When Ross Cook and his family started Coastal Tipper Hire on the Gold Coast 13 years ago, he had little idea that it would grow into a company employing 80 people and operating 50 trucks, seven wheel loaders, five excavators, mobile crushing and screening plant and sand pits, quarries and recycling yards.
All Coast Recycling started in 2004 as a way to secure supply of raw materials, and it processes skip and tipper rubble and returns from concrete agitators to produce scalps for use under slabs, soils, 20 mm bedding material for pipes and 75 mm material used for drainage behind retaining walls and base course for temporary and permanent roads.
These products are supplied to the Gold Coast and Brisbane, and an operation will soon open on the Sunshine Coast.
Because of his past good relationship with Daewoo /Doosan Construction Equipment Australia salesman Drago Leskarac, Cook agreed to trial a Doosan 300DL loader in his Reedy Creek quarry when he was looking for a wheel loader for his Southport recycling yard. Ross looks for reliability, economy, driver comfort and resale value when considering equipment, and looks to replace equipment after three years so that it remains reliable.
The loader works hard, with 10 hour days during the week and six hours on Saturdays, and over 800 hours have been clocked up in a little over five months. Apart from loading trucks (200 - 250 per day), the loader cleans out under the crushers, pushes up stockpiles and carries slabs of concrete (often too big to fit in the bucket) to the crusher.
Operator Peter Jupe says, "The automatic transmission works well, and the loader gets good power to the ground for pushing up stockpiles. "
The loader's cab comfort also got a tick, with the quietness, roominess and good vision getting special mention, and detail items like the heated external mirrors and the location of the grease points have also impressed Peter.
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