hey guys my name is jason with mount
baker mining metals
and today we're in my basement and we're
going to be tearing out this brick
fireplace here behind me
and i wanted to show the process from
breaking it out and tearing it down
we're going to take all the debris and
we're going to crush it through one of
our jaw crushers
and then we're going to take that
material and use it for landscaping
mulch or maybe make a little crush brick
pathway out of it
so i wanted to show you guys the process
but let's get started tearing this thing
out and we'll see how it goes
so
there's not much holding it together huh
and here's our pile of bricks outside of
the basement window there
now i got to get all of these things up
here on the truck
okay well it's all been broken out here
all went through that little window over
there
all right guys so we ran into a little
bit of a snag here we got the the
fireplace all torn out
and there was a little pad here a
concrete pad that was probably six
inches high
and we need to get that flush with the
foundation the
the floor of the basement here and
we've been beating on it and cutting on
it and
whacking it and roto-hammering
everything we can to try and get this
thing out of here and it's just
been a real bugger um and so i wanted to
show you guys a new technique i went and
got my little
um micro blaster things and here's what
they look like it's a little
looks like a little firecracker with a
little
firing pin on the end there
and you drill a 15
or a 5 16 hole with a roto hammer
you put this in the hole and you put the
little firing mechanism in there
and you blast it essentially you're
using little mini explosives
so i'll show you the process here
but we're going to take that little cap
and we're going to drill into this
concrete pad here behind me
we're going to blast it out of here
i take this thing it's just it's
essentially a turkey baster
but you clean out your hole
this thing's a little firing mechanism
and there's a little
i don't know if you can see it there's a
little pin that comes out the very tip
of this thing
and hits that little metal thing in the
end of that cap
and there's a there's a slider in here i
don't know what to call it a stopper
and this is connected to just a simple
bike pump
when i push the pump down it fires that
stopper down
which engages the pin on that cap and it
blasts it so after i got my whole drill
i always like to put the probe down the
hole to make sure it fits this one
doesn't quite fit so i gotta
ream it out a little bit more
then we take our little cap here
put it in the hole
put a board on top a little bit of
weight
and now i'll go hit the bike pump and
we'll blast this thing
whoa okay here's the here's the
destruction
i guess my my bucket needs a little bit
more weight there
let's see it broke off these big chunks
even that piece is loose so now we can
take the bigger rotor
roto hammer and get in here and and
chisel this
off so we've we've taken this whole
corner here
and blasted it off here's the little bit
of the cap that's left over
so there you go we're we're micro
blasting our way
through this slab in my basement all
right guys well it's cold and windy
and we're gonna crush up this brick and
concrete and i got it set up so i got a
little six by ten jaw crusher over there
right next to me
i'm just going to shovel it off the
truck right into the crusher
and we'll see how it goes
so
you
hello
so
all right guys a little progress report
here i got on the back
third or so the truck bed cleaned off i
got that much more to go
there's our six by ten i got the
the jaw gap opened up to about i don't
know inch
inch and a half maybe and i've shoveled
pretty much shoveled until it won't come
out the bottom anymore
so i got to get the forklift and i'll
just move the jaw crusher over you know
right here and keep shoveling
um and i was gonna make some some brick
mulch and do something
kind of cool landscaping wise but i've
actually changed my mind
because i got a spot in my driveway that
needs some help
with some gravel so i'm gonna take all
this crush it up
into that one-inch material and then
we'll go spread it in the driveway as a
base and put some gravel over the top of
it so
let me get the uh the forklift we'll
move this over a little bit
and we'll keep going and i've been
shoveling i started about 11 10 this
morning
and it's 11 35 so it's taking me about
25 minutes to
to clear off this much of the truck all
right guys so we're all finished up you
can see on the truck bed there
behind me i got it all cleaned up it
took me about an hour
to shovel all that stuff i don't know
you probably can't see the
the piles but there's those three piles
and uh you know there's there's probably
three or four ton there um
and it went really good i mean i could
shovel in i there was probably a dozen
pieces that i had to break with the with
a sledgehammer
uh one time to get them to fit but
everything else i just shoveled right in
and it went well
and again that was a six inch by ten
inch we'll go take a look at that one in
a minute
but we do have some larger sizes we have
an eight inch by 12 inch
and a 10 inch by 16 inch that might be
interesting to you guys
and we can run them with three phase
electric or also with uh
with gasoline motors so you can check
out more info
uh on our website but let's go take a
look at the 6x10
and then we'll get the excavator in here
we'll load this up and go fill in the
driveway
and here's that crusher we used and it's
got
right here this big inlet tray that was
uh
really awesome for me to shovel into i
could just shovel it in
and then it fed right down into the jaws
here's looking down in the jaws let's
see if i can get a better view here
there's looking down the jaws and i mean
they're they're still brand new we
didn't even
barely scratch the paint so
it uh it went pretty well but the way
you measure these things
is from the tip of this jaw across the
six inches
and then the width is 10 inches so when
i talk about the different size jaw
crushers that's what i'm referring to
and uh and the six by ten
can crush quite a bit smaller than this
but that's that's pretty darn good
gravel and and uh
material for for our driveway um
so there you go we'll get her we'll get
her scoop back onto the truck here and
then we'll take her over and
spread it on my driveway all right let's
see if i remember how to run an
excavator
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all right guys here's where our pile was
we got her loaded here onto the truck
so we'll uh we'll go get her uh spread
out in the driveway
well we'll see if the old 450 can pull
the excavator and a load of gravel
all right guys well here's this little
spot i'm gonna work on it's it's pretty
soft in here and then
there's this big hole here and
unfortunately it's all frozen
and it's snowing a little bit right now
but um now's the time i got the gravel
and the excavator so
we're gonna throw it in there and
hopefully it solves our problem
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all right guys we'll do a little rake
and shovel work here
get it smoothed out some and that'll be
a nice
hard packed driveway i'll kind of pack
it down a little bit but
i filled in that much hole pretty good
so there you go guys we got our pad
behind us spread out i've walked the
excavator over it
kind of pat it down and and lock it in
so it should be good to go
so that's how i turn my old brick
fireplace into a new
gravel driveway so thanks for watching
and we'll see on the next video