We would never suggest that you, our loyal readers, are predictable. But there are two things guaranteed to be popular here on Demolition News: video of demolition gone bad; and video and photos of big machines.

Thankfully, unless our news sources have betrayed us, there’s currently no new footage of demolition gone awry so instead here’s some more details on the Rusch Triple 34-25 that is currently undergoing assembly and testing in Norway before it starts work eating decommissioned oil rigs for breakfast.

In addition, Rusch’ Ruud Schreijer has very kindly provided us with a diagram showing the working range of the latest beast to roll out of his company’s gates.

Genesis' Dan Jacobson checks over the modified attachment

Getting ready to eat oil rigs

Working Range Diagram

When your best-known machine has a working height of 90 metres, anything else is going to look pretty small by comparison. But don’t be fooled. The machine in the photo (left) might only reach a lowly 34 metres, but it can wield a 25 tonne too at that height (and no, there isn’t a decimal point missing there. It really DOES say 25 tonnes!)

Genesis has unveiled the GDR-200, a new processing attachment designed for excavators in the 20 tonne operating weight class.

The GDR-200 delivers 104 tonnes of crushing force at the tip, an 813 mm jaw depth, a jaw opening of 890 mm, and a quick seven second cycle time. Genesis says this is the largest jaw they’ve ever offered on a tool for a 20-tonne class machine.

There are times when words just aren’t enough. So, aside from saying that the operator thankfully escaped with just a few cuts caused by the imploding windscreen, here’s what happens when a 10 tonne concrete beam lands on an excavator cab:

“…In the red corner, weighing in at an impressive 40 tonnes, the Powerscreen WARRIOR. And in the blue corner, weighing a measly 3.5 tonnes, the Dig A Crusher 900 crusher bucket…”

Word reaches us that a group of vandals broke into a Thames Valley C&D recycling site recently and decided to see which of the two crushers were the toughest: the old heavyweight; or the up and coming lightweight contender. Setting aside the Queensberry Rules, they used the Dig A Crusher as a battering ram against its much larger opponent.

On paper, this had all the makings of the most one-sided fight since Frank Bruno repeatedly head-butted Mike Tyson’s boxing gloves.

But anyone that is familiar with the story of David and Goliath or who has seen the movie 300 should know that size doesn’t always matter in these circumstances, as the following photo clearly illustrates.

Beaten and Bowed

The aptly-named Warrior lies beaten, reduced to so much mangled metal while the Dig A Crusher….
…well the Dig A Crusher isn’t in the photo because it’s actually back at work having required no repair or maintenance work!

Following a lead from Safedem managing director William Sinclair, we recently reported on the collapse of a 13-storey tower block in the Minhang District of Shanghai in which the entire structure simply laid down, almost entirely intact.

Well, if that wasn’t surreal enough, the demolition of the fallen structure has now begun, giving rise to some very unusual-looking photographs.

Click here for more photos.