The arsenal of demolition tools available to the teams reads like a mad destroyers' shopping list. They're heavy duty, have oodles of power and enough attitude to smash, mangle and desolate anything in their path.
 

Weighing in at 1 tonne, this monster can open up to 3 metres wide and then crush with 5 tonnes of pressure. Like a massive hand, the five metal fingers can perform a brutal snapping action as well as the more calculated slow crush. An ideal tool for destroying brick walls, roofs and crushing cars.
 

This is 1,200 kilogrammes of heavy duty hydraulic horror. Smashing away at 1,000 blows per minute, this brute does more damage than 20 hand-held jackhammers put together. Each blow generates 3,000 joules of force, enough to shatter reinforced concrete at nearly 1 cubic metre per minute.
 

Fancy a haircut? This machine weighs in at 2.3 tonnes and, like enormous scissors, can snap away with 1.4 tonnes of pressure. The blades can open up to nearly 1 metre and then spin round a full 360° in 6 seconds. Steel bars watch out: the PD15 eats 50mm sections for breakfast.
 

This gruesome beast would give T-Rex a run for his money. Its dinosaur-style steel jaws have a frightening clamping force of about 30 tonnes. That's enough to crunch a 1-metre thick wall of concrete to dust. About the only thing it can't chew is steel, but with this huge amount of pressure on offer it'll have a go at anything.
 

The great leveller. A medieval device with no purpose other than to ruin and destroy. The mammoth 3-tonne wrecking ball can swing out to 75 feet and impact at over 30mph with a momentum of 300 tonnes. With a jib arm 80 feet high, the steel ball can also drop like a bomb. The wrecking ball is the instrument of choice if you're looking for mayhem.
 

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