LEMAC Engineering has added the Echidna cutter head to its sales inventory as the company looks to complement its existing portfolio of construction equipment.
The firm, with bases in Tillicoultry, Petersburg, Virginia (USA) and the Welsh town of Pontypridd, supplies the construction industry with a wide range of custom heavy-duty excavating attachments.
Speaking to Project Plant, David Marshall, manager at Lemac, explained what a company could get from utilising the excavator attachment.
“The Echidna rock saw system is used for micro trenching for utilities, concrete, steel and wood cutting for demolition, tunnelling, forestry, etc. The companies using them can save a lot of money; also If you’re using handheld cutting equipment, the problem you can have is white finger (Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome) – but basically the Echidna rock saw is mounted on a machine, so you don’t have any cause for concern over white finger.”
David had previously worked as a depot manager at Lemac before leaving in 2008. He returned earlier this year and admits that the firm faces additional challenges in such a connected world. Much has changed, with David highlighting what he described as competitor firms buying in “cheap imports” of “lesser quality” to compete in the UK market.
David recently visited England to showcase the attachment to a company looking to fit it on a specialised robot – allowing for them to carry out work in buildings deemed too unsafe for a worker to enter.
David told of the attachment’s popularity across the map. “It’s extensively used in mainland Europe for utilities, cable laying, mining and demolition. Anything it does is going to be money-saving. I sold one to a company in Aberdeen for cutting up stainless steel pipes from the North Sea – that job was usually carried out by two guys with still saws and all the hard work, white fingers and all these risks,” he added.
