Like many attachments, there's a surprisingly versatile amount of things that you can do with a breaker. The primary use case for these is going to be breaking up things like concrete, more often than not, or also knocking off the tops of large rocks. We're going to spend some time out here pounding and wailing on these large ones. Beyond breaking stuff like the rocks and the concrete, you're also going to find other tools that can be put on the end of a breaker. You're going to find some that have a bit of a dish on them that can be used to pound fence posts down.
Now, you've got to be careful with those. They often can blow the post apart. Even some that can be used as a tamper with a flat plate in order to compact the bottom of a trench. Now, regardless of what work you're doing, the construction and the operation of the breaker is going to be very much the same. It's a simple piece that's going to pin onto your machine. In this case, a skid steer or a compact track loader. With different mounts, these are often put on the end of an excavator. Either one of those things is going to be an option.
Now, when you go out and you use these things, there's some surprising construction differences on how the insides of these things work. I'm going to talk here to you about the Bradco version. Now, when it comes to construction of breakers, you're going to find some wild differences in the pricing of what you're going to find for sale. The most expensive versions are going to come through with very heavy casings on the outside and more complex internals when it comes to the maintenance of the tool.
Now, this Bradco version here is the cheaper of these designs. If we break attachments up into a good, better, best, this is the better variation of it. As this hammer point moves back and forth, it's moving inside of a seal pack. Behind that seal pack is a nitrogen charge that acts as the cushion for this tool as it pounds back and forth. Now, after you've put some years on the breaker and a number of hours, because that tool is moving inside of that seal pack, some of that nitrogen charge will start to leak out, at which point the tool needs to be recharged in order to refresh that cushion behind the tool.
The more expensive variants are going to have a different type of accumulator that sits behind them where the pressure is not held behind those seals. They can be nearly maintenance-free and last a lot longer. You're also going to find heavier construction in the casing and stuff around those moving mechanisms. That's a little bit of what you're getting when you're buying in that better category. For the dollar for dollar that you're spending, this thing is a fantastically good value. Those are some of the things that separates our better breaker here from the best breaker that we sell.
There's also a number of things that separates this breaker from a lot of the Chinese stuff that has been flooding local auctions and the internet as of late. A lot of that comes down to the construction of the breaker itself. The internals in this are constructed a lot better. This is a piece that comes out of South Korea as opposed to China. It is an import, but a little bit better quality import. When you look at the size of the housings and the mounts, you're going to find a lot of construction and a lot of steel that are in these. This one right here is in a large heavy casing.
You often have these down inside of a trench or working around rocks. The construction and the amount of steel around the breaker assembly itself is important. There's some pins here that you can change to move this into different positions here on the skid steer mount. It is a breaker that we can adapt to excavators. That's a fairly complex process of how those mounts are designed and assembled to go on to the quick couplers of various excavators. We stock these with both skid steer and Kubota mounts.
When you look at the skid steer plate itself, it's good heavy steel. It's got steps on the top to make it easy to get in and out of your machine. This breaker also comes with spare parts. Your oil point here, your working tool, it's going to come with one in the breaker and an extra one to boot. This thing weighs about 40 pounds and it is about a $400 point. It's going to come with an extra seal kit as well. We talked about how being the better breaker here, that seal kit can leak after you get some hours on it. Those parts, an extra part is going to come along with the breaker to give you that extra longevity.
You'll have everything you need to keep it going. Messick's has stepped up and placed a really large order for a lot of these breakers. Many more than we typically are going to sell in a year's period. That's because we were able to get some fantastically good pricing on them. This is sold in two different models, a 500 foot pound model and a 750 pound model. With no mounts on it, you can buy this 500 pound model for $5,695. If you'd like Kubota excavator mounts on it, it sells for $6,995. This large skid steer mount at $6,095.
If you'd like the larger model, the 750 pound model, it's going to hit a little bit harder. This one that I have right here that we keep in our rental fleet, that one's going to be a little bit more expensive. The blank version is going to come through at $6,395, with Kubota excavator mounts at $7,995, or the skid steer mount at the same $7,995. Now, if you look at the previous pricing that we have here on the screen, you're going to notice that this is 40% to 50% off the normal list pricing. Even off of our regular sale pricing, probably an additional 25% to 30% over the best pricing that we usually offer.
Really excited and blown away that we can get something like this from a domestic company with parts support offered at such an aggressive discount. In addition to the heavy discounting, for the limited number of these that we have in stock, we can also offer free nationwide shipping. That's going to be to a commercial address. If you need to go to a residence or you need a liftgate service to set it off into your driveway, there's going to be some additional charges for that. If you happen to be local to us here in Pennsylvania, obviously free shipping is never actually free to anybody.
We can give you $250 off if you come here and pick one up in the store. I'm on a Kubota SVL 75, and we're going to go break some rock. How fun is that? This is a fairly easy attachment that's able to fit onto most equipment without too much trouble. If anything, you've got to look at the hydraulic couplers and make sure you have the right ones for your machine. There's not a whole lot of demand here in terms of really high hydraulic flow. Standard flow machines can run these just fine. It's simply going to be a difference of how fast the thing pecks away at stuff.
When you use one of these, positioning it is probably where most of the art is. Most of the time, people are using this on concrete, not necessarily on giant limestone rocks like I am. You're going to want to look for places here on the rock that you think you're going to be able to break it easily. I don't have a whole lot left here, honestly. Once you've positioned it, you want to put some force down on that point. Now, you don't want to push super, super hard on it, but you want to push. You're going to notice when I push down onto it, the point retracts back into the breaker a little bit.
I just lift the front end of the machine up off the ground a little bit. At that point, I'm going to run my hydraulics and have the thing start pounding. You can see, I quickly am shattering some pieces off the top of this as I go. Now, as I start to move down, I'm going to stop. I'm going to take a minute and reposition put a little bit of force down on top of it, hit it again, and watch the chips fly. Now, the most common way that these things are damaged is by prying with them.
When people start to try to reach with them or get into concrete or reach into a funny spot against a rock or try to manipulate and move around, say, the chips and that kind of stuff as you're working, as you're taking that point that's on the breaker and putting side loads on it, you can mess with the mounting up inside the machine. You're not likely to bend the tool itself, right? It's a big, heavy piece of steel. We talked about that nitrogen accumulator that's in there. As that tool is twisted left or right, you can lose the pressure inside the accumulator and ruin those seals and bushings that are holding that pressure back.
For longevity's sake, the best thing that you could do with these is push straight down on them and make sure to prevent side loads against that tool. You want to get really close? Are you really close? You don't want to get hit. [laughs] You don't want to get hit. Now you can see here while I'm operating, this throws chips. It is generally recommended that you use a demolition door with one of these as it's going to throw rocks around. That's less necessary with something like concrete than it is with hard rock like this.
I'm getting the occasional flick that comes back here against the door of my excavator as I'm working. It's also not necessary to run this thing wide open. If I turn the machine down to idle here, I get the strikes, it just runs slower. As you crank the revs back up, it gives you more speed, more hit lows per minute. Now, I see that being the most value when you're working through something like concrete where you're trying to push down through something and you can make some continual progress there as each blow fires away.
My rock here though takes a little bit more time. [chuckles] Yes. Now to me, that's a load of fun. Most people who are operators will tell you that this is not one of their favorite implements to run. It is a little noisy. It shakes the machine around as you're doing it. If you're out here doing this for eight hours, you're going to tire of it pretty quickly, but for a little bit of coming up and breaking some rocks up and maybe taking a couple of big rocks out and maybe sticking it out of your field or something, it's great fun.
That's a little bit on the Bradco Strikeforce Breaker. Many people assume that these are not affordable. For the little bit of work that you might have for a breaker. Oftentimes they're rented, but at this price point, it's very possible you can afford to have one on your job site or farm. This is something that we at Messick's feel good enough to be able to stand behind. Sold by a great company with good parts support at a fantastic value, and a company that we know that we can stand behind their construction. It has things like excavator mounts for us.
There's not a whole lot that this thing doesn't offer at a mind-blowing price. If you're shopping for this piece of equipment and we can help, or if you have parts or service needs for other machinery, give us a call at Messick's. We're available at 800-222-3373 or online at messicks.com.
