Pro Lawn first to utilize crushing plant in US

Pro Lawn’s Darian Houssain is always on the lookout for the latest and greatest in crushing equipment.

Thanks to a longstanding partnership with Powerscreen Crushing & Screening, a Kentucky-based equipment dealer, Houssain is now the exclusive owner and operator in North America of Powerscreen’s latest mobile crushing plant: the Trakpactor 480.

Since Houssain got the plant in early spring, it’s consistently produced nearly 500 tph for Pro Lawn. The 480 is larger than Powerscreen’s Trakpactor 320, yet smaller than the Trakpactor 550.

“It’s right under the 550 performance-wise,” says Houssain, president of Pro Lawn, when visited on a southwest Ohio jobsite. “It will take the big rocks, but we don’t like putting the big rocks in it. The 550 will take a 3 ft. stone all day long. [With the 480], you really don’t get too crazy with it. It’s yours. You don’t want to tear it up.”

Previously, Powerscreen tested the 480 in Ireland and England, but it also wanted to test it in the U.S. With that goal, Powerscreen Crushing & Screening knew just who to call.

“[Powerscreen] reached out to us [and said] they wanted to test [the 480] in America,” says Alan Coalter, president of Powerscreen Crushing & Screening. “We told them we have a customer that would be willing to try it. Darian owned 550s, so he wanted to put it up against the 550 to see how it compared. He liked it enough to purchase it.”

According to Coalter, the U.S. market is exhibiting plenty of interest in the 480, which is expected to be available for purchase next summer.

Plant performance

The 480 features a 50-in. x 40-in. impact chamber, which is smaller than the 550 yet larger than the 320. The plant is lighter weight and easier to transport than the 550, as well. It runs on a DC13 500-hp engine – the same as the 550.

That larger engine in the smaller plant, combined with its production capability, earned the 480 a nickname: The Mule.

“This machine is impressive,” Houssain says. “It flat [out] puts it down.”

The plant also changed the flow of material, expedited the production process and minimized prep time for Pro Lawn.

“We’re getting away from the jaw [crushers] and small impact [crushers],” Houssain says. “We were [feeding a Powerscreen] 400X (a tracked jaw crusher) to a 320 plant. So now, [with the 480], we can take the jaw out of the picture and just go straight into the impactor. You take a lot of the prep out and we’re running [at] almost 500 tph right now.”

Pro Lawn’s setup in southwest Ohio has the 480 feeding a Powerscreen Chieftain 2200 inclined screen, with oversize going to a Powerscreen 1000SR cone crusher.

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