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Mangesh Hattikudur
Scissors Finally Beats Rock!
by Mangesh Hattikudur - August 6, 2008 - 9:58 AM

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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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  1. Great name for those pics

  2. Ouch, wouldnt want to get my arm caught in that contraption!

    JT
    http;//www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com

  3. yey! go scissors!

  4. 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.

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