BJD crusher pitches in at GSB Loams

Northamptonshire-based GSB Loams supply clay-based loams and top dressings, bagged or in bulk, to sporting clubs and local authorities – a loam high in clay is essential for a cricket square as a light soil would simply absorb the force of the ball.  

They operate on a 7.5-acre site in the village of Great Cransley, near Kettering, and is truly a family business with John Goodjohn, together with his son David and grandsons Donald, Nick and Miles, all involved in the day-to-day running of the company. At the site, soil sourced from clay-ironstone bearing land is spread on fields and worked on an agricultural basis. It is then left on the fields through the winter, allowing frost to break it down, and in late spring/summer it is disc harrowed and allowed to dry out in the sun.

Soils are then processed through a 2420 Mud Hog, which is capable of high reduction ratios and handling a high throughput of dry soil, or even wet and sticky material which would choke conventional crushers. John Goodjohn explained: ‘Introducing the Mud Hog into our process has made an immense difference to throughput; the Mud Hog has an insatiable appetite, giving us improved utilization of raw materials and producing a much finer product than we could achieve in the past. Also, because the machine has an open base, it is able to blend the loam at the same time as reducing it.’