5 Pointz complex in Queens comes down. Since 1993, the 5 Pointz complex is Queens has been a veritable Mecca to the aerosol-wielding graffiti community. But the buildings are coming down and the demolition has been documented by a video crew. The resulting film, which covers a month of work in just a minute, charts…Read moreRead more
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Video – Graffiti Mecca falls…
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 – Hope they’d moved the crane…
Chinese apartment block falls in spectacular style. Now that they have long-since joined loon pants, suits with shoulder pads and Choose Life t-shirts in the fashion graveyard, it is nice occasionally to look at a crane and wrecking ball in action to remind us of simpler times. Not that this apartment block needs much wrecking…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 – Malt kiln demolition underway…
GBM makes a start on local contract. GBM Demolition of Louth started the last phase of the work to flatten the 150ft malt kiln to pave the way for a new Aldi supermarket. Demolition of the main part of the kiln is due to take between two or three weeks. Newbridge Hill will be closed…Read moreRead more
Video – Oh the weather outside is frightful…
Poles brave elements to fell Lodz hotel. Here in the UK, a single flake of snow can bring traffic to a standstill and have children dashing for the nearest toboggan. In Poland, however, snow means it’s just another day and, in demolition terms, a slightly less dusty one. Check out this film which details the…Read moreRead more
Video – There’s one born every minute…
Another escapee from the gene pool’s shallow end. Just because someone CAN swing a sledgehammer doesn’t necessarily mean that they SHOULD. Check out this new recruit to the 40-watt Club as he comes face-to-face with gravity.
Video – CDI says so long to silos…
CDI sees out 2014 with yet another text book blast. 2014 was another mammoth year for the team at Controlled Demolition Inc. And while most of us were recovering from our Christmas excesses, the crew saw out the old year with another successful blast on 29 December. The latest blast brought down two 170-foot-high concrete…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
Video – First Friday…
We have made a New Year’s Resolution; but we need you to help us fulfil it. It is the dawning of a New Year, a time when we all make promises for the New Year in the vain hope that – by this time next year – we will be thinner, fitter, smoke-free and just…Read moreRead more
