Family-owned Cox Construction, headquartered in Guelph, Ontario, works in various pits and plants across the southeast part of the province and uses two small, 2.5-ton ECR25 Electric excavators to break up oversize rock that is too big to fit in crushing plants.
"The transition from the diesel machine that we had before to the electric has basically been seamless," says Brandon Crumbie, a crusher foreman at Cox Construction. "I really like it because there's less warm-up time. You just hit the key and away you go. It'll do every job you could ever need."
The ECR25 Electric has the power Cox Construction needs while requiring a fraction of the maintenance performed on the diesel model that used to do the job: there are no engine oil changes and no filter changes, just the hydraulics system to maintain. And, according to the contractor, the vibration of the crusher affects the excavators much less than it affected the previous diesel models because they have far fewer components.
The ECR25 Electric machines run on top of a 600-volt crusher, so charging from the generator that powers the crushing set-up is convenient and draws minimal power.
Cox Construction was supported through the ECR25 Electric implementation process by Volvo dealer Nors Construction Equipment Canada.
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