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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13875 on: August 02, 2026, 03:04:08 PM »

Online SaddVillan

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13876 on: August 02, 2026, 07:09:17 PM »
One of the goals posts and the cross bar have been removed and the blue and yellow monster Gottwald crane is being dismantled - presumably off to another job.

All the other biggish cranes seem to have gone from behind the stand

So how and when is the remaining goalpost going to be removed?

I imagined the huge Gottwald would have been used to take that one down too.

Offline exigo

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13877 on: August 02, 2026, 09:57:46 PM »
Also, where has the first goalpost gone? Can't imagine Aston Scrap Metal Dealers Ltd have nipped round already.

Online maidstonevillain

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13878 on: August 03, 2026, 10:32:45 AM »
One of the goals posts and the cross bar have been removed and the blue and yellow monster Gottwald crane is being dismantled - presumably off to another job.

All the other biggish cranes seem to have gone from behind the stand

So how and when is the remaining goalpost going to be removed?

I imagined the huge Gottwald would have been used to take that one down too.
I can only suggest that to reach the second goal post, the boom would have had to be well lowered , and the stand would have been in the way and Prevented this. This would have required the crane to be dismantled, moved, and re-erected. This is obviously a big job. Quicker and easier to use a smaller crane Once the Gottwald is off site. A small crane can be parked closer, and the goal post removed a small section at a time.

Online SaddVillan

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13879 on: August 03, 2026, 12:53:10 PM »
One of the goals posts and the cross bar have been removed and the blue and yellow monster Gottwald crane is being dismantled - presumably off to another job.

All the other biggish cranes seem to have gone from behind the stand

So how and when is the remaining goalpost going to be removed?

I imagined the huge Gottwald would have been used to take that one down too.
I can only suggest that to reach the second goal post, the boom would have had to be well lowered , and the stand would have been in the way and Prevented this. This would have required the crane to be dismantled, moved, and re-erected. This is obviously a big job. Quicker and easier to use a smaller crane Once the Gottwald is off site. A small crane can be parked closer, and the goal post removed a small section at a time.

That was my conclusion too. If they cut the goalpost down in sections, obviously from the top down, then a lighter mobile crane could be used.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13880 on: Today at 11:17:10 AM »
Also, where has the first goalpost gone? Can't imagine Aston Scrap Metal Dealers Ltd have nipped round already.

It was on the ground next to the crossbeam in one of the videos.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13881 on: Today at 12:09:05 PM »
One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13882 on: Today at 12:15:27 PM »


The crossbar going.

Online DB

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13883 on: Today at 12:21:44 PM »
One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.

One for the teenagers.

 


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