When I was younger I got hired to clean a couple tons of sour silage out of a silo. After 30 minutes of being inside breathing the vapors I was higher than a kite. Lots of fresh air and ventilation is definitely a must.
Yes, it’s called alcohol - produced by the fermentation of the silage. It evaporates and you breathe and absorb it into your blood. Also more than enough CO-2 to kill you as well.
In 2015 our two silos were destroyed by a tornado on our farm in SE Iowa. Some cattle were killed in the lot. 2016 we rebuilt with a poured concrete silo over 70 feet. We continue to feed cattle as our contribution to feeding the world.
@@mattronaldholloway3428 No he’s extremely lucky and extremely careless & negligent,,,you know when they say don’t ever try this at home well this is one of those moments
We had to take down an old grain silo when I was living in Georgia. We marked the area to be removed with paint. We gave Beuford a 16 pound sledgehammer and told him to go to work, but be ready to get out of the way. Now Beuford was was strong as an ox, but not very smart. He ate a LOT of paint chips when he was little. Well, after an hour we heard this tremendous"crack" and saw the silo going down. We lost sight of poor Beuford due to the dust, and thought he might be dead. But when the dust cleared, there he was with this guilty look in his face. He said, "I didn't mean for it to fall over, but I promise to rebuild it."
This guy is about as unprecision as they come. He keeps getting is headache ball stuck in the hoops and he doesn't know how to aim it consistently. There are guys who would have it down in half the time. If he cannot improve his aim he should take a cutting torch and cut every other hoop. They don't play any structural role unless the silo if filled with rolled corn or ground ear corn so when it is eampty there is no danger in cutting some hoops. They he would not have to fart around nearly as much getting his ball free when he misses his aim.
Don't understand the comments. This guy, regardless of the method, made the job. The silos fehlt away from the excavator and both in the same direction w/o and bigger left overs. The result can't be any better.
Agreed. And he has kept himself safe by using the wrecking 'ball' instead of driving into the fall area. Also he has been at ninety degrees to the line of the fall at all times. Seems to me the video has been titled by someone who feels that only an 'expert' can do something. And the commenters are mostly armchair experts.
The best and safest way to take down stave silos, is to loosen the bottom 4 feet of hoops and then shoot out the bottom row of staves on the side you want the silo to fall. A 30 caliber rifle or shotgun slugs work great!
My in-laws in Canada had a silo taken down, it was adjacent to their house so they wanted to be sure if fell away from the house. They broke a portion of the base of the silo away from the house and hired a couple guys that brought a few sticks of dynamite that were placed under the weakened side of the structure, they wired it up, and detonated it, like in an old cowboy movie. The silo fell in exactly the direction it was intended to. It was cool to watch it come down. I recorded it on 8mm video. 😅
Hi He did ok he's still alive and he got them down as he intended. The only thing he might do different if there was a next time is cut the bottom few bands. That seems to be the way others have done this that I have watched. then he might not end up with his wrecking hammed stuck in the bands. Thanks for sharing the video. Take care
Bunks are becoming more popular. My cousin put 2 a couple of years ago. 50x100x10 foot tall. Enough feed for 200 head dairy for the year. Lot easier to manage
Zit tears me up to see old farm houses get busted I think of all the people kids animals they had especially the friends I had there I wasn't gonna say it cause it hurts too much. I love you allmisscomin up to see you I think of my boy and his new beagle God help the other two boys and pa love you sorry I couldn't say it before love ya Mary -------Mare
my thought too.. even the cheap training ammo to my 30-06 ould have done that demolition FASTER AND SAFER, that concrete lookd quite brittle But if you wanted fast and fun,,, contact the army and borrow a 50 cal+ maskinegun. hehe
GREAT, another "hold my beer and watch this" video. ;-) That looks exceedingly dangerous, all kidding aside. I'm amazed that second one was still standing with basically half of it's circumference knocked down.
Wow flatter than a flitter....Lol Use to live near a coal mine that had two standing in West Frankfort, Illinois n these were poured concrete in sections. Not as easy to take down.
You are blind or brain not working - the guy was buried in the rubble when it came down, you didn't see that ? injured, lucky to not be killed. 'whining about safety' - it was very stupid to be standing so close within the fall zone.
Cool vid, but would to see it done with 55 gallon barrel of Tannerite. Put hole in side of silo just large enough to stuff plastic barrel in. That would be cool to watch.
I did not think that this was going to end well. Thought for sure something bad was going to happen. All I could imagine was the silo crashing down on the guy.
My dad did ours with a sledge hammer, and a 16’ 2x4. Cut a few bands, knocked out every other block, then ran rope, chain thru. Hooked to tractor pulled almost half a row out. It walked till I damaged roof. Mom took video. 8mm no sound. Except when she filmed cats as too scared to watch.
Looks as if someone could knock a hole in silo , run a one inch cable thru , clamp it off inside, hook a dozer to it and pull as if a can opener in reverse. Silos are dangerous to tear down
This was quite a few years ago but I set up an amp and a boom box and introduced them to Jimmy Stuart live from Batenrough, La. When my neighbors try ed that on me and it didn't take them long to quite down
What are they made of? It does not realy look or behave like regular steelsheets or wood. Good to see that Your brother where not injured by this, it would be a lie pretending that i hawen't done pretty similar things at some point in my life...
A lot of us do want to farm. But it’s impossible to get a start, unless you inherite a farm. These old silos don’t get used anymore. Their sole purpose is to make and store cow food, sileage. But you can’t compete with the big operations, like in Nebraska, and Kansas.
The state ( s ) can come in buy your property for said amount of money take it or leave it, the state can take it! If you want to go or not! Happened to a cousin of mine! State built a school. A few years ago in Matthews NC the state took old man’s farm made a DAM park, hiking trails, bike paths damn sad!!
He's within the radius of collapse of the silo, and weakening it on the side facing him. He's also really lucky to be alive - this could easily be for the Darwin awards or snuff film category.
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When I was younger I got hired to clean a couple tons of sour silage out of a silo. After 30 minutes of being inside breathing the vapors I was higher than a kite. Lots of fresh air and ventilation is definitely a must.
Yes, it’s called alcohol - produced by the fermentation of the silage. It evaporates and you breathe and absorb it into your blood.
Also more than enough CO-2 to kill you as well.
“sour silage out of a silo” 😁sounds like a tongue-twister😁
Hi Traci,
Except for the wrecking weight catching in the tie bands,
this was the best technique I have seen in 2019.
My compliments to your brother.
In 2015 our two silos were destroyed by a tornado on our farm in SE Iowa. Some cattle were killed in the lot. 2016 we rebuilt with a poured concrete silo over 70 feet. We continue to feed cattle as our contribution to feeding the world.
I like how he narrowly escapes death on the first one and immediately started on the other one
That's a true man not afraid to work escape and move on to the next. NO FEAR
@@mattronaldholloway3428 No he’s extremely lucky and extremely careless & negligent,,,you know when they say don’t ever try this at home well this is one of those moments
@@william38022 yeah living on the edge but still no fear that's me but I'm no idoit just a daredevil.
When you take money to do a job, you get the job done. Very simple concept.
@@_GOD_HAND_ at least don’t do it like this these guys are probably dead by now use a brain
We had to take down an old grain silo when I was living in Georgia. We marked the area to be removed with paint. We gave Beuford a 16 pound sledgehammer and told him to go to work, but be ready to get out of the way. Now Beuford was was strong as an ox, but not very smart. He ate a LOT of paint chips when he was little. Well, after an hour we heard this tremendous"crack" and saw the silo going down. We lost sight of poor Beuford due to the dust, and thought he might be dead. But when the dust cleared, there he was with this guilty look in his face. He said, "I didn't mean for it to fall over, but I promise to rebuild it."
This looks fun and terrifying at the same time
What , kind of material is that silo made of ? Asbestos ?
@@kevingrant2326 some sort of masonry.
Hell yeah!.. Precision demo. Cost effective and fast. Well done!
This guy is about as unprecision as they come. He keeps getting is headache ball stuck in the hoops and he doesn't know how to aim it consistently. There are guys who would have it down in half the time. If he cannot improve his aim he should take a cutting torch and cut every other hoop. They don't play any structural role unless the silo if filled with rolled corn or ground ear corn so when it is eampty there is no danger in cutting some hoops. They he would not have to fart around nearly as much getting his ball free when he misses his aim.
Shut up,no it all.😮😮😊@@gomerromer7708
I could watch people knockin things down n' blowin shit up all day long.
Good old fashioned ingenuity! Love It!
this is actually a lot safer, AND a lot better executed then i've seen in many similar scenarios... it is a lot more controlled then it appears to be.
Who needs to watch a bunch of by rich NFL players. This is down home fun.
People really do pride themselves on their ignorance
@@PhancyPants99 Sounds like you are speaking from experience.
Real americans that built this country
Don't understand the comments. This guy, regardless of the method, made the job. The silos fehlt away from the excavator and both in the same direction w/o and bigger left overs. The result can't be any better.
Agreed. And he has kept himself safe by using the wrecking 'ball' instead of driving into the fall area. Also he has been at ninety degrees to the line of the fall at all times. Seems to me the video has been titled by someone who feels that only an 'expert' can do something. And the commenters are mostly armchair experts.
The best and safest way to take down stave silos, is to loosen the bottom 4 feet of hoops and then shoot out the bottom row of staves on the side you want the silo to fall. A 30 caliber rifle or shotgun slugs work great!
Damn it Dave! When I said we were gonna demo the silos I meant we were gonna show the new guy how they worked.
Haha, I laughed way too hard at this comment. Thanks for that.
skills and ingenuity.
My in-laws in Canada had a silo taken down, it was adjacent to their house so they wanted to be sure if fell away from the house. They broke a portion of the base of the silo away from the house and hired a couple guys that brought a few sticks of dynamite that were placed under the weakened side of the structure, they wired it up, and detonated it, like in an old cowboy movie. The silo fell in exactly the direction it was intended to. It was cool to watch it come down. I recorded it on 8mm video. 😅
I get a kick out of how the silos basically disappear into nothingness.
Amazing, considering they’re filled with so much air!
I can hardly wait for the "redneck cow tipping" video to come out. I gotta be doing something wrong....
Marvelous job and done right
Silo tipping by day, cow tipping by night lol
Eeeew. Uhjoooop
High powered rifles and deer slugs make a fun afternoon with beer and buddies
Half empty propane tanks are a must!
Going to be pickin tader rocks out of the field for centuries.
Hi He did ok he's still alive and he got them down as he intended. The only thing he might do different if there was a next time is cut the bottom few bands. That seems to be the way others have done this that I have watched. then he might not end up with his wrecking hammed stuck in the bands. Thanks for sharing the video. Take care
Fred Dibnah would have been proud!! Check out his method of bringing down mill chimneys, far more exciting
I wanna have a go at this.... No silos where I live... Just a tower block and a bunch of houses....
If I had a shot at these things I'd be swinging an old Buick on the end of that cable instead of that little
piece of metal
Hey Bert, ya took down the wrong one. That's the one we was keeping. You was supposed to take down 'tother one!
Bunks are becoming more popular. My cousin put 2 a couple of years ago. 50x100x10 foot tall. Enough feed for 200 head dairy for the year. Lot easier to manage
My left ear enjoyed this video.
Mans has a lot of faith in it fallin in the right direction
Zit tears me up to see old farm houses get busted I think of all the people kids animals they had especially the friends I had there I wasn't gonna say it cause it hurts too much. I love you allmisscomin up to see you I think of my boy and his new beagle God help the other two boys and pa love you sorry I couldn't say it before love ya Mary -------Mare
Better than sitting on the porch and watching the bug zapper!
That just looks super fun to do.
Very Nice and a Thumbs Up liked.
Nice video!!
Good job You made it look easy.
That was so much fun to watch.
1:55 knocked out the buildings heart
Great post, outstanding. For those of you who don’t know...this is how you do it!! Life on the farm...ain’t it great?👍👍
I thought the first silo was going to land on the excavator. Feels like it didn't by pure luck. Driver is going all out for a darwin award!
you're the award.
Those were perfect drops. Nice job!!
More guts than brains.
Don’t criticize unless you’ve actually actually brought silos down yourself.
Ci manadavo i miei bambini , nel doposcuola , un’oretta e due succhi di frutta e il gioco era fatto!!🤭
Now THAT'S a fun job!!!!
He's better at this than he was at "Cow Tipping"...... really he's pretty damn good at this.
This is what it looks like when you don't know what you're doing and just making it up as you go.
And you do ?😊
Suddenly I no longer have transformer-phobia.
This can be done with one man and a sledge hammer. Start one one side and work backwards. Actually safer.
Way less fun
I liked watching this,there's something about demolishing things that makes us feel satisfied.
Your inner haji
i wanted more smashing; less banging...
Tricky Nick i can’t believe i’m giving you a very old o.d. thumbs up for this...
what a way to relieve stress. Can I do that? Look like fishing to me. cast that rod n set that hook. Then yank.
Those silo's flattened right out.
Time to call... "The Rifleman"
my thought too.. even the cheap training ammo to my 30-06 ould have done that demolition FASTER AND SAFER, that concrete lookd quite brittle
But if you wanted fast and fun,,, contact the army and borrow a 50 cal+ maskinegun. hehe
GREAT, another "hold my beer and watch this" video. ;-) That looks exceedingly dangerous, all kidding aside. I'm amazed that second one was still standing with basically half of it's circumference knocked down.
Wow flatter than a flitter....Lol
Use to live near a coal mine that had two standing in West Frankfort, Illinois n these were poured concrete in sections.
Not as easy to take down.
An old diesel crankshaft would make an excellent Mace.
Where there is a will, there is a way. Just make sure you don’t forget safety.
No forget safety. It ruins all fun.
That was cool....good thing he didn't end up on youtube under one of the 'fail' videos! LOL
@1:05 - damn, my line is snagged, but oh, boy it's a big one...
Almost as much fun as cow tipping!
Reminds me of when i was learnin how to fly fish.
He got them down and lived to try something else just as fun.
When this started why did I think one of the silos was going to fall over on the excavator ?
That was cool! Heh heh. Hey Butthead, let's break stuff.
How much beer do you think these good ol' boys went through that day?
Well done!
Used to build those. Would recommend loosing the bands part way up
Good job done well and safe. The people whining about safety just don't understand what they're talking about.
You are blind or brain not working - the guy was buried in the rubble when it came down, you didn't see that ? injured, lucky to not be killed. 'whining about safety' - it was very stupid to be standing so close within the fall zone.
@@jemrobinson8888 ... There was no guy anywhere on the ground in this video. No one got buried or even injured.
That's a bonkers game of conkers right there ha ha
Nice work!
One has to assume that there is no OSHA around. Lol
my cousins just used mauls but this does look like more fun and probably less dangerous?
Rent a Twister will be the next big item!
Cool vid, but would to see it done with 55 gallon barrel of Tannerite. Put hole in side of silo just large enough to stuff plastic barrel in. That would be cool to watch.
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55 gallons !!! Good lord you want to take down the neighbors silo too.
Good clean fun !!! 😆
I was worried the excavator was gonna get crushed when the first silo fell
Safety Third!
I did not think that this was going to end well. Thought for sure something bad was going to happen. All I could imagine was the silo crashing down on the guy.
My dad did ours with a sledge hammer, and a 16’ 2x4. Cut a few bands, knocked out every other block, then ran rope, chain thru. Hooked to tractor pulled almost half a row out. It walked till I damaged roof. Mom took video. 8mm no sound. Except when she filmed cats as too scared to watch.
It's very effective. But I would rather have anvil at the end of a chain.
Looks as if someone could knock a hole in silo , run a one inch cable thru , clamp it off inside, hook a dozer to it and pull as if a can opener in reverse. Silos are dangerous to tear down
Yep that's how I've downed a few when I was doing demolition. ( Deconstruction if the client was rich!)😈.
That's how they tore down the church steeple by me. Half way up run cable through holes and the dozer pulled. Worked great.
🚨Thanks this gives me a good idea what to use on my next door neighbor's house whenever they play their stereo too loud!😱😵💣💣💣💣💣💣
The Gringo Bandito
There is a compound called Tannerite that was specifically designed for that.
This was quite a few years ago but I set up an amp and a boom box and introduced them to Jimmy Stuart live from Batenrough, La. When my neighbors try ed that on me and it didn't take them long to quite down
Change up the music Latin nite, German Night . What ever they are not ,crank it up. It works.
@@dougbrown4332 brunne n bohren
I'm gonna start a trebuchet demolition company
6:26 what happened to the guy by the bottom of the silo?
I think it was just the ram
I can ruin a steel ball in a muddy field with a rubber mallet😂
What are they made of? It does not realy look or behave like regular steelsheets or wood.
Good to see that Your brother where not injured by this, it would be a lie pretending that i hawen't done pretty similar things at some point in my life...
today they regret bring it down it could of been used for high speed internet
Hey was that a Van Dale Magnum unloader in 2nd one? Good looking bonet ... well not any more. These taken down after a barn fire?
The second one, when it got pushed over, for a moment it looked like a tongue would come out and start licking it. Lol.
I think a bunch of tannerite and a rifle would be more fun haha
There is reason why wrecking balls are round 😂😂🤣😀😎
Yea no one wants to farm anymore they jus want to sell it off for subdivisions !
A lot of us do want to farm. But it’s impossible to get a start, unless you inherite a farm. These old silos don’t get used anymore. Their sole purpose is to make and store cow food, sileage. But you can’t compete with the big operations, like in Nebraska, and Kansas.
Some friends of mine grandfather passed and they had to sell his farm to pay the taxes
Isn't that the truth, apparently all they want to eat the GMO food
The state ( s ) can come in buy your property for said amount of money take it or leave it, the state can take it! If you want to go or not! Happened to a cousin of mine! State built a school. A few years ago in Matthews NC the state took old man’s farm made a DAM park, hiking trails, bike paths damn sad!!
@carolynrecio4903 Yes it is , but I guess I'd fight as long and hard as I could !
Nice cloud of asbestos dust
You better sue......
I believe that the first silo brought down in this video was a historical site at one time. Sad to see it meet its destruction in this way.
A historical site? A stave silo built in the 1970's?
I doubt it
They came down faster than they went up
I think this would be a lot more fun with tanerite. 😁
I have a couple stupid questions, what were silos initially used for, and why are they now obsolete...
Used for holding grain.
Good morning from SE Louisiana 29 May 21.
It’s a lot more fun with Tannerite!
Did the excavator actually gain any speed by swinging 180?
What was he using as a headache ball ??
Until technology produces a true powered exoskeleton, hydraulic excavators are the next best thing. :-)
Remember kids, cow tipping is much safer and hilarious. 🐄
Can anybody say an AR-15 and a shitload of tannerite 😁
Hold my beer.
He's within the radius of collapse of the silo, and weakening it on the side facing him. He's also really lucky to be alive - this could easily be for the Darwin awards or snuff film category.
i would have tried to hook a cable around one of those support wraps and pulled it from far far away