These are a couple pictures of a parking garage in downtown SLC being demo'd as part of the "Downtown Rising" project that's recently begin. The contractor is Grant MacKay Demolition; Hitachi 750 and Volvo 330. Let's see if I can get this to work: [img=http://thumb14.webshots.net/t/57/757/7/81/78/2585781780100076474BsaaWm_th.jpg] [img=http://thumb14.webshots.net/t/59/459/2/72/61/2868272610100076474tXsCYd_th.jpg] [img=http://thumb14.webshots.net/t/59/559/6/81/37/2283681370100076474hyxUdF_th.jpg] [img=http://thumb14.webshots.net/t/53/553/9/2/26/2344902260100076474oTRMiQ_th.jpg]
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Nice Looks like you have two places you can attach the lift cylinders? I guess one is for digging and one is for demo?
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Awesome Demo Shots Hey those are awesome shots of the parking garage. Grant MacKay is an awesome outfit out of SLC. They were one of the first to use the big mining excavators for demolition work. The power in those things must be incredible and just knock the living cr*p out of the old buildings. More great photos on their website of the big boys tearing stuff down. Right on, guys. :thumbsup
"Grant MacKay is an awesome outfit out of SLC. They were one of the first to use the big mining excavators for demolition work." That's for sure. When they tore down the 1,750 acre Geneva Steel factory in Vineyard, Utah it was a sight to see. They had a Hitachi 1200 with a thumb, two Hitachi 1100's, four Komatsu 800's with breakers/thumbs, four or five Link-Belt 800's and an army of smaller excavators tearing that place down. The bigger machines were loading the scrap steel into 785's and old Terex haul trucks where it was then trucked to train loading ramps so the steel could be railed to Seattle and then shipped to China to be remanufactured. I heard some crazy stories that the Mackay boys had a blast (no pun intended) while blasting and tearing that place down. Nothing quite like watching a Hitachi 1200 with an 1100 on each side of it tearing into an old steel storage building. http://www.hitachiconstruction.com/...onst/info_events/breakout/breakout_2_2006.pdf
I heard some crazy stories that the Mackay boys had a blast (no pun intended) while blasting and tearing that place down. Let's here some stories about the Mackay boys wrecking the joint. They are awesome. Do tell all.