Welsh Slate’s Penrhyn Quarry produces some of the finest slate and slate products in the UK with a unique reputation for durability, quality and variety.

A lesser known part of the operation is the aggregate side of the business, producing materials for construction, industrial and decorative applications.

Extraction, crushing and screening operations have recently been contracted out to Hawk Contracts utilising a Metso Lokotrack LT1213S impact crusher and a Powerscreen 2100X screen.

Traditional methods of production measurement such as stock pile surveying are time consuming, inaccurate and provide only low resolution historic data.

Loadrite solutions can help to overcome these challenges.

Evidencing Production

Trimble® Loadrite scales installed on the Powerscreen provide real-time productivity measurement and stock input tonnages, giving contractor and client a basis for charging.

Remote Reporting

Live productivity figures can be viewed on any internet connected device, whilst more in-depth productivity reporting can be  generated through Loadrite InsightHQ web-based reporting.

Equipment Reports

Equipment reports give managers daily information on plant utilisation with useful metrics such as ‘black belt’ time and percentage utilisation.

Product Reports
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Product reports give live stockpile additions and individual product breakdown versus infeed tonnages.

Flexible Reporting

Managers can tailor reports to meet their own personal requirements, for example senior managers may be interested in monthly production figures whilst supervisors could be interested in hourly production output.

Sometimes challenges just come your way. Hitachi asked us to install one of our Lincoln autolube systems on a ZW370 wheel loader; a fine machine, for anyone in the market for a 34-tonne, 5+ M^3 machine.

Events, I should stress out of our control, meant the installation commenced by Roger in Tyne and Wear,  was finished by Robin in Somerset!

Another 'show kept on the road'.  But your are only as good as your last 'performance'...

I was at Brinklow Quarry today with Mick Sturges and his shiny new Doosan DL420, supplied by Murley's, equipped with a Loadrite L-2150 loader scale. I don't spend a lot of time calibrating and operator training these days, but it is good to keep your hand in and there really is no substitute for experiencing life at the sharp end, in order to keep you focused on what is really important in your business.

The calibration was straightforward and Mick picked up the nuances of the system pretty quickly. We ran a few calibration checks and things were looking pretty sweet.

At this point, it would have been really easy for me to leave him to it, on the basis that he had a pretty good grasp of the system. However, I decided to invest some more time in learning more about what Mick wanted to achieve with the system, what was important and how we might be able to deliver on those requirements.

The additional couple of hours was well worth the investment; for both of us. We configured all the options for ease of set up according to specific tasks.  We experimented with weighing on the move to gauge the impact on accuracy - In this case, it was well worth the experimentation and the level site, coupled with Mick's ultra smooth operation allowed us to speed up the loading time. Fine tuning and repeated practice with last bucket tip off, helped Mick gain confidence and understand the systems limitations with me there to back him up.