Nerd Boy Strikes Again!

After my little long stroll around the island park, decided to head back to the hostel to grab my stuff to make the train. On the way I got distracted by a demolition site right in the middle of the city. So I sat down for a little bit of a watch and all I really needed was some popcorn and a heater.

Always interesting to have a look at these sorts of things to see how maluable materials are. The thing that really came out of it for mine was just how much earthquakes are destructive and operate so differently from what we know (must really vibrate materials at an atomic level breaking the chemical bonds hence weakening the structure). You had a couple of machines and generally they struggled to make any real impact, just that they keep plugging away at it and mashing it all up.

The stupidest thing was this little mate with a hose standing next to the excavator. He was trying to hose the dirt and dust down, almost in a token effort. The silliest thing was if a bit of debris goes astray, he is in a fair amount of trouble.

Anyhow this is the attachment which is like a giant pair of scissors to cut the reinforcing steel and grind up the concrete.



And here is an 'action' shot (great reference for drawing at a later date).