Office Bldg. Demolition (Part 2), Bethesda
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2019
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Demolition of the upper steel structure, then the lower concrete structure, and finally the central stairwell.
Demolition excavators finish off the final section of a 1950s office building in Bethesda, Maryland. The basement and first two floors have concrete construction, while the top three floors have steel construction.
Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".
Parts 1 & 2; Perfect job, from start to finish !! A lot of action here, tearing down an old, pos bldg !!! Video job was also extremely awesome !!
Definitely one of the very best demolition videos I have seen. Seeing this high-reach demo excavator at work was entertaining. Excellent video, no distracting music, or constant zooming in and out, and good camera angles made for a fun watch. Thanks for posting.
You are welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@@JohnZWetmore rittershaus
Well done operators! A good job all round.
A skilful, productive operator taking no prisoners! Great video worth watching again.
Great video! I used to work for Berg, it's been a long time since but great to see they are still around in the demo business.
I love watching these but double the speed, all the fun in half the time.
You literally have the best demolition videos on UA-cam!
Thank you. I am fortunate to live in an area with a lot of construction and demolition going on.
Great video. I watched both part one and two all the way. Rare for me to do that but this was worth it all. only thing not too good was not getting to see the elevator motor and pulley system being cherry picked off but the rest was great.
true poor elevsator
awesome! hope to see more in the near future!
The pincher is my very fave demolition attachment. It’s much better than the wrecking ball or that jack hammer thing. Not sure what that says about me but ....... 😊😊
Perhaps you enjoy being squeezed?
a very enjoyable video .thank you
Thanks for this, it's the best demo vid I have seen,
This must be a different operator, far more satisfying to watch
That was awesome, I was glued to my seat. That's the kind of thing that I want to stop and watch, but I have to go to work.
Super Satisfying, totally radical, did I enjoy it ? Hell yea !
Hats off to you John. Awesome footage!! Could not ask for better, thanks.
I really enjoyed watching that. I think that maybe the true power of these machines is lost on us a bit when we only see them moving dirt. Not that that isn't impressive in itself but I don't think that it really begins to tax these monsters. The ease with which they knock down or chew up is quite a feat.
Very skilled operator! Blows my mind people below drive right near buy like nothing could potentially fall on them or cars!
Thats Demolition by an expert, smashing to watch
It's shocking 😐 it's a mess
Boy, I bet that operator goes home everyday with a big sense of satisfaction.
I am watching fom australl,love watching
Interesting stuff, well shot. Enjoyed no silly music or special effects. Good use of the parking garage. Thanks.
But I can't believe you missed the elevator motor coming down.
I did a Google map search for my old apartmaent complex on Fairfax Rd and Bradley blvd. They made a few cosmetic changes in the unusual double ssidewalkthrough the long U shaped courtyard that was there from just after WW2, but aside from that at least it still looks like home. When I saw the new BCC, I was heartsick. At least the 4 story Admin building is still there. Back in the 60-early 70s, we made a lot of history at that school. There was a story in the amlumni historical pages about a massive protest that was held on the Viet Nam Moratorium day. About 1000 students came out to the (no gone ) flagpole in front to take down the flag and burn it, ^ of us on the stage crew took our locker padlockes and locked them around the rope and linked arms around the pole to prevent that. We succeded and the story was on all the local media.
Parabéns belo trabalho .Brasil
This is part of the old Montgomery County Polce station and the adjacent office building.
I enjoyed every minute of this video.
Lovely videos. You can learn a lot from them.
Question: The machine in the bottom that exits what looks like steam - is designed to add a lot of moisture to prevent dust dispersion - is not it?
That's right, although it is a cold mist rather than steam. It soaks the area being demolished to keep the dust down, even a few stories up. It's more effective than the guys with hoses you see at some demolition sites.
@@JohnZWetmore Thanks!
Very interesting!
@@JohnZWetmore I am very excited to see people struggling to prevent unnecessary grief from neighbors when they are forced to perform maintenance work.
This indicates a good heart and a strong thought about the other!
There was a job a few blocks from this one where they hung tarps on the side by the street while they took out the windows and stripped off the facade. Unfortunately, there isn't much to film when it is all behind a tarp.
They are ordinary snow cannons.
Shoving, grabbing & cutting. The best attachment for the job?
One of the better quality videos here on UA-cam. The zoom could have been better deployed throughout though rather than right at the end. I would have liked to have seen this demolition in its entirety though.
ABSOLUTELY!
Too much $'s for maybe, at most, a couple more minutes?
Unconscionable.................
Excavator was brutal. Normally excavator would struggle against a concrete frame, but this one was so big and heavy.
@@peteb2 You have a good point l. Modern codes with progressive collapse requirements have a lot more tying steel and sometimes floors may be required to act in catenary under exceptional load, so definite a lot more steel for all kinds of reasons.
A shame that no one in the US seems to use OilQuick (or other full automatic quick couplers)
My home have to the rainstorm! ⛈️⛈️⛈️⛈️⛈️ I afraid! 😶🤪 yeah! enjoy to watching this again 😊
You had some awesome places to film from, the video is great!
Thanks. It helps to have a parking garage right across the street.
Demolition should only be permitted if there are tall parking garages nearby :-)
Hopefully productivity of the operator increased significantly on part 2 of the video!!!
Really good driver
The Crain operator seems a bit too cautious when attacking his target. Watch the clock tower video to see the difference.
Nice one, enjoyed that
Great job! 👍 My home have to the raining! Be right back! 😀
Great demo video nice and long and full of destruction. load more up please.
I am surprised how little dust suppression was done on the elevator shafts. Lots more water was needed!
I'd love to know in real time how long this actually takes. Cool video.
What a cool job! You get to sit in a big honkin crane and destroy stuff!
Is it possible to Pay to have a go at this somewhere ?
So Bethesda is now on its 3rd police station? When we moved to Bethesda, the police station was on Arlington Rd directly from the Cadillac dealership right next to the RR tracks that ended 6 ft from the sidewalk on Arlington and the old Maloney Concrete plant. Back in the day (late 60s) they still had occasional railroad usage going over the bridge on Bradley Blvd, (still there?) and they had a freight car roll off the end of the tracks and onto Arlington. BTW, does the name Bloomquist ring a bell? We knew a Wetmore family way back then as well. Father's name was George. Very tall guy.
Yes, the new police station is on Rugby Avenue. The railroad branch line was abandoned in 1985. The bridges and right of way are still there. From Bethesda to Georgetown it is now the Capital Crescent Trail. From Bethesda to Silver Spring (and on to New Carrollton) it will be the Purple Line light rail transit, with a bike trail next to it. The Cadillac dealership is now a Mercedes dealership. Maloney Concrete is gone, and the corner is now a Mexican restaurant. I never knew a George Wetmore, so any relationship is pretty distant.
@@JohnZWetmore I am not sure I would evfewr want to go back as so many historic locationbs are gone. When I heard that the infamous Hot Shoppe was now a deep nhole waiting for a large, multi-story building and Bruce variety was gone from the shopping centewr it was just depressing. I did go into Strosnider's Hardware when I was in Bethesda for a convention I was working, but it was just another cookie cutter type store. Zero personality or older guys who really KNEW about all types of hardware. Strosnider's and community Paint and Hardwqare were two of my fave places to buy all kinds of parts and supplies for my hobby and home projects. Back then both places had old solid oak floors, and you could find ANYTHING could think about in the world of hardware.
I know time marches onbut itv seems to be marching to a completely lackluster, zero personality time that will never again produce welcome memories. Back then many folks knew the owners, managers, clerks, waitresses etc. of all the traditional small town stores by name and those folks also knewany of the customers as well. So sad.
Thanks for the info about my old hometown.
Interesting, but I miss the elevator motor been choked. 48:01
Holy shit they are taking that building down with a pear of bolt cutters.
It was the stairs holding the whole building together. They messed the operator up every time.
The Stairs held it firmish whilst he worked on it !
considering it was so close to the road it was a job well done
ow my god , though this is a 1950's structure it just surprises me how easy it crumbles under the slightest force , ladder frame stringers with corrugated steel on top of it and what it looks like one or two inches of unreinforced concrete , without any physical connection to the steel skeleton , the dead load rating must not have been high and surely not the live load rating . seems to me that the top steel structure was either an afterthought to give the building more floors or it was done to cut cost , either way not a building to be very proud of .
Could you make the watermark any bigger please? I can hardly see it.
Tee-hee...
seems big to me.
when you cut one end of that beam you are wasting your time cutting both ends when you cut one end push or pull the end you just cut and the other end will BREAK its just bolts AND THEY WILL BREAK I also have done this kind of DEMO 25 years
But it's more fun to cut both ends. :-) My hat's off to you and your service. I find this work fascinating, and it takes a true professional to do it right. :-)
It`s scary, how easy the ceilings and the colums (right term? sorry for bad english) came down... They broke with nearly no force...
Wow, the operator is great but the perspective of the road to the top of the building had me jumpy. :)
I grew up in Berhesda in the 60s. Haven't been back since 1980. Where was this building? From recent pictures I have seen, I would not be able to see much of what I grew up with. I lived just up from Bradley Blvd in the apartments on Fairfax . The original buildings are still their but are likely now condos.
4630 Montgomery Ave, at the corner of Waverly.
It's at Montgomery Avenue and Waverly Street, a block east of Wisconsin Avenue. It's the same block as the old police station (which also was torn down). Downtown Bethesda has had a series of building booms since the Metro station opened in 1984. There are currently several large buildings going up. Back in the neighborhoods, small houses are being demolished to squeeze in large new houses.
What are you using for dust suppression? didnt seem like a fire hose. Was a machine shooting mist almost to the top of the building...? Never seen it before. Can anyone help me out?
The orange machine is called a Fog Cannon. It uses a powerful fan to blow a water mist a few stories up, and from my observations does a better job than a guy with a hose.
@@JohnZWetmore I am usually the guy on the hose. You are correct in that it is more effective and most likely just easier. Thanks
Here is a demolition with no dust suppression whatever. I had to clean my camera after shooting it. ua-cam.com/video/galpFq-Bot8/v-deo.html
Think i'd have knocked the floors through piecemeal to avoid a full floor swinging to the back wall and knocking it through the back to prevent damaging property out the back
@Bill Williams
Just let me know if you need any advice !!! lol
Do you know if the metals were salvaged, or is it too much trouble?
The steel girders, trusses, and rebar were hauled off separately for recycling, as were copper pipes. I believe lesser pieces of metal, like HVAC ducts, were hauled off with general debris.
pretty sure the high reach has a Detroit diesel powering it
My only criticism would be to stop the traffic and close a road down as a safety precaution..!! Other then that it's a good video to watch !!!!!
Thanks Mr. Wetmore, for this video it’s like my favorite soap opera for men. And the award goes to 🦕 “THE ONE AND OLNEY BRACHIOSAURUS 🦕 “ That’s a cool piece of equipment!🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕
boy they took a hell ava gamble keeping that street open
From an old B town boy,what building was this,somewhere on Wisconsin ave?That town is unrecognizable to me now.Great video.
It was at the corner of Montgomery Avenue and Waverly Street, a block east of Wisconsin (just east of the old police station).
Nice
I grew up in Bethesda in the 60s. What building was this. The town has changed so much since I was there. BTW John, are you related to Georghe Wetmore?
It was a nondescript 1950s office building at the corner of Montgomery and Waverly, one block east of Wisconsin. (I don't know a George Wetmore, so any relationship is pretty distant.) www.google.com/maps/@38.9839068,-77.0923687,3a,75y,230.18h,103.06t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s1WMpQflj53gU4yEI37UUzQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D1WMpQflj53gU4yEI37UUzQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D12.225212%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
At some point (perhaps in the 1970s) the building exterior was covered with a layer of insulation and a new skin over the old brick, so it might have looked a bit different in the 1960s. They had peeled off the insulating layer before going to work with the demolition excavator.
It was not profitable to renovate so to demolition. And it was a complete ruin, or just decided not to renovate only demolished and build new ones?
It is being replaced with a fancy 22-story office and hotel tower. It is prime real estate across the street from the subway station.
@@JohnZWetmore But this ruin was nasty. You can see after the construction.
combien de temps fautil pourde' de'molir un batiment?
great video, at least something good about FB
able to cut through i beams... wow!
*É muita incompetência pra um maquinista só!*
_Nem consegui assistir até o final!_
“ look 👀out below”. 😱
Wish it started at the beginning of the demolition.
Here is the previous part of the building.
ua-cam.com/video/PnvWfe_8UmY/v-deo.html
A 1950's building.....probably made with good US steel......old building didn't want to give in too easily.
gotta love the power of hydraulics..
What intersection is this?
Montgomery Ave. at Waverly St. in Bethesda, MD.
The operators working like they own the company. You could put thug life on them
Just my opinion but traffic should have been stopped when the elevator shaft was being brought down.
The public is replaceable! Or is that the republic is placeable?
David, you make a good point, but they did close one lane of Waverly, and the elevator shaft was not much different, construction wise, as the rest of the building, except for the motor on top and rails on the side. The operator was very skilled. :-)
48:20 Hey guys, this shear is for steal, not stone! But good operator, nonetheless.
Watermark is fine. Gets covered by the adverts anyway
Ad Block will cure those ads.
You got me, I have Subscribed. This was so damn Therapeutic watching this! I would give anything to do this all day everyday for a living. I would love to be that Operator. I bet he has the best Blood Pressure on earth. This would be such a satisfying job. I would be happy as a pig in shit to go to work every morning.
Are you Guys hiring?
So where is the elevator shaft anyone???
No rock water for dust control??
They used a mist cannon.
Yanno, I just remembered I didn't see the new Godzilla movie last spring.
That was enjoyable to watch. Better than spending a hour and a half watching some movie your wife forces you to watch. Like Mamma Mia. I hate that movie. Lol
But did a great job no messin !!!
Is this based on a true story? 😲
Acme window cleaning service
Ruthless operator. Must be the owner but not getting paid by the hour
@Bill Williams good god man get some sense of humor
👍👍👏👏👍
See the IDIOT who calmly walks by while this thing is falling down all around him? At 1:18:11 ? PURE LUCK He didn't get HIT! & Why are those other vehicles parked there since the beginning?
They will be back in 25 years and do a "Will it Start" video. lol
Smell that fresh asbestos in the morning I'd like to get a lungful of that when I walk my dog
Sowas ist auch gefaehrlich
How the fuck do you get away with making a mess like that
Too close to Public Roads! They should have been SHUT DOWN during various Phases!
need either a new operator or a new shear
Really should keep that dust down though, not good for the city or the people to breathe it 😣
crash bang demolition let's make a mess
le mec de la pelleteuse c'est vraiment le gros nul ,dans 15 ans ont est encore là????????????
This is the slowest demolition team I have ever seen, I guess they are trying to do eight hours worth of work.
They must have been cut a big pay cheque to move this freaking slow, can't get the job done too quickly now can we boys ?
UMMM Boss I think I got the address wrong and did the wrong building!!
GOOD OPERATOR NOT AFRADE OF IT HARH TO CONTROLE ARM AT THAT HIGH GOOD ON HIM MOST DRIVERS WOULD RUN AWAY FROM THAT BUT WOULD HAVE ALL THE TALK ABOUT IT
Must be getting paid by the hour.
The pincher operator paid by the hour. The bucket operator paid by the second.
What a wasteful operator. Spends so much time sweeping debris from floors he is about to bring down.... dumb.
If I was the boss I would do some sweeping too, try to preserve your equipment not just rat bag it. Ask yourself do some sweeping? Or ruin your equipment by cutting Thur garbage. If you want to rat bag equipment you may as well find a new job to payoff $$$$$$$ of damage cause you won't be working for me..!!!
ChuckM
I got totally frustrated watching all the seemingly wasted moves. Would like to see a video like this one from the operators viewpoint. I suppose these would be typical comments coming from a ‘sidewalk superintendent’ like myself.