You sir win the internet.... That would be perfect and to put a cherry on top.... He says " like a good neighbor state farm is there... As he points to the landing zone where the silo falls on the new Jake or should we say Jamal from state farm.
That what s happens when you don't make the hole/gap bigger at the end you want it to keep falling. You have too keep momentum going it the direction you want it to land.
Nobody thought about a strap/ chain hookup to help create direction of fall? You’re telling me nobody thought about attaching a strap or chain and tying it around something across the fall site? Smh
The video suggestion that pops up 20 seconds before it's over covers up the damage of the house. Kind of defeats the whole point of watching the video.
In the long run, it is cheaper to hire a professional. Second Question, since this silo was still in good shape, it needed to come down, Why??? Created more problems than it solved.
I don’t see why you people waste your money on building something just to destroy it. Think before you build about the long term life of your decisions maybe you won’t waste 6 figure numbers because that’s all you have left and you have to clean up the mess either by yourself or pay more money to have it done Doesn’t seam like a very win win decision to me
@@waynemillard7426 Very astute, bud. I’m 71. And still fondly remember the Laurel and Hardy movies. (For those less “aged”, lol, they were a comedy duo. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy
I think we've all had days at work when something bad went wrong. Maybe it wasn't really our fault and just bad luck. Or maybe it really was our fault due to an honest mistake. Things probably didn't go as bad as dropping a silo on someone's house though, and that can cheer us up when we are thinking about the disasters we have caused. And for the guy who did this, well, hopefully no one died, so there is that. Property can be repaired.
The operator didn't open up the "fall side" high enough for the silo to tilt. He took out an even number of courses and so it fell straight down. Think about how a forester notches a tree for felling.
Two big mistakes: 1) When you fell a tree, you don't just do a single straight cut and expect the tree to fall in the desired location. You have to cut a notch in the tree to control it's direction. Same thing here. 2) They should have attached one end of a cable to the top of the silo, with the other end to a truck or tractor. Then, the driver should have slowly driven away from the buildings, pulling the silo in the right direction.
Agree. A few minutes on UA-cam researching how to fell a tree would have been well spent. Start with a wedge on the side you want it to fall, then cut just above the apex of the wedge on the other side and job done.
Well, at least the next guy can find a UA-cam on how NOT to take down a silo. My 50-footer is all concrete tiles, held together with wrap-around steel rings. I've watched some of the Amish companies take them down one layer at a time, starting from the top. They drop them down with a rope and pully and stack them on a truck, ready to go to another farm that needs a silo. These "chopped corn" or "silage" silos fell out of favor for a few years (around 30 years ago) but now some of the more progressive dairy farmers are putting up more than they ever had so they can fill 'em with enough chopped corn to feed their larger dairy herds. It seems to work out rather well and they don't have as much spoilage as they did with the plastic covered "silage trenches" they used to use.@@Tailspin80
As heavy as that is, if that was cabled to just about any automobile or even a small heavy equipment, it would have thrown the auto in the air like a Trebuchet.
@@Tailspin80explain to us how you are going to drive this wedge into the side of a silo. I suppose you could bust out a small section of block and have a bottle jack in there. But who you gonna pay to stand there and pump that next to a falling silo haha? Also, how many jacks are you going to destroy in a year?? Bigger 'notch' is what was needed.
@@travisjohnson1500 It’s called a wedge cut when felling a tree. Remove a wedge shaped chunk on one side, then cut across above it from the other side. This creates a hinge and the tree falls towards the hinge. You could probably apply the same principle to a silo.
An anchor cable to the top, attached to something large in the direction of desired fall would have been prudent, but hindsight is 20/20. I took down a 45' stave silo once. Very successful. Won't try it again.
@QuietlyContemplating obviously I don't. Question. Does this make your life have meaning that you go on UA-cam to correct spelling or grammar? 4 or 6 yrs of college?
@@QuietlyContemplating oh it is, because nobody is that condescending and delusional without college indoctrination. And seeing how you won't answer the question, you knew why I was asking. An uneducated college product.
I just saw a video of a guy doing this be "sawing" out the lower tiers with gunfire (looked like it was just a shotgun shooting slugs from about 50 meters), and it actually worked. Granted not a viable option in all countries, but I don't see why more people don't try more ballistic demolitiom on these things from a safe standoff rather than getting so close and risking getting crushed.
When are they going to realize tipping silos is no different than falling trees! You have make the notch (take out concrete higher up)on the side(direction) you it to fall. Higher and wider on staves then poured. 👨🏻🦳 🐄🐄 🚜
How hard would it of been to winch a cable onto a couple spots to prevent this exact thing from happening? WOW hope it was a real company so they could sue and not their drunk uncle lol
That would have been my luck. I hope no one got hurt as no one should have been even close to that silo. Looks like they did not remove enough rows of staves so when it tried to fall it got hung up.
It's pretty obvious that the person doing the job is not experienced in silo demolition. Whaddya wanna bet that the REAL professionals gave a quote and this clown said "I can do it for 1/4 that much..."
One tough silo. Obviously thinking it would collapse under it's own weight and not bounce back in the other direction. If you watch these videos you would learn that you need a bigger notch to keep this from happening.
Gee, I had to watch countless demolitions to get to see one fails ! Hole too small, you can see the fall then the rebound leading to the fall going the other way.
Would be a great Allstate insurance commercial, with Mayhem working the skidsteer.
You nailed it there, dude. That would make one hell of a great commercial.
You sir win the internet.... That would be perfect and to put a cherry on top.... He says " like a good neighbor state farm is there... As he points to the landing zone where the silo falls on the new Jake or should we say Jamal from state farm.
That what s happens when you don't make the hole/gap bigger at the end you want it to keep falling. You have too keep momentum going it the direction you want it to land.
... well, at least MOST of the house is still intact.
No, the trauma more than likely went through the whole house framing. It’s a total loss.
They will be sleeping in tents for a while.
That doesn't help the goldfish in a bowl on sideboard, nor the cats and dogs that were put indoors to keep them out of harm's way.
It only took out the garage and back hallway.
When you think about it, it's probably not a good idea to have any buildings close to a tall grain silo.
Silos don’t just fall down. They only fall down when their structure is destroyed, to take them down.
@@robertheinkel6225 True. But, they have to come down eventually, and don't always fall in the direction intended.
They also can take it down the same way it went up….
Ever wondered why when even the professionals do it, they cordon off at least a hundred yards radius around the demolition site?
OMG!! LMFAO!! The squealing lamentations of the women are hysterical!
Love how someone is still flying the drone.
Priorities.
Dedication
@tdvidpro
Good thing the ladies were all screaming, that really helped the situation !
Screaming good, lying flat under rubble bad
Gotta have the screaming women!
thin band of removed material. need a far wider space
hind sight
I thought that right away, there is sure a narrow band of blocks removed.
LMFAAAOOO LOOK AT THE NEIGHBOR HES LIKE I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN
the screaming will make the Earth turn in reverse and undo this
Nobody thought about a strap/ chain hookup to help create direction of fall? You’re telling me nobody thought about attaching a strap or chain and tying it around something across the fall site? Smh
it was ready to fall the correct way and then changed course ... 😂
Should have made the falling side gap larger, like an eyeball shape.
I hope granny wasn't baking an apple pie in the kitchen....
The video suggestion that pops up 20 seconds before it's over covers up the damage of the house. Kind of defeats the whole point of watching the video.
In the long run, it is cheaper to hire a professional. Second Question, since this silo was still in good shape, it needed to come down, Why??? Created more problems than it solved.
Not being used for farming anymore
Even when everything is done right , they still might go there own way, dropping silos can cause a surprise!!
They sure were surprised, LOL
needed a bigger gap to side where you want it to fall. just like a tree needed a larger gap. Fred knew how to fall a tall object watch his videos...
The break-out has got to go to the ground to give room to fall past the centre of gravity. This is an example of ignorance at work.
Never knocked down the front wall
Revenge of the fallen, silos.
1 in a billion chance bad luck dude you did everything right. But even if you do it right life is like fuck you
That a good portion of that house might need to be demolished
The good news; I successfully took down the silo! The bad news; I'll be sleeping alone for the next 100 years!
How does this only have 400 veiws? Holy crap
The original had a lot more but got deleted, feel free to share all you like 🙂🙂
The orginal only has 45 views...
All of his “ataboys!” for the rest of his life will never erase this “awsh*t!”
(usually the rate is 10:1)
Why would you not care to show the damage that was done?!
I can only show the drone footage that was taken, As you can see there was more important things to attend to besides filming the scene.
Well so much for the Successful Farmer, "He was outstanding in his Field"...
😂
That type of silo can be disassembled layer by layer. Other than speed, there was no reason to take it down that way.
That’s hilarious
Oops!
Oops get out of the way
😂
Amateurs. Saw that coming.
I don’t see why you people waste your money on building something just to destroy it. Think before you build about the long term life of your decisions maybe you won’t waste 6 figure numbers because that’s all you have left and you have to clean up the mess either by yourself or pay more money to have it done Doesn’t seam like a very win win decision to me
...........well it's down!
That's what happens if you spend more time planning the camera angles than the actual demolition.
😂
Oops!
This is one of those “my brother in law said he could do it a lot cheaper” situations!
I know a guy......
And that brother in law saw many silo demos on UA-cam, thus he's an expert
“Well, Stanley, this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into!”.
Nice reference. You must be an older gentleman to have come up with that.
@@waynemillard7426 Very astute, bud. I’m 71. And still fondly remember the Laurel and Hardy movies. (For those less “aged”, lol, they were a comedy duo. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy
@@waynemillard7426 Was it about Laurel and Hardy? We know them as Flip and Flap in Poland, although last time I saw them in TV was in 1980s.
Godamit Stanley
You are all hilarious!!!
I think we've all had days at work when something bad went wrong. Maybe it wasn't really our fault and just bad luck. Or maybe it really was our fault due to an honest mistake. Things probably didn't go as bad as dropping a silo on someone's house though, and that can cheer us up when we are thinking about the disasters we have caused.
And for the guy who did this, well, hopefully no one died, so there is that. Property can be repaired.
The operator didn't open up the "fall side" high enough for the silo to tilt. He took out an even number of courses and so it fell straight down. Think about how a forester notches a tree for felling.
@@terryjohnson3479 oh it went the right way at first, but odds are the next one will have a BIGGER NOTCH on the fall side... if he does any more.
Two big mistakes:
1) When you fell a tree, you don't just do a single straight cut and expect the tree to fall in the desired location. You have to cut a notch in the tree to control it's direction. Same thing here.
2) They should have attached one end of a cable to the top of the silo, with the other end to a truck or tractor. Then, the driver should have slowly driven away from the buildings, pulling the silo in the right direction.
Agree. A few minutes on UA-cam researching how to fell a tree would have been well spent. Start with a wedge on the side you want it to fall, then cut just above the apex of the wedge on the other side and job done.
Well, at least the next guy can find a UA-cam on how NOT to take down a silo. My 50-footer is all concrete tiles, held together with wrap-around steel rings. I've watched some of the Amish companies take them down one layer at a time, starting from the top. They drop them down with a rope and pully and stack them on a truck, ready to go to another farm that needs a silo. These "chopped corn" or "silage" silos fell out of favor for a few years (around 30 years ago) but now some of the more progressive dairy farmers are putting up more than they ever had so they can fill 'em with enough chopped corn to feed their larger dairy herds. It seems to work out rather well and they don't have as much spoilage as they did with the plastic covered "silage trenches" they used to use.@@Tailspin80
As heavy as that is, if that was cabled to just about any automobile or even a small heavy equipment, it would have thrown the auto in the air like a Trebuchet.
@@Tailspin80explain to us how you are going to drive this wedge into the side of a silo.
I suppose you could bust out a small section of block and have a bottle jack in there. But who you gonna pay to stand there and pump that next to a falling silo haha?
Also, how many jacks are you going to destroy in a year??
Bigger 'notch' is what was needed.
@@travisjohnson1500 It’s called a wedge cut when felling a tree. Remove a wedge shaped chunk on one side, then cut across above it from the other side. This creates a hinge and the tree falls towards the hinge. You could probably apply the same principle to a silo.
Silo was like, really, I gave you how 🤔 many years of loyal service? Here's a little something to remember me by!😂😂
Technically, the silo demolition itself wasn't a failure at all. The thing WAS demolished...
If anything it was a huge success. Two demolitions for the price of one!
An anchor cable to the top, attached to something large in the direction of desired fall would have been prudent, but hindsight is 20/20. I took down a 45' stave silo once. Very successful. Won't try it again.
Should have got Fred Dibnah to do it 👍🏻🇬🇧 (if you don’t know who he is look him up).
Must of been there first silo demolition, because you never ever trust a stave silo
@QuietlyContemplating Nobody cares about your Grammer policing
@QuietlyContemplating obviously I don't.
Question. Does this make your life have meaning that you go on UA-cam to correct spelling or grammar?
4 or 6 yrs of college?
@QuietlyContemplating right over the top of your head.
@@QuietlyContemplating probably need to get a life.
Odd how you won't tell me how many years of college
@@QuietlyContemplating oh it is, because nobody is that condescending and delusional without college indoctrination.
And seeing how you won't answer the question, you knew why I was asking.
An uneducated college product.
Well, it’s down. We’re going to lunch now😂😂😂
😂
I asked a friend who cut down trees for a living, liability insurance must be expensive. He said that he never had any.
That's not a fail, they definitely demolished the silo...
It's ok, it was just the bedroom and he will be living in the doghouse for many years.😆.
Women, please stop screaming.
The cackling afterwards is off the charts.
“We know a thing of two because we’ve seen a thing or two”
I just saw a video of a guy doing this be "sawing" out the lower tiers with gunfire (looked like it was just a shotgun shooting slugs from about 50 meters), and it actually worked. Granted not a viable option in all countries, but I don't see why more people don't try more ballistic demolitiom on these things from a safe standoff rather than getting so close and risking getting crushed.
Mr. George, how much you pay the new guy on the skid steer. No, too much.........
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
missed it by this much...
Farmers mentality think they know everything until they fail! 😂great job boys!
When are they going to realize tipping silos is no different than falling trees! You have make the notch (take out concrete higher up)on the side(direction) you it to fall. Higher and wider on staves then poured. 👨🏻🦳 🐄🐄 🚜
No after photos or damage assessment? Surely I’m not the only one wondering the extent of the property damage (specifically the building it fell on).
These poor people. I hate that happened. It had to be so scary. I hope no humans or animals were harmed.
Nope, just the garage and back hallway
Here at farmer's. We dont cover farmers
How hard would it of been to winch a cable onto a couple spots to prevent this exact thing from happening? WOW hope it was a real company so they could sue and not their drunk uncle lol
Was there anyone watching from the porch or garage? I hope nobody was hurt.
*Cuts away deliberately from the shot. What is wrong with people these days?*
He’s notching it about 5 feet too high. Gave it an opportunity to hit the bottom of the notch and deflect back.
I hope no one was in the house at the time. Very sad..poor people
So with all of the different camera angles, you give us the worst one.
they should've looked into using pull lines and commonsense
Well that’s definitely not Australia! Looks like Wisconsin to me.
You are correct, The video was sent to me by a friend.🙂
@@D-V-A Now I really want to what county they were in.
@@ZincOxideGingerFond du Lac county, village of Alto
This is a often happening thing on the flight deck of a carrier,
and only 70k views 😪
That would have been my luck. I hope no one got hurt as no one should have been even close to that silo. Looks like they did not remove enough rows of staves so when it tried to fall it got hung up.
My mate dave will do it for 6 beers
I want to see the damage to the house.
all together now,
OH SHIT !
Silo demo is not a diy project.
LMAOOOOO
D:
Is the digger ok ?
"oops... My bad.."
Oops
A little caulk, a little paint...good as new.
😂
Oops!
Added precautions weren't used. Like a cable and a bull dozer pulling in opposite direction.
Silo is demolished. Very successful event!
It's pretty obvious that the person doing the job is not experienced in silo demolition.
Whaddya wanna bet that the REAL professionals gave a quote and this clown said "I can do it for 1/4 that much..."
I'm pretty sure it was a DIY project
Uncle bill said he could do it a lot cheaper than that😂😂😂
Original poster?
As far as I know I am the first and only one to release this video publicly😉
Did anyone get hurt?
Nothing serious
I think I’ll keep using my silos.
🤣🤣
Can we get a part two to this
Sorry that's all the video I have.😕
One tough silo. Obviously thinking it would collapse under it's own weight and not bounce back in the other direction. If you watch these videos you would learn that you need a bigger notch to keep this from happening.
Gee, I had to watch countless demolitions to get to see one fails ! Hole too small, you can see the fall then the rebound leading to the fall going the other way.
I'm guessing he'll charged 50% less on the house demo since the silo did a two for one job.
It's crazy how springy the steel is in that silo to pull it back the other direction
Operation badly done..................................
Stupid workkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
It was time to put an additional room or 2 on the house anyway, and the wife was wanting a 2 car garage.
Hope your home owners policy covers that.😂🤣😂🤣
Oops! Nice house you once had!