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Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:54 pm**

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

RMCIâ€™s current demolition process at Stapleton involves a remote-activated hydraulic gate breaker mounted on a semi-truck chassis. Nicknamed the â€œguillotine,â€� 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 RMCIâ€™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

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:39 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:02 pm**

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 :;):

Posted: **Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:16 pm**

Glad to see that Iâ€™m not alone in escaping the boredom by reading the Internet dry and looking for any distraction â€“ well thatâ€™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

Posted: **Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:14 pm**

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

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