Interesting video, but it might have been useful to identify both the city where this takes place, Mahanoy City, and the state in which it is located, Pennsylvania.
30:35 What the Damn Fudge! You went from a 4 story to a 2 story in one cut! You just skipped over the best parts. All the boring commentary about 'last views" and not a peep about why you cut that whole section.
Nothing like starting in the middle when you are concerned with a possible collapse. A taller reach would have made it safer for the operator and the surroundings. A perfect example of trying to get away the cheap way.
Dont think Ive ever seen as incompetent a job as watching that too short a machine trying to push the brick wall in 2 floors below the top! the whole demo looked like an amateur chop shop who bid the lowest bid on the job, a miracle the whole building didn't collapse on one of the machines. Did anyone save the round terracotta "K" that was shown falling out of the wall from over the doorway near the end of the video? Too bad the terracotta letters at the top werent saved
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.
Charles D. Kaier Company. The Charles D. Kaier Company was a beer brewery in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, that produced Kaier's brand beer from 1880 to 1968 under a succession of corporate identities. The company was sold to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's, Ortlieb Brewing Company in 1966, and ceased producing beer in 1968.
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.
Sad to see the building come down. Did they do any asbestos abatement before taking the building apart? Steam engines, boilers and so on all seemed to be wrapped up in LOTS of asbestos around the turn of the century up through the 50's and possibly 60's
I feel dizzy my head is spinning 🤢 remember that song 🎶? thanks for the video and the motion sickness, maybe you should invest in a tripod, and that machine would have been a lot more effective with some shears just like that second excavator would've been with a thumb.
I've seen alot of different types of demo work and there was on planning or prep work , how many days did it take to bring it down and clean up the site
@@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
@@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!
I thought you would be interested to know the railroad that ran through Onstead is no longer there. I'll let you guess where Onstead is just like you don't say where this brewery is.
NOT the best of demolition jobs I have seen and certainly not the best of operators either. Surely a 'revolving head' and a 'cutting shear' would have been far more sensible. Oh yes, and the proper filming equipment wouldn't hurt either if you intend doing 'long' videos often, - if it's only a one off you can be excused slightly.
The operator here should have been arrested, he has no clue what he's doing, he's a danger to himself and others, there's no excuse for this. The operator needs to understand gravity and perhaps a little about building construction, he's foolish and dangerous. And yes, I've been through that area a few times..
The only reason I say this because I personally done it I work for the BERG GROUP here in Baltimore Maryland for about 15 years and have another 15 years in concrete construction
I gave this video a thumbs up, but only based on the content and subject. The commentary in the beginning is very informative, and most of the video is fairly sharp and focused. However, between the lack of image stability (tripod), and the camera operator continually zooming in and out, really makes for some potentially nauseating videography. I notice a tripod is likely being used at 15:24. Anyone wanting to utilize cameras really should invest in and always have the proper videography necessities close at hand. Extra batteries, windsocks/mufflers, tripods, remote controls, lens cleaners, etc. Get as much of your subject in frame as possible and then stay locked on that way. Any zoom or panning can easily be done in post.
Wouldn't you think that a town of 4,000 would have a Hollywood trained camera operator on the Historical Society payroll? What's wrong with small-town USA anyway?
I never could understand demolition operatorsWho demo buildings like this 10 feet above the length of your machine or to reach all that steel columns and steel beams on site it would take two hours to make 15 to 20 foot poker to give you to reach me
what a waste building should've been Re purposed and used for Apartments or something else. total shortsightedness! there is no money to build like this it was built to last lifetime's
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.
shame on the contractor. absolutely inapproprate machinery in action. 🙁 there are much better excavators and tools available. I have seen a lot of demolitions live, on tv and UA-cam but never such a rediculous one. there have been a lot of dangerous moments for the driver of the excavator when parts fell down from the top of the building. German authorities wouldn't have allowed to do the work with the machines we have seen.
Not knowing exactly why they decided to demolish the building, what a shame the building had to come down in the first place and not retained//re-purposed. Seems like the contractor should go back to school and learn that if you pull the guts out first - you may have some issues with something falling on your head - HA. Have a safe and nice dal all. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
i have seen a lot better than this just outside my house in the uk,they have been demolishing the old molson coors brewery,the operators are alot better than this..sorry to rain on your parade!
Mahanoy City lies in a valley in the Pennsylvania Coal Region in central Pennsylvania, The operator here should have been arrested, he has no clue what he's doing, he's a danger to himself and others, there's no excuse for this. And yes, I've been through that area a few times..
It is remarkable to think about how much work it took in 1937 to place all of those bricks!
Interesting video, but it might have been useful to identify both the city where this takes place, Mahanoy City, and the state in which it is located, Pennsylvania.
Thank you Sid....
30:35 What the Damn Fudge! You went from a 4 story to a 2 story in one cut! You just skipped over the best parts. All the boring commentary about 'last views" and not a peep about why you cut that whole section.
Nothing like starting in the middle when you are concerned with a possible collapse. A taller reach would have made it safer for the operator and the surroundings. A perfect example of trying to get away the cheap way.
Dont think Ive ever seen as incompetent a job as watching that too short a machine trying to push the brick wall in 2 floors below the top! the whole demo looked like an amateur chop shop who bid the lowest bid on the job, a miracle the whole building didn't collapse on one of the machines.
Did anyone save the round terracotta "K" that was shown falling out of the wall from over the doorway near the end of the video?
Too bad the terracotta letters at the top werent saved
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.
thanks
Charles D. Kaier Company. The Charles D. Kaier Company was a beer brewery in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, that produced Kaier's brand beer from 1880 to 1968 under a succession of corporate identities. The company was sold to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's, Ortlieb Brewing Company in 1966, and ceased producing beer in 1968.
such a solid building, i would have developed it into loft apartments, stupid idea tearing it down
Proper footings foundation was messed up couldn't be use as a residential structure.
LOCATION---- Mahanoy PA, 30 miles northwest of Allentown PA.
Wonder if any of that brick was salvaged to sell ??
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.
Sad to see the building come down. Did they do any asbestos abatement before taking the building apart? Steam engines, boilers and so on all seemed to be wrapped up in LOTS of asbestos around the turn of the century up through the 50's and possibly 60's
I feel dizzy my head is spinning 🤢 remember that song 🎶? thanks for the video and the motion sickness, maybe you should invest in a tripod, and that machine would have been a lot more effective with some shears just like that second excavator would've been with a thumb.
I've seen alot of different types of demo work and there was on planning or prep work , how many days did it take to bring it down and clean up the site
Awesome video brother
Sad to see a fine old building go down. Would have made nice apartments may be. Good job to the operator. Thanks for posting it.
Was this in Wisconsin or Detroit Michigan?
Why the hell did they remove center-of-structure support beams instead of working from the top down?
Um, because they are professionals and know what they are doing.
@@babalui66 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Because they are incompetent amateurs who bid the cheapest on the job and showed up with inadequate equipment
@@HobbyOrganist 👍👍👍👍
@@HobbyOrganist True. The excavator can‘t reach high enough and that „claw“ is definitely not the right tool😂
are you kidding? these non union operators are making ten bucks an hour. and they suck
For something that was ready to just fall over , it shir is putting up a fight to come down.
Could've used a bigger and different piece of equipment...
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!
I love how demo guys wait till everyone goes home to do the hairy stuff. lol
Poor operater
What city and state is this brewery?
best audio ever when was thus done during a hurricane put a con Infront of the microphone removed the wind sound very annoying
a steel building covered in brick. they don't build em like that anymore. that buidling would have lasted another 200 years.
Doesn't look safe to me. Wouldn't a crane with a wrecking ball be better and safer?
No cause you cannot control where the building would fall with a wrecking ball as easily as with a excavator
The longfront excavator is good, but they are using a wrong tool on it (claw?)
@@peon9282that's not a wrong tool.. they could have also used a bucket considering it isn't made up of reinforced concrete and steel beams
@@xxkrazykrewxxl6254 The claw is rigid, a sorting grad would be better. But I know that they aren‘t common in the US.
@@peon9282 they are actually common here
I thought you would be interested to know the railroad that ran through Onstead is no longer there. I'll let you guess where Onstead is just like you don't say where this brewery is.
That is my family’s beer
dam shame they rip it down instead of restoring it reopen too this is not how to make American great again
NOT the best of demolition jobs I have seen and certainly not the best of operators either. Surely a 'revolving head' and a 'cutting shear' would have been far more sensible. Oh yes, and the proper filming equipment wouldn't hurt either if you intend doing 'long' videos often, - if it's only a one off you can be excused slightly.
The operator here should have been arrested, he has no clue what he's doing, he's a danger to himself and others, there's no excuse for this. The operator needs to understand gravity and perhaps a little about building construction, he's foolish and dangerous. And yes, I've been through that area a few times..
@@davidnull5590 He looks like he plies his trade in a pulp mill yard, rather than doing demolition, TBH.
I've gotta say it..I can't hold it back.."they sure don't
make em like they used to.."goodbye you tough old bastard..
My name is Joseph Kaier
You had relatives that worked at the brewery
I hope the money from selling the company filtered down to you.
Was that their first job? Holiocrap!
The only reason I say this because I personally done it I work for the BERG GROUP here in Baltimore Maryland for about 15 years and have another 15 years in concrete construction
Why take it down in the first place?
Looked like it wasn't in the best of shape before they started.
If you are going to film for a while, why not use a decent tripod?
Oh lord. A Stand With Ukraine Biden supporter. Are your useless booster shots up to date?
I deconstructed a small two story house and knew to go top down not center first.
TOO shaky to watch.
Shame, as a tripod costs 10 bux.
I gave this video a thumbs up, but only based on the content and subject. The commentary in the beginning is very informative, and most of the video is fairly sharp and focused. However, between the lack of image stability (tripod), and the camera operator continually zooming in and out, really makes for some potentially nauseating videography. I notice a tripod is likely being used at 15:24. Anyone wanting to utilize cameras really should invest in and always have the proper videography necessities close at hand. Extra batteries, windsocks/mufflers, tripods, remote controls, lens cleaners, etc. Get as much of your subject in frame as possible and then stay locked on that way. Any zoom or panning can easily be done in post.
Wouldn't you think that a town of 4,000 would have a Hollywood trained camera operator on the Historical Society payroll? What's wrong with small-town USA anyway?
water hose ? your dose that cost too much ,OSHA RULES
It makes you wonder what would happen if you leaned against a wall
I bet it cost more to take the building down than it did to build it years ago!!! LOL
How sad. It could have been converted to condos.
Beer! Ugh!!
Tree sapling: Life, um, finds a way
John Deere: Nope
I never could understand demolition operatorsWho demo buildings like this 10 feet above the length of your machine or to reach all that steel columns and steel beams on site it would take two hours to make 15 to 20 foot poker to give you to reach me
That Operator isn't making $100 an hour. Not even close. Maybe 45.
I may be wrong but I took that statement as being $100k/yr. As far as your $45/hr ... I totally agree.
@@tomw5824 I was in the Pile-drivers and divers union in Alaska. We got a job in Iraq and we got $100 an hour. That doesn't happen in the states.
The BREWHOUSE is aptly named EILEEN!
The operator acts like he never operate a machine before
what a waste building should've been Re purposed and used for Apartments or something else. total shortsightedness! there is no money to build like this it was built to last lifetime's
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.
"Smart folk's still build with brick"
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.
$30 per hour tops
,,,, and now let's grab a carafe of Boilo at Rut's, then hit Lucky's for Polish Torpedos and Bondookies....
who's the animal in the HRD? Someone put some shear jaws in that thing for crying out loud.
and a tripod!
You dont need shears for bricks.. heck they could have used a bucket. Shears are used for harder materials like concrete etc
Would have been cool if you stopped zooming in.
This boring it's like watching painting dry
Why don't they start from the bottom and let gravity take it down
looks like a pretty good operator. he got it down fast and mean
This crane operator was obviously getting paid by the hour
shame on the contractor. absolutely inapproprate machinery in action. 🙁 there are much better excavators and tools available. I have seen a lot of demolitions live, on tv and UA-cam but never such a rediculous one. there have been a lot of dangerous moments for the driver of the excavator when parts fell down from the top of the building. German authorities wouldn't have allowed to do the work with the machines we have seen.
Germans would take it down one brick per day and recycle the mortar from each one before removing the next.
Wonder if OSHA issued fine's for safety violations from this debacle?
Nobody cares.
Not knowing exactly why they decided to demolish the building, what a shame the building had to come down in the first place and not retained//re-purposed. Seems like the contractor should go back to school and learn that if you pull the guts out first - you may have some issues with something falling on your head - HA. Have a safe and nice dal all. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
falsches werkzeug!!!!
sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad.........
Boring.
i have seen a lot better than this just outside my house in the uk,they have been demolishing the old molson coors brewery,the operators are alot better than this..sorry to rain on your parade!
Mahanoy City lies in a valley in the Pennsylvania Coal Region in central Pennsylvania, The operator here should have been arrested, he has no clue what he's doing, he's a danger to himself and others, there's no excuse for this. And yes, I've been through that area a few times..
@@davidnull5590 like your so smart....he got the building down didnt he