The decommissioned Reclaimer was relocated to a ...

The decommissioned Reclaimer was relocated to a dedicated demolition area, away from any live plant. The machine was pulled from its stockyard, over a bridge and away from the live conveyor line. The machine was transported to a further designated area for demolition and processing.

Prior to moving the structure, Liberty Industrial disconnected and extracted the impact table from underneath the Reclaimer while it was in the stockyard, without damage to the conveyor belt. Once disconnected from all its services, the 1250t structure was pulled over purposely built extension rails to a temporary position where the machine underwent all preparatory works required for its transport using Self-Propelled Modular Trailers.

To pick-up and secure the Reclaimer in position during transport, a special-purpose 40t steel “transport frame” was fabricated and mounted on the bed of the SPMT trailers. Once lowered to the ground and secured, the structure was pre-weakened to facilitate its demolition with explosive cutting charges. The charges were placed at strategic locations and the pre-weakening cuts verified by our consulting structural engineer. After the structure had been safely collapsed to ground level, a combination of 70t & 36t excavators fitted with shear attachments processed the steel structure for removal and recycling off site.