What’s better than two Hitachi excavators? Yep, THREE! All the way from Tokyo comes this new video showing a pack of three Hitachi excavators tackling a demolition job in the nation’s capital. Check it out:
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Video – Treble trouble…
Video – Ashcroft in the swim…
Swimming pool demolition underway. It’s water wings and Speedos all-round for the team at Ashcroft Contracting as the company sets about the demolition of the former Workington Swimming Pool complex.
Video – Crane comes tumbling down…
O’Brien Demolition fells huge crane. There is something oddly satisfying about the controlled collapse of a crane; watching as gravity takes hold and brings the behemoth back down to Earth. Check out this new video from O’Brien Demolition which shows an 87-metre tall container crane taking its first steps towards the great crane resting place…Read moreRead more
Video – Somebody up there loves this guy…
Bucket near miss captured on camera. The Holy Crap Files, our YouTube channel dedicated to bringing you the most jaw-dropping films from the demolition world, has been expanded by a new film capturing an incident that could have been SO MUCH worse. As you will see from the brief film below, an excavator bucket falls…Read moreRead more
Video – Boom, and the bridge is gone…
Onlookers witness Lilac Bridge implosion. Residents in Hooksett and surrounding New Hampshire communities heard a loud boom Friday as workers demolished the Lilac Bridge. The pedestrian bridge was deemed unsafe, and was demolished around 4 p.m. Friday.
Video – Higgins Hall, watch it fall…
Controlled Group carries out another successful blast. Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), acting as Implosion Subcontractor to Main Demolition Contractor, Spirtas Wrecking Company, has completed the successful explosives felling of the 244’ tall, 20-story, reinforced concrete dormitory building in Macomb, Illinois.
Comment – Who would be a site manager now…?
Changes proposed by the UK’s Sentencing Council could see longer jail terms for site managers and other site workers implicated in a Corporate Manslaughter case.
Comment – Time for the US to rethink bridge demolition…?
Another day, another US bridge demolition dropping debris onto the road below. If you’re in the UK, you probably don’t need to watch this. A combination of rigorous legislation and a healthy dose of common sense dictates that UK contractors adhere to a strict policy of road closures during an overhead bridge demolition. If you’re…Read moreRead more
Video – Debris danger of bridge demolition…
The time has come to standardise on road closures whilst demolition takes place overhead? It is less than two years since a US company was fined for its part in the death of two young parents and their infant child, all killed by debris falling from a bridge onto a car travelling on the road…Read moreRead more
Video – Bridge demolition halted over debris concerns…
Crews forced to stop work after concrete falls from New York bridge, damaging cars beneath. Demolition work on a New York bridge has been halted after falling debris damaged cars on the streets below. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says chunks of concrete fell off the Bayonne Bridge early Monday and…Read moreRead more
