tarboat's photos with the keyword: crusher

The long disused stone handling plant at Crich quarry. Opened by The Clay Cross Company in the 19th century and supplying limekilns near Ambergate via a metre gauge railway, the quarry closed in 1958. Reopening for roadstone occurred in the 1960's and it was operated by RMC and Tarmacbefore passing to Aggregate Industries ownership in 2000. Final closure came in 2010.

Excavator frenzy at the Hillhead quarry exhibition.

Primary crusher feed hopper at Ingleton Quarry. The hydraulic arm and breaker are for dealing with oversize rocks that block the shaft.

Thwaite Mills on the outskirts of Leeds started as a fulling mill, was later rebuilt as a seed mill, then became a flint grinding mill supplying local potteries with materials. The business later diversified into producing whiting (ground chalk) and then progressed to the manufacture of putty. The final production was in 1977 when the adjacent wier on the River Aire collapsed and made the waterwheels driving the plant unworkable. Since then the weir has been rebuilt and the mills are run as a museum by Leeds City Council. In this view is a Broadbent jaw crusher which fed chalk to the adjacent grinding mill. One of the two waterwheels can just be seen behind the crusher.

Primary gyratory crusher at the limestone quarry serving the Hope cement works, When this photo was taken the works was owned by Lafarge, but it has now passed to Hope Construction Materials following a Monopolies Commission ruling subsequent to the Lafarge/Tarmac merger.

At the recent Hope Cement open day the site tours went up to the quarry but did not include a look inside the crusher building. This is a view from a previous visit looking down into the giant gyratory crusher with its attendant breaker arm for removing jams. The reflection is off the window through which the shot had to be taken.

Jaw crusher (left) and roll crusher (right), both by Broadbent of Stalybridge, rusting into the trees at a long disused gritstone quarry.

Feed to the primary jaw crusher at a disused limestone quarry.

Redundant crushing, grading and loading plant at the Tarmac operated Caldon Low limestone quarry.

Gyratory secondary crusher at a disused limestone quarry.