The Crazycrusher in action…

And here is a video about how to assemble the Crazycrusher right out of the box…

Gary has done a great thing for us potters. He has made a tool that allows you to crush rocks easily, without electricity, for use in clay bodies or glazes. I was crushing rocks with a hammer before this and it was so messy and took so long. I highly recommend this for those who want to get into making their own rock glazes and are on a budget. I was looking to buy an electric hammer mill but they were prohibitively expensive and hard to find. The ones at school that I had access to all had problems … they were broken or needed to be deep cleaned. The Crazycrusher was affordable, easy to clean and use and there are no electrics to go wrong.

My entire grad school thesis work was made using one of these. It takes a suprisingly short amount of time to crush a bucket of granite. Working with my friend Jack we could do it in about half an hour. I crushed a whole lot of granite with it and apart from getting dusty, it is still in the same condition I bought it. I always wore a respirator and glasses when using the Crazycrusher and would recommend you do the same. This tool creates fine dust which you don’t want in your eyes or lungs!

I typically crush rocks to pea size or smaller and then ball mill them to make them really fine for use in glazes. This tool makes short order of getting rocks to that size. If you do not have a ball mill, you can run materials through the Crazycrusher a few times and screen them to produce powders fine enough (60 mesh is plenty small) for glazes.

Feel free to reach out to me with any questions through the contact page! I am more than happy to share my experience with the Crazycrusher with anyone who will listen.

Here are some words from Gary, who makes the Crazycrusher:

“We have built and shipped over 600 units to over 25 countries, and some of our customers are multi-national corporations and institutions, universities, mining and metals companies and many more. In all, we have only had 2 returns that were actually used and found that it did not work for the materials they wanted to crush. Our rule of thumb, if it shatters with a hammer, the Crazycrusher™ will break it down and grind it.

SOME KNOWN USES:

(Although designed to crush rock for testing, people find other uses)

People use it to do assay work as a side line for added income, Mining companies use it to test for values, and grind up core samples, Crushing glass for small smelting operations, Professional Geologists in the field, Crush black sands to assay, Pavers use it to sample their concrete and blacktop, Gardeners use it to crush down organic charcoal or rock for gardening, Artisans use it to easily crush glass to make their frit glass, Artisans crush down their glass fused jewelry to retrieve the gold back out on the flawed art pieces, Artisans use it to crush down colored rock to make pigments for their high end art paints, Mining and Geology classes from Grade school to Universities use it as an educational tool, We have had government purchases, which I can’t elaborate on their use, Small batches of ceramic CPU chips to recycle precious metals, And many more uses!

FAILS:

Goat pellets.. FAILED! Too soft, and would not crush them down. Returned.

Plastics.. FAILED! Too soft, and would not crush down. Returned.

Two others were returned and not even opened. One was due to emergency health problems. The other was from an unauthorized ordering from a department.

We like it when people ask questions first, because our unsung policy is that “We would rather lose a sale than gain an unhappy customer” ™, and that has always worked well for us! We always accept samples to test the “crush-ability” of the materials.

CAUTIONS:

1: In a video showing how easy it is to crush glass, you can actually see “Glass dust” floating in the air, and do you really want to inhale that? Also, there is dust from rocks, AND you never know what is in a rock. There can be many elements in a rock, and many are highly Toxic! Like Cinnabar, Arsenic, Asbestos, Antimony, , etc, and yes, they can be airborne when crushing with the Crazycrusher™.

2: The Crazycrusher™ is not meant to be a production unit. Some things you can feed through very fast, like decomposing quartz that breaks readily, Granites crush fairly easy as well, but some things like very dense hard rock takes a good “snap” to get that first crush. It does not work by itself, but keep in mind, it can take a bit of muscle at times, better two hands than one!

SPECS:

• Height:13"

• Width:(at Handles) 18"

• Length:(w/arms and handle) 27"

• Footprint: 6" x 11-1/2"

• Net Weight: 35lbs.small rock crusher

• Shipping Wt. 38lbs, (48with hitchmound and kit.)

• Upper Jaw Opening: 1-1/4" x 4"

• Lower jaw Adjustable:4"x 5/8" to 4" x 0"

• 1/2” bolts are Grade 5

Included is a plastic catch container, instructional information. When ordering the optional 2 inch hitch mount, instructions, mounting hardware and hitch pin is included.

NOTE: If you plan to use the Crazycrusher for anything other than the above uses and above materials, please contact us first (crazycrushersales@gmail.com), to ascertain if it will be suitable for that use. We would rather lose a sale than gain an unhappy customer. Minor assembly required. Shipped with arms removed.