The Metrotrak doubles production rate for Dolan Skips

Dolan Skip Hire was established by Kieran Dolan and his wife Theresa Dolan in 2007. Over the years the business has provided a large and comprehensive range of skips and waste management services to domestic, commercial and industrial customers, across the wide area of Lanarkshire, Central Belt and its surrounding areas.

The family-run business has gone from strength to strength over the years and today the business, also operates a professional construction and demolition recycling centre from their site in Carluke. From the recycled C&D waste, Dolan Skips produces four high-quality products; sand, 10mm gravel 20mm gravel, and 40 mm gravel, which are in high demand from major house builders across Scotland.

Previously Dolan Skips Hire operated two small crushers which were working to an acceptable standard. However, the machines always struggled to break down large pieces of material and couldn’t process harder stone such as granite, which ultimately resulted in slower production. Kieran Dolan, Owner of Dolan Skips explains “We needed to advance our machinery and operation, our old crushers were causing problems with how specific the material size had to be. Therefore, we approached Blue Machinery and explained to Dermot that we required a powerful machine with a high processing rate, but it also needed to be compact to work in our space restricted site”.

From these requirements, Dermot Donaghy, a Blue Scotland salesman, took Kieran to see a couple of machines working at various sites but strongly recommended the Powerscreen Metrotrak, due to its aggressive crushing action, high throughput rate and compact nature. Furthermore, other key features of this single toggle jaw crusher include; hydraulic adjustment, fuel-efficient direct drive chamber and centralised hydraulics and electrics.

Kieran comments “It was an easy decision to go with the Metrotrak, as it is compact and not very high off the ground, so can easily be loaded with an excavator and loading shovel. I did look into various machines and had a couple on demo but nothing compared to the power that the Metrotrak has whilst still being compact. The production rate is amazing, it is processing 150 to 200tph depending on what you put in it.”

Emma Dolan, the Recycling Manager at Dolan Skips also went on to explain how the Metrotrak has doubled the speed of production since installation. “It’s freed a lot of my time, I can get on with other things around the yard. With the new crusher, we don’t have to pre-size the feedstock with peckers as we did with the last machines, and the Metrotrak seems to process much quicker with larger material.”

Dolan Skips has worked with Blue Group in the past and also more recently purchasing an EvoQuip Colt, which was another reason why the firm chose to invest in Powerscreen and Blue Scotland. Kieran highlighted “We are over the moon with the service that Dermot has given us, he’s has been very helpful, informative and honest throughout the whole process. The after sales service that Blue provides is also very reliable and Blue Spares are fantastic for a parts company because even when they don’t have a part in stock, they phone you back to explain when a part will be available, and they do get it to you as quickly as they can.”

It is always great to work with a successful family business like Dolan Skip Hire, I’m proud to have been involved in the process in finding the perfect machine solution for their site, which is adding to the success of the company. Dermot Donaghy, Blue Scotland Salesman