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
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Video – Australia’s biggest demolition machine…
Video – Up the pictures…
Time-lapse film condenses 10 months’ work in to a few stunning minutes. This film of the demolition of the old Ritz Cinema in Tunbridge Wells gets off to a slow start, a bit like some French art-house movie. But once the Keltbray team get started, it’s all over faster than the “promising career” of an…Read moreRead more
Video – Perth’s treasury in Focus…
Australian contractor extracts former treasury building from midst of listed area. G’day, and welcome to another episode of “here’s how we do demolition Down Under cobber”. We just stumbled across this excellent video featuring Focus Demolition and a challenging contract to remove Perth’s former treasury building while leaving several surrounding listed buildings untouched and undamaged….Read moreRead more
Video – Electrical substation zapped…
Komatsu excavator makes light work of electrical works. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently teamed with contractor Washington Closure Hanford to complete a major recycling effort during cleanup of the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State. The work involved removing an electrical substation in the 300 Area, a former industrial complex about a mile…Read moreRead more
Video – Brewery water tower crashes down…
…and a nation of beer drinkers openly wept. I have said it before but I’ll say it again. When I am finally made the king of the world and the master of everything, demolition will be focused on the offices of tax collection agencies, double-glazing sales companies, the homes of Arsenal supporters, and Piers Morgan….Read moreRead more
Video – Demolition site cat resuce…
Get ready to saw awwwww. I have to be honest, as a dog man, the thought of roaming a wet and windy Toronto demolition site in order to rescue four feral cats is not really my idea of a fun evening. But these brave and presumably waterproof souls did precisely that ahead on a major…Read moreRead more
Video – Clarion Hotel checks out…
Hotel falls as its legs are pulled from beneath it. A large portion of a Toldeo hotel came crashing to the ground this past week, with a little help from a pair of excavators and some sturdy cables. The partially demolished hotel – standing in splendid isolation on a reclaimed lot – was felled, 12…Read moreRead more
Video – Site fire closes London Bridge…
Demolition site fire closes London Bridge. DemolitionNews.com reports.
Video – DSM drops Cornwall Tower
DSM Demolition carries out explosive demolition of 18-storey Birmingham tower block.
Video – Incredible footage…
Stunning film captures brutal effects of chimney implosion. To be honest, they had us at 120 metre chimney exploded in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. But, on closer inspection, there is way more to this film than initially meets the eye. Thanks to the multiple camera angles and, more importantly, the use of high defintion slow motion, the…Read moreRead more
