thanks to shane Lyons for leaving me video and take a few pictures of his crusher in action what a sight to see after 21 years idle .
shane told me The crusher was bought secondhand from Cork in 1962 to ballinclgher in north kerry to the lyons famly quarry . Its a Baxter 16x9 jaw crusher. It replaced a small crusher they had. Used on the family farm on a limestone quarry suppling building stone to Lixnaw and Abbeydorney areas during fifties, sixties and seventies. If a field was ploughed or a building knocked the stone was gathered and crushed for more building work on the farm right up the the year 2000. It sat idle until 2013 when the farm was sold . shane remove is and it was brought to Valentia Island where shane now lives and was put going for the first time in 21 years 11/7/21. shanes son darragh was also there on the day he was the 4th generation of the lyons family to put stone into that crusher .
It will be put working at the Iveragh Vintage day in 2022 in Waterville, Co Kerry. fir all to see .
The Fordson Major was bought new by Shanes uncles in the 24th December 1954 and it got a Ford D series engine in 1998 and fully restored 2 years ago. They also had a Fordson E27N tvo running the crusher by pulley and belt and a Fordson E27N P6 loading shovel cable operated but they long gone now. it must have been a sight to see
Rock crushers are now so commonly used in industries like mining and construction that it may be hard to imagine working without them. It was only during the early part of the 19th century, however, that the first mechanical rock crusher designs were developed.
The first U.S. patent to be issued for a crusher was in 1830, says 911 Metallurgist, which has published a history of rock crushers. The design used the drop hammer principle that would later become essential in mining operations. The following decade, in 1840, a second patent was issued for another crusher. This design included a wooden box and cylindrical drum covered in iron hammers or knobs. It does not appear that either of these designs were ever actually built or used though.
Inventor Eli Whitney Blake is credited with designing the first mechanical rock crusher that was actually put to use. Blake’s design, which utilized a toggle linkage construction, was known as the Blake Jaw Crusher. Blake’s crusher was announced in 1857 and patented in 1858. Perhaps surprisingly, the same basic design is still in use today for rock crushers.
In the years following the design of the Blake Jaw Crusher, another type of crusher was designed. A gyratory crusher was patented by Philetus W. Gates in 1881.
Thomas A. Edison also designed a rock crusher to use in his own mining operation. Edison’s design used giant rolls to function as a primary crusher. These machines never gained much popularity though because the gyratory and jaw crushers were more versatile.
The competition between Blake’s and Gates’ styles of crusher continued for a number of years. Larger and larger crushers were designed as the escalating competition heated up, which became particularly important with the introduction of the steam shovel that transformed open pit mining.
There have been a number of improvements to the basic jaw and gyratory crusher designs throughout the past 150 years, but in many ways these modern crushers still use the same basic approach to crushing rock. A double toggle jaw crusher that is most commonly employed in mining operations today is, at its core, an improvement on Blake’s design, for example.
Rackers Equipment has been providing modern crushers and other equipment to contractors in Missouri and across the country since 1989. If you’re looking for a new primary crusher or secondary crusher for your business, we maintain an extensive inventory of new and used crushers from the many of the leading equipment brands. Check out our inventory online now, or give Rackers Equipment a call today at 573-635-8700 to request a quote on a crusher or any other mining or aggregate equipment you need.
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