Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:48 pm
As an alternative to expensive High Reach Demo excavators, use what plant you have already.
fred would have had it down in a day or too
RIP mr.Dibnah
LLL
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Demolition
https://ext.pavingexpert.com/brewcabin/viewtopic.php?t=13881
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:13 pm
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:12 pm
think hes got his seat belt on haha
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 7:09 pm
...and a change of pants
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 7:47 pm
fred would have been the man as lll says. Giles your the machine man so get your arse up there mate lol. 
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:56 pm
Done a bit more digging into this.
How the Germans do it.
How the Germans do it.
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:18 pm
LOOKS ALMOST SAFE..................
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:21 am
My god! HSE would love to get their mitts into this! 
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:14 pm
The first one with no harness and an open cab is just an accident waiting to happen. The second one, i would say: is safe enough, proper lifting bracket, window guard etc:
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:56 pm
the first one they've strapped through the tracks, a disaster waiting to happen the tracks arent designed to be pulled on and stretched like that,
the second one i'd do, in a lifting frame, cab, redundant strappings and the frame is resting against the chimney stop you wobbling around as you pushed with the pecker, id want time and a half though haha
http://www.khl.com/magazin....Austria
explains it and the discussion they had with their h & s
Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1292950969
the second one i'd do, in a lifting frame, cab, redundant strappings and the frame is resting against the chimney stop you wobbling around as you pushed with the pecker, id want time and a half though haha
http://www.khl.com/magazin....Austria
explains it and the discussion they had with their h & s
Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1292950969
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:43 pm
2 blokes i know around the 65 mark demolished some old buildings in luton to make way for the arndale in the late 1960s
anyway they got a pound a week extra for standing 4 storeys up on the wall and demolishing it a brick at a time
no scaffold,nothing ,just ladders and hammers
they reckon it was easier after the pub
LLL
anyway they got a pound a week extra for standing 4 storeys up on the wall and demolishing it a brick at a time
no scaffold,nothing ,just ladders and hammers
they reckon it was easier after the pub
LLL
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:39 pm
Another way to do it.
Brokk remote controlled demolition excavator
Brokk remote controlled demolition excavator
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:21 pm
Sure it’s been posted before, and taken from this mammoth thread on steeplejacks.
steeplejacks corner
And I’m sure someone from here read all 200+ pages, when they were laid up on the sick? was it LLL or Giles?
Or was it around Xmas time when it was last posted and they escaped to the computer and read that, instead of putting up with the in-laws. :p
EDIT
My apologies, it looks as though it was Pablo & Suggers that were reading their way through the full thread.
old brewcabin thread
steeplejacks corner
And I’m sure someone from here read all 200+ pages, when they were laid up on the sick? was it LLL or Giles?
Or was it around Xmas time when it was last posted and they escaped to the computer and read that, instead of putting up with the in-laws. :p
EDIT
My apologies, it looks as though it was Pablo & Suggers that were reading their way through the full thread.
old brewcabin thread
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:48 pm
from the steeplejack site
quoted verbatim
"Mervyn Simpson i knew quiet well great character,the whiskey bottle got the better of him in the end he fell in the house and got pneumonia and died over three years ago now.
He started out at a rochdale steeplejack firm ,who were the main competitors to H tatham and son,mervyn and peter both told me about the arguments and set to's in the over jobs between petes grandfather and the owner of the other firm.Mervyn was made foreman steeplejack then in the late 50's went into partnership with jack and sammy brooks,but went on his own about 1968 when jack hung himself in prison.he also had a good sideline safeblowing and a very good cafe his wife ran next to his house.
I remember when he blew plum mill chimney in heywood ,he must have over-loaded it with explosives because he blew all the windows out of the greenhouses at the allotments 200yards away and alot of the house windows on the other side of the allotments.he was also a very good jazz pianist.
Mervyn was obviously a legend,steeplejack ,safe blower,drinker and pianist
gotta love the comment that he must have overloaded it
LLL
quoted verbatim
"Mervyn Simpson i knew quiet well great character,the whiskey bottle got the better of him in the end he fell in the house and got pneumonia and died over three years ago now.
He started out at a rochdale steeplejack firm ,who were the main competitors to H tatham and son,mervyn and peter both told me about the arguments and set to's in the over jobs between petes grandfather and the owner of the other firm.Mervyn was made foreman steeplejack then in the late 50's went into partnership with jack and sammy brooks,but went on his own about 1968 when jack hung himself in prison.he also had a good sideline safeblowing and a very good cafe his wife ran next to his house.
I remember when he blew plum mill chimney in heywood ,he must have over-loaded it with explosives because he blew all the windows out of the greenhouses at the allotments 200yards away and alot of the house windows on the other side of the allotments.he was also a very good jazz pianist.
Mervyn was obviously a legend,steeplejack ,safe blower,drinker and pianist
gotta love the comment that he must have overloaded it
LLL
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:38 am
whats wrong with good old acme TNT!!!