Building collapses on machine driver after he complained that it was too dangerous. In what must qualify as some of the worst demolition mismanagement it has ever been our job to report, a Kenyan excavator operator has narrowly escaped with his life after a Nairobi building collapsed on the JCB machine that we was operating….Read moreRead more
Equipment
Video – Operator has lucky escape…
Video – If only recycling was this easy…
Concept robot facilitates cradle-to-grave-to-cradle materials efficiency. Imagine a machine that, like a Brokk, could demolish reinforced concrete structures. Now imagine that the machine could partially segregate materials at source. Now imagine that the machine could then transfer those secondary materials for conversion into the building blocks of a new structure. Sounds great, doesn’t it. And…Read moreRead more
Video – We have seen the future…
And it is gesture controlled. The use of gestures is already commonplace in demolition circles, from the signals given to an equipment operator by a banksman through to the rather-less-helpful gestures swapped by co-workers when the weekends football results are being recounted. So could this be the next stage in the evolution of equipment control?…Read moreRead more
Video – Women, children and JCBs first…
105 machines at risk as cargo ship founders in The Solent. 105 JCB machines are on board a stricken cargo ship, the Hoegh Osaka, which has been grounded in The Solent. These include 50-tonne and 33-tonne JCB tracked excavators. Also on board are backhoe loaders, Loadall telescopic handlers, wheeled loading shovels and Teletruk forklifts. All…Read moreRead more
Video – Exclusive Volvo walk-around…
Up close with the new standard in demolition spec excavators. Just before Christmas, we visited the new home of Fabrications by Design to check out the demolition additions they had made to AR Demolition’s new Volvo EC480 excavator. But while we went armed with a second-hand Flip camera, the boys at Diggers and Dozers took…Read moreRead more
Elvanite takes new shear…
Kinshofer attachment cuts to the quick for South East contractor. Elvanite Recycling Ltd has purchased a new KINSHOFER – Demarec DRS-25-A dedicated shear, delivered and installed by KINSHOFER’s independent dealer for the South East, Mutley Plant Service Ltd. The 2.2 ton DRS-25-A shear has been dipper mounted to a number of the company’s Liebherr 926…Read moreRead more
Looks Familiar…
Rosenlund Contractors gets big Down Under. The blue skies of Australia’s Gold Coast might be an unfamiliar backdrop for this Hitachi EX1200 high reach excavator. But to the UK demolition fraternity, there will be something very familiar about the machine itself. That’s because, up until quite recently, this machine was owned and operated by 777…Read moreRead more
Video – Making the good great…
Fabrications by Design has turned an already good Volvo EC480 excavator into a truly great demolition machine. DemolitionNews.com reports.
Video – Dancing demolition diggers…
Dancing demolition diggers
Video – Malaysian high reach action…
Great drone work captures high reach hard at work. It’s not every day that we in cold and rainy Britain get to see demolition take place in warm and sunny Malaysia (although if anyone would care to fund our trip there, we’d find a slot in our diary) But thanks to this excellent new film…Read moreRead more
