Traction, Stability, Safety. TrackGrip has the solution providing exceptional sideways protection and superior traction. TrackGrip – Ice Grippa is a steel excavator attachment that bolts directly onto the tracks of excavators ultimately improving operator safety.
Thanks to the operators at Ohua Snow Fields in beautiful New Zealand it was a fun day filming Ice Grippa in action.
TrackGrip Ice Grippa NZ Ohau Aug 2018
Rising above the rest…
Demolition drone video takes top prize.
North Carolina drone pioneer Nelson Aerial Productions has taken home first place in the Second Annual Engineering Drone Video of the Year contest held at AUVSI Xponential in Chicago, IL.
The video titled “The Big Boom” documents 10 separate building implosions across the United States. Of the 10 implosions, eight were for Greensboro, NC based D.H. Griffin Wrecking Company and two were for explosives demolition company, Pettigrew Inc., based out of Swedesboro, NJ.
Jordan Nelson of Nelson Aerial Pros was in attendance to receive the award. “Most people will never get to experience the raw power of an implosion. I love the challenge of telling the story from every angle,” said Nelson.
Nelson and his team utilize tens of thousands of dollars of camera equipment in the air and on the ground for any given implosion and spend days preparing and visualizing what those angles should be. The more notable implosions of the 10 in “The Big Boom” were the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta, GA; Lifeway Tower in downtown Nashville, TN; and Senate Plaza in Harrisburg, PA. Nelson filmed his 14th building implosion this past weekend in Lousiville, KY.
Read more here or, better still, view the award-winning film below:
The Big Boom from Nelson Aerial Productions Inc on Vimeo.
Woodward warns over degree course take-up…
Former IDE President raises concern over ticking skills shortage time-bomb.
I am just back from the PlantworX 2019 exhibition in Peterborough where the final day of the show has been largely given over to students and at which skills and training has been placed at the very heart of the exhibition.
But I returned to a call from from Former IDE President John Woodward who – in response to our ongoing series of training podcasts – expressed major concerns about the entry levels of school leavers into the demolition industry.
Woodward said that apprentice uptake could be much better, as reported in our recent interview with another Former IDE President David Darsey. But he is particularly concerned at the lack of interest in the BSc course run jointly by IDE and the University of Wolverhampton.
“The IDE has worked extremely hard to find a route into the industry for school leavers wishing to enter an engineering route and the lack of uptake on the course starting in September this year is alarming. The demolition industry in the UK leads the world with innovation and we need new ideas and young blood to maintain that position,” he says. “Without an increase in numbers enrolling onto the course this year we could find this open door into demolition engineering will slam shut and we will lose forever the opportunity to have better educated management within the industry and the ability for industry peers to pass their wealth of knowledge to a new generation.”
Having been one of the key people that brought the degree to fruition, Woodward says he is concerned that a lack of take-up could threaten the future of the course.
“Don’t stand idly by and watch a great opportunity disappear forever,” he concludes. “Spread the word that degree entry is available and leads to a career in the most interesting industry around.”
Video – British bridge demolition…
Weekend possession condensed into four epic minutes.
A new film from Central Bedfordshire Council charts the recent weekend-long possession of the A421 Cranfield Road Bridge bridge demolition.
The project forms an integral part of the ongoing A42 Dualling Project that is expected to run until Winter 2020.
Video – Balletic blast…
Stacks and boiler house fall with stunning symmetry.
A historic chapter for Louisville Gas and Electric Company ended yesterday when the company brought down the last standing portions — the boiler house and stacks — of the now retired coal-fired Cane Run Generating Station, located in the southwest corner of Jefferson County.
Video – Dome downed…
CDI carries out yet another dynamic blast.
Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) – acting as explosives subcontractor to Renascent of Indianapolis has carried out the preparation for and successful explosives felling of the roof of the University Hall sports arena in Charlottesville, Virginia:
Video – Oil rig deconstruction…
Year-long demolition condensed into just over a minute.
The Brent Delta oil rig, once the world’s deepest drilling rig, has been dismantled in Hartlepol in the UK. And that deconstruction has been captured in this amazing time-lapse film.
Video – Martin Tower implosion….
CDI carries out implosion of former steel company HQ.
Martin Tower, the former headquarters of Bethlehem Steel, has been imploded in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Bethlehem Steel was once America’s second-largest steelmaker, providing ships and armaments to the US military during World War II and helping to build the Empire State Building and Golden Gate Bridge.
The company went out of business in 2001, and its former headquarters had stood vacant since then.
Video – Dehaco at Bauma 2019…
Dutch attachment and dust suppression specialist on parade.
There was just so much to see at Bauma 2019 that we are STILL working our way through the resulting video edits.
The latest to roll out of our video department is a look around the stand of Dutch dust suppression and attachment specialist Dehaco, which is represented in the UK by LDH Attachments.
Check it out:
Video – Blasted in Bedzin…
Controlled implosion fells Polish cooling tower.
A cooling tower measuring 90 metres in height has been demolished at the Lagisza Power Station in Bedzin, Poland.
