash into trees that don’t exist. Lmaoooo, love this guy
More like...They want road....I'll give them a road!
Am laugh at that comment too...seems they don't give a hoot abt tree when we need to save the plant. Nice that Andrew Caramata thinks ecologically as well. Cant help but love the man....
@Ithecastic THIS !! 👆🏻
that was hilarious though
@Ithecastic Ya'll realize trees aren't the most oxygen producing thing by a long shot? It's actually plankton. That being said it's still important to not chop down every tree we have, but taking out a few trees is absolutely fine.
It’s blasting time! Who else has been eagerly awaiting this content? 😬
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I love your channel. I watch all your videos. Just a little advice. Befor you set the crusher up. Make a flat pad then dig out a 2 foot trench right in the middle. Then straddle the crusher over the trench so belt doesn't get bound up from the fines falling down between underneath
The previous operator told him that, and not to dance it around. Andrew did it his way and we saw the results....lol.
@@berty1422 Andrew always does it his way, and normally has similar results, that’s one of the draws of the channel, watching him mess up, and figuring out how to fix things, and make it work his way,
The rock crusher is quite satisfying to watch. Between this and your mower are my two favorite videos in your series. Ill be happy to watch more of the rock crusher and yoru mower any day.
I enjoy watching the work you do & l bet there are a great deal of viewers that would like to trade places with you. Cheers Mate, Pete "down under".
been watching Andrew for many years , he cares about his viewers and makes sure we have the best views ! Im amazed at his abilities to fix anything and operate any machine and the quality of his work for his customers ! what i like about him most of all and what sold me on following him is his love of Levi ,Cody ,Lisa ,Daisy and Blue ! he loves his dogs as much as I love my little 14 yr old girl chihuahua Pnut !!!
As a retired Navy F/A-18 combat pilot I blew up lots of stuff, but I gotta admit, watching you blow up shit is a lot more fun. Nice work young man. Thumbs up!
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Andrew, I love seeing how your life has become doing whatever you actually want by buying the right equipment and figuring it out as you go. There is no better way to live than to be constantly problem solving and making progress. Thank you for sharing the journey with us.
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The blasting never gets old! Friggin awesome!!!!!!
Go check out Demolition Dave he has some great videos.
Demolition Dan is a blasting dude from Oz, its good watching him blow up granite all day long!
Andrew, you can adjust those jaws to make smaller-sized rocks. Depending on the brand of jaw crusher as to how to adjust the throat width to make it narrower, hence smaller rocks. Also if you keep the jaw fuller it will make a smaller rock size as well.
It’s crazy you don’t have an industrial wood chipper. You’d have an endless supply of leaf grow and topsoil business
I like how much control you have over that excavator, you make it do things i can only dream of my little backloader does. Crush up the rock, manuver rocks, nice full buckets and load accuracy. Can tell this isnt your first time on the machines. Great vids
Andrew taught himself too. Merry Christmas!
I wonder how much Andrews fuel bill is per month? That’s a lot of equipment to keep running.
At the rate he has been going, it’s probably less than his monthly blasting expenses lol
Its a steep learning curve. You need to make a pad for the crusher to sit on. The vibrations will ensure it will slowly sink...lol.
I guess you will be learning to repair the conveyer belt as well.
The shale is soft and easy on the jaw crusher, dont worry about the crushed size, traffic will bring it down to grade.
You only need the cone crusher if bringing down hard rock like basalt.
Good for Video content though Andrew.....
You will be clipping the conveyer belt together in no time.
Thanks, Andrew and hope you had a Happy New Year! Running that equipment with no help has to be tough! Great video (anytime you're blasting, I'll watch it 2-3 times), it's cool to watch and your camera shots make it that much better! Thanks for sharing and for the time it takes for you to get all of this ready! Be well, be safe!
Merry Christmas and happy new years to Andrew, his parents, of course Cody and Blue, and others/friends we've seen in andrews videos and to "all us viewers" !! Bring on 🥳2023🎉 !!
Watching equipment break down and how you fix it, or improvise, is more entertaining than just watching you move equipment around. Love your content. Moving a mountain is not for the faint of heart.
Another great video. Andrew just keeps bringing us better and better videos. Impressed with he and his partner getting work done. Quite a couple.
Livin and learnin as you go. Good luck with the crusher belt.
Was - quite a couple - she left him for another woman. *_Who didn't see that coming?_*
My kinda guy makes his own gravel... Knows the value of natural resources and uses what is available... Wish I knew somebody around here that made gravel.
What I love most about your videos Andrew, is the sound of the machinery. If I can't sleep, the sound is the perfect white noise to get to sleep.
My gut tells me that in the not too distant future Andrew is going to learn how to blast his own rock.
Yeah, next video he will be buying a rock drill.
I whouldnt be surprised about that. XD
@@renof2505 I have one I'd be willing to sell to him.
I wouldn’t blame him. You can’t rely on anyone but yourself most of the time.
Military surplus drone with missiles
Great learning moments. Thanks for the experience!
Thank for all the content. Been watching you for years. Had a work place accident a couple of months ago running heavy equipment and cannot for a long time. It’s a lot of fun watching you work. I live just a couple of hours away upstate and always amazed at all the nice blue stone you have down there!
Take care of yourself. I hope you get better soon. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May 2023 be a great year for you.
I hope you have a speedy recovery. Sorry to hear you got hurt at work. I also live in upstate New York near Rochester
Thanks guys. I’m up by Lake George.
@@maxam0713 oh it's absolutely beautiful up there. I grew up snowmobiling up in the Adirondacks. Been to old forge, big moose, Lake George and all of the other amazing places up there. I'd like to go back up there someday
Yea growing up here you don’t realize how beautiful it is. I lived out in Brockport for a little while and have friends in Chili. There is something to be said for all those canal towns. I love it out there too.
They really work well together🤗
Andrew you have the patience of a saint. Thanks for sharing all your hard work this year its been amazing. Wishing you all the best for 2023 with good health and happiness. looking forward to the next installments short or long xx
first video I watched of yours was the blasting of the shelf behind the castle. Ever since then I have watched every video. Thanks for the amazing content Andrew. Keep up the good work.
The blasting scenes could make a person believe he had been teleported into a Demolition Dave video. That pile of rocks should keep Andrew busy for a couple days. Happy Holidays to all.
Thanks for the plug #55
And his field servicing would make Marty T proud
Dave has some great videos
It was really great that Mike The Dirt Boss could help you out for several days to grade out your camp road and letting him put 2 shows on his channel so we could see the progress you are making . Mike and The Cat 973 really got that rock base down nicely before the snow came .
Didn't see dirt bag anywhere
Got to go to his Channel
You are an outstanding operator... I do mechanical failure investigations, one I have done was on a 330-ish loading rock just like you are here. The arm/stick fractured because the operators there were impacting the stick with the rocks (no thumb)- the repeated impacts resulted in fatigue. I was about to post about that, but noticed when you operate this, you rarely let that rock hit the arm/stick. Awesome! Love watching these videos.
Andrew you seriously need an excavator with a thumb or claw !! 🤔👍👍👍👍
I have one, They are best on the small machines. The big one is good with just a bucket.
@Andrew Camarata Your videos are awesome, they gave me the courage and inspired me. Thank you and only you for that.
they inspired me to get a wheeled Liebherr excavator , it got the inline 6 aircooled Deutz Turbodiesel engine - i will use a tractor dump trailer with the excavator as kind of a selfloading dumptruck , it got hammer lines and hydraulic functions are ok.
I love these blasting videos and hauling rock!! Awesome new Bell truck. Where’s the adorable young lady? She great!!!!❤
Thanks. That girl is gone. So that position is open.
That sucks. It was uncanny how you found a girl version of you. At least the videos seemed that way. 🤷♂️😐
@@AndrewCamarata ouch
“Can’t crash into trees that don’t exist.”
Sounds like Andrew has issued a challenge to the blasters. 🤣😂🤣😂
I laughed out loud when he said that. Also right before that when he said the people "didn't know how to put the trucks in 4wd and slid into trees for no reason." Haha
I just wanna say thank you for sharing Andrew. It is truly a gift u make videos like this for us.
If you go frame by frame during the blast, you can see the fuse buzzing from the switch through and from each line. Pretty neat to see that and the slowed down footage as well.
When you bought the rock crusher the guy told you to set it up on a compacted and level location and to bring rock to the crusher. You also hit the trees with the belt or conveyor a couple of times.
Other than that, great job!
Yep
@@AndrewCamarata 🤣🤣
Great stuff Andrew . You will find keeping that crusher up and clear underneath is the most important maintenance you can do to help your production . You will want a Big compressor with a long wand made from pipe. To blast all the fines that are going to buildup and want to rip your conveyor belt. Keep the great content coming J.B retired Operating Engineer 35 years mining
But just think if Andrew did it all correct he wouldn’t have any video content. Very odd times where doing it wrong and and opposite to specifically instructed results in wrecking something is an actual benefit. 🙄
@@johnbroderick4594 im curious if that crusher is adjustable in terms of making a smaller stone or would that require a different machine?
Awsome, just awsome! Amazing how much gets done, even running solo.
That replayed explosion was top notch!!! Thank you Andrew for the amazing content and the edits 🤌👌🔥
I'll come down from Canada and help you Andrew.
9 hour drive.
Sounds like that big excavator needs a dump valve or something.
That motor shouldn't be falling on it's face under heavy load.
We have a Yanmar dumper too, it is an awesome little machine for road building.
The drivers seat and hydraulic controls spin around so you can drive it forward with the load in front of you, but essentially the same machine with cab and heat.
It's either the Banjo or Ukulele Fitting - probably the Banjo.
It's been really helpful this year as I have done hands on work / fixing things, to have such a great role model as yourself Andrew. Seeing how you react to things that don't go as planned, helps me know end to know when things don't go as planned on my work that (a) that is normal and (b) taking things methodically a solution will appear.
Best Christmas gift ever, love watching these.
Andrew, you should have placed your dump truck at the end of the conveyor to catch the tailings so you can move the rock to a different place so you wont have any problems later
Was thinking the same.
The truck would fill up to fast and he would have to stop way to much
A jaw crusher runs the best with a constant feed of material
@@davesanford4798 but now it is down because he constantly moved in different direction a truck would be a better solution and no down time
Yeah a pad and then you need to choke it. Load it faster and that will help with a lot of the large flat rocks. When you choke it it put more in the crusher which allows everything to be broken up the right way.
I would also get yourself a staple kit and learn how to staple your conveyor. This will help in the long run cause as soon as you find out how much those belts are, you are not going to be happy. The only reason you replace a belt is that its worn down so far that you see the threads and then you flip it over and do the same thing on the other side. You get even wear this way and longer belt life.
I almost need a bigger excavator. I was having a hard time keeping up, (especially since it was the first time, and dealing with the drone too). I think ill get better with time, it would be nice to load it only rotating 90° instead of 180°
@@AndrewCamarata Thanks. I think you did a good job. Maybe just a bigger bucket? Looks like a bigger bucket would work if you were doing the 90 degrees load.
Other than that I super love you videos!
@@adamluke1289 I was thinking that as well. Though not really needed.
@@adamluke1289 I think it’s better off without the thumb, it might get in the way, the buckets able to get under most rocks, and picking them up and dropping them. I did this a lot more than just this one day.
@@AndrewCamarata Yeah, a thumb has nothing to do with rockcrushing!
Don't bang on the crusher with the bucket when you get hangup / stuck stones in it! thats when stuff gets beaten up!
Need a bar of somekind for the excavator and since you have no quickcoupler you have to go the hard way, weld a rod like 125mm dia to some hooks that fits between the bucket teeth so the rod is under the bucket hooks infront and inside, add a sturdy chain and shackle thats tight fitting to the lifting point on the backside of the bucket to the back end of the rod so it stays and don't fall of. Now you have something to poke at the stones that hang up in the crusher.
Also you can be sure that the further away and harder to reach you leave that thing the more stops you get!
As other have said, solid setup on solid ground is key when using a crusher... they are part pricey but expectable cost if you do it right, need to keep the Cash / Ton under control.
Being hard on these machines is a quick way to toss away massive cash!
Guessing by recent price here in Sweden a belt like that would cost aprox 5500 - 6000 usd with labor hotvulcanized (not sure of the hot plate method in English) imho the only way to connect a belt.
Staples is to fix a small belt damage in limited ways that is going to fail soon anyway.
You have already fixed this i guess, i hope you got a good thick belt if you got a new one.
If you starting to think about a stage 2 setup, you have 2 kinds of cone crushers to consider:
The regular Conecrusher, Good for making the small stuff bellow 1.5'' but small intake size unless you go really big like 200 - 330kw machines. Also don't like big flat rocks that you get when not having the Jawcrusher full. Start & Stops makes these pizza sized flakes.
Gyratory crusher is my bet if you don't go bellow 32 mm / 1.5'', they mostly don't like smaller size settings since it puts a great deal of sideways load on the main axle.
They car alot less about larger size flat rocks thats a pain in the arse on cones. I think a 130kw one should be nice for your use.
I am a big Sandvik beliver when it comes to simple to fix and maintaince ease.
We have had and have some Metso stuff to but they ain't easy to wrench on and way to complicated, like putting a computer on a breaking bar...🤮
Hope you find something of my post interesting, I am a little to much into crushers! Crushaholic deluxe! 🤣🤣👍 Been fixing / running things like these for 20 years.
Here is a Couple clips (if sharing links works out) i will post future videos on this channel, not the one in the links.
ruclips.net/video/3hv6Ogk_bWI/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/16S6qov49qc/видео.html
Have a nice day and cheers from Sweden! 😄
ps have you had a chance to clean of rock with a old tyre yet that i mentioned long ago?😉
That black Ford never ceases to amaze me!
"You can't crash into trees that don't exist". I appreciate your frustration Andrew, since you've always figures a way out of things and those guys were acting like prima donnas. The corrolary is "a bolt cant be stuck if it's molten'" which you and others have proven true time and time again. Great video Andrew!
It’s weird watching Andrews videos over the years, going from trips to the quarry to get stone into buying land then building a quarry and making stone!
Andrew bluestone goes for a lot of money in New York so you could have gotten that all rocked out of there for good money! Love your work so satisfying!
Seems very handy that you can move the crusher whenever you need to while sitting in the excavator even thou it apparently led to a breakdown this time.
My favorite piece of equipment you have used to be the green CAT but now I think it's that track dump truck. I'd love to find something like that locally. And the track boom also! assuming you still have that one also.
Non stop work with Andrew and it's appreciated that we are able to see it all happen.
Thank you Andrew!
Merry Christmas!!!
Andrew Camarata videos are real world earth projects and are no joke that require a skilled and knowledgeable person. As well he can operate and run mini to heavy duty excavating machines. This gentleman Andrew Camarata is All-Pro at what he does.
I think you can adjust the jaws closer together if I remember correctly for smaller material
As for the belt you can run a rope thru the machine and pull it back on with a skidder
In college i had a job working around these crushers as a laborer and it was almost normal to rip belts off and change them
This was the method that was used there and it worked pretty well
he has them as small as they will go, he already said this in the comments in here.
I loved the blast footage well done.
Watching these last few videos, watching her get greasy, climb into a rock truck and moving gravel... she's a trooper! You better keep this one Andrew!!
Andrew , tearing off the belt. Remember I said to dig a shallow trench where you are setting the crusher so you dont tear up the belt. Your doing good now loading the hopper but should be cleaning out a path so you can move the crusher back as you get deeper into your pile of rock. and continue digging that trench for the bottom of the conveyer doesn’t get damaged , it gets expensive. The cleaner you keep the site around the crusher the better also always raise that conveyer up when moving it. your rubber tire loader might be a better choice to load with , it wont tear up the ground so bad when loading. you dont really need a cone crusher. you could also readjust the jaw to a smaller opening . I mostly had ours set at 4” that would give you a top size of 4” down to dust . while your repairing your belt you could readjust the jaws.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch Andrew, dein Material ist einfach ein Traum. Kaum Abraum und relativ unkomplizerter Abbau. Ich war Bauleiter für eine 10 Hektar große Kies- und Sandgrube inmitten eines großen Waldgebietes mit steiler Zufahrt. Mir kommen Andrews Probleme mit seiner Zufahrt sehr bekannt vor. Es würde mich interessieren ob Andrew ebenfalls so viel Ärger und Auflagen für die Abbaugenehmigung mit den zuständigen Behörden hat.
The camra work on this one was really amazing!
Looking at the size of your operation I am beginning to think the crusher is too small! Sorry it broke. Hope getting a new belt on it won't be too difficult. I have no doubts about you getting it done. Have a pleasant and peaceful holiday weekend.
@Kenjero Not junk, paid well for it. Managed to bend the end of the belt roller drive first day against a tree... The belt didn't survive rubbing against the ground and stones - just as warned by the bloke who delivered it to him. The belt is only a few inches off the ground on a hard pad, once the tracks sink the belt is on the ground and nothing will survive that for long...
You’re always so dedicated! Dry enjoyable viewing…even the frustrations encountered. Thank you & Merry Christmas 😊😊
Nice to see someone stepping up, who knows what to do, and does it!! That's old school 👍✋
"The pad you build to put this on, you're going to want to make sure it's compacted and firm." If only I had...
Yepppppp. "...or the belt will rub against the ground."
Unfortunately Andrew broke it before it crushed a rock. Bending that hydraulic drive on the tree and THEN wrecking it by not following the previous operators advice. Andrew always breaks his machines.
Good one. I hope Berty is not referring to Andrew wrecking the compactor. If so, I missed that one.
@@forthrightnight He is. 😆
It's about time Andrew has his own rock quarry!
Andrew, with the huge amount of leaves dropped every fall, will you have to lay new gravel every few seasons? Leaves compost down so quickly, its seems over time they'd ruin the gravel base, turning it into a soil layer and making the steep hills too slick to drive. Have you thought about an industrial blower attachment for one of your rigs to clear the leaves a couple times each fall? Seems easier than laying more rock. Love the vids. Your property is the ultimate real-man's playground. Best part is all the tonka trucks are full size, haha!
Have a look at the blower that "Diesel Creek" used. Good equipment makes you work less hard.
Traction may be a problem with decomposed leaves and the rock as it is will break down more and more to sand with time. Andrew has covered a lot of road with this stuff through the years so he probably knows about these effects. Unfortunately this material is not real gravel.
@@colorado1088 Yeah, I'm sure he knows...so many deciduous trees in upstate NY. He probably doesn't care cause he seems to like the projects and any excuse to buy more heavy equipment, lol. Cheers and Merry Xmas.
@@Compasscard Haha, perfect! That's what I'm talking about! One pass up then down on Andrew's logging roads and job done!
Man, that Jaw Crusher is some mixture of prehistoric monster and Mad Max tech. Hope you can get it fixed without too much extra trouble or cost.
Yeah, its fixed. I want to run it soon, snow up there right now though.
Crushing rock all day every day is my job, we have a Metso 125 now, but I started on a mobile Compass crusher, couldn’t tell you much about it since we didn’t have it long, but they do pile up fines under your discharge belt, so you need to move it and clean out under it at least once a day or expect many more issues, we did end up trenching out between where the tracks sit just to give it more room to build up.
Ok. I’ll keep an eye on that. Thanks.
Seriously impressed, nice job.
Oh...it's not just me that continually has problems with grease guns, Good shot, must be nice to have your own quarry.
😂
Good to see you popping in Dave, I watch your channel as well. Blasting Granite Boulders in Oz.
Yup, I dont know why grease guns fail. one minute they work fine, the next time you pull them out - they don't.
I reckon there are grease gun gremlins that steal them at night.
Your little silt pond is gonna be so rich in minerals I bet you could fertilize a field with it after a year of run-off from the fresh crushed stone.
Those big solid pieces should be put aside for a video of the jackhammer attachment on the Kubota....that one video you did jackhammering a huge solid bolder that was in the driveway got 5 million + views.... thanks for the Xmas present of the 3rd blast video. Safe to say that your viewers absolutely love this content, after watching I was bummed when it ended. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into documenting this great journey your on, and letting all of us come along for the ride.
Making gravel and putting it down on your roads very satisfying. Really cool how you are able to use your hillside for gravel for your roads and make more useable space at the same time.
Amazing work ethic! I admire that you admit your faults and have the solution for it. Happy holidays!
They always say that steepness/grade doesn’t appear well on video , but when he was about to go down that “Hill” in the dump truck that looked kinda sketchy lmao
Es un trabajo increíble, y muy lindo de ver. ¿Piensas pavimentar, o echar piedras, hacer camino de piedras, en todas las calles de tu propiedad? creo que es bastante grande, jaja, pero al final será genial poder verte entrar y salir con maquinas sin enterrarte, por primera vez.
Such honest work, nothing wonky about it, wish I could ply my hands to such a task
YOUR GETTING TO BE REALLY BIG NOW, GOOD LUCK WITH
YOUR COMPANY. AND GOD BLESS.
If you build a solid pad for the crusher you can dig out the center to prevent build ups underneath longer, loader pulling would or could get a small stacker for bigger storage piles
Watching rock crushing is probably the most therapeutic thing since........ever!
If that is true then you need a therapist not a RUclips video.
"Adventures Made from Scratch". He crushes cars
If you are a newish viewer go watch some of Andrew and his mates with their 4WDs in the forrest tracks ... super good / funny watching ... I can recommend it. 😊😮😊😮😊😮.
I've fixed those belts before and I'll tell ya, if you can repair the old one, you'll be further ahead. New belts stretch " a lot", but not before you have the tensioner backed all the way off and struggle to get the connecting rod fished all the way across the belts. Feed mills use the same belts, rubber encased thread. The crusher probably has wear resistant material also. Can't be touching anything underneath. Another great video, thanks for taking the time out, hopefully Santa will bring you a helper.
Andrew, you have the determination and patience to get the job done, credit to you for that. Crushing rock is an expensive business, adding a cone crusher, which I sense you may be considering will increase your expenses significantly. I'm not suggesting you couldn't make it work, if anyone could you probably could. Cone crushers are an expense that should not be underestimated. If you want smaller material could you not reduce the gap, bring the swing plate in ½ inch.
This has to be the earliest I have ever been to one of andrews videos
The learning curve on the rock crusher is pretty steep….. it won’t be long before you master it and are getting all roads on the mountain passable for even two wheel drive cars up,and down with out a problem.
Been waiting on this 😜👍🏼
I was thinking you might want to invest /hire a large breaker for that machine (pipe work already in place by the looks of it) and get rid of those larger boulders ,the material looks like it will split with minimal fuss with with a decent breaker.
Ex Combat Engineer and Plant Operative 😬
@Kenjero Who does ?
Grizzly Bars are usually used to screen out large rocks. But he is shifting Shale and large pieces can slip between the bars.
The Operator (Andrew) can easily break the bigger slabs into smaller pieces with the bucket BEFORE they go into the hopper.
He can make life easier or harder for himself. Patience can be a virtue.
That was the way I always thought an explosion should look.! Awesome looked at it over and over!
Watched it all. His machines are getting bigger and bigger every year.
That's an amazing amount of rock!
Just got to watch this. I remember what the guy said when it was unloaded. He didn't explain but now andrew knows why.
That rock crusher is one of the coolest machines I have ever seen..........
As long as you just have watch them they are cool. It's when you start working on them they loose a lot of their coolness. Dirty tight areas, everything is heavy and covered in dirty grit.
thank you very much for good entertainment.good job guys.👍🤗👍🇸🇯
AHH-HAH!!!
THIS is that blast I missed seeing before!!!
SOMEHOW it only JUST TODAY showed up in min feed, EVEN THOUGH I have you on all notifications, AND I've been subscribed more than 3 months now!
It is showing that you posted this video a month ago and it is only just now showing up.
Makes me wonder if, because it has to do with explosives, they are choking back its viewership.
IDK, I hope not.
@@AndrewCamarata You know these days, ANYTHING [legal, or whatever else you wanna excuse it as] can get shadow banned if the YT censors or their shipple police report it.
I have a different channel which got 100% shadow banned for talking against commu-youknow...
Now I do, in fact, self censor.
So nothing that might make too much light, noise, smoke, or break too many rocks...
I tend not to record for here.
For Andrews Christmas present from us, give this guy 100,000 likes on this video. He's provided us all year long with entertainment beyond description. If you are a fan, click like. Let's get this over 100,000 to show Andrew our appreciation! Just now as I look, 41,000 people have watched or are watching right now and he's got only 5,000 likes. C'mon fans, make this one 100,000!!!!
Merry Christmas Andrew to you are your family. Thank you for all your content, it truly appreciated.
If you weren't the king troll - people might listen.
Rubbish. Likes are meaningless. It is VIEWS that earns Andrew 400K/Year.
If you are struggling to get Subs, then Likes are always good, but Andrew is on 1.2Mill subs. He deosnt care about likes, only the cash. If Andrew wanted likes, he would tell his viewers...lol.
RUclips revenues triple at Christmas, and Andrew is pushing content in as fast as he can. If you want to give Andrew a Christmas present watch this months vids time and time again. He LOVES Views/month.
@@berty1422 How the 'uck could you know what he earns each year?!
"You can't crash into trees that don't exist... for no reason" Andrew C.
You should get yourself one of those old little-sized wrecking balls and use it as a drop weight to break up some of those bigger pieces, just a thought.
He has a few rock hammers he could use if he wanted.
@@warrenmichael918
Rock hammers require hooking up to the machine and flow from the hydraulics to make them work, with a wrecking ball used as a drop weight there's no hooking up needed, and no hydraulic oil need to make it work. you just pick it up and drop it on the rock and splat goes the rock.
In a world where we increasingly feel like we have no real influence, AC’s videos are a potent reminder that we actually really do.
"You can't crash into trees that don't exist." I can't describe how much I appreciate you, brother.
Hi Andrew, Awesome video. I've driven a few 360 Excavators over the years where the rev's drop under load, the problem has always been fuel starvation, and it will be the fuel filter being partially clogged up, in some cases it's been clogged up air filter. change the fuel filter and that should sort the problem, if it doesn't then it will be a weak fuel pump which is unlikely.
Wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas, all the very best for the New Year
Thanks. I need to look into that, it doesn't have the power it should.
@@AndrewCamarata Yeah it's annoying when the rev's die like that, the Machines I've worked on, it's always been the filter. with moving the Crusher around, you must pay perticular attention to the end with the conveyor end to ensure it never hits anything, not even skinny trees, that is the only way you can damage a crusher, as you know. always stand at the conveyor end when moving it around. Andrew could you subscribe to my channel please, I've got some good videos of me driving Excavators at work. I need to get my backside in gear and edit some more content lol