18 inches.
Initial demolition involved going floor by floor to strip the interior, including removal of the cork insulation. To accomplish this, the company brought in a generator to make the original 1930 ' s freight elevator operational so they could transport mini excavators up to each floor.
The front of the building was 95 feet high, and the top of the building was cut into sections with a track mounted wall saw for the horizontal cuts and a diamond wire saw for the vertical cuts. Each wall section( consisiting of 12-inch thick inside wall and 18-inch thick outside wall) weighed approximately 67,000 pounds, and a 500-ton Grove crane was brought in to lower each section to the ground.
National Attachments Provides Essential Attachments
Once on the ground, the company brought in its Caterpillar 329 excavator equipped with a NYE 25CP47 pulverizer recently acquired from National Attachments for secondary processing. The company ' s high-reach Volvo EC700B excavator equipped with a shear continues with demolition of the lower floors, providing more materials to be processed using the NYE 25CP47 pulverizer.
" This is the third NYE pulverizer we ' ve purchased, and we really put them to the test," Lambing said. " I like the design and the support we
From Left: Continental Construction and Demolition’ s crew on the Federal Cold Storage building demolition project, Tom Stanko, Greg Biertempfel and Blaze Lambing, are ready to put the NYE 25CP47 pulverizer to work.( CEG photo)
get from National Attachments is great.
" National Attachments ' Gabe Guimond is a wealth of knowledge and I can call any time and get him on the phone to answer questions or address an issue we might be having," Lambing continued. " We use the pulverizers for secondary processing and to size material and separate rebar in demolition. We also use them to size recycling materials for our crushing plants, which we then screen and sell.
" With the volume of rebar we ' ve encountered on this job, without the NYE pulverizer it would be tough to convert the materials into recyclable products," Lambing added. " Not only do we use them to crush materials, they can also be used for picking the rebar once it ' s been cleared from the concrete."
According to Lambing, the company ' s NYE pulverizers have proven to be one of the company ' s most essential and frequently used attachments. As well as the company ' s recently acquired NYE 25CP47, it also owns two NYE 30CP47s.
Engineered for both primary and secondary crushing operations, NYE CP4 concrete pulverizers ' biomimetic crushing jaws are modeled after wolves ' bone crushing molars and canine fangs for grasping and puncturing material while protecting the nose plate from wear.
The attachments are constructed from extra thick quenched and tempered alloy plate. As opposed to being pinned into place, the alloy teeth are securely welded to eliminate the potential of them falling out and possibly jamming a crusher. The patented four position ripper shank for picking, prying, lifting, and flipping heavy slabs is an available option.
The attachments are built to accommodate replaceable wear parts and feature massive torque tubes to absorb twisting forces. They use existing bucket cylinder for power, so no extra hydraulics are required. NYE CP4 concrete pulverizers are easy to install with either quick coupler or pin grabber compatible versions and are safe and silent to operate, the manufacturer said. www. attachmentconnection. com ATTACHMENT CONNECTION 2027 / 11