Fantastic. I like that the timing of the charges is visible when dropping bridges. It shows the precision that is needed to do this safely. What a great way to start my Saturday. Lots of booms.
I'm endlessly fascinated by these demolition sequences & the "reverse" engineering of the charges to fold the structures in on themselves... it's definitely an art! It's an interesting brainteaser, assessing the engineering & materials from a dismantling/destruction perspective rather than the durability/longevity of construction like I'm used to.... and CDI's high-speed footage is always chef's kiss. 👌 Thanks for sharing your industrial origami on the internet... it's a real treat for us engi-nerds!
All of these examples are clearly the result of many days or weeks of engineering and design as well as efficient placement of charges. What we see is the end result. Great video! Controlled Demolition, Inc. knows what they are doing.
The precision of these demolitions are really incredible. To be able to explode a Bridge pretty much right next to the replacement Bridge and not damage the replacement Bridge. Almost Surgical, awesome work.
Ok, two things. One, that was one of the best 10 minute videos I have ever interrupted one of my child’s birthday party for. Two, please, you need to set up a Tee Spring shop to sell t-shirts and mugs of your work. Imagine, one side before images and the other side after. And DVD’s!
The I-90 bridge in Pennsylvania is my backyard. I remember seeing that come down. Erie, Pennsylvania.. that bridge was very structurally unsafe from years of road salt here in our sometimes harsh winters.
Excellent footage! I loved that old Bridgeport bridge structure, the girders are a work of art, hopefully someone salvaged them and repurposed them into a building. Beautifully made pieces.
Es los EEUU, allí no se respeta nada de lo antiguo, ese metal lo fundirán para hacer mierdas nuevas, (que seguramente no durarán tanto cómo las antiguas ni serán tan bonitas) y es una lástima
Always amazes me that you can use that much destructive force, and just have a huge structure settle neatly down right next to another without causing any damage.
Ditto! And no annoying redundant words continuously popping up all over the video. (Like everyone watching must be deaf or something.) And no absurd Photo-shopped click bait thumbnail; or inset of some dumb-a** talking head behind a microphone so big it eclipses their face. Sadly, too many YT posters nowadays lack the imagination, talent, skill and discipline necessary to produce engaging, worthwhile, quality content -- like this video. It's been a long time since I watched any YT video without accelerating, speeding or skipping through the playback. Very refreshing. Thank you for an outstanding, straight-to-the-point contribution.
There should be a competition for demolition similar to the annual international fireworks competition, where companies from different countries compete for first place. L'International des Feux , Montreal, QC, Canada, at the end of every July, features four to six nights, each with 30 minutes of fireworks. It's a great show, and I could see having four identical structures being built every few years, for a demolition competition.
I watched the Ft. Steuben Bridge demo live! Sad to see it go but man do you guys do good work! I watched the Ore Bridge demo on tv and heard the blast echo up the valley. I know you’ve done some work at Browns Island too.
Thanks for watching! If you're interested in watching the full Bridgeport Bridge Demolition - click on the link below: ua-cam.com/video/2DC99GJ4SrQ/v-deo.html
It appears on close up of the Tappan Zee Bridge demolition at 9:19 that a contractor backhoe was left on the span to go down in the river with the wreckage.
yeah I wish there was a way to turn those off.. I don't know who thought that was a good idea, as I have had the endings of many a video blocked by those, ugh
@Mrright87 the first bridge to have dolphins that weren’t retrofitted onto it later was the Sunshine skyway bridge in 1987, a good 10 years after the key bridge opened.
Hundreds of years worth of engineering construction destroyed in seconds, what a job. Are you hiring😂😂. Well done video, all the action and no BS. All the best.
The answer is yes and no. I worked for a road crew (we did demolition ourselves). No we never had a meotor sized piece come crashing down. Yes there was dust and shrapnel from the demolished structure occasionally. (Only did it 6 times though). The damage was mostly cosmetic.
The demolition sequence had previously removed bridge sections at both ends, so it couldn't be driven away. The manlift was still needed for safe access to difficult-to-reach places to prep this later section for demolition. The time and expense required would make it impractical to remove it before dropping that section. Use it and throw it away. That expense would have been a line item in the overall demolition budget.
Im sorry, but failto understand the "demolition" part, when all the bridge does is fall into tge water or cliff, yet is still fully intact, other than being separated from the rest of the bridge. Wouldnt it be easier to just disassemble it than to have to pull it ( fully intact I might ad) apart by blowing it up? Seems like more work than its worth.🤔
Eventually it becomes uneconomical to keep maintaining a bridge, and they have to be demolished and rebuilt. We definitely don't want bridges collapsing because of being unmaintained.
I'm always wondering when bridges over water are demolished (like the Eggner Ferry Bridge) what is more efficient, blowing it up and then dredging al the pieces from the water (and hoping you get them all), or use some floating cranes to lift a section from its foundation, place it on a pontoon en deconstruct is elsewere (or refurbish it and use it to replace another old bridge, like the Netherlands is doing recently.) And costs aside, what are the environmental implacation when blowing up a bridge and you can't fully control what is thrown where?
4:19 Kinda reminds me of Buster Scruggs walking into the cantina and patting himself on the chest, leaving a dust outline of himself when he walks away.
In several of these examples, it is difficult to see that the remaining work of removing the debris, is easier than if the bridge was not blown up. Especially when the spans ends up in water.
It would be super-duper unsafe to try to take them apart while they're 100 feet up in the air. Much safer to get the smaller pieces hauled away when they're on the ground or in shallow water. Tappan Zee demo is a good example of that.
8:54 Bro I use to drive on this bridge ALL the time and I remember kinda watching the progress for the Mario M Cuomo and then we finally started to drive on that one.
Thank you for not including narration or needing to number them. Each demolition is a thing of beauty all its own!
yes indeed man
Everyone pay attention! This is how a YT video is done. Right to the video with no stupid narration and no stupid music! Great job!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I agree
same
The best for me is: Charleroi Monessen Bridge - Pennsylvania. Amazing how the smoke holds the shape of the bridge as it descends into the water.
Fantastic. I like that the timing of the charges is visible when dropping bridges. It shows the precision that is needed to do this safely. What a great way to start my Saturday. Lots of booms.
why are these videos so satisfying
Good demonstration of why cutting charges are basically cutting torches at near-lightspeed :)
I'm endlessly fascinated by these demolition sequences & the "reverse" engineering of the charges to fold the structures in on themselves... it's definitely an art! It's an interesting brainteaser, assessing the engineering & materials from a dismantling/destruction perspective rather than the durability/longevity of construction like I'm used to.... and CDI's high-speed footage is always chef's kiss. 👌 Thanks for sharing your industrial origami on the internet... it's a real treat for us engi-nerds!
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoy our videos!
All of these examples are clearly the result of many days or weeks of engineering and design as well as efficient placement of charges. What we see is the end result. Great video! Controlled Demolition, Inc. knows what they are doing.
Why is this so SATISFYING?
Thanks for watching! Please check out our other compilation videos!
The precision of these demolitions are really incredible. To be able to explode a Bridge pretty much right next to the replacement Bridge and not damage the replacement Bridge. Almost Surgical, awesome work.
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
Ok, two things.
One, that was one of the best 10 minute videos I have ever interrupted one of my child’s birthday party for.
Two, please, you need to set up a Tee Spring shop to sell t-shirts and mugs of your work. Imagine, one side before images and the other side after. And DVD’s!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love demolition videos! Glad to see that gravity has not lost its punch!
Thanks for watching!
Sunshine Skyway Bridge demo? It was some of CDIs best work.
Thanks for watching! Here is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Video
ua-cam.com/video/PAa6NF_Dkws/v-deo.html
The I-90 bridge in Pennsylvania is my backyard. I remember seeing that come down. Erie, Pennsylvania.. that bridge was very structurally unsafe from years of road salt here in our sometimes harsh winters.
I drive across that bridge many times back and forth from the Cleveland area.
An excellent video. Thank you for not adding unnecessary music.
*these bridges always remembered by people and 90s and 2000s kids.*
The engineers who know where and what and how much explosive to place are incredible.
Excellent footage! I loved that old Bridgeport bridge structure, the girders are a work of art, hopefully someone salvaged them and repurposed them into a building. Beautifully made pieces.
Es los EEUU, allí no se respeta nada de lo antiguo, ese metal lo fundirán para hacer mierdas nuevas, (que seguramente no durarán tanto cómo las antiguas ni serán tan bonitas) y es una lástima
Fantastic work. Really enjoyed the footage that was close to the bridges and on the approaches to the bridges.
Well done, as usual.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The only thing I hated about this video is that it has shown me that I picked the wrong career choice.
One of the biggest disappointments with UA-cam is that you can only hit the like button once!
I agree. That is not cool
The Hell River bridge dropped in such big chunks right next to the new one...wow !
Oddball: it's still up
Moriarty: 😄
**BOOM**
Oddball: O_0 ..no it ain't
Always amazes me that you can use that much destructive force, and just have a huge structure settle neatly down right next to another without causing any damage.
Great compilation. Thx.
Glad you enjoyed it
Huy que tristeza tanto trabajo para contruir estás estructuras y las acaban en segundos y contaminado el planeta
Well golly Jees... that was extremely cool!
I renembered when i crossed the tampazee bridge to paradise mall when i was like 3 years old
I still renember it to this day
Ditto! And no annoying redundant words continuously popping up all over the video. (Like everyone watching must be deaf or something.)
And no absurd Photo-shopped click bait thumbnail; or inset of some dumb-a** talking head behind a microphone so big it eclipses their face.
Sadly, too many YT posters nowadays lack the imagination, talent, skill and discipline necessary to produce engaging, worthwhile, quality content -- like this video.
It's been a long time since I watched any YT video without accelerating, speeding or skipping through the playback. Very refreshing. Thank you for an outstanding, straight-to-the-point contribution.
At CDI, we do more than just burn bridges. We wire them up with dynamite and detonate them like fireworks!
There should be a competition for demolition similar to the annual international fireworks competition, where companies from different countries compete for first place. L'International des Feux , Montreal, QC, Canada, at the end of every July, features four to six nights, each with 30 minutes of fireworks. It's a great show, and I could see having four identical structures being built every few years, for a demolition competition.
We already know who the winner is, CDI !!!!
No one does it better than CDI... 'The Art of Demolition'
Thanks for watching!
I take it they only down these bridges in the fall, yes? OK. I'll show myself out now :)
The Fort Stueben Bridge was cool! 😊😊😊
I find it amazing how many of these bridges I have been over.
I watched the Ft. Steuben Bridge demo live! Sad to see it go but man do you guys do good work! I watched the Ore Bridge demo on tv and heard the blast echo up the valley. I know you’ve done some work at Browns Island too.
The bridge that I like the most is Bridgeport bridge because it was so cool 😎
Thanks for watching! If you're interested in watching the full Bridgeport Bridge Demolition - click on the link below:
ua-cam.com/video/2DC99GJ4SrQ/v-deo.html
1:45 every bridge collapse in a movie be like:
Surgical precision - many times over. :)
Often think about the guys doing the climbing to set the charges - good heads for heights!
Thanks for watching!
This is gonna be good!
It appears on close up of the Tappan Zee Bridge demolition at 9:19 that a contractor backhoe was left on the span to go down in the river with the wreckage.
It was urgent, the thing was rushed to demolition.
It almost looks like an aerial lift, hard to tell
And I forgot something the second bridge that I like is lilac bridge!
Darn, the last demo was blocked out by thumnails for other videos.
Darn.
yeah I wish there was a way to turn those off.. I don't know who thought that was a good idea, as I have had the endings of many a video blocked by those, ugh
That issue has been resolved. Thanks for watching!
@@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
Thanks, now I'll rewatch!
I afraid CDI is the gold standard in explosive demolition.
after baltimore, i dont wanna go on flimsy bridges
@Mrright87 its supporting pillars looked too thin and the roadway was too thin
@Mrright87 the first bridge to have dolphins that weren’t retrofitted onto it later was the Sunshine skyway bridge in 1987, a good 10 years after the key bridge opened.
Hundreds of years worth of engineering construction destroyed in seconds, what a job. Are you hiring😂😂. Well done video, all the action and no BS. All the best.
Placing things in the fallen position.
Nice!
Nice video, tank you. You guys must be the kings of demo
Thanks for watching!
Yes, CDI is the kings of demolition.
Bombastic !
I wonder how many bridges are demolished in the USA PER YEAR?
The Tappen Zee Bridge, was that a crane or man-lift left on the bridge when they blew it?
Do chimney demolition complation
Splitting beams and crossing streams!
Question, working that close to a new bridge has any of the debris from the old bridge ever hit the new bridge?
The answer is yes and no. I worked for a road crew (we did demolition ourselves). No we never had a meotor sized piece come crashing down.
Yes there was dust and shrapnel from the demolished structure occasionally. (Only did it 6 times though). The damage was mostly cosmetic.
This is an awesome video. It's a shame you set it up so it can't be embedded in other websites. It would get a lot more views.
Why demolish the bridge with the construction telehandler still on it @ 9:20
Check out the specific link for that job and in the description you will see it was an emergency project.
The demolition sequence had previously removed bridge sections at both ends, so it couldn't be driven away. The manlift was still needed for safe access to difficult-to-reach places to prep this later section for demolition. The time and expense required would make it impractical to remove it before dropping that section. Use it and throw it away. That expense would have been a line item in the overall demolition budget.
Im sorry, but failto understand the "demolition" part, when all the bridge does is fall into tge water or cliff, yet is still fully intact, other than being separated from the rest of the bridge. Wouldnt it be easier to just disassemble it than to have to pull it ( fully intact I might ad) apart by blowing it up? Seems like more work than its worth.🤔
And I have a question to ask are you a UA-camrs?
The third that I like it is fort stuben bridge
Love it love it love it!!!! Keep them coming!
Thanks for watching!
Why was this done? Could the bridge not have been repaired and refurbished?
Eventually it becomes uneconomical to keep maintaining a bridge, and they have to be demolished and rebuilt. We definitely don't want bridges collapsing because of being unmaintained.
Кандай клиб йикитяпти куприкларни ток биланми ё мина куйибми ?
Esta bueno eso nunca lo abia bisto👍👍
I'm always wondering when bridges over water are demolished (like the Eggner Ferry Bridge) what is more efficient, blowing it up and then dredging al the pieces from the water (and hoping you get them all), or use some floating cranes to lift a section from its foundation, place it on a pontoon en deconstruct is elsewere (or refurbish it and use it to replace another old bridge, like the Netherlands is doing recently.) And costs aside, what are the environmental implacation when blowing up a bridge and you can't fully control what is thrown where?
You made some excellent points. I though about that too.
4:19 Kinda reminds me of Buster Scruggs walking into the cantina and patting himself on the chest, leaving a dust outline of himself when he walks away.
So hard-core!
Is c4 use to blow it up
the builders put so much effort into it that the demolished the bridge, built it again and then demolished it just to get a better camera angle
If I say anything stupid, will I be disrespected?
Yes
Only if after being corrected you don't learn from your mistake!
Good cameraman
3:16 That came way too close to smacking the replacement bridge on the way down!
Will mist of these bridges be replaced as the infrastructure in the country is lagging?
Why do you have to brake the Fort Steuben bridge 🌉?
Hier sieht man wie schnell man eine Brücke abreissen kann, mir ein Rätsel warum es in Dresden (Carolabrücke) so lange dauert.
Is it fair to say that the USA has started its New Bridges project in 2011?
I SAW KOSCIUSZKO BRIDGE DEMO ON MY ROOF IT WAS COOL
I miss the old "Erector Set" style bridges. They were so much fun to climb on. The new ones are boring.
AH, fine video but it's rather sad to see some lovely structures brought down.
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3:12 Four anchor bolts is plenty for a bridge support.
😂
Why when they blow up a bridge do they never show how they get them out of the water
CDI doesn't do cleanup. CDI just lowers the structure to where a cleanup crew can easily reach it.
So………….who cleans up after the bridge falls?
i think yer work iis amazing .id so love to work at this..
9:32 9:33 9:34 9:35 9:36
They replace beautiful bridges with ugly bridges.
I mean no but they usually were in their heyday.
Ils n'ont vraiment aucun respect pour leur histoire, démolir comme sa a toure de bras des structures historiques, c'est vraiment triste...
Why the word compliation?
Any status on the top ten or twenty toughest projects video
Am I supposed to be surprised that gravity works?
In several of these examples, it is difficult to see that the remaining work of removing the debris, is easier than if the bridge was not blown up. Especially when the spans ends up in water.
It would be super-duper unsafe to try to take them apart while they're 100 feet up in the air. Much safer to get the smaller pieces hauled away when they're on the ground or in shallow water. Tappan Zee demo is a good example of that.
2:38 2:39 2:40
Hmm, just like building seven 🤔
(joke)
and there's probably a concert tonight in the Coliseum is Rome built 2000 years ago
The Fort Steuben bridge in Ohio was the best one!! I hope you made a lot of $$$ on that one!!
That had to have been an expensive ass job!! Awesome work though. Ive always wondered what would cost to do some of this work.
What I would like to know is when a bridge is dropped into water how do they remove the debris?
They probably get a barge with a crane on it or something
why for steel bridges is always a double explosion?
Destruction porn. Is not very difficult to recover the fallen bridges from the bottom of the rivers?
8:54 Bro I use to drive on this bridge ALL the time and I remember kinda watching the progress for the Mario M Cuomo and then we finally started to drive on that one.
5:04 cameraman never survive
They were inmaned
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huh?