Easy way taking them down is start knocking blocks out at the bottom with a big sledgehammer. About half way around it starts creaking then falls to the open side. Taken 5 down that way. Run to beat hell opposite direction!
I've done lot's of demo big and small , adding pole and using it was brilliant , far safer , keeps machine and operator safer . Creates great escape options if it goes the wrong way.
I climbed up my grandmas and cut the bands one by one, it took me all day. I guess it helped that the top was decades gone though. We used the salvageable bricks for tree rings, they work great for landscaping.
Only got half of it. A much easier and cheaper way is to take a high power rifle and shoot the cast iron blocks that the steel reinforcement rods bolt to and tighten with.
Back in the 70s I was a member of a crew that build a couple of these silos, according to this they come down faster than going up...
Easy way taking them down is start knocking blocks out at the bottom with a big sledgehammer. About half way around it starts creaking then falls to the open side. Taken 5 down that way. Run to beat hell opposite direction!
I guess it's one of the better ways I've seen
Explosives is probably the safest way. This seems like poking a bear with a stick.
I've done lot's of demo big and small , adding pole and using it was brilliant , far safer , keeps machine and operator safer . Creates great escape options if it goes the wrong way.
Couldn't have done it without that dude running around on the ground.
I climbed up my grandmas and cut the bands one by one, it took me all day. I guess it helped that the top was decades gone though. We used the salvageable bricks for tree rings, they work great for landscaping.
I can't believe how long it is taking I had one of those on the ground inside of five minutes with a cable and an old traxcavator!
thanks for sharing that, i was not home when it went down, so this is the first time i saw the whole thing!!!
Am I the only one thinking excavator jousting?
Cool stuff thank U
Ah, the long pointy stick method of demolition.
So that’s what they mean by the saying “Don’t poke a sleeping Bear”!
Yea we pulled one down when it finally fell. Mom said it sounded like a 21 gun salute went off. And that one was only 40 feet tall
A few well positioned containers of tannerite would have been faster and safer
And so goes another piece of our history and heritage. So sad.. I’d rather see a high rise or shopping mall come down and reverted back to farm land
Only got half of it. A much easier and cheaper way is to take a high power rifle and shoot the cast iron blocks that the steel reinforcement rods bolt to and tighten with.
Does the guy halfway trough the video know that orange shirt is the only one allowed in to chat up the operator.....lol
Another farm turned into a golf course. No wonder shelves are empty. Granny says golf eggs are good, but you gottaboil them for a couple of days!😊
Loosen the lower straps. It will collapse with little effort.