As JCB celebrates its 70th birthday, we look back at our own memories of a Great British company. I first visited the JCB World Headquarters in April 1989, and to say it was a flying visit is the understatement of the Century. I was part of the two-man route-finding and navigation team that successfully steered…Read moreRead more
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Video – Crazy about high reach…
Drone captures high reach demolishing former psychiatric hospital. New Jersey’s Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital is coming down; and the demolition of the building that would not look out of place in a Gothic horror movie has been captured by a drone fly-by. Check out the footage and the haunting soundtrack below:
Video – Syd Bishop goes in to bat…
Watch it come down contractor, Syd Bishop & Sons Ltd, tackles prestigious contract at world-famous Oval cricket ground. DemolitionNews.com reports
Video – ECY throws open its doors…
Equipment specialist puts on impressive display at Waste and Demolition Festival. ECY Haulmark, the company synonymous with leading demolition equipment brands such as Furukawa breakers, Rubblemaster, Dynaset and OilQuick is hosting a two-day plant spectacular at the premises of J. Mould (Reading) that concludes later today (so stop what you’re doing and get along there!)…Read moreRead more
Video – The case of the disappearing gas station…
Time-lapse captures demolition of French gas station. Depending which book of physics you choose to read, somewhere between seven eighths and 90 percent of an iceberg lies below the surface. Well, as this excellent time-lapse film demonstrates, the same can also be said of the average petrol (gas if you’re reading this Stateside) station. TOTAL…Read moreRead more
Video – Independence day…
Excavator equipped with demolition pole takes out silo. With the demolition pole having been largely consigned to the pages of the industry’s history books, seeing one in action is always a good opportunity to reminisce about methodologies gone by. And so we’re delighted to bring you this footage of an excavator equipped with a pole…Read moreRead more
Video – RB facility says final demolition farewell…
Former Ruston Bucyrus warehouse being demolished to pave way for development. “It’s the circle of life,” declared singer, songwriter and proud wearer of the worst haircut this side of Donald Trump, Elton John. “And it moves us all.” There was a time when no self-respecting demolition equipment fleet would have been without a Ruston Bucyrus…Read moreRead more
Video – The hard hat of the future…
In the future, demolition workers will be Iron Man. Picture a world in which a demolition worker looking at a specific task could see detailed information on that task right in front of his or her eyes; a world in which activities were automatically captured and logged for future reference; a world in which toolbox…Read moreRead more
Video – Reaches high but it’s not a high reach…
In our “inappropriate equipment” section a telehandler demolishes chimney. If you sent for a tree surgeon and he arrived clutching a bag of spanners, alarm bells would start going off in your head, right. Apparently, those same alarms bells did not sound with the client that requested a chimney demolition and a guy driving a…Read moreRead more
Video – The bigger they are…
…the harder they fall. Over the past 18 moths or so, we have taken to keeping a watching brief on the guys at Liberty Industrial. Not only do their demolition videos feature a lot of the sunshine that is missing from UK skies but they also do some really interesting and professional work. And they…Read moreRead more
