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Does anyone remember the above? They were a sort of based on an RTFL but with a mast in place of the forks. The hammer was suspended on the mast so vibration was not transferred back to the carrier. I think they were made for recovery of old airfields. This was in the infancy of hyd breakers, about the time the Hymac nibbler came out.
There was also a make called Goblin - these were dipper mounted on a 3C or 360? & included an 'Air Goblin' the same but needed a compressor rather than the carrier's hyd system. I am not sure if this is the same company http://arrowmaster.com/?msclkid=d6fa49dbcecd11ec8e65a4183b0b84fc
Local hirer Freemans had at least one. I remember driving it in the summer of '76 while my uncle raked & cleared the broken stuff with his 3C backhoe. The pencilled in Arrow driver had gone to Cornwall to surf for the summer (man) so it was down to me! I have also somewhere a pic of a McKiernan Terry piling hammer with a breaker steel adaptation - this hung from a Navvy but was air / steam powered. A guy with a cap on stood by it pulling a sort of 'bog chain' to operate it. Not very H&S
I wondered if the Arrow was a development of the Navvy hammer
There was also a make called Goblin - these were dipper mounted on a 3C or 360? & included an 'Air Goblin' the same but needed a compressor rather than the carrier's hyd system. I am not sure if this is the same company http://arrowmaster.com/?msclkid=d6fa49dbcecd11ec8e65a4183b0b84fc
Local hirer Freemans had at least one. I remember driving it in the summer of '76 while my uncle raked & cleared the broken stuff with his 3C backhoe. The pencilled in Arrow driver had gone to Cornwall to surf for the summer (man) so it was down to me! I have also somewhere a pic of a McKiernan Terry piling hammer with a breaker steel adaptation - this hung from a Navvy but was air / steam powered. A guy with a cap on stood by it pulling a sort of 'bog chain' to operate it. Not very H&S
I wondered if the Arrow was a development of the Navvy hammer