First Look – Komatsu PC290LC…

Our Demolition Digest blog gets up close and personal with new Komatsu high reach.

DSC_0267 - webAs we reported last week, it is our intention to concentrate all of our demolition equipment coverage at the Demolition Digest blog on the US’ Construction Equipment website.

Well, the latest post – featuring an exclusive machine walk-around and demonstration video of the new Komatsu PC290LC high reach excavator, together with a first impressions interview with Thomspons of Prudhoe high reach guru Andre Aymard – has just gone up and can be viewed here.

Here’s a flavour of the article…

“…In order to get to this machine, I would need to leave home shortly before I went to bed the previous evening and drive 95 percent of the way to Scotland, to crawl over the latest offering from the Japanese equipment giant. But such is our dedication to duty, that’s exactly what we did. And – despite arriving bleary-eyed some five hours after I set off, my spine a perfect replica of my car seat – the machine, which was launched amidst Icelandic volcanic ash clouds at the Bauma 2010 exhibition in Germany earlier this year, made the trip worthwhile…”