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by Fractum
Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:33 am
Forum: Companies
Topic: LMA Falkland Islands
Replies: 13
Views: 10825

Re: LMA Falkland Islands

I was on a 9L on the Stanley rd The quarry Manager Jack Mills used to order 50 doggy bags(Meals for men working away from camp).every sunday so he could keep the caramel bars, and he would throw the rest away. There were only six of us there, no one ever caught on.But as far as waste goes in the Fal...
by Fractum
Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:07 pm
Forum: Companies
Topic: John Howard and Company
Replies: 7
Views: 5173

Re: John Howard and Company

Hi concrete I think they had a yard in Tilbury docks I never got to the Seaforth side, i Think Hampton did the muck in Seaforth in his last years Sir John spent millons pushing for Londons third Airport in foulness sands out on the thames he built models had studies ,reports. There was going to be a...
by Fractum
Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:26 am
Forum: Demolition Equipment Attachments
Topic: Experience of hydraulic hammers?
Replies: 30
Views: 55603

Re: Experience of hydraulic hammers?

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our newest set
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These are not Hydraulic but are by far the worlds most powerful Breaker
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A pair of fifty ton Doosans breaking ten ton lumps of steel .Ouch!
by Fractum
Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:22 am
Forum: Companies
Topic: John Howard and Company
Replies: 7
Views: 5173

Re: John Howard and Company

I've had quite alot to do with John Howards, in the 60's they built Tema Harbour in Ghana together with Sir Lindsay Parkinson and the firm was called Parkinson Howard. My father was a quarry manager out there. Then in the 70's they built Seaforth container docks in Liverpool, I worked on the quarryi...
by Fractum
Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:40 am
Forum: Demolition Equipment Attachments
Topic: Experience of hydraulic hammers?
Replies: 30
Views: 55603

Re: Experience of hydraulic hammers?

We started it off on a PC600 but it seemed a bit slow so now it is on a 52 ton Doosan.
by Fractum
Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:57 pm
Forum: Demolition Equipment Attachments
Topic: Experience of hydraulic hammers?
Replies: 30
Views: 55603

Re: Experience of hydraulic hammers?

This is a picture of our newest hammer a Sandvik 7013 used to be a Rammer 130G which sounds better 15 ft high 7 tons and like ET it can phone home to Finland to tell sandvik if we are being nasty to it.
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