Arrow Self Propelled concrete breaker

[jimmy 130]

Arrow Self propelled concrete breaker. Anyone ever heard of one of these?? Can remember my da working 1 of these years back. Think we mite even have bits of it layn in yard yet. Was a rare lukin Machine

[FOWLER MAN]

Arrow Self propelled concrete breaker. Anyone ever heard of one of these?? Can remember my da working 1 of these years back. Think we mite even have bits of it layn in yard yet. Was a rare lukin Machine

Yes Jimmy, and welcome to CMN.
I remember them. Self propelled drop hammer with a Bedford engine.
They were used extensively for breaking up conctete and tarmac slabs and carrageways in the 1960s, good machines with high output on the right job. The hydraulic hammer seemed to take over from them.
Sorry the photo. is poor but this one's for sale in this months Tractor& Machinery mag.
Fred

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[jimmy 130]

Hello fowler man. Thats the machine. Although that 1 appears to have some sort of cab on it ours didnt. Remember a hydralic hose bursting on it once and shower'n my da and sister (who was sitting beside da) with hydralic oil. We still keep her going about it to this day. Will try to find some pictures of it and post them up.

[jimmy 130]

Was talking to my da earlier about this machine.He informs me that we still have it and its layin at my uncles farm. We used to ave alot of old plant laying down there that had parts robbed off them over the years. bt with the hi price of scrap a few years ago all was cashed in. I thought the breaker went to bt da says it was saved. Heres a picture of it in its resting place around 2008 and as u can c its a sorry looking state.

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[Ian Fletcher1970]

Hi Jimmy,
If you look at this British Pathe film on the attached link (Was posted in a separate thread on this site), towards the end there is an Arrow Road breaker working

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=74015

Cheers Ian

[jimmy 130]

Thank you Ian. That breaker is in better working order than the 1 in my picture above. Brought back memories for my da watching it there. Thanks for shareing that link with me Ian.

[Nick Drew]

I am pretty sure I have posted this photo elsewhere but here it is again ..

This Arrow concrete breaker was working on construction of the M27 motorway and shot by me when I was about 12/13 yrs old

Nick

[jimmy 130]

Well thank you for posting it again nick. That machine there looks alot bigger than ours. Well from the picture anyway

[Ian Fletcher1970]

Is this the modern day version

http://www.arrowmaster.com/hammer.shtml

Ian

[Ian Fletcher1970]

I am pretty sure I have posted this photo elsewhere but here it is again ..

This Arrow concrete breaker was working on construction of the M27 motorway and shot by me when I was about 12/13 yrs old

Nick

Is this the page Nick

Arrow Concrete Breaker.

Ian