Pit & Quarry, September 2016
Various 20 plus year old rebuilt Besser conveyors with Hewitt Robbins and Superior idlers Two new Goulds 300 hp vertical turbine pumps for a freshwater system Two new Metso MM350 200 hp horizontal slurry pumps for a wastewater system One new Metso MR300 75 hp horizontal slurry pump for a finish plant waste water The plant does not utilize dewatering screens FINISH PLANT One 6x16 Deister triple deck with Durex poly screens One rebuilt Worthington 75 hp vertical turbine pump Various 20 year old rebuilt Besser conveyors mainly with Superior idlers Installation and erection of the new plant involved the use of various local and out of town vendors working with Memphis Stone Gravel crews New system improvements that were incorporated include SDR 11 and SDR 17 poly pipe from Xylem for fresh and wastewater systems The fresh water well is about 900 ft deep to assure it is not in the same aqua as most private wells in the area LEASED EQUIPMENT Normally Memphis Stone Gravel owns all of its equipment But the DeSoto plant leased two WA 500 7 Komatsu pit loaders and one WA 500 7 yard loader with a larger bucket system as well as one PC650LC 8 backhoe for mining the GREENFIELD Above the DeSoto primary plant includes new and used equipment from the now closed Anderson plant Below is one of the operations double sand screws at work 16 PIT QUARRY September 2016 pitandquarry com
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