New video highlights the dismantling of a Komatsu 1250 excavator at the WTC site.
After almost 2 years of excavating soil, shearing steel and hammering concrete Testa Corp’s Komatsu 1250 finally leaves the World Trade Center Construction Site in New York City. And all the action has been captured by videographer Stephen SetteDucatti.
Cranes, Inc. Liebherr 130 ton capacity 885 Crawler crane performs the lifting duties from a stationary deck on the edge of the pit. Lead by a Master Mechanic and Master Rigger this crew of 8 disassembles the 1250 6 stories below street level. Top side a small army of trucks and personnel retrieves each piece, loads them onto waiting trucks and readies them for transport to the next demolition site.
