Waterfront home demo

[Dig-UP]

Komatsu PC200LC knocking a house into a pile. Took about 45 mins...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S6j0d7g0Tc Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H6FdS2Yqcs Part 2

(Your speakers have mute if you don't like Howard, so keep your anti-Stern comments to yourself)

Any other comments are appreciated.


Thanks for looking....

 

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[ddigger]

How are you going to load it out?

 

[Turbo21835]

I would Imagine using the bucket on the hoe.

 

[ddigger]

I would Imagine using the bucket on the hoe.

Oh really? Load a lot of demo do you?

 

[JPCobra105]

Looks Good.
taking it down is the easy and fun part. loading it out and cleaning the site is the real work.
how are you loading out the debris?

 

[landrvrnut22]

We are doing some demo at work. They are using a Deere 160, and a 18" bucket. Then loading it out with a 36" bucket. No thumb, no grapple, just a bucket. It can be done.

 

[Turbo21835]

Oh really? Load a lot of demo do you?

Done quite a bit actually. Sometimes you just gotta run what ya brung. It is certainly quicker and more effeicent to have a grapple, or thumb. Sometimes you take jobs just to stay busy, and you dont have the right equipment. Since you do not do it all the time, its not worth the investment.

I wrecked an auto repair shop/ strip mall last summer. All I had was a 320D with a 48 inch bucket. It wasnt the easiest, but i was able to load all the scrap metal out, and all the debris out with that bucket.

 

[JPCobra105]

i've never seen it done with just a bucket. never tired it. the first machine i bought had a thumb on it, and since then moved up to demo grapples on all my machines. just going from a thumb to a grapple made jobs that much quicker and easier.

 

[Dig-UP]

It will be loaded out using same machine...

 

[Turbo21835]

Here ya go, Bierlein Demolition. I believe they are one of the top 20 demo contractors nation wide, according to profits, Wrecking with a bucket. They Had two other machines both with grapples on site. They were sorting while the machine with a bucket was the front line machine so to speak

 

[ddigger]

Very well then, glad to see your working.

 

[ddigger]

Here ya go,

And your point is? If they are a top demo outfitt I`ll bet, they did not load with only a bucket.
Of course you can wreck with only a bucket. Which Dig Up just showed us, and he did a fine job.

 

[Turbo21835]

You know, Your right, im wrong. Loading brick with a bucket would be stupid. Who would think a bucket that is made to load items wouldnt be able to load out demolition debris. I guess im just a demo dummy

 

[qball]

wow! i hope you at least track that stuff up to grind and densify it a little.
or not.

 

[AtlasRob]

It tickles me that the guys who are born and raised around machines with a thumb cant imagine being able to do anything without a thumb.

Dont get me wrong they appear to be a wicked piece of gear for certain jobs.

We dont do thumbs in the UK but we seem to manage

 

[HeyUvaVT]

im not sure which is odder to me rob...the lack of a thumb or those strange round things that seem to be where your tracks go! :drinkup

 

[mikef87]

A thumb or grapple is 1000 times more efficient, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do to get the job done. Anyone whose ever worked for themselves knows that.

 

[ddigger]

I totally understand what everyone is saying about making due with what they have, trust me after 23yrs as an owner operator, no one understands it more than me. I was running the old Hoptoes and Gradall excavators both track and truck mounted way before thumbs ever hit the market. So I know it can be done, but to due it the quickest cleanest and most cost effective there is no better way that I have seen.

We dont do thumbs in the UK but we seem to manage

Rob I looked at your site, very impressive looking operation, you should treat yourself to a thumb, you`d be a huge hit on that side of the pond. Hell I wish you had a tool there that I could use here that would revolutionize the rental market! I`m always looking.