Up close with the new standard in demolition spec excavators. Just before Christmas, we visited the new home of Fabrications by Design to check out the demolition additions they had made to AR Demolition’s new Volvo EC480 excavator. But while we went armed with a second-hand Flip camera, the boys at Diggers and Dozers took…Read moreRead more
Equipment
Video – Exclusive Volvo walk-around…
Elvanite takes new shear…
Kinshofer attachment cuts to the quick for South East contractor. Elvanite Recycling Ltd has purchased a new KINSHOFER – Demarec DRS-25-A dedicated shear, delivered and installed by KINSHOFER’s independent dealer for the South East, Mutley Plant Service Ltd. The 2.2 ton DRS-25-A shear has been dipper mounted to a number of the company’s Liebherr 926…Read moreRead more
Looks Familiar…
Rosenlund Contractors gets big Down Under. The blue skies of Australia’s Gold Coast might be an unfamiliar backdrop for this Hitachi EX1200 high reach excavator. But to the UK demolition fraternity, there will be something very familiar about the machine itself. That’s because, up until quite recently, this machine was owned and operated by 777…Read moreRead more
Video – Making the good great…
Fabrications by Design has turned an already good Volvo EC480 excavator into a truly great demolition machine. DemolitionNews.com reports.
Video – Dancing demolition diggers…
Dancing demolition diggers
Video – Malaysian high reach action…
Great drone work captures high reach hard at work. It’s not every day that we in cold and rainy Britain get to see demolition take place in warm and sunny Malaysia (although if anyone would care to fund our trip there, we’d find a slot in our diary) But thanks to this excellent new film…Read moreRead more
Video – Bucharest high reach…
Romanian contractor makes light work of modern-looking building. To the very best of our recollection, we have never previously featured a Romanian demolition contractor within these hallowed, electronic pages. But thanks to the work of contractor Apolodor, the universal power of YouTube and a quiet news day, we can finally put that right.
Video – Australia’s biggest demolition machine…
Komatsu PC1250 ultra high reach goes to work Down Under. When you live in a country where even a 50 metre high reach machine barely turns industry heads any longer, it is easy to forget quite what an impact these machines have upon arrival in a new territory. Case in point, the arrival in Australia…Read moreRead more
Cat Demlone JV goes boom…
Caterpillar calls halt to high reach partnership. DemolitionNews understands that the joint venture agreement between equipment giant Caterpillar and French machine conversion specialist Demlone has run its course. The deal, which extended Caterpillar’s demolition offering to include machines like the Cat Dem 50, has apparently ended. Furthermore, according to industry sources, a factory-fit replacement for…Read moreRead more
Video – Lean, green machines…
Wilko Wagner excavator fleet tackles airport car park demolition. German demolition giant Wilko Wagner knows all about green machines as this great new video proves. The company utilised an extensive fleet of Komatsu excavator – all decked out in the familiar green livery – to tackle the demolition of an old airport car park.
