Coleman & Co

[Jeremy Rowland]

A couple more from todays venture; in the last picture the line of buildings that are along Bull Street which is the road you can see are also due for demolition as is the building on the far right which is partly down already, from what I can gather Coleman's already have got the contract to demolish these. The two shops that are still open will shortly close, the street where Coleman's are currently working, they have already demolished a building at the far end of the same road and I have posted pictures in this same topic of that earlier demo job.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

I see that Coleman's have finally started demo work on the row of shops in Bull Street, West Bromwich. I have a couple of days holiday to use before the end of the month so I decided to take a look at the progress, sadly no demo today just material sorting. The big 850 is also back on site to start taking down the one high building on the site that you can make out in the background of the last picture posted in the previous post.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

Got chance for a quick visit today but the cleaning up operation is still on going, I believe there is a problem why the demolition has temporarily halted.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

I see Coleman's have moved their 850 machine in ready for the kill at the Overend st site, I will try and get half a day tomorrow and see if I can catch some of the demolition work being carried out. I still have a few shots of this machine having maintenance carried out on the demolition shear just last Friday but have not had time to upload them from my other camera.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

First couple of pics were taken last week and show one of the 850's demolition shears undergoing some maintenance.

Well I went down to this site today to try and catch the 850 at work which it was not; I had failed to spot the blindingly obvious reason why it was not at work!
Coleman's had been using a demolition shear that was too heavy for the machine to handle and the result can be seen in the pictures below.

Jeremy

[bigkit]

If thats a Kocurek arm thats not uncommon. That'll be two in two months, the others was Dortons! Still I think they have them in stock

[Jeremy Rowland]

If thats a Kocurek arm thats not uncommon. That'll be two in two months, the others was Dortons! Still I think they have them in stock

Yes Clive I am pretty sure it's a Kocurek arm on the 850; this site is local to me and I would like to get a few pictures of the building coming down, it will be interesting to see how long it takes to get the machine fixed.

Jeremy

[Jack]

Oh bugger! Erm, boss...........

Great picture Jeremy!

[bigkit]

Not too big a deal Jeremy as long as its only the ram thats damaged. You just need some big spanners and a decent crane lorry!

[Jeremy Rowland]

Not too big a deal Jeremy as long as its only the ram thats damaged. You just need some big spanners and a decent crane lorry!

Your not far wrong either Clive they soon have it back up and running but I doubt that I will be able to get any pics of it in action because most of the building is down now.

Jeremy