Robotic DemolitionEchuca
A Husqvarna DXR 145 doing the work of three blokes on jackhammers, with the operator standing well clear of it.
- 24/7Every day, all year
- 20+ yrsCommercial / Civil
- CSDAAMember and insured
- 4.9 starsFrom 18 reviews
Heavy breaking with nobody in the firing line
The DXR 145 is remote controlled, so the operator stands away from the dust, the noise, the vibration and anything that might come down. On demolition work that is the single biggest safety change available, and it is why the robot gets specified on jobs that would otherwise be a crew of three swinging breakers all week.
It is fully electric. No exhaust, no fumes and no carbon monoxide, so it works inside occupied buildings, cool rooms, food plants, basements and plant rooms where a diesel machine simply is not allowed through the door. It is also light enough to work on suspended floors an excavator would never be put on.
The arm takes a hammer, a grapple or a crusher, so the same machine breaks the concrete, sorts it and loads it out. Changing attachment beats changing machines, particularly when the machine had to be walked through a doorway to get where it is standing.
What turns up
- Machine
- Husqvarna DXR 145
- Control
- Remote operated
- Power
- Fully electric
- Fumes
- None
- Attachments
- Hammer, grapple, crusher
- Availability
- 24/7, 365
Where the robot beats a crew with breakers
Anywhere the work is heavy, enclosed, overhead, or too dangerous to have somebody standing beside it for a week.
Indoor demolition
Plant rooms, cellars, tenancies and warehouses with no ventilation for a diesel machine and no room for an excavator.
Food and cold storage
Processing plants, cool rooms and dairies where an exhaust pipe is not going anywhere near the product.
Suspended floors
Upper level slabs and mezzanines that will carry a light electric machine but not a loaded excavator.
Thick slabs and footings
Machine bases, silo and tank footings and heavy pours that would take a crew days to break out by hand.
Silica and vibration exposure
Long duration breaking, where taking the operator out of the dust cloud is worth far more than a mask.
Sorting and loading out
The grapple picks the broken concrete up and loads it, so the machine that made the rubble also clears it.
Robotic demolition in Echuca, inside buildings still being used
The robot gets called to Echuca for one of two reasons. Either the work is somewhere a diesel machine cannot legally go, or it is work nobody should be standing next to for eight hours with a jackhammer in their hands.
Being fully electric unlocks the first one. It has worked inside a hospital, driven out of a lift over floor protection and broken out slabs in fitted out tenancies with the ceiling still in. In a town with pubs, venues, food plants and cool rooms that all keep trading, no exhaust means no ventilation plan and no shutting the place down around us.
The second reason is health. A crew on breakers all day is a silica exposure and a fatigue problem, and on a country job the nearest replacement operator is a long way away. A remote operator standing ten metres back with a crusher on the arm is neither, and gets through more concrete while he is at it.
Often on the same job
- Wall Sawing Echuca Cut a clean perimeter first so the break out stops where you want it.
- Concrete Removal Echuca The grapple sorts and loads, and the truck takes it to a recycler.
Robotic Demolition across the region
Bendigo is the base, but the truck is on the road most days. Same gear, same crew, same hours, right across central Victoria and southern New South Wales.
Echuca
VICMoama, Rochester, Kyabram, Lockington
Swan Hill
VICKerang, Cohuna, Robinvale, Nyah
Shepparton
VICMooroopna, Tatura, Numurkah, Nagambie
Seymour
VICNagambie, Broadford, Euroa, Kilmore, Heathcote, Puckapunyal
Deniliquin
NSWFinley, Barham, Tocumwal, Jerilderie, Hay
What Echuca customers say
Asked often
Can the robot work inside an occupied building?
Yes. It is fully electric, so there are no exhaust fumes at all. That is exactly why it gets used in cellars, plant rooms, cool rooms and tenancies where a diesel machine would need ventilation that does not exist.
Will it fit through a doorway?
Yes. It is compact enough to walk through standard openings and into lifts in a lot of buildings, which is the point of it. Send us the access route and we will confirm before it gets booked.
Can it work on an upper floor?
On most suspended slabs, yes. It is far lighter than an excavator with the same breaking power. We check the floor loading against the structural details before it goes up.
What attachments does it take?
Hammer, grapple and crusher. The hammer breaks, the crusher takes reinforced sections down quietly and the grapple sorts and loads. Swapping attachment is quicker than swapping machines.
Is it quieter than jackhammers?
The crusher attachment is much quieter than a breaker, which matters next to a trading pub or in a residential street. With the hammer on it is still a hammer, so on noise sensitive jobs we run it after hours.
Do you saw cut around the demolition first?
Wherever the surrounding concrete has to survive, yes. A clean cut perimeter means the break out stops at the line instead of cracking on into slab you are keeping.
Tell us what has to come down
Thickness, access, what floor it is on and what has to survive around it. That is enough to tell you whether the robot is the right answer.