The Vulture 25 vehicle recycling kit

Vulture Recycling Equipment has many years of experience in the vehicle recycling and metals segregation market. The company states that its expertise and experience encompass everything from conception, demonstration and the processing of many thousands of vehicles every year. The company’s new Vulture 25 kit comprises of specially designed grab and hold down leg components and is supplied as standard on a modified DX235LCR-7 with track pads and a safety screen. The reduced radius configuration of the DX235LCR-7 with a rear swing radius of 1,724mm helps to overcome the lack of space working in crowded scrap and reclamation yards. The Develon DX235LCR-7 excavators for use with the kit are supplied by Castle Douglas based James Gordon Ltd (Gordons), the authorised dealer for the Develon range for the whole of Scotland and Cumbria in England.  

The process carried out by the DX235LCR-7 equipped with the Vulture 25 kit has been designed to enable the operator to quickly separate more metals from the vehicles to maximise profits in a faster and more efficient way. This allows users to strip components such as engines, transmissions, suspensions, axles, aluminium radiators and copper looms to maximise profitability. The amount of copper recovered can be a surprise to even a seasoned operator. Richard Stewart, managing director of Vulture Recycling, said: “We have had good experience with the Develon DX235LCR-7 and several other Doosan excavators before that. The booms on these excavators have always proved very strong for carrying and manipulating the grabs and other components added as part of the Vulture recycling kit. 

“The high operator comfort of the cab on the DX235LCR-7 complements the machine’s exceptional operational stability, providing excellent balance when manipulating vehicles and stripping components from them. The new grab and hold down leg designs, together with the wire recovery option, are all different on the Vulture 25 kit, improving productivity with fast removal of engines, one and two, alloy, wire and more.”

Increased comfort and controllability

Develon states that the state of the art cab on the DX235LCR-7 has been designed to provide spaciousness and ergonomics, said by Develon to take operator comfort and ease of operation to new levels. Develon further states that as well as a high quality seat, the enhanced cab offers more features as standard than other machines on the market to provide more controllability and high precision in all applications.

The DX235LCR-7 is powered by the latest generation DL06V six cylinder Stage V diesel engine, providing a power output of 141kW at 1,900rpm. The DL06V engine exceeds Stage V regulations without exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), which is combined with efficient DOC/DPF+SCR aftertreatment technology for minimal emissions. Thanks to the new technology, maintenance of the diesel particulate filter (DPF) has been greatly reduced, with no maintenance required until the machine has operated for 8,000h.

Richard Stewart continued: “Operators of the Vulture 25 kit on the Develon excavator much prefer the grab’s two ram design which is much easier to place like pliers on any component they want to remove rather than one fixed leg, which is harder to place accurately. This grab is tough, very tough, with many components from the brutal crushing industry, plus it has been the subject of very significant testing and comes with CE marking, a handbook and a spares list. The rotator is very strong and quick in operation, essential for fast hour after hour throughput in the recycling yard. The wire recovery system offers a new tidy and time saving option, allowing users to recover even more.”