Video: Duke-O-Matic Concrete Lifting System Lifts 1,600-lb. Concrete Chunks with Ease

Interstate Sawing's Duke-O-Matic Heavy Duty Concrete Lifting System is put to work at a Wisconsin high school lifting and removing 4x4 chunks of concrete

Apr 7, 2017

Interstate Sawing's Duke-O-Matic Heavy Duty Concrete Lifting System is put to work at Hartford High School (Hartford, WI), lifting and removing 4x4 chunks of concrete (1,600 lbs. each) like nothing. 

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