I read that the Purdue University planned to demolish this building since 1992. In Greece all these buildings are preservated by law and the demolition is prohibited. Maintenance works require building permission from the state and the cost for maintenance and repair is very high for the owners. Consequently, the most of these old and beautiful buildings are empty, abandoned and disrepair.
They can finance the construction of an ugly new building versus paying out of pocket to maintain a beautiful old building. Here in the USA, there is less respect for history and beauty. Everything is dollar driven. I went to Indiana University years ago which was very pretty.
Way back when I was young and wore a 36" waist pair of pants, we always put an old grader tire or something similar between the ball and the hoist line. This would relieve a little bit of the shock that was sometimes transferred back to the machine. Demolition contractors do not seem to do that anymore based on watching a few clips here.
Recycling the windows would have been a complete waste of time and money. They would have to be carefully removed then carefully transported to a recycling center. Shattered glass is not considered recyclable. And no one would want to reuse those single pane windows.
The other thing we would do is lash some truck tires to the top of the boom so we would not have to listen to the hoist line rattle on the boom all day. This work is for patient old men. Some of the young operators would expect things to happen instantly. This is a job requiring the patience of a saint on some days. The guy operating this rig is probably an old timer. He has exceptional skill.
Now you know why your tuition is so high...They waste money on new construction when the cost of demolition would improve the building substantially...Being a builder for 3 decades, I would never want to tear that old girl down...Clean her up and upgrade the systems...
prob had asbestos. nobody wants to just tear something down for the hell of it. demo cost and building cost is much more than upgrading, as you know. I am a demo operator, and almost all the buildings that we do had asbestos.
Cameron Ohl :)...You know how much graft is built into those types of projects? Cleaning asbestos can be done cheaper than the demolition and new foundation, bricks, doors, plumbing, etc etc etc...It's not their money, they steal it from their students and their parents so they don't care how they spend it..
+Cameron Ohl Please verify for me, but it is my understanding that asbestos is perfectly safe. It is only when you disturb it, does it become a problem.
@styldsteel1 it depends on the type. Friable, or Non Friable. One type can become Airborne...stuff they use to put on insulation, duct work, etc. that can become airborne. alot of times when I deal with it, It is in a Non Friable form...usually mastic, or tar, used to stick stuff...floor tile, roof/window caulking, etc. that is not an airborne risk. plus water suppression helps minimize the risk.
@@godbluffvdgg Smash the sucker. Far easier and cheaper to have a purpose built facility with modern insulation and damp proofing rather than convert a big cavern with old services, asbestos, and damp problems. Smash everything to the ground and start again .
+heelfan1234 New= sterile and blasé. You can have the simple that exudes modern. I'll stick with those things constructed with class ,taste and mature style in mind thanks.
Sir Christopher I think one has to appreciate the total building Sir Chris. Yes it had a few nice stonework features, but technology has moved on. Those old buildings are a nightmare to waterproof, insulate, soundproof, fit in building services, computer systems, meet fire regulations etc. If you designed buildings to modern codes, you would realise all this. Someone has to pay to bring those buildings up to standard. It is almost impossible with any normal budgets. Far better to smash it and start again.
+heelfan1234 I get the whole "technology has moved on jibberish. My complaint is there aren't anymore engineers as far as I can see that has the ability to design and build buildings like this. The only thing I see popping up out of the ground are huge unimaginative glass boxes. That;s today's way of building buidings today. Stick a steel rod in the ground and hang a piece of glass on it. And if they really want to get fancy? Bend the steel and cut the glass to fit. What do you get? A big bent, crooked boring glass box. Yawn
styldsteel1 There are plenty of engineers who can design anything you want in both modern and traditional materials. It is the architects and the clients who want a more contemporary look. This could have been built looking just the same with modern construction. It would have proper cavity walls, proper waterproofing, and proper insulation. Platform floors to install computer cables. Proper fire protection and detailing. It could look just like this with dressed stone and feature bricks. It is the clients and architects who do not want this look in a building today.
CML building in Melbourne Australia was one of my favourites. This method would not have made a dent, walls were 5 feet thick in places and solid granite. It had to be dismantled like a wedding cake.
Very sad to see go i love the history of these buildings its such a shame they had to go. They could have updated it or something. A very big shame the building will be missed
please tell me where the demolition of the building took place and what kind of building is being demolished with a wrecking ball ? in Moscow, old houses are no longer demolished like this
Min 5, hitting pilars vertically is the worst way to destroy , operator, move your crane side by side a little you'll make more work for less power. Even more in a brick building. From outside to inside in less time and with no miss hits.
that building took that wrecking ball like a champ, it took so many swings just to take out that one corner if this was a modern building i am willing to bet it would have came down alot easier.
Perdue is a great school. On colleges in general: the next time you see a college professor criticizing our consumer driven throw away culture take it with a grain of salt. Colleges wrote the book on wasteful ego-driven spending. By the way, the book is $250 and you must buy the latest edition.
Incredibly good operator. Understands the structure of the building and the physics of the ball. If this is a dying trade, it is only because of the lack of operators like this one!
That building looks too good to destroy; shame it couldn't be converted for a new use. Seems the way nowadays once a building is no longer earning it's keep. Didn't realise wrecking balls were still sometimes used (in Europe 360 degree excavators are always used to munch through a building except for high rise when explosives are used).
you may have been able to repurpose enad, but the power plant was full of asbestos, and most of the space was taken up by the boilers. it wouldn't have been possible to dismantle those without tearing the whole thing down.
Im susprized that the crane and wrecking ball are still used in modern day 2000's. Most buildings here in northwest ohio all get torn down with excavators with buckets or claws, neat piece of old technology still working
i respect the operator handling the wrecking ball crane cuz handling it well, but i think this method require more time. Should just go for implosion method or deliberate method
@@andrewcockie such a beautiful building became a victim of a wrecking ball I live in Moscow we also had a lot of beautiful buildings demolished at one time in Moscow since 1999 a program was launched to demolish panel five story houses of the first period of industrial housing construction these five story buildings were built in the 60s then people moved from barracks and communal apartments to separate apartments five story buildings were built throughout the USSR in the 60s under the rule of nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and the people call these houses Khrushchevki in these houses small apartments with a combined bathroom and toilet the kitchen was small then planned to release the woman from kitchen slavery was planned that people will eat in the communal dining room of the house and have tea in the kitchen in the five-story building there are gas stoves and apartments have been finished only need to bring furniture you can live the people in the Soviet Union received free apartments from the state from where the enterprise operates in the queue and the privatization of housing has already appeared only after the collapse of the USSR and since 1999 in Moscow began to demolish the building of the people who live demolished five-storey buildings get new apartments in the same building ua-cam.com/video/NL-OBBQaQ1A/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/7Xcb_epHCmU/v-deo.html
Well this is the way we used to demolish buildings. Today we use high reach excavators with shears and quickly nip away small pieces, push over bigger sections.
satisfying to watch. but the building didn't even look that old. and can be used for something else. i wonder what happens if someone got hit by the swing of that wrecking ball.
Really it's a shame such a nice old building is being torn down. I feel almost bad saying it, but I kept watching and waiting for that top window on the corner to break. And he kept missing it by freaking inches!! Lol. And then he gets the two next to it. -___- The coup de grace was when it finally broke, I couldn't see the glass shatter. Heh
It's more likely that these wonderful looking buildings were brought down because they were in safe for people to be in .if it's not up to code and could pose danger to people and it's not fixable they have to come down .
I can see why the wrecking ball is in decline, that would take all day to knock it down at that rate, must say it would be fun swinging that thing around, reminds me of Miley Cyrus for some strange reason.
Theres probably a good reason why they are demolishing it.... it is expensive to waste a building like that so a major problem must have come up with the building for them to demolish it.
such a beautiful building, and yet another one gone. I guarantee only to be replace by a lousy stinking glass box. Yea kiddies, that's how they build buildings these days. Put up a steel frame and hang a piece of glass on it. And if the "engineers" want to get really funky? They will bend the peice of steel and hang a piece of cut glass to fit the bent up steel. I'm convinced there are no real engineers who know how to build buildings with real gorgeous architecture. So keep obliterating architecture like this building and better ones than this and put up more pieces of steel and hang s;more glass on it and BE PROUD OF YOUR BIG STUPID GLASS BOX. I"m done
styldsteel1 the same here in Austria! They always talk about Tradition but they destroy all the beautiful old build ins and replacement them with shoeboxes made of concrete and glass. Awful! Just to get more money because they have more appartments and garages to rent.
Yeah god forbid someone would wanna actaully let some sunlight in. Clearly your aspergery taste in architecture supersedes that interest. Also the interest of not dying of asbestos. You're an idiot.
The new building is very glassy in the front entrance area, but it has a lot of brick too. Purdue likes to build even the new buildings with significant amounts of red brick. www.purdue.edu/parentandfamily/Communications/NewsletterArchive/2017/05_May_2017/WALC.html
@@aaronhuffman4852 I used a headache ball one time on a small job with a smaller crane. I am a retired crane operator and had the privilege to operator some of the greatest cranes made including the Manitowoc Vicon 4100 on a ringer. I also used a small Koehring with the headache ball. It is true the Manitowoc is a well built tank of a machine but NO crane needs to be used like that. Side loading the boom and snatching the machine is just horrible. In my opinion, I would not take a crane used for this type work and put it on a job picking and hauling over anyones head. You would have to do one bad ass inspection for me to use it on a construction job. It is almost like dedicating a good machine to this type work. Might be where the old machines go to die. My son in law works for a large crane rental company. He rents cranes for large jobs that last for sometimes up to a couple of years. He was telling me that today, it is very hard to find operators especially for the older machines. They all want hydraulic and air conditioning. Go figure. Sorry help these days.
You’ll never see architecture like this again
I read that the Purdue University planned to demolish this building since 1992. In Greece all these buildings are preservated by law and the demolition is prohibited. Maintenance works require building permission from the state and the cost for maintenance and repair is very high for the owners. Consequently, the most of these old and beautiful buildings are empty, abandoned and disrepair.
They can finance the construction of an ugly new building versus paying out of pocket to maintain a beautiful old building. Here in the USA, there is less respect for history and beauty. Everything is dollar driven. I went to Indiana University years ago which was very pretty.
Way back when I was young and wore a 36" waist pair of pants,
we always put an old grader tire or something similar between the ball and the hoist line. This would relieve a little bit of the shock that was sometimes transferred back to the machine. Demolition contractors do not seem to do that anymore based on watching a few clips here.
Fantastic! There's time for everything' a time to build; a time to wreck
disgruntled student, found the keys to the crane.
lol
who doesn't enjoy seeing a school get destroyed
Read the other comments, and you know who.
Bill Williams lol
What a waste of a good building. They didn't even recycle the glass.
+Phil Houldershaw My thought exactly.
@@kornukaz Haha, smash that glass, smash everything. I love busting up shite.
I think many thing such glasses will be recycle
Recycling the windows would have been a complete waste of time and money. They would have to be carefully removed then carefully transported to a recycling center. Shattered glass is not considered recyclable. And no one would want to reuse those single pane windows.
@@ironmatic1 Glass wool is not a thing for you?
Thanks for these programs. Its a type that has no controversy. Good for making me wish I had that driver's job.
So relaxing I can watch this for hours...better than every movie.
The other thing we would do is lash some truck tires to the top of the boom so we would not have to listen to the hoist line rattle on the boom all day. This work is for patient old men. Some of the young operators would expect things to happen instantly. This is a job requiring the patience of a saint on some days. The guy operating this rig is probably an old timer. He has exceptional skill.
Now you know why your tuition is so high...They waste money on new construction when the cost of demolition would improve the building substantially...Being a builder for 3 decades, I would never want to tear that old girl down...Clean her up and upgrade the systems...
prob had asbestos. nobody wants to just tear something down for the hell of it. demo cost and building cost is much more than upgrading, as you know. I am a demo operator, and almost all the buildings that we do had asbestos.
Cameron Ohl :)...You know how much graft is built into those types of projects? Cleaning asbestos can be done cheaper than the demolition and new foundation, bricks, doors, plumbing, etc etc etc...It's not their money, they steal it from their students and their parents so they don't care how they spend it..
+Cameron Ohl Please verify for me, but it is my understanding that asbestos is perfectly safe. It is only when you disturb it, does it become a problem.
@styldsteel1 it depends on the type. Friable, or Non Friable. One type can become Airborne...stuff they use to put on insulation, duct work, etc. that can become airborne. alot of times when I deal with it, It is in a Non Friable form...usually mastic, or tar, used to stick stuff...floor tile, roof/window caulking, etc. that is not an airborne risk. plus water suppression helps minimize the risk.
@@godbluffvdgg Smash the sucker. Far easier and cheaper to have a purpose built facility with modern insulation and damp proofing rather than convert a big cavern with old services, asbestos, and damp problems. Smash everything to the ground and start again .
What a waste of beautiful architecture.
+Sir Christopher Smash that crap old building down, let's build something modern!
+heelfan1234 New= sterile and blasé. You can have the simple that exudes modern. I'll stick with those things constructed with class ,taste and mature style in mind thanks.
Sir Christopher I think one has to appreciate the total building Sir Chris.
Yes it had a few nice stonework features, but technology has moved on. Those old buildings are a nightmare to waterproof, insulate, soundproof, fit in building services, computer systems, meet fire regulations etc.
If you designed buildings to modern codes, you would realise all this. Someone has to pay to bring those buildings up to standard. It is almost impossible with any normal budgets. Far better to smash it and start again.
+heelfan1234 I get the whole "technology has moved on jibberish. My complaint is there aren't anymore engineers as far as I can see that has the ability to design and build buildings like this. The only thing I see popping up out of the ground are huge unimaginative glass boxes. That;s today's way of building buidings today. Stick a steel rod in the ground and hang a piece of glass on it. And if they really want to get fancy? Bend the steel and cut the glass to fit. What do you get? A big bent, crooked boring glass box. Yawn
styldsteel1
There are plenty of engineers who can design anything you want in both modern and traditional materials. It is the architects and the clients who want a more contemporary look.
This could have been built looking just the same with modern construction. It would have proper cavity walls, proper waterproofing, and proper insulation. Platform floors to install computer cables. Proper fire protection and detailing. It could look just like this with dressed stone and feature bricks. It is the clients and architects who do not want this look in a building today.
Nice job on the video! Love watching demos.
Thanks for the video! Sad it had to come down.
i could watch this all day!
same here lol.
Me to. I'm glad I'm not the only one,
I can hardly believe they are knocking down a beautiful building like that.
CML building in Melbourne Australia was one of my favourites. This method would not have made a dent, walls were 5 feet thick in places and solid granite. It had to be dismantled like a wedding cake.
Very sad to see go i love the history of these buildings its such a shame they had to go. They could have updated it or something. A very big shame the building will be missed
I think of all the manual labor that went into building this building I am interested to know how much energy it too to tear it apart versus build it.
SUCH A SHAME>>>>> Beautiful building gone forever!!!!! Shame on those people!!!
Next time YOU pay for the insulation, waterproofing, heating = thorough renovation of such building to modern standards. It costs A LOT.
I CAME IN LIKE A WREEEEECKING BAALLLL
Legend says he’s still there trying to knock the place down.
It was a well-engineered building.
Quite relaxing to watch!!
I bet that operator hears the sound of those cables clanging in his sleep
please tell me where the demolition of the building took place and what kind of building is being demolished with a wrecking ball ? in Moscow, old houses are no longer demolished like this
Min 5, hitting pilars vertically is the worst way to destroy , operator, move your crane side by side a little you'll make more work for less power. Even more in a brick building. From outside to inside in less time and with no miss hits.
I've always wanted to do this as my job. I wonder how much that ball weighs
Typical weights are 2 to 4 tons
Nice old building. Did they replace it with glass and metal?
Is the building down yet?
that building took that wrecking ball like a champ, it took so many swings just to take out that one corner if this was a modern building i am willing to bet it would have came down alot easier.
When was that building constructed?
1928
Perdue is a great school. On colleges in general: the next time you see a college professor criticizing our consumer driven throw away culture take it with a grain of salt. Colleges wrote the book on wasteful ego-driven spending. By the way, the book is $250 and you must buy the latest edition.
Incredibly good operator. Understands the structure of the building and the physics of the ball.
If this is a dying trade, it is only because of the lack of operators like this one!
‘Incredibly good operator’?
Joke of an operator.
This must be the Sandusky Hall.
Das solche schöne Gebäude nicht unter Denkmalschutz gesetzt werden ist mir unverständlich !
That building looks too good to destroy; shame it couldn't be converted for a new use. Seems the way nowadays once a building is no longer earning it's keep. Didn't realise wrecking balls were still sometimes used (in Europe 360 degree excavators are always used to munch through a building except for high rise when explosives are used).
you may have been able to repurpose enad, but the power plant was full of asbestos, and most of the space was taken up by the boilers. it wouldn't have been possible to dismantle those without tearing the whole thing down.
Flawless_Nirvana Take your point about asbestos & agree it would be difficult but boilers can be cut up on site. Guess it was considered not worth it.
when there is asbestos wrecking balls are used often for large buildings because explosives and asbestos put asbestos into the air
doesn't look like they're too bothered about making dust here
@@user-go8oj4dl4w Asbestos don,t do nothing on short time , but after years it making harm.
Lots of memories from that building
Why was that building torn down it could have been used for something elese?
The wrecking ball demolishes buildings mercilessly
I came in like a wrecking ball
Im susprized that the crane and wrecking ball are still used in modern day 2000's. Most buildings here in northwest ohio all get torn down with excavators with buckets or claws, neat piece of old technology still working
i respect the operator handling the wrecking ball crane cuz handling it well, but i think this method require more time. Should just go for implosion method or deliberate method
One thing's for sure: It aint this operator's first day.
It was built in 1924. I bet the men who worked on it were glad to have jobs and built the very best building they could for fear of losing their jobs.
I CAM IN LIKE A WRECKING BALLL
That's gotta be the most fun job ever.
Why was the Crain shaking so much
Wrecking ball every time, I can’t stand those claw demolitions.
I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL!!!!!!!!
remember that gomer pyle usmc episode when the wrecking ball dropped on sgt carters car...uh oh better get maaco lol
Am i the only one wanting to know about the glass in those windows?
I saw a perfectly good folding chair. Could have used that!
This must have been over in the AG part of the campus. Other than he red brick I do not recognize it. Not sure what went up in it's place
This was between the ME building and the Chem Building. They put up the new Active Learning Center in its place.
@@andrewcockie such a beautiful building became a victim of a wrecking ball I live in Moscow we also had a lot of beautiful buildings demolished at one time in Moscow since 1999 a program was launched to demolish panel five story houses of the first period of industrial housing construction these five story buildings were built in the 60s then people moved from barracks and communal apartments to separate apartments five story buildings were built throughout the USSR in the 60s under the rule of nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and the people call these houses Khrushchevki in these houses small apartments with a combined bathroom and toilet the kitchen was small then planned to release the woman from kitchen slavery was planned that people will eat in the communal dining room of the house and have tea in the kitchen in the five-story building there are gas stoves and apartments have been finished only need to bring furniture you can live the people in the Soviet Union received free apartments from the state from where the enterprise operates in the queue and the privatization of housing has already appeared only after the collapse of the USSR and since 1999 in Moscow began to demolish the building of the people who live demolished five-storey buildings get new apartments in the same building
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I think there are probably many people that would pay to do that work. It looks like fun. I wonder how the operator sees what he is doing?
8:14 is the start of my favorite part
I enjoy these
So beautiful.
That thudd sound hurts just looking at it..
Drums....... Drums from the deep..... We cannot get out. They`re coming!
Well this is the way we used to demolish buildings. Today we use high reach excavators with shears and quickly nip away small pieces, push over bigger sections.
It must take AGES to demolish that enormous building at that rate
heartbreaking !!such beautiful building ,
What, this is no like in movies, where's the giant ball destroying all the building for once?
AzTK that is Realität not movie.;)
Strong building - you could save it!
Crunch! I love watching a wrecking ball.
those windows are/were so strong...
Why use wrecking ball in 21st century?
Rose White because it is more cheap and more effizient (if you have a good operator) than modern technic
Is this a historic building?
Not any more!
If it was, it is no longer! Lol. It’s historic rubble now.
I guess class is cancelled today 🙁
did they leave all the redundant engineers inside now that all engineering is done in Germany and China?
Esse trabalho c essa velocidade vai levar 1 ano pra terminar o serviço de demolição do prédio.
satisfying to watch. but the building didn't even look that old. and can be used for something else. i wonder what happens if someone got hit by the swing of that wrecking ball.
operator has skills...
I love it, its like breaking glass.
Ok I feel sorry for the old building too, but damn that would be a fun job.
Oh yea lets just wreck it wow what a waste :( This is so sad. :( :( :(
One of the best jobs in the world, fact.
old-school wrecking-balling
isn’t this a representation of civil engineering?
Really it's a shame such a nice old building is being torn down. I feel almost bad saying it, but I kept watching and waiting for that top window on the corner to break. And he kept missing it by freaking inches!! Lol. And then he gets the two next to it. -___- The coup de grace was when it finally broke, I couldn't see the glass shatter. Heh
That looks fun!
I CAAMMEE INNN LIKE AA
AA WREEEEKIING BAALLL
why smash a perfectly good building?''..........
To make room for a building that won't be useless.
oh"........
To make room for a new building that is built shitty.
yes''.....
+richard bennice Because it was shit.
covid 19 ke and keep to my what you have my peace from time kow
Recycle the glass are you kidding me, Its just sand.
Clyde Dooseldorph, glass takes forever to break down. The most efficient way to dispose of it is to recycle it.
It's more likely that these wonderful looking buildings were brought down because they were in safe for people to be in .if it's not up to code and could pose danger to people and it's not fixable they have to come down .
Wow, now that's an old-fashioned, time-consuming way of doing things
Wonderful. A university destroying its own history.
Зачем такое красивое здание снесли?
Can they destroy my school
Lmfao
I can see why the wrecking ball is in decline, that would take all day to knock it down at that rate, must say it would be fun swinging that thing around, reminds me of Miley Cyrus for some strange reason.
Theres probably a good reason why they are demolishing it.... it is expensive to waste a building like that so a major problem must have come up with the building for them to demolish it.
this probably took decades, why not use excavators?
Schools have way too much money to waste
It's old
such a beautiful building, and yet another one gone. I guarantee only to be replace by a lousy stinking glass box. Yea kiddies, that's how they build buildings these days. Put up a steel frame and hang a piece of glass on it. And if the "engineers" want to get really funky? They will bend the peice of steel and hang a piece of cut glass to fit the bent up steel. I'm convinced there are no real engineers who know how to build buildings with real gorgeous architecture. So keep obliterating architecture like this building and better ones than this and put up more pieces of steel and hang s;more glass on it and BE PROUD OF YOUR BIG STUPID GLASS BOX. I"m done
styldsteel1 the same here in Austria! They always talk about Tradition but they destroy all the beautiful old build ins and replacement them with shoeboxes made of concrete and glass. Awful! Just to get more money because they have more appartments and garages to rent.
Yeah god forbid someone would wanna actaully let some sunlight in. Clearly your aspergery taste in architecture supersedes that interest. Also the interest of not dying of asbestos. You're an idiot.
It is a question of taste! Not necessary to call somebody an "idiot" !!!
The new building is very glassy in the front entrance area, but it has a lot of brick too. Purdue likes to build even the new buildings with significant amounts of red brick.
www.purdue.edu/parentandfamily/Communications/NewsletterArchive/2017/05_May_2017/WALC.html
Nice rant :D
A lot of stress on a great machine that is not designed for that type work.
It’s a Manitowoc!
@@aaronhuffman4852 I used a headache ball one time on a small job with a smaller crane. I am a retired crane operator and had the privilege to operator some of the greatest cranes made including the Manitowoc Vicon 4100 on a ringer. I also used a small Koehring with the headache ball. It is true the Manitowoc is a well built tank of a machine but NO crane needs to be used like that. Side loading the boom and snatching the machine is just horrible. In my opinion, I would not take a crane used for this type work and put it on a job picking and hauling over anyones head. You would have to do one bad ass inspection for me to use it on a construction job. It is almost like dedicating a good machine to this type work. Might be where the old machines go to die. My son in law works for a large crane rental company. He rents cranes for large jobs that last for sometimes up to a couple of years. He was telling me that today, it is very hard to find operators especially for the older machines. They all want hydraulic and air conditioning. Go figure. Sorry help these days.
That would take forever
this has to be the most fun job ever
It seems to me that he’s trying to drag the job out! A few decent smacks and this building is down!
Wrecking ball demolition is slower than high reach excavators!
this demolition company needs to strap some old tires on the jib to stop the cable from bouncing on it and making that clank clank noise all day long.
Hilrods use tires,that rig
That rig has deflector rollers an hardwood boards on boom
So much quicker with an excavator...