Gate breaker

[GB_Groundworks]

anyone heard of these before?

stuck in the house being ill was watching mega machines today and they had this gate breaker, basically a 9 ton jump of steel mounted on the back of a truck and they lift it and drop it on concrete to break it up. they were working on 17" concrete runway.

all i can find on it is here cant find a photo yet

clicky on me for original article

RMCI’s current demolition process at Stapleton involves a remote-activated hydraulic gate breaker mounted on a semi-truck chassis. Nicknamed the “guillotine,� the breaker consists of a nine-ton steel striker bar measuring 8 inches wide that impacts the pavement and generally fractures the concrete into material averaging 10 inches to 26 inches. A large loader or backhoe removes the rubble from the runway bed for transport to RMCI’s on-site aggregate recycling facility.


found the company's site with video few seconds of the gate breaker half way through

http://www.rmci-usa.com/redevelopment.html



Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1262206732

[msh paving]

A few years ago they used a similar machine breaking up the runway at RAF alconbury which was the galaxy runway
im shure i'v seen balfour beatty usin a thing like it in uk somewher else was in construction news years ago MSH

[flowjoe]

I bet Sean can go as fast with a wrecking bar and a sledge hammer, especially if he`s working his way towards the brew hut :;):

[enigmaenigma]

Glad to see that I’m not alone in escaping the boredom by reading the Internet dry and looking for any distraction – well that’s 10 minutes spent distracted and looking around for gate breakers :p



Webpage


And a multi head version as well



Project Profile - A120 Rayne Bypass, Principal Contractor - Balfour Beatty

[msh paving]

I was shure it was a balfour beatty job i saw it on "enigmaenigma" thx for finding that link MSH