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Tag: excavator demolition
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Smokestack collapse crushes excavator cab, somehow doesn’t kill operator
No. 3 Video of 2015 « No. 4 No. 2 »  An excavator operator in Alabama is lucky to be alive after the demolition of a smokestack at a historic mill went wrong earlier this week. According to a report from WIAT TV, demolition contractor Tim Phifer and his crew set off two explosive […]
November 26, 2015
Construction Equipment
Excavator demos building in 1 minute with some strategic shoving
As far as demolitions go, this about as quick as they get. While the size of the barn or stable here isn’t necessarily overwhelming, you can’t help but feel like maybe this small wheeled excavator is a bit outmatched. But this operator has a plan. You’ll notice he does no ripping, instead simply grabbing that second arch […]
May 1, 2015
Construction Equipment
Excavator unravels a silo into a crumbled heap with a single yank of cable
Even though there was probably a good deal of work leading up to the moment the video below captures, it’s still cool to see something very big fall down with seemingly little effort. In the case of this demolition, it looks like a cable is hooked up to the doomed silo and with one tug, […]
January 16, 2015
Construction Equipment
Excavator demos half a building with just one nudge
While this isn’t one of the safest ways to demolish a building, it has to be one of the most efficient. In the video below you’ll see an excavator spend a few seconds looking for just the right spot to make one quick push with its hammer. He pulls out of there pretty quickly when […]
November 1, 2013
Construction Equipment
Watch an excavator demo a house in 40 seconds in this stop-motion-like time-lapse
The premise of this video is pretty simple. It shows an excavator demo a house all by its lonesome. But the way that the footage is sped up makes it look like stop motion animation. The sounds of the house cracking beneath the pressure of the excavator sound more like brittle snaps and the whole […]
October 10, 2013
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