Self-hire our Dragon Equipment CR450 mobile concrete crusher and take control of your own recycling. Crush concrete and brick rubble on site, reuse the aggregate on your project, and avoid skip hire and quarry costs.
From £250 + VAT a day(£300 inc. VAT) · delivery quoted by distanceSee prices
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A compact, heavy-duty jaw crusher for demolition, recycling and aggregate production. It turns concrete, brick, stone and rubble into usable material, right where the job is.
A 460 × 205mm mouth takes bigger pieces of concrete, brick and stone. The funnel is shaped for loading from a mini excavator.
Adjust the jaw in seconds, from fine material for bedding to coarse crush for hardcore and sub-base.
A 19HP engine that’s fuel-efficient, low-emission and reliable, with electric start, anti-stall and auto reverse.
The 33 litre fuel tank keeps it crushing all day without stopping to refuel.
Narrow enough for tight sites and light enough to move on a trailer, which keeps transport costs down.
Tracks give stable, low-impact movement over rough ground, so you can put the crusher where the waste is.
Supplied with the greedy board fitted for faster loading of larger pieces. Fold-up conveyor for storage and transport.
Simple rates for the Dragon Equipment CR450. You operate it yourself, so there’s no operator day rate on top. In an average day it crushes 30 to 40 tonnes, depending on the material.
£250+ VAT per day
£300 inc. VAT
Ideal for a driveway, patio or a single slab.
£400+ VAT for 2 days
£480 inc. VAT
A weekend, or any two days, without losing site time.
£650+ VAT Monday to Friday
£780 inc. VAT
Our most booked option, for bigger clear-outs and site work.
All prices exclude VAT. Delivery and collection are charged by distance from our yard and quoted when you book. Longer hire? Call 07866 152 151.
Move the slider to the amount of concrete, brick or hardcore you need shifting. We’ll show you what it costs to skip it away and buy new stone, against hiring the crusher and making the stone yourself.
Roughly: a domestic driveway is 10 to 20 tonnes, a farm yard or small demolition 40 tonnes upwards.
That’s 3 skips you never pay for, and 20 tonnes of stone you don’t have to buy in.
Indicative costs in the Shropshire area. Skip and aggregate costs may vary. Cost does not account for savings in labour and time. One fuel tank is included in the crusher hire, roughly one day's use. Default figures are based on £350 for an 8yd skip and £25 per tonne for replacement aggregate, with an 8 tonne skip payload and around 30 tonnes crushed per day.
Concrete, bricks, blocks, paving slabs, paviours and tarmac can all be fed in and come out as graded aggregate you can reuse on the same job.
Use the booking form or call us. Tell us where the site is, what you’re crushing and how long you need the machine.
We confirm availability and deliver the CR450 to your site, then talk you through the controls and safe operation before you start.
Crush at your own pace and reuse the aggregate on the job. When you’re finished, we come and collect the machine.
Need it at short notice? It’s never too late to save on costs. You can book the crusher at short notice, provided it’s available.
07866 152 151“The quality of the product produced depends on how well the waste material to be crushed is prepared.”
Check the route onto site. The CR450 is 970mm wide on tracks, so measure the narrowest gate or gap.
Concrete, brick, block, paving and tarmac. Keep soil, wood, plastic and metal out of the pile.
Break bigger slabs down to a maximum of 18 inches (450mm) square before they go in the hopper.
A mini excavator is ideal, and the greedy board comes fitted. Smaller jobs can be loaded by hand.
It crushes 30–40 tonnes in an average day, so a rough idea of your pile sets the right hire length.
“Instead of paying for skip or grabber hire to remove the rubble and having to then buy in 8 tonnes of hardcore to complete our project, I crushed it on site, to the grade that I wanted, all within a day.”
“From first contact, to delivery, to collection, the whole process was first class. Will definitely be back as our project progresses.”
“Great service and communication, Neil spent plenty of time making sure we knew how to use everything safely.”
“Have used Neil at JTC many times over the last 4 years and he’s always done a great job for us… we have some great recycled material that we haven’t had to pay to get rid of only to buy back in!”
“Great service from Neil at JTC, he always gets the job done and the product from the crusher saves us a fortune. We’ll be using you plenty more.”
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The Dragon Equipment CR450 is £250 + VAT a day (£300 inc. VAT), £400 + VAT for a weekend or any 2 days, and £650 + VAT for a working week, Monday to Friday. Delivery and collection are charged by distance and quoted when you book. It’s self-hire, so there’s no operator day rate on top.
In an average day it will crush 30–40 tonnes, depending on the material and how well it’s prepared. On a day hire that works out at roughly £6–£8 a tonne + VAT in hire cost, before delivery. For comparison, clean concrete sent to landfill carries £8.65 a tonne in landfill tax alone.
Often, yes. Crushing concrete with a machine is regulated, and on a self-hire you count as the operator. Check with your local council before you start: they decide whether you need a mobile plant permit or can register a T7 exemption. Reusing the crushed material on site is normally covered by a U1 exemption.
Usually, because you avoid paying twice. Clean concrete sent to landfill carries £8.65 a tonne in landfill tax in 2026/27, or £130.75 if the load is mixed, on top of skip or haulage costs. Replacement quarried stone then carries £2.16 a tonne aggregates levy before the supplier’s price. Crushed concrete reused on site avoids both.
No. JTC is self-hire only: you operate the crusher yourself, which keeps labour costs down and lets you crush on your own schedule.
Yes. We hire to commercial organisations and private individuals, for construction, farming, landscaping and domestic projects.
Concrete, brick, block, paving slabs, paviours, tarmac, stone and general hard rubble. Take out timber, metal, plastics and soil before crushing for the cleanest, most reusable aggregate.
The jaw adjusts instantly from 3mm to 55mm, so you can make anything from fine material to coarse hardcore.
The CR450 is only 970mm wide and runs on all-terrain tracks, so it can get onto tight and awkward sites. It weighs 1,450kg and stands 1,880mm high in transport mode.
A mini excavator is ideal: the funnel is designed for one, and the greedy board comes fitted, raising the feed height from 1,396mm to 1,780mm. Smaller jobs can be loaded by hand. Either way, break the rubble down to a maximum of 18 inches square first.
Yes. We’re based at Ford, near Shrewsbury, and deliver the crusher to sites throughout Shropshire, Mid Wales and the West Midlands. Include your site postcode in your booking request.
Construction, farming, landscaping or a project at home: if you’re dealing with concrete and brick rubble, one compact crusher can change the numbers on the job.
Our yard is at Ford, about six miles west of the town centre on the A458. Getting the crusher to most Shrewsbury addresses is a drive of around a quarter of an hour.
Harlescott, Monkmoor, Meole Brace and Springfield were built fast after the war, some of them in concrete systems such as Wimpey No-Fines and Wates precast panels. Sixty-odd years on, those concrete drives, paths and garage bases are ready to come up, and they crush into good hardcore for the replacements.
In Castlefields, Belle Vue and Coton Hill about a third of homes are terraced, and much of it sits in conservation areas. At 970mm wide on tracks, the CR450 goes through side passages and yard gates to crush rear-yard concrete and old outbuildings where they stand.
The adopted plan allocates Shrewsbury South (around 950 homes off Oteley Road) and Shrewsbury West (around 750 homes at Bicton Heath, on our side of town). Groundworkers on those plots can crush their arisings into haul roads and sub-base instead of trucking them out.
Shropshire has more farm holdings than any other county or unitary area in England. Old yard slabs, collapsed buildings and cattle-standing concrete on farms around Pontesbury, Minsterley and Baschurch all make good crushing jobs.
When the river rises, the council closes riverside roads such as Smithfield Road and Longden Coleham and puts up the Frankwell barriers. For jobs in Frankwell, Coleham or Coton Hill over winter, we plan delivery around the flood warnings.
We deliver the CR450 from Ford, talk you through it on site and collect it when you’re done. Shrewsbury jobs are usually a short run, whether that’s a day, a weekend or a week.
Further afield? See all the towns and cities we cover.
Instead of paying for costly removal or sending waste to landfill, hire the crusher yourself, operate it directly and reuse the aggregate for your project. It’s simple, cost-effective and environmentally responsible.
We supply the Dragon Equipment CR450 for self-hire to commercial organisations and private individuals alike. It’s compact and mobile, so you can crush concrete and brick rubble right where it lies. That saves transport costs and gives you reusable aggregate straight away.
Contract crushing means waiting for an operator and paying for their time. With self-hire you run the machine yourself, when it suits the job.
No waiting for operators. Crush when your site is ready, not when a contractor can fit you in.
Operate the crusher yourself and cut labour costs, on top of the savings on skips and quarry stone.
Crushed aggregate is ready to reuse on site as soon as it comes off the conveyor.
Construction, farming, landscaping and domestic work, for businesses and private individuals.
See the crusher loaded, running and discharging on a real site. Then JTC founder Neil Carter walks you round the controls, jaw adjustment and conveyor.
Behind me is the Dragon Equipment CR450 Compact Diesel Crusher. I'm going to walk you through the setup process so you get the optimum production from your machine. The main controls are situated at the rear of the machine. To start the machine, place the ignition key in the barrel and turn it clockwise. Hold the key until all the lights on the ignition panel light up, then press the engine management light and hold. To manoeuvre your machine to your job site, you firstly need to press the track button. Once you have activated the track button, use the joysticks left and right to manoeuvre the machine forwards or backwards. To lower the conveyor, pull the catch located at the front of the machine. Once the machine is located on level ground, you are ready to commence the crushing procedure. To start the crusher, put the machine into crushing mode by pressing the button marked CRU on the control panel. Once you have activated crushing mode, press the conveyor belt button. When you are ready to start crushing, press the green start crush button. Once the crusher is up and running, it's capable of crushing bricks, blocks, paviours, tarmac, concrete and paving slabs. The CR450 is also equipped with a reverse jaw action. If something becomes lodged in the crusher box, hold your finger on the reverse jaw button. This will free up any material. There are two emergency stop buttons located on the machine, one at the front and one at the back. To alter the size of the product you wish to produce, you can either make it larger by pressing the black button or smaller by pressing the white button. Once you finish crushing, press the red button, turn off the conveyor, press the same button that you used to start the crusher and finally turn the ignition key back to its start position. To refuel the machine, the filler cap is located underneath the control panel at the back of the machine.
Send us your dates and we’ll confirm availability. Or call and talk it through: what you’re crushing, how much, and what you want out the other end.
