What attachments can be used with high reach demolition machines?
By definition, high reach excavators carry out work at height. Typically, the attachments used to perform these operations are the ones included in the following table.
- Concrete cutter/crusher: Specifically design for breaking concrete
- Steel/scrap/mobile shears: Specifically designed for steel cutting
- Multiprocessors combi-crushers: Combined functionality of both shears and pulverisers
- Grapples: Design for material handling, and sorting
- Hydraulic hammers /breakers: Primary demolition of structures predominantly made from concrete or very thick tiles.
- Subject to the original equipment manufacturer’s approval.
- Rotating pulverisers: They crush concrete and separate it from its reinforcement
- Drum cutters: Rotating drums equipped with picks that perform the cutting job.
NOTE 1: The equipment supplied with the rotator (hydraulic or neutral) should be installed on the high reach demolition machines. Taking such precaution when working with yielding tools, avoids torsion of the structural elements of the arms.
NOTE 2: In cases of work on poorly established structures, it is advised to carry out the demolition with hydraulic hammers – if they are approved by the original equipment manufacturer – as the shape of their heads makes them better suited for avoiding contact with reinforced bars.
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