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Leadex’s "Green Machine"
for Retrieving Lead Shot
This article is the voiceover for an
excellent video showing The Green Machine in action. Please contact
Errol McClelland, Email Phone: 03 5439 5896, mobile: 0429 396 939
Leadex Australia Pty
Ltd PO Box 999 Strathfieldsaye VIC 3551
Leadex Australia Pty Ltd is proud to introduce The Green
Machine.
Clay target shooting has proved itself to be one of the worlds most
popular shooting pastimes, with tens of thousands of recreational shooters worldwide
enjoying this popular pastime every week.
An unfortunate bi-product of clay target shooting has always been
the tonnes of lead shot left behind to leach into the ground and waterways causing untold
environmental damage.
Until now, this lead shot has not been easily recycled.
Using a revolutionary process, the Green Machine extracts
approximately 95 percent of lead shot from the ground.
Operating at levels down to 250 millimetres below the surface, the
Green Machine extracts and cleans in a single pass over the affected area.
The extracted shot is ejected from the machine into readily
available and easy to handle 11 gallon drums.
Each drum weighs in at 1.25 tonnes when full.
The Extracted shot is 95 percent clean so there’s no need for
extra refining after extraction.
The specialised gear system allows the unit to travel at less than 1
kilometre per hour.
In fact, when the green machine is operating, the prime mover is not
running at all.
From the time the green machine arrives at a location it can be
fully operational within an hour.
And depending on the size and length of operation of the gun club,
the green machine can extract up to 4 tonnes of lead shot per hour.
The machine has the capacity to operate 24 hours per day using an
overall crew of just 2 people per shift.
If need be the machine itself can be economically operated using
just one person per shift.
Leadex offers 1 month free onsite training for your personnel with
further training at a negotiated agreement.
The green machine is a low maintenance, hydraulically operated lead
shot extraction system that relies only on readily available hydraulic equipment and
standard bearings.
This reduces any down time due to wear and tear to a complete minimum.
Leadex is currently developing modifications to the green machine
that will enable the extraction of lead shot and slugs from rifle and pistol clubs and
military ranges.
We expect this unique recycling function to be available early in
the year 2000.
Lead shot, when extracted by other means, is currently dumped into
toxic waste sites instead of the environmentally friendly solution of recycling.
The green machine ensures that this valuable commodity is re-used
for such purposes bullets, batteries, boat keels, ballast and even straight back to new
shot gun cartridges.
Lead shot is in high demand around the world as a readily saleable
commodity, but until now it has been almost impossible to extract in a user friendly form.
And the benefit to the environment is in calculable.
It's taken 4 years for Leadex Australia to perfect the green
machine.
We believe that this system has huge potential for any investor, not
only for use in gun clubs, but also on government sites and military installations.
In summary, Leadex Australia believes that the green machine is a
one of a kind lead shot extraction system with high yield returns and reliability second
to none.
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