Carbide Core Demolition Tools for Hydraulic Hammers
Carbide Tools by Gorilla
Discover the advantages of using carbide core demolition tools in your hydraulic hammer.
Discover the advantages of using carbide core demolition tools in your hydraulic hammer
Many times, the material you are breaking with your hydraulic hammer is just so hard and/or abrasive that demolition tools, also known as steels, toolbits, bits or points wear out in just a few days. The chisel wedge or moil point shape just wears to a blunt in a few hours, and then the tools’ length just seems to disappear into dust. A standard demolition tool just does not have the steel composition or design to stand up to these extreme conditions.
Carbide core demolition tools are designed with these conditions in mind. Carbide, also known as tungsten carbide, is one of the hardest and most abrasive resistant materials available and stands up better than any other metals used in hydraulic breaker chisels and moils against extreme heat generated by a hydraulic hammer tool striking against hard material. If you’ve ever touched a hydraulic breaker bit that has recently been pounding on a piece of rock, you know you can burn your hand on it! Under these conditions, conventional or standard boom mounted demolition tools will exhibit “bluing” as the metal is overheated and the chisel, moil or blunt tool loses its temper. After that point, as the hydraulic hammer continues to run, the hammer steel takes on a melted or mushroom shape, as shown below.
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What makes Gorilla™ Carbide Core Tools the best choice on the market?
Extended Tool Life
Up to twice the life of a conventional tool when used properly
Maximum Hardness
Maximum hardness at the point of impact
Working Edge Maintained
Maintains a working edge for its entire useable life
Better Grip for Operators
Enables operator to better grip oversized boulders/blasted rock
When Traditional Parts Fail, Trust Carbide Core
This often happens during long fire conditions where the operator repeatedly cycles the hydraulic breaker for longer than 30 seconds on immovable seamless granite or rock, often only “making powder” with no actual progress through the material to be broken. Carbide’s incredible heat resistance alone dramatically enhances tool life as it holds its “temper”, or hardness, longer than any other material. Add in its anti-abrasive qualities, and you have the absolute best material you use in a hydraulic breaker chisel or moil tool.
During the build process, we start with the finest steel composition and heat treatment available for hydraulic hammer steels. Next, the demolition tool is drilled to accept a cylindrical carbide core in its center. Finally, the carbide core is fused inside the drilled tool shaft.
Not only does the carbide core tool transmit the most impact power to the material due to its extreme hardness, but its abrasive nature gives the operator better grip on difficult to manage oversized bounders, blasted rock and shot rock. Since the steel around the core wears down faster and the carbide core itself wears slower, the hydraulic breaker tool maintains a working edge or point during its entire life, which maximizes penetration through the material. The result is a hydraulic hammer tool-often in a moil shape-which provides up to twice the life of a conventional hydraulic breaker tool when used properly, saving money and time consuming tool changes.
Gorilla’s Carbide Core Tools have been proven effective over hundreds of tools sold across the globe. For information on trying one in your hydraulic breaker, contact the experts at Gorilla Hammers today!
