IDJ Wed, 10/21/2026 - 17:37 oldernewer Date picture taken unknown Shows place(s) Hilton Hotel [1963-1995] Bank of China Tower [1990- ] Murray Road Multi Storey Car Park Building [1973-2018] Log in or register to post comments Comments Hilton Hotel demolition Does anyone know how the cherrypickers were put in place? Log in or register to post comments crane i believe they are usually lifted up by crane Log in or register to post comments topdown demolition The machine could be broken down into three major components i.e. engine & cab, operating boom and jack-hammer and then raised by cranes for reassembly on the work area. Amongst many similar interesting videos is https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oBDEqAHXm3A The operators must have had no nerves at all ot a very high rete of pay! When the New World Centre at TST was being demolished top-down one these machines fell through the floors. Not for the first time in Hong Kong. Log in or register to post comments
Hilton Hotel demolition Does anyone know how the cherrypickers were put in place? Log in or register to post comments
topdown demolition The machine could be broken down into three major components i.e. engine & cab, operating boom and jack-hammer and then raised by cranes for reassembly on the work area. Amongst many similar interesting videos is https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oBDEqAHXm3A The operators must have had no nerves at all ot a very high rete of pay! When the New World Centre at TST was being demolished top-down one these machines fell through the floors. Not for the first time in Hong Kong. Log in or register to post comments
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Hilton Hotel demolition
Does anyone know how the cherrypickers were put in place?
crane
i believe they are usually lifted up by crane
topdown demolition
The machine could be broken down into three major components i.e. engine & cab, operating boom and jack-hammer and then raised by cranes for reassembly on the work area.
Amongst many similar interesting videos is https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oBDEqAHXm3A
The operators must have had no nerves at all ot a very high rete of pay!
When the New World Centre at TST was being demolished top-down one these machines fell through the floors. Not for the first time in Hong Kong.