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Proper footings foundation was messed up couldn't be use as a residential structure.

Newer buildings are built with harder mortar so its harder to clean the bricks. Looking at this video the brick walls are not dissolving as they are being torn down which indicates Portland cement type mortar so I doubt it.

@@robertwoodpa6463 Given that this building was erected in the early to mid 1930's, both the bricks and the mortar used to cement the bricks together very likely had Asbestos in them (a common practice in America from the turn of the century to the 1980's), an as such, with what we now know about asbestos, it was not, and indeed would not, be saved in any form.

Thank you Sid....

Drive thru to go to knoebels amusement park. Old coal towns have degraded so much in last 40 years that no one would fund rehab. Live close by in Jim Thorpe . My town is tourist trap and county seat. A few of our older brick building downtown have been updated. The work to do this type of work is crazy long process. Big reason most stores and fast food places just demolish and make brand new start. This guy should take vid of driving thru the neighboring towns also. You can see 8 row houses and 4 of them are abandoned while people still live in the other 4.

@@shade38211 all the coal towns have been dead since the death of Coal for home heating. 1950s was probably their last big hurrah. Thorpe or Mauch Chunk has been a tourist trap for decades thanks to George Hart putting it big time back on the map over 50 yrs ago now. All the same new stuff is unsightly and built like junk to last 20 yrs. The old stuff when redone will last another century or more and is eye pleasing. There isn't a coal town in the Anthracite region I haven't been in. They're the last places in the State not ruined with modernizations gone wild. For now anyway.

@@steamgent4592 Just turned 50 and amazed at decay of nearby towns. Remember driving thru centrailia as a kid with the pipes releasing smoke. Uncle bought nesquehoning school for cheap as teen. They turned that into an elderly living center years later. The layout and need timed with funding I guess. Funny both my elementary schools are now parking lots. Old Manucho chunk LB was torn down in kindergarten. Irish catholic school was torn down in 3 rd grade. Been to loads of borough meetings and friends on neighboring boards. Just listening to budget blows your mind. Sadly code enforcement and new environment laws make most revamp out of reach. Palmerston is one town that really recovered since I was young and guess parts of Bethlehem. Father and grandfather worked at the steel mill. Used to love visiting there. Grand mother worked at sewing mill. Now the neighboring towns mills are also gone. Nice talking. Just fyi I never told anyone where I lived in military . Jim Thorpe is an idiotic name. Always said I lived in Poconos ore north of the billy Joel song. Sean Connery was actually in town. Would have been great name.

@@shade38211 we are about the same age so we have lived through and seen the same stuff. But you are correct Codes and Environmental regulations kill any of the possibilities of any town in PA from recovery.

@@steamgent4592If you are ever near me let me know. Bunch of locals have tried to save history. Fred DibnAr with age or steam blows me away.

The boom wasn't fully extended up

I agree, seems they did not have a company with the expertise and equipment to do this job safely and efficiently, just my observation.

What seem weird. Is their still two story half finished from afar, why go under it and do bottom floor removal? At least take out that heavy beams way up their. Maybe they expect they can knock out all the walls and it still be standing

Never saw such gentle use of a piece of equipment. It was used as a creampuff sort of a sledge hammer, when those mighty jaws could have pulled masses of the building every five minutes. Amateur doesn't describe the operator. Inept would be a better definition of the usage of a powerful tool barely used.

Looked like it wasn't in the best of shape before they started.

Unless you live in a seismic active aera. After the Nisqually quake in 2001 I was in Seattle and saw holes in the asphalt from the falling bricks.

Um, because they are professionals and know what they are doing.

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Because they are incompetent amateurs who bid the cheapest on the job and showed up with inadequate equipment

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@@HobbyOrganist True. The excavator can‘t reach high enough and that „claw“ is definitely not the right tool😂

Painful to watch him poking at it with a fixed thumb grapple.

@@deconteesawyer5758 they must have been amateurs, not the right equipment, bid the cheapest, it's a miracle one of the guys in one of the machines wasnt crushed to death

Could have used contractors who actually knew what they were doing too!...... or not.

@@steadholderharrington9035 Yup, it was painful to watch...

@@joeschlotthauer840 Want to know something even more painful? Look at the time chop 30:37, when they go from five to six stories of building down to just three stories, they also have switched out the dull claw for an even weaker ( and dare I say Duller) set of metal shears that can't even cut through small-scale, rusty wide-width flange beams, and the machine has to resort to pulling the steel apart at the joints and either doing multiple bends back and forth or twisting the steel back and forth to get it to snap apart? This "demolition" company has to be the biggest joke in its, and the surrounding states!