High reach munches on Everton building. This is one of those very rare occasions in which it is best to turn the volume down or off altogether as the dreamy commentary on this video quickly descends from faintly trippy to druggy and stupefying. Still, of you’re willing to embrace the spaced-out voiceover, then the footage…Read moreRead more
Equipment
Video – Hancock Group chewing a toffee…
Video – Bucket protection reinvented…
Form meets function as excavator buckets are made demolition ready. If there are two things in the world that excavator buckets hate most, it is impact and abrasion; demolition delivers both – quite literally – by the bucketful. Hidden rebar encased in jagged concrete grind, wear and eat away at buckets. And all the Hardox…Read moreRead more
Video – Dock gets knocked…
Hyundai excavator and Prodem hammer tackle 100-year old dock demolition. London’s docks were built to last. The very hub of the British Empire, they were the terminus for a network of trade routes that spanned the globe. During the height of World War II, they withstood a constant barrage of attacks by the German Luftwaffe….Read moreRead more
Video – Giraffe eats Frankfurter…
High reach makes light work of German high rise. The colour scheme and livery of this high reach excavator might leave some scratching their heads. But there is no question about the power and productivity of this giant giraffe look-a-like. Watch this superb film that utilises both time-lapse and drone footage to capture the high…Read moreRead more
Video – There’s no business like snow business…
After the Sapporo Snow Festival comes the Sapporo Demolition Festival. The 66th Sapporo Snow Festival has now come to a close. This annual event is when people from around the world come the snowy city of Sapporo, Hokkaido to create massive and gorgeous works of art out of ice and snow. However, a lesser-known festival…Read moreRead more
World Exclusive – Power station panacea…
Coleman & Company unleashes new Liebherr 974 at Didcot Power Station. Few would argue that Liebherr make some of the best excavators in the world. But add a full demolition package, equip it with a massive LaBounty MSD7500R shear and trick it out in the striking livery of UK contractor Coleman & Company and a…Read moreRead more
Video – Penthouse pulled…
Cat excavator downs upper floors of Cocoa Beach apartment block. The revolution is afoot. The working man has risen up and declared war on his moneyed former master, wreaking revenge on his one-time oppressor through the destruction of that most coveted of capitalist trappings – The penthouse. Either that, or it’s a Caterpillar excavator pulling…Read moreRead more
Video – Coleman’s remote control robot goes to work…
Look ma, no hands…or operator. Regular readers will recall that way back in June last year we brought you some exclusive footage of a new remote controlled demolition excavator that had been developed by JCB for Birmingham-based Coleman & Company. Well that machine has now gone to work and we have some more footage of…Read moreRead more
Video – Not so noisy neighbours…
So close, I can almost smell it. You probably all remember what happened the last time a demolition company came a’knocking on the portcullis at the entrance of Demolition News Towers. Thankfully, the latest demolition visit to leafy Epsom was far more peaceable. I opened my front door about a week ago to spy –…Read moreRead more
Keep your eyes peeled…
Help us trace the scumbags that stole scrap shear. DemolitionNews readers are asked to be on the lookout for a Rotar RSS 20 scrap shear that was stolen last night from a site in S Wales. The 2.5 tonne shear itself is pretty distinctive, as is the Lehnhoff quick coupler on top of it. The…Read moreRead more