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More photos have just become available of the new Rusch Triple 34-25 in Norway.
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 [...]

New photo showing the 34-25 high reach excavator from Dutch modifier Rusch.
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 [...]

The debate about the US’ apparent reluctance to high reach machines rages on…
What started out as a simple, almost rhetorical question has proved to be the most eagerly followed and contentious in Demolition News’ 12 month history.
Towards the end of last week, we innocently asked “why don’t Americans GET high reach demolition [...]

Low recycling rates and high accident levels highlight US demolition’s failure to innovate.
I have spent more than 25 years writing about construction, demolition, and the equipment used across these demanding sectors. And for the most part, it was like casting my carefully crafted and finely honed words and phrases to the four [...]

Kocurek Excavators supplies first high reach demolition excavator to Indian subcontinent.
Here at Demolition News, we pride ourselves on having our fingers on the pulse of the industry; of being fully informed of all that is going on in the great wide world of demolition. So quite how this one passed us by, we’re [...]

New video showing Coleman & Co’s high reach excavator in action.
We received this video of Coleman & Co’s high reach excavator at work on the demolition of the North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke on Trent just this morning. It comes courtesy of John Woodward of C&D Consultancy, who shot the video on his [...]

Nice video of a Kobelco SK950 (LC) D excavator in operation.

Not sure I know quite what this is all about. It features a very odd soundtrack and some special effects that appear to have been borrowed from a 1980s pop video but the lasting question is why use a high reach excavator for a single storey demolition project?

This is a really good time-lapse video showing a high reach excavator in operation in Dublin, Ireland.

Not sure where this video was shot but it’s pretty good quality. Not sure about the bendy-boom high reach mind:
Demolition Time Lapse from Nick Csakany on Vimeo.