Excavators can handle all kinds of messy situations, but even the best ones can only handle so much mud and water before they get stuck. It’s certainly not the easiest process to pull a 40,000 pound machine out of 4 feet of sludge.
Read moreWatching this Hideous 1970s Parking Garage Get Demolished is Extremely Satisfying
Concrete, even though it’s the world’s most commonly used building materials, is not very appealing to the eye. Neither are parking garages. That’s why people spend so much money covering them up. So, when exposed concrete and a parking garage are combined, it’s a double whammy of boring and ugly. That’s what makes this particular demolition so much more enjoyable.
Read moreMassive Toy RC Crawler Crane Can Lift 83 Pounds
If you were a kid in the 90’s, remote control cars were all the rage. You’d charge them up for what seemed like an eternity for about 15 minutes of drive time. You built ramps to jump them off of and probably taped a Talkboy to them to spy on your siblings. Now, it seems like there’s a group of adults that just don’t want to let go of those amazing feelings of yesteryear and we’re not upset about it. A little while ago, we wrote about a perfect and fully functional 1:23.5 scale model of a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane made out of Legos and now we get to show you a relatively massive remote control version of a Felbermayr crawler crane.
Read more[VIDEO] This is the Exact Wrong Way to Demolish a Building
Building demolitions are dangerous and difficult, so much so that even explosives have trouble bringing down buildings. Having said that, it’s always amazing to see footage of workers and companies who totally disregard the severity of the hazards involved.
Read moreA Simple Tip to Keep the Interior of Your Construction Project Clean
Construction work is dirty, but we don’t mind. You know who does mind, though? People that have to use the building after we’re done. Preventing track out from construction vehicles on a site involves throwing down a rumble strip down or some large stone, but preventing track-IN requires a little more finesse and creativity.
Read moreTimelapse Video of the Shanghai Tower is an Incredible Work of Art
The second best of anything rarely gets anywhere near the attention that the best gets, but this may be a noted exception. Standing 2,073 feet high (632 meters), the Shanghai tower is the world’s second tallest building behind the ultra-famous Burj Khalifa. The 128 story building took 7 years to complete, finishing in September of 2015, but it seems as though it has not yet been opened to the public, for undisclosed reasons.
Read moreHelicopter Video Catches Moment Crane Collapses in Melbourne
A news 9 helicopter caught a scary moment on video at a Melbourne, Australia construction site as an already ablaze crane collapsed. The crane was at the site of a 12 story tall apartment complex, when, according to news reports, an electrical fault caused the cabin of the crane to burst into flames.
Read moreMan Driving Stolen Backhoe Leads Police on a Wild Chase
Driving construction equipment seems like a lot of fun to a lot of people. Many children grow up playing with toy backhoes and other heavy machinery replicas, including myself. It’s not totally advisable to take them from job sites and try to flee from police though, they don’t move very fast.
Read more[VIDEO] The World’s Largest Wheel Loader
Joy Global's P&H L-2350
We’ve touched on several of the biggest and baldest construction machines in the past, like this 800 ton excavator and this 600 ton haul truck. While videos about these gigantic machines are fun to watch, they also truly put into perspective how many people and time goes into creating and assembling them.
Read more[VIDEO] 6 Story Parking Garage Falls on Excavators During Demolition in Houston
If you weren’t convinced that the safest place to be when things start to go wrong during a demolition is the inside of an excavator after watching this 2.6 million pound smoke stack collapse in November, here’s exhibit number 2.
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