This is straight from Alex’s wonderful Neatorama site. Apparently, China uses these giant hydraulic scissors to cut down earthquake damaged buildings. I’d never heard of them before, but Neatorama has the full specs and explanation here.
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Great name for those pics
posted by Dave on 8-7-2008 at 1:29 am
yey! go scissors!
posted by krista ranillo on 8-7-2008 at 2:12 pm
These kind of machines are used everywhere for deconstruction. I have seen them in Germany in Holland and Italy. Blowing up stuff is just more expensive then those handy scissors.
posted by Elina Plumers on 8-7-2008 at 3:19 pm
Great machine.
posted by Hidrolik Sistemler on 6-20-2010 at 5:27 pm