Irish Blue Limestone - 1000 Tons Versus 3 Caterpillars

At Mc KeonStone's quarry in Threecastles ,Kilkenny , 1000 tons of Irish Blue Limestone and 3 caterpillar excavators battle it out ! This wall of stone had not moved in 250 million years and had been diamond sawn into one large chunk of 11metres high , 2.7 m deep and 13metres long ( 386 cubic metres ) . The power of three caterpillar excavators was need to topple this monolith. Quarry manager Peter Dowling orchestrated the movement of the three machines until gravity takes over . This quarry has been owned and operated by Mc Keon Stone Ltd since 1960 , and is the source of Europe's Best Blue Limestone.

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• Quarry
• caterpillar excavators
• limestone
• irish blue limestone
• mckeonstone

[lexichronicle2]

I just had a quick look at your site. Those apples are massive!

[lexichronicle2]

"holy fuck..." :D

[joeyeire]

one tipperary man with a bar would have been enough ;)

[puttytogo]

yeaaa baby thats how to do it ..........you cant kill a cat

[dodgerfan2004]

that is some old dinosaur excavators

[capailldubh]

Holy F@@k is right haha, nice video Niall.