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5:43 PM
The pic was taken last weekend on highway 12 about milepost 145. There are some other pics on DOT's website.
Great picture Longreach! I see that it's a Rhine machine, where was that taken? Looks like highway 12....
8:34 AM
We are one of the companies that pulled a few onto our fleet to keep up with other with a few brand new Komatsu High reaches, although they are still yet to go out on hire because so many other companies have them on fleet. All the major demolition companies own their own.
10:45 PM
Try this with your crane and wrecking ball! Or better yet, build a ramp with your 300 Komatsu..... 164 feet w/hydraulic hammer
6:33 PM
September 22, 2006
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The only things left were old furniture nothing important..And yes we are realy busy...I will be using a 330 hitachi to take the building down..It is constructed of a steel supported roof and load bearing block walls..The real test are the 2- 50 ton overhead cranes in the 3 story section and making sure all the homeless people are out when I start to wreck. Pics will be in pic gallery
3:11 PM
The nightclub Nation in DC became very famous for hosting all night "Rave" parties where kids stayed up all night doing drugs. Must have been fun. Any remnants left behind when you cleared it out for demo?
It does sound like you are busy. What material is the boiler plant built from? What are you going to use to take it down?
7:51 PM
September 22, 2006
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Im sory about the pics..they put me over in South East DC Taking down a 3 story night club called Nation..Its a good size building it was an old boiler manufacturing plant.I covers about a 1/2 block..I just started gutting it out last week I hope to start wrecking Tuesday or Wednesday...I will post Pics.
11:15 PM
Ooops, my bad.
Great pictures, but that's not that old apartment house in DC that 1Man was talking about doing the facodectomy on. Got any of those around?
Thanks.
4:24 PM
Let's hear it for the ball and crane. I agree, it is just awesome.
So, 1ManWreckingCrew, how about those pictures you promised to post?
9:06 PM
September 22, 2006
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Nothing beats the crane and ball...we take down 10 even 12 story buildings connected to other buildings all the time in DC. I can do with a crane in half the time than a high reach...we comtenplated on buying one and it just wasnt worth the slow process and loosing time
11:19 AM
Just my view of the situation. It appears if you have the financial wherewithall and the knowledge/experience then you can justify a longreach. If you don't, then you tend to denigrate the advantages of such a machine. If you wish to bring down an eight story building floor by floor, I wish you the best. We just brought down an eight story building, tight quarters etc. in 2 ten hour days. Salvage/Debris was loaded out by a minimal crew in 4 days. I didn't have to wear myself out building ramps, exposures were easily protected and 32,000 square feet a day was left in the rubble pile. In any event, I used to work for a fellow who used a shovel when a backhoe was nearby, a peavey when a crane was nearby and wrecked and loaded with a crane and clam bucket when an excavator was nearby. How times change!
I would have to assume that if you can justify the cost over a long term basis, kudos to you. It appeared to faciltate a particular need immediately. I just hope it doesn't get rusty in the yard.
Mazzochi/LVI seem to keep their high reaches busy.
I can still floor by floor quicker and trip more square feet in a day than any high reach. Red Mandell can prove the same doing floor by floor too! He's the best at it.
When you can demo about 32,000 sq.ft. a day of an eight story (heavy r/c)with your high reach call me. I'd enjoy doing the time study for you!
Although our machine is not a true "highreach" it did cost me $55k to put together on our base machine giving us 45' of working reach with a 200. We just used it to remove 22,000 sf of exterior stucco off of plywood in about 24 hours. The formula looks like this. $$+$$$=$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. And if you calculate in the fact we haul this machine behind our hooklift requiring only a $28.00 permit you can throw a few more of these in the bank $$$$$$$$.
5:44 PM
High reach not always necessary. I watched an amazing job go down with a CAT 365 downtown today. The operator built a huge ramp with debris from the neighboring building that he had just demo'ed and cleverly used that to climb up to reach up to the fifth story of the building he was tearing down. The 365 did the job perfectly, with no high reach or extended boom necessary. Just awesome to watch the power in that 365 machine too.
My Greek partner, Nikos, has truly impressed me with the execution of multi-stories demolition with minis. He came over and assisted me with a seperation on an 8-story hospital in Memphis. I was nicely educated on simplicity and economics.
I watched him do a 5-story in Thessaloniki, Greece at a rate of a floor every 2 days until it was excavator height. Saved alot with just the minis...fuel, space, efficiency and time.
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