A hand-held breaker driven by its own petrol hydraulic power pack. The pack sits away from you on its hoses, and between them they hit considerably harder than the hand breakers. We have them in more than one size, so what you get depends on what you are breaking.
The reason to take this one is usually thickness or remoteness. Thicker concrete, reinforced slabs, old foundations, or a job with no power anywhere near it. You are not tied to a supply, which out on a plot or in a field is the difference between working and not.
Getting it to the job
The tool goes anywhere a person does. The power pack is the part to plan for: it needs somewhere open to stand, and the hoses give you a working radius from wherever that is. Sizes vary, so ring with your access and we will tell you what gets through.
The reach is less than it sounds once you are round a corner or down a step, so think about where the pack sits before you start rather than moving it every twenty minutes.
The numbers
Hydraulic Breaker specification
Hire typeDry hire
Getting it thereCollect or delivered
Getting it to the job
Carried in by hand, so access is not the question it is with the plant.
It still has to get to site: collect it from the yard in Etruria, or we will run it out with the rest of your hire.
The rest of the sheet
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
Serviced and tested between every hire
The power pack, the hoses and the points, all of it
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
Somewhere outdoors and open to stand the power pack
Ear defenders, goggles, gloves and boots
Somewhere for the broken concrete to go
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the hydraulic breaker goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
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Thick concrete and old foundations
Where the electric breaker would be a long, demoralising day and this is an afternoon.
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Reinforced slabs
Old garage and outbuilding bases with mesh or bar in them, which need more energy per blow than a light breaker delivers.
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Plots with no power
It brings its own. Nothing to plug in, no transformer, no generator to hire alongside it.
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Farm and yard concrete
Old cattle standing, silage bases and yard slabs, which tend to be thicker than anything domestic.
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Breaking out after a saw cut
Score the line with the Stihl saw, then take out everything inside it with this.
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Where a machine cannot get
Heavy breaking down a passage or inside a building, where the mobile breaker will not fit and hand tools are not enough.
How it works
Hiring the hydraulic breaker start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
Hydraulic Breaker, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
The power pack lives outdoors
It is a petrol engine. Never inside a garage, a building or anywhere enclosed, and not right next to an open doorway either.
02
Mind the hoses
Seven metres of hydraulic hose across a site is a trip hazard and it does not like being driven over or kinked. Route it deliberately rather than letting it lie where it falls.
03
Let it do the work
Same as any breaker. Guide it, keep it moving, work inwards from a free edge. Leaning on it just tires you out.
04
Vibration adds up faster on this one
It hits harder, which you feel. Share the work if there are two of you and break the day up rather than running it for six hours straight.
05
Find out what is underneath
More energy means less warning when you hit something that should not be there. Services under old concrete are rarely where anyone says they are.
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Which breaker do you actually want
If it is a path, a domestic slab or an ordinary drive, the electric breaker is lighter and easier. Take this one for thickness, reinforcement or no power on site.
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The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
A hand breaker for paths, domestic slabs and ordinary drives. Hydraulic for thicker concrete and reinforced slabs, because it hits harder and brings its own power. We have the hydraulic ones in several sizes, so tell us what you are breaking.
No. The power pack is a petrol engine, so the whole thing is self contained. That is one of the main reasons people choose it.
The hoses give you a working radius from wherever the pack stands, and it varies with the size of breaker. Ring and ask for the one you are taking, then plan where the pack goes so it reaches the whole area.
One person can run it, but it is heavy work and the vibration adds up. If there are two of you, swap regularly. It is faster and you both finish the day able to use your hands.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the hydraulic breaker is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
