Paladin
Purchases Jewell Manufacturing Paladin
has acquired Jewell Manufacturing, manufacturer of replacement booms
designed for excavators and material handlers.
The
acquisition, Paladin's fourth since October 2003, strengthens the
company's position in the demolition, recycling and material
handling markets, and adds significantly to its forestry attachment
offerings.
The
acquisition reflects Paladin's aggressive expansion strategies and
goal to become the industry's largest independent manufacturer of a
full line of attachments.
Jewell
will remain in Portland, Ore. and will operate from a new and
expanded manufacturing and assembly facility to be constructed
within the next year. The company will join its sister company
Genesis, a manufacturer of mobile shears and concrete demolition
tools, in Paladin's demolition, Recycling and Forestry Group. The
current Genesis management team will assume responsibility for
Jewell operations.
Jim
Kirkpatrick, who founded Jewell in 1989, will remain with the
company and will be involved in product and market development
activities. In addition, he will assist the Genesis management team
in their efforts to provide fully integrated packages, including
Jewell long front booms and Genesis attachments for customers in
their demolition, recycling and material handling markets.
Italy
17-10-'04
SAIE 2004 - PMI S.p.a. !
Seen at the Bologna Fiere
center, 13-17 October, SAIE 2004, this PMI 2040 High Reach
Demolition excavator made by PMI
S.p.a. (CMO2 S.p.a.) in Italy. The company is one of the biggest
construction companies for demolition booms in the world.
"We've made Hundreds!"
The company has made booms on almost every excavator thinkable. From
Cat till Volvo. From 20 ton till 150 tons. From 3 part booms till 7
part or more and even with telescopic sections mounted. Everything
is possible. The know-how and experiences of this company is
enormous.
Complete PMI machines can also be made. The range runs from a 20 ton
till the PMI980 or PMI150 with 53mtr. boom and weighing around
140-150 tons. "
This PMI 2040 demolition, shown is a 40ton machine with a special quick hitch
boom system for changing booms in a couple of minutes, a tilting cab
with Air-condition, 21mtr HRD boom, 14mtr. straight boom and hydraulic adjustable
undercarriage 2.5 - 3.5mtr.
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Belgium
16-10-'04
New! Cat 325C UHD
Caterpillar introduced
in connection to Bauma 2004 a new High Reach Demolition excavator
named Cat 325C UHD. The
machine is a new addition to the Cat range of Ultra-High Demolition
excavators. Purpose
built for small and medium size demolition jobs.
It
has an operating weight of 34 to 37-tonnes and features Ultra-High
Demolition front parts that provide a maximum vertical pin height
of 17.7 metres and
10,7 straight forward. The
hydraulic quick disconnects and the hook system between the stub
boom foot and nose significantly reduce the time needed to switch
between the UHD front parts and a retrofit boom for standard
excavation work. (less than 30 min)
Other important features include: a long undercarriage and a heavier
counterweight to provide a stable working platform; a reinforced
upper frame and high ambient temperature cooling system; check
valves and a safe working position indicator; full-length track
guiding guards; and a tilting cab integrated to the superstructure,
with impact resistant glass and a falling object guard and is equipped
with a Cat diesel that complies with the latest emission standards. The
first machine went to France contractor TP. Dauphinois.
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United
States
05-09-'04
Independence
is reaching for new heights
Independence
Excavating took on a touchy building demolition/removal job
and had to do some hard thinking about how to get it done safely.
The building to be removed was up against a rare old building which
needed to be saved for restoration. Blasting was not allowed. So, Terry
Tomasko, Equipment Superintendent at Independence Excavating, began
researching, the acquisition of a high reach demo excavator. Prior
to this, they had contacted other contractors for input.
After
comparing different machines from various manufacturers, a decision
was made to work with Jewel
Mfg. of Portland, Oregon in the design and manufacturing of an
extreme reach demo front for their existing Cat 245B excavator.
While the expertise and reputation of Jewel made them a good choice
to partner with, their location complicated the delivery schedule.
Also transportation costs for shipping a complete Cat 245B from
Cleveland to Portland and back would be extremely high. An agreement
was reached that would allow Independence and Indy Equipment to
perform the machine modifications while Jewel would manufacture the
cab riser, boom, stick, midstick and additional counterweight in
Oregon.
On October 27th 2003 the crew began disassembly and
modification at Indy Equipment. Matt Hall from Jewel Mfg arrived
on December 1st 2003 to finish the assembly.
The complete "extreme reach" 245B includes:
• Extendable boom capable of reaching 120’ in the retracted
position and 138’ in the extended
position. (Dimensions are to stick pin and don’t include
any attachments.)
• Cab lifting system to raise and tilt cab.
• LaBounty UP-20 or Genesis GDP450 shear/processor.
• Custom trailer for quick breakdown and transport of boom/stick
combo.
Note:
This machine has worked at the Mt. Sinai Hospital demolition in
Cleveland and is currently in Pittsburgh, PA at the St. Francis
Hospital demolition. It’s scheduled to be transported to
Milwaukee, WI to work at the Pabst Brewery,
which is being developed by The Ferchill Group of Cleveland.
Netherlands
15-05-'04
TKD 2004!
The TKD exhibition
is a held every two years. It's a unique event because you can operate
the machines present at the show; "to feel it, to work with it,
and hopefully to buy it." At this show we spotted 2 special
demolition machines. The first a O&K RH16.5 with 2 piece
boom was sold to Maarten van Rijn BV Katwijk, the Netherlands, and
the second a Cat 330C UHD which was sold to Rental
Force in The Netherlands. This Cat 330C UHD will be for rent for
contractors in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg.
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Switzerland
15-05-'04
Eberhard - 50th anniversary!
One of the biggest contractors in Switzerland celebrated it's 50th anniversary.
To maintain it's leading position they invested in a new High Reach
Demolition machine. This machine a Cat 385B UHD with 32m boom was delivered
at the Eberhard
festivities. The company owns lots of Caterpillar machines and the
Cat 385B was therefore a simple choice. It will replace another
Caterpillar machine the Cat 375L also with 32m Demolition boom. They
have chosen the sorter version of the 385B UHD because it can be
provided with bigger attachments.
Thanks Harm Adams
for the pictures.
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Germany
29-03-'04
Bauma 2004 - Biggest ever!
More than 410.000 people from 171 different countries, 2801
exhibitors from 47 different countries, almost 500.000 m² exhibition space,
the ingredients of Bauma 2004.
Hitachi
together with Kiesel showed a new quick-hitch
demolition-boom system. With this Genesis quick
connect system booms can be changed in less then a minute.
The system features a quick connect for linking the
hydraulic systems from carrier to the boom so no hands are
needed. Showed at Bauma was the first HRD machine (Hitachi
ZX500LC) build with this system. At the Bauma Hitachi took 5
orders for this machine. This one was sold by Kiesel to a
contractor in Germany.
The
Daewoo Solar 300LCV Demolition weighs between 38-39 tonnes
and can handle attachments of 2-2.6 tonnes. The carrier has
a 147KW (196 hp) engine and features a tilting cab.
Caterpiitting
on it's variable undercarriage.
Volvo
showed it's EC360BLC with Kocurek-based demolition boom. The
machine was sold to Böckl Erdbau & Abbruch GmbH in St.
Gilgen ,Austria.
JCB
displayed a 32.2 tonne JS 330XD with Kocurek demolition
boom. It has a 178KW engine and was sold to Jürgen Torner
GmbH in Hennersdorf, Germany.
Liebherr
showed the renewed demolition version of the Liebherr R934
Demolition. It's boom features a quick-connect hydraulic
coupler.
Komatsu's
new Long-reach demolition line-up was showed at Bauma.
Present was the first dash-7 demolition machine, the
PC340NLC-7, a machine already sold to companies like
Moosleitner and Derribos Arper. The unit featured Komatsu's
quick release boom system and has a working height of 20.5m
(67').
CNH
proudly displayed this Case CX460 with Kocurek demolition
boom which was bought by McCormack Demolition in Ireland.
The 56 tonne machine ha a working height of 26m (85') and
can carry a 2500 Kg (5510 lb) attachment at that height.
It's forward reach is 14m (46').
Caterpillar's
HRD machine at the show was the Cat 345BL-series II UHD.
It weighs 64.2 tonnes and has a 239KW (320 hp) engine. The
boom has a maximum working height of 25.6m (84') and can
handle attachments of 2.7-3.0 tonnes, sitting on it's
variable undercarriage.
Netherlands
02-04-'04
First Cat 385BL UHD for Beelen
Sloopwerken.
The first Cat 385BL UHD excavator with 40mtr. High Reach Demolition
boom is sold by Caterpillar dealer Geveke
to Beelen
Sloopwerken BV form Nunspeet in the Netherlands. Beelen wants to
become the largest demolition contractor in the Netherlands. By
buying this 40mtr. demolition machine they are reaching for the top;
for this is then the highest machine available in the Netherlands.
(More info about this machine when it goes to work.)
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Japan
03-03-'04
Kobelco 23
years later!!!
For those who wonder what was the first ever build High Reach
Demolition Excavator. We've got the answer; It was Kobelco that made
the first High Reach Demolition Excavator. It was the YMN40W - back
in 1981.
Now more than 23 years later Kobelco still leads this market; now
with the biggest High Reach Demolition Excavator in the world the
SK1600D. And they are working on their reputation, for this SK1600D
is not at all the limit.
To be continued...!!!
YMN40W
SK1600D
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Ireland
10-07-'04
Ballymun
demolition starts
Thousands of
people turned out in Dublin today to witness the demolition of the
first of the famous Ballymun Towers.
As the sound of U2’s Beautiful Day blasted out from portable
speakers, the 120 tonne Komatsu PC750-6SE High Reach
Demolition excavator, began knocking down balconies on the 15-storey
Pearse Tower, to great cheers.
Controlled Demolition Group
(CDG), brought in it's specialist
long-reach machinery from the UK. The PC750 is only one piece of the
demolition equipment present.
Ireland's McHale Plant Hire and Demolition from Dublin delivered
6.000 tonnes of concrete for the 6mtr ramp for the PC750. This
company also owns a Cat 325L with 17.5mtr. UHD boom.
Pearse Tower will be the first
of 8 blocks to be demolished this year, all by mechanical means.
It is expected to take four weeks for the first eleven storeys of
Pearse Tower to be demolished, the last four storeys will be
demolished with a conventional demolition excavator.
The two other tower blocks will be demolished in phase one of the
programme, along with the four-storey blocks and one eight-storey
block. Phase one:
Pearse Tower, McDonagh Tower,
Ceannt Tower, two 4-storey blocks at Sillogue,
two 4-storey blocks at Shangan, 8-storey block at Coultry.
The total development at Ballymun involves the demolition of 25
seven and eight-storey
blocks of flats, and replacing them with alternative housing for the
20,000.
Ballymun
Regeneration Limited, the state-owned company which is spearheading
the €2.5bn redevelopment project, said there would be 8500 tonnes
of rubble from Pearse Tower alone.
It is expected to take until at least 2012 until all the 20,000
people in Ballymun are relocated in new homes.
Special thanks to Rene
Schepers
from McHale Plant Hire and Demolition for the pictures.
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Ireland
10-07-'04
Ballymun
demolition starts
Thousands of
people turned out in Dublin today to witness the demolition of the
first of the famous Ballymun Towers.
As the sound of U2’s Beautiful Day blasted out from portable
speakers, the 120 tonne Komatsu PC750-6SE High Reach
Demolition excavator, began knocking down balconies on the 15-storey
Pearse Tower, to great cheers.
Controlled Demolition Group
(CDG), brought in it's specialist
long-reach machinery from the UK. The PC750 is only one piece of the
demolition equipment present.
Ireland's McHale Plant Hire and Demolition from Dublin delivered
6.000 tonnes of concrete for the 6mtr ramp for the PC750. This
company also owns a Cat 325L with 17.5mtr. UHD boom.
Pearse Tower will be the first
of 8 blocks to be demolished this year, all by mechanical means.
It is expected to take four weeks for the first eleven storeys of
Pearse Tower to be demolished, the last four storeys will be
demolished with a conventional demolition excavator.
The two other tower blocks will be demolished in phase one of the
programme, along with the four-storey blocks and one eight-storey
block. Phase one:
Pearse Tower, McDonagh Tower,
Ceannt Tower, two 4-storey blocks at Sillogue,
two 4-storey blocks at Shangan, 8-storey block at Coultry.
The total development at Ballymun involves the demolition of 25
seven and eight-storey
blocks of flats, and replacing them with alternative housing for the
20,000.
Ballymun
Regeneration Limited, the state-owned company which is spearheading
the €2.5bn redevelopment project, said there would be 8500 tonnes
of rubble from Pearse Tower alone.
It is expected to take until at least 2012 until all the 20,000
people in Ballymun are relocated in new homes.
Special thanks to Rene
Schepers
from McHale Plant Hire and Demolition for the pictures.
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to enlarge
Ireland
10-07-'04
Ballymun
demolition starts
Thousands of
people turned out in Dublin today to witness the demolition of the
first of the famous Ballymun Towers.
As the sound of U2’s Beautiful Day blasted out from portable
speakers, the 120 tonne Komatsu PC750-6SE High Reach
Demolition excavator, began knocking down balconies on the 15-storey
Pearse Tower, to great cheers.
Controlled Demolition Group
(CDG), brought in it's specialist
long-reach machinery from the UK. The PC750 is only one piece of the
demolition equipment present.
Ireland's McHale Plant Hire and Demolition from Dublin delivered
6.000 tonnes of concrete for the 6mtr ramp for the PC750. This
company also owns a Cat 325L with 17.5mtr. UHD boom.
Pearse Tower will be the first
of 8 blocks to be demolished this year, all by mechanical means.
It is expected to take four weeks for the first eleven storeys of
Pearse Tower to be demolished, the last four storeys will be
demolished with a conventional demolition excavator.
The two other tower blocks will be demolished in phase one of the
programme, along with the four-storey blocks and one eight-storey
block. Phase one:
Pearse Tower, McDonagh Tower,
Ceannt Tower, two 4-storey blocks at Sillogue,
two 4-storey blocks at Shangan, 8-storey block at Coultry.
The total development at Ballymun involves the demolition of 25
seven and eight-storey
blocks of flats, and replacing them with alternative housing for the
20,000.
Ballymun
Regeneration Limited, the state-owned company which is spearheading
the €2.5bn redevelopment project, said there would be 8500 tonnes
of rubble from Pearse Tower alone.
It is expected to take until at least 2012 until all the 20,000
people in Ballymun are relocated in new homes.
Special thanks to Rene
Schepers
from McHale Plant Hire and Demolition for the pictures.
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to enlarge
Netherlands
09-06-'04
First
385B UHD at work in Amsterdam
In April Beelen
Sloopwerken in the Netherlands put the first Cat 385B UHD to
work. It's job, to demolish the former Jan Zwammerdam Institute. The
demolition site is located in Amsterdam's very busy City-center. The
site is surrounded by many people, who are watching the giant
machine eating the building down piece by piece.
For the machine's operator it took a week to get to know the
machine's
capabilities. He had worked on a Cat 350L UHD. "This is something completely
different". "It's a machine with huge balls", he
said.
The machine has a dust-suspension kit and is fitted with a hydraulic
multi-system shear (Mantovanibenne) MBI
MS18R sold to the company by Dehaco
at the Bauma 2004.
The new Ultra high
demolition boom with a working height of 40mtr was chosen and the
machine now weighs 96 tons.
The proud owner said, "this giant dinosaur is the biggest and therefore
a key element for us to become the biggest contractor in the
Netherlands". Measures for safety, dust , noise and seismic activity
will increase further, so the best way to demolish
high structures is with a giant machine. Top down is another option
some of our colleagues use, but will take much more time (and
time is money).
Pictures see: Beelen
Sloopwerken photo album
Germany
10-03-'04
Cat
330C UHD toppled over
Demolition work has started in
Plymouth city center, as part of the £170m revamp of Drake Circus.
The existing shopping area was designed in the 1970s and the revamp
was meant to start in the 1980s, but never happened. It is hoped the
new shopping center, owned by P&O Developments, will be ready to
open its doors in the autumn of 2006.
The arrival of the bulldozers has signaled that Plymouth city center
is finally set to get its long-awaited makeover. The first shop to
be demolished as part of the redevelopment was the Mothercare store,
which has relocated to another part of the city center. Other stores
are due for demolition in the coming weeks. In their place will be a
state-of-the-art 60,000 square meter development featuring 45 shops,
cafes and restaurants.
The
crusher was believed to have fallen through a cavity
Berkhamsted-based demolition contractor
Davis & Samson who is responsible for the demolition faced a
problem in the first month when a 60 tonne rented Cat 330C UHD from
Gilpin Demolition toppled over.
The
demolition crusher, which is the height of a three story building,
collapsed in Old Town Street.
Several demolition workers had a
narrow escape when the machine fell on the former site of the city's
Mothercare store on Tuesday. The men had to unhook themselves from
scaffolding before they could flee from the falling machinery.
Luckily no-one was hurt at the
site.
Demolition worker Scott Brierley said: "We were unloading some
gas bottles when I realized something was not right. "You just
have a gut feeling when something is that close. "If we had not
been looking we would have been killed. There would have been no
escape."
Fellow worker Joby Trow said:
"We had our harnesses connected so we could not run.
"We did panic, but we disconnected our harnesses as quickly as
possible."
The base of the crushing machine
apparently broke through into an undetected void below ground.
A crane
from London was successful in righting the toppled
crusher
Damage inspection
After the machine collapsed,
several failed attempts were made on Tuesday evening to lift the
crusher upright using a larger rescue crane. Another crane from
London was successful in righting the toppled crusher on Wednesday
afternoon.
People who gathered to watch speculated about the cause of the
accident.
Peter Hitchcock, who watched the
crusher being rescued, said: "We often wonder what might be
under there.
"All this was flattened during the war. After the
reconstruction, it does raise the question as to how many other,
shall we say cellars, were covered over and records of them
lost."
Duncan Rudall of Newton Abbot company Gilpin Demolition, which owns
the 330 CAT crusher but had rented to the company carrying out the
work, said: "This is one of the only such machines of its type
in the country, worth about £250,000. "We
don't know how badly damaged it is yet. We've got to lift it up,
lower it to the ground and then we can investigate any damage to
it."
The Health and Safety Executive is
looking into the cause of the accident.
Davis and Samson now has it's Cat 345BL UHD and Komatsu PC400 HRD at
the jobsite.
See the further developments: webcam
and photos
One of the most successful demolition companies in East-Germany is Abbruch
and Recycling GmbH. The company was the first to order a
Case CX800 HRD excavator. This machine is capable of reaching as
high as 40mtr. and has a special demolition boom made by Kocurek.
The 3 part boom has 2 telescopic mid sections and can easily take
down a 13 floor building.
The company has taken down many High Rise buildings with this
machine. It takes down the highest floors and another Case High
Reach Demolition excavator, a Case 1488, is then brought in to take
down the lower parts. The CX800 can then move on to the next
building. Another CX800 HRD excavator has been delivered this month
to Italian contractor Despe
srl.
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England
23-02-'04
Modified
Zaxis reaches high
Armac Demolition has used a Kocurek modified Hitachi Zaxis 500LC on
the final phase of a project at IMI Darlaston in the West Midlands. The
Birmingham-based company had been contracted to clear the former
steel works and the 50T Zaxis was required to demolish a five story
concrete frame office block.
The standard excavator –
supplied by the UK’s sole distributor of Hitachi Construction
Equipment HM Plant – was modified for both 14m and 26m reach. The
modification was carried out by Kockurek, specialists in the design
and manufacture of front-end equipment for excavators, and pioneers
in the use of high-reach machines in the UK.
A
unique Kocurek modular joint was fitted to the machine, consisting
of a basic hook system and a power-operated locking pin to secure
the high reach equipment to the boom foot. This enabled Armac to
switch between normal use and high-reach applications within 1 hour.
The modular joint allows the user to set the main boom in a straight
position for 14m reach or add an additional 3-piece boom for high
reach work. This enables it to achieve its maximum reach of 26m.
The complexity of the
project on the 30-acre site was complicated by the location of the
building, which bridged a canal. As the principal contractor to IMI,
Armac, in consultation with British Waterways and the local
authority, completely cleared the site (for redevelopment) ahead of
schedule.
Armac’s Contracting
Director Noel McLean explained the flexibility of the dual-purpose
machine: “The Hitachi Zaxis 500LC supplied by HM Plant has
provided Armac with great versatility. Not only were we able to use
it for normal site applications, but it also provided the accuracy
and control required so that we could dismantle the office block in
a safe and speedy manner. Furthermore, the fully integrated dust
suppression system eliminated the dust emissions common to a
building of this construction. This feature proved invaluable,
considering the proximity of the site to the busy M6 motorway.”
Source: HM
Plant Ltd.
Netherlands
14-02-'01
Kuiken
Show 2004 Hardewijk
Kuiken NV. is showing it's products at a show held in Hardewijk in
the Netherlands. One of these products is the line High Reach
Demolition Excavators from Volvo. At the Show a Volvo EC360BLC with
it's special 3-part Kocurek demolition boom is present for a
demonstration on how quick the machine can be transformed from a
standard machine into a demolition monster with 20mtr. working
height. The special HRD demolition line-up of Volvo also include a
26mtr. EC460BLC and a 17mtr. EC290BLC.
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Netherlands
09-01-'04
Large
demolition machines in The Hague
(Den Haag)
In Den Haag (Holland) demolition contractor Transverko is bringing
down a large shopping mall in the hart of the city. A though job
because the cities public transportation (Tram) is at 3mtr. distance
of the building. Transverko used it's own two HRD machines (JCB
JS330XD's with Kocurek
demolition Fronts) to bring down the first part of the building.
For the last and most difficult part Transverko rented the Hitachi
ZX850H from Abeko BV. This machine is fitted with a specially
designed boom. It's made by Boforce
Trading in the Netherlands and is normally used for under
water dredging, but can also be used for demolition work.
This is the first demolition job for the Hitachi, and it seems like
it's having fun, cracking down large pieces of concrete at 23mtr.
Abeko also has a bigger version; the Hitachi EX1100-3. It is fitted
with the same boom construction and capable of reaching 30mtr. See
HRD photo album for more
pictures.
A crane
from London was successful in righting the toppled
crusher
A
unique Kocurek modular joint was fitted to the machine, consisting
of a basic hook system and a power-operated locking pin to secure
the high reach equipment to the boom foot. This enabled Armac to
switch between normal use and high-reach applications within 1 hour.
The modular joint allows the user to set the main boom in a straight
position for 14m reach or add an additional 3-piece boom for high
reach work. This enables it to achieve its maximum reach of 26m.
