Awesome team effort, your biggest asset is your workers. Thank You for taking the time to share this project with us. Play safe from Elliot Lake Ontario. Canada.
Love their work ethic, do whatever it takes to Safely get it done on time and on budget. Giant projects requires giant commitment from Demolition Contractor. Priestly is amazing.
@@-First-Last LOL - all part of a bigger plan. Sometimes Satire can get through when facts and data can't. I seem to attract people with far different views. This post is one of about a half dozen others that still bring out 'different' points of view. UFO's, Urban Legends, Flat Earth, Religion, Politics, Mega Projects, Cultures, are topics that one must tread lightly. ET and Bigfoot told me to cool it with facts and data.
@@SJR_Media_Group Suuuuure .... What's your position in their company though ? More likely in office. It's not nice to call your bosses, ET and Big foot. You might get in trouble, who knows, maybe fired. Cheers !
@@-First-Last Thanks for your concern. I do have to watch my backside. Bad enough working for ET and Bigfoot, but their cousins (Vampires and Werewolves) are a pain in the neck and a pain in the rear (end). My position is standing while the other guys slack off and sleep in coffins.
Cool last time I was in T.O. I ripped the Gardner, and Young Street on a bright yellow enduro, I live out west so thanks for a bit of memories, look AMAZING
Awesome seeing new content from you folks! Good on you, Russell, for following in your family's footsteps instead of sitting in front of a gaming console
you guys came to my little town of smoothrockfalls ontario to dismantle our mill it had to go the best company to do it was you guys i was walleye fishing just below the dam watching you guy demolish the mill way back in 07 i think anyways good video great work with all the union brothers out there.b safe
I really like how this project was done, key things like order, organization, coordination, precision, and the most important communication. Congratulations.
Why the 3D modelling analysis was needed in demolition? A 2d modelling or a frame analysis will also help, i guess. But that was a great piece of information. You got a new subscriber!!!!
Awesome job y'all did and it went as planned to love watching the videos keep on making them and I'll keep on watching them be safe and always be careful
Absolutely agree - with this project it was more about the speed of which we took it down, and cleaned it up that made the project a challenge. Our engineers did an amazing job of ensuring we had the right equipment in the right place, and that the demo was done in the safest way possible.
This would be an AWESOME project to replicate with our RC equipment, IF we can get our demo hammer to function properly on our 14th scale RC equipment!
My GPS sexiest voice option is an English RP female but she kept telling me to take a "sliproad" so I had to switch back to the standard Garmin robotic voice. 🙂
Another brilliant video from the Priestley team, great work I love following your company and seeing the work you do, from Rye Demolition in the UK 🇬🇧 👍
I wonder how much Planning actual timeline on planning it took two set everything up figure out what equipment did you need it out there staggering just the amount of fuel they used out there
Perfect team, perfect planning & execution, amazing equipment and skilled operators, excellent "video" but absolutely terrible "audio", the choice of music and loudness has destroyed everything.
Great Video!!! its nice to see the process. I drive down that way almost every night hitting up Redpath at 4am. Great Job PDI crew and have a Happy New Year!!!!
No the bridge was fine, but Toronto is obsolete, they're making room for more condo towers and buggering up traffic flow. Toronto is anti car, they want you to take public transit or bicycles.
The "bridge" is actually a section of the Gardiner expressway. This expressway together with the the Don Valley Parkway are the two "arteries" that keep Toronto alive. They are not obsolete, The developers convinced the politicians that "arteries" are not required to sustain life, and that condos that obstruct the view of the lake are more important.
@@PriestlyDemolitionInc if the Politicos of Toronto want flood prevention they should stop building all those condo towers just for starters . Then the Politicos should get those lazy ass Union city workers to start cleaning that cesspool Toronto so that debris such as plastics and broken tree branches won't get blown into the Don river . That would help it flow better. Im going to laugh when the funding for this massive job runs out or goes so far over budget that it will be just another failed project like so many others Toronto projects.
Excellent work! Job well done! That was a massive amount of concrete to hammer! Did you have to replace any hammers on the track hoes? Or did they all hold up under all that use? The amount of rebar and tonnage of steel beams was unreal, were the steel beams all scrapped ? Thanks for sharing your work with this video! Hope you do more longer videos in the future! 👍👋
I remember Lakeshore all clogged up traffic hardly moved back in the 60s and than things got running well when the Gardner Express Way was done -Lived at Indian Grove High Park area
Another great project undertaken and completed by PDI...love seeing the next generation of Priestly's getting involved as well...a true family business!!!! Loved seeing the adaptation of the excavators into protection & guides for the rubble from the deck demo above...ingenuity at its finest...which is something that stands out in a lot of the PDI projects...ingenuity and adaptation...brilliant and what seemingly sets PDI apart from others within the industry!!!! Should I ever move back to Canada...would certainly be looking to work with such a professional company as Priestly's are!!!! Cheers from Aus and keep up the great work!!!! Happy New Year by the way 😁😁😁😁 and all the best wishes for a prosperous & safe 2022!!!!
why did they tear it down? now it seems like its just street level and stopping at Lights compared to driving right through. is something else going to be built?
If Toronto gets its way, the Gardiner will be eliminated altogether. Former mayor Rob Ford considered it a blight on the landscape that prevented people from seeing the lake. Unfortunately, he forgot about the Condos that are 3 times the height of the raised highway and completely obscure any view of lake Ontario
Interesting video, music? Not so much. The work is interesting enough to nix the music. If you have to have the music lower the levels against the speaking. I was adjusting up and down so I wasn’t turned off by the music but wanted to hear the speaking.
Have used the GE many times over the many years that I have visited Toronto - can someone explain why there was a need to remove this structure that seems to have been extremely well built given the effort to demolish it ?? Also why was the work done on weekends when clearly the GE couldn't be used as it was being broken up ? Best Wishes from Australia.
I had similar questions. Noticed near the end of the video that during the week traffic was using the space under the structure as a road. So this would have to be closed for demo work, and clearly could only be closed in the weekend. As to why the demo, I don't know.
The removal of the the ramp is part of a much larger flood protection plan for the city of Toronto. The work was done on the weekends as to not disrupt the flow of commuter traffic through the week. Visit the Waterfront Toronto website for more info.
Nice idea, but this is Ontario where nothing gets built, and if it does, like the 407 it’s given away to private enterprise and no one can afford to drive on it!
Great idea for the metal ramps vs dumping onto the roadways like done so many times here in the States...Great job!
Cool to watch. Y'all did it so quick and efficiently, companies down here in the states would take 5yrs to do the same
Awesome to see a longer video!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Loved how you used the excavators that had the metal slopes on the top to redirect the rubble
The Deflector Shields worked out very well. Check us out on FB/ IG/ LK or TikTok for more short videos from the project.
Yeah. I’d love to learn more information about those. Never seen those before.
@@PriestlyDemolitionInc Combien excavatrice au total
Better for it to be demolished than to have more pieces of it falling off onto cars or people. Good work!
Awesome team effort, your biggest asset is your workers.
Thank You for taking the time to share this project with us.
Play safe from Elliot Lake Ontario. Canada.
Nice to hear from you in Elliott Lake.
Amazing Projects. You make the impossible look easy.
Love their work ethic, do whatever it takes to Safely get it done on time and on budget. Giant projects requires giant commitment from Demolition Contractor. Priestly is amazing.
Thank you Steven
Why are you kissing their rear ???
@@-First-Last LOL - all part of a bigger plan. Sometimes Satire can get through when facts and data can't. I seem to attract people with far different views. This post is one of about a half dozen others that still bring out 'different' points of view.
UFO's, Urban Legends, Flat Earth, Religion, Politics, Mega Projects, Cultures, are topics that one must tread lightly. ET and Bigfoot told me to cool it with facts and data.
@@SJR_Media_Group
Suuuuure .... What's your position in their company though ? More likely in office.
It's not nice to call your bosses, ET and Big foot. You might get in trouble, who knows, maybe fired.
Cheers !
@@-First-Last Thanks for your concern. I do have to watch my backside. Bad enough working for ET and Bigfoot, but their cousins (Vampires and Werewolves) are a pain in the neck and a pain in the rear (end).
My position is standing while the other guys slack off and sleep in coffins.
Greetings from a Canadian in Perth Australia! Fun to watch the video, great to hear the accents again! Stay safe.
G'day - great to hear from friends in Aussie.
super video,bon job ,bravo a toute l 'équipe,salutation France..
Than you, nice to her from friends in France.
Awesome video PDI at its best
Thanks!
Great to see the pride the whole crew takes in the job!
Interesting to see my past finally changing (I'm 72) and hopefully get to see a new future. ... Cheers...
Cool last time I was in T.O. I ripped the Gardner, and Young Street on a bright yellow enduro, I live out west so thanks for a bit of memories, look AMAZING
When a team works well together it's a mesmerizing ballet. No oversteps, no congestion, no time delays: I would imagine someone earned a bonus.
notice Priestly didnt respond to this ... They dont give out bonuses they give out paycheques.. Bonuses go out to Family ffs
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Awesome seeing new content from you folks! Good on you, Russell, for following in your family's footsteps instead of sitting in front of a gaming console
you guys came to my little town of smoothrockfalls ontario to dismantle our mill it had to go the best company to do it was you guys i was walleye fishing just below the dam watching you guy demolish the mill way back in 07 i think anyways good video great work with all the union brothers out there.b safe
Nice work!
I really like how this project was done, key things like order, organization, coordination, precision, and the most important communication. Congratulations.
Thank you Wilfredo
Toronto's lakefront is an eyesore. They should take Chicago's ideas they have a beautiful lake front
Always look forward to a PDI video! Love the length and detail you go into!
Thank you
I grew up not far from the expressway and is it ever weird not seeing the on/off ramp.
Awesome work.
Momina is gorgeous! I got to witness the opposite of this for the last year years. We had a new bridge being built and it was fun to watch.
Great vid! Watched you guys doing your stuff on the Victoria street bridge in Kitchener. Wam bam and gone. Impressive!
Thank you David
Those custom mobile articulated debris shields at 1:06 are really neat!
nice to see how you also use modern techniques as quick oil exchange pieces will make a lot of differences
Loved going by this to see the process and progress in action 🎬 great job everyone involved on this project
Awesome... thanks!
Why the 3D modelling analysis was needed in demolition? A 2d modelling or a frame analysis will also help, i guess. But that was a great piece of information. You got a new subscriber!!!!
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Awesome job y'all did and it went as planned to love watching the videos keep on making them and I'll keep on watching them be safe and always be careful
Thanks Andy
Great video. Always fun seeing the fleet out there working.
Glad you enjoyed it
Unthinkable? That doesn't exist in the world of engineering. With the right planning, equipment and manpower anything is possible.
Absolutely agree - with this project it was more about the speed of which we took it down, and cleaned it up that made the project a challenge. Our engineers did an amazing job of ensuring we had the right equipment in the right place, and that the demo was done in the safest way possible.
This would be an AWESOME project to replicate with our RC equipment, IF we can get our demo hammer to function properly on our 14th scale RC equipment!
This would be a good video if the volume of the music did not conflict with the volume of the engineers' explanations. I gave up after two minutes.
Agreed, music too loud, Its a construction project not a rock concert.
IUOE gets it done!
In the UK we call a ramp a sliproad
Also loving your video
My GPS sexiest voice option is an English RP female but she kept telling me to take a "sliproad" so I had to switch back to the standard Garmin robotic voice. 🙂
@@puirYorick we named her Mimi
What an amazing company. Proud to call themselves Canadian. Way to go Priestly group.
Thanks Graham
Another brilliant video from the Priestley team, great work I love following your company and seeing the work you do, from Rye Demolition in the UK 🇬🇧 👍
Nice to hear from you - and thank you!
Looks like a very professional team of people.
WELL DONE! oh and the bridge demolition was pretty good too!
Always enjoy the show. Can hardly wait for the new season.
Wait til you guys have to demolish the next section...
Good video at first I thought it was in the U.S. part of the infrastructure deal
I wonder how much Planning actual timeline on planning it took two set everything up figure out what equipment did you need it out there staggering just the amount of fuel they used out there
Nice job crew 👍niw that’s some incredible demonstration of experienced crews
what kind of mess is left for the traffic, hate to see what the plan is from the city
if only that bridge could talk...the stories it would tell...so much 'substances' transported over its lifetime..lol
Co ordination of work skills always works well especially in big jobs like this , everyone clued in to their respective job .
All the Big Shots got to stand around with their flunkies and look important.
This makes as much sense as cutting off your feet so that you don't have to buy a bigger pair of shoes.
Look up the Alaska way viaduct in Seattle. same as this if not bigger.
Perfect team, perfect planning & execution, amazing equipment and skilled operators, excellent "video" but absolutely terrible "audio", the choice of music and loudness has destroyed everything.
Aww want some cheese with that whine..
More of a music video than a demolition documentary.
I watched ur guys show Salvage Kings said it never renewed after the 2nd season
This kind of demolition and upgrading of highways in US was done 50 years ago. Glad Canadians are catching up.
We love ourselves a good and well executed demo !
In New South Wales it would take us longer than 5 months, let alone 5 weekends, to work out what name to call this project.
Thanks for sharing and it is great to see such professional work taking place. You might want to ponder having the intrusive music. Best of luck!
Cool video👍👍👍 what was that big deep hole that I saw ?? Sewer or ??
Where do they dispose of the demolished bridge, concrete and rebar? 😢
Great Video!!! its nice to see the process. I drive down that way almost every night hitting up Redpath at 4am. Great Job PDI crew and have a Happy New Year!!!!
Thanks 👍
Loved this. How exciting!
It's always fun watching things getting demolisched. But what is the reason for this demolition? Is the bridge obsolete?
No the bridge was fine, but Toronto is obsolete, they're making room for more condo towers and buggering up traffic flow. Toronto is anti car, they want you to take public transit or bicycles.
The "bridge" is actually a section of the Gardiner expressway. This expressway together with the the Don Valley Parkway are the two "arteries" that keep Toronto alive. They are not obsolete, The developers convinced the politicians that "arteries" are not required to sustain life, and that condos that obstruct the view of the lake are more important.
This is just part of a much bigger flood prevention plan in the city. If you search Waterfront Toronto Flood Prevention you will see the overall plan.
@@PriestlyDemolitionInc if the Politicos of Toronto want flood prevention they should stop building all those condo towers just for starters . Then the Politicos should get those lazy ass Union city workers to start cleaning that cesspool Toronto so that debris such as plastics and broken tree branches won't get blown into the Don river . That would help it flow better. Im going to laugh when the funding for this massive job runs out or goes so far over budget that it will be just another failed project like so many others Toronto projects.
Was this a 24/7 job over the weekend? Great work!
Yes we ran a day crew, and night crew over the 5 weekends. Approx. 9375 hours.
This is the first time I've seen any video in this series. I've looked at it, and I still don't know what city this is!!!!
Good point, filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
@@PriestlyDemolitionInc took me a while to figure out out
what year did you have to travel back to in order to find this music
I wonder how much scrap value they got for the steel!
Excellent work! Job well done! That was a massive amount of concrete to hammer! Did you have to replace any hammers on the track hoes? Or did they all hold up under all that use? The amount of rebar and tonnage of steel beams was unreal, were the steel beams all scrapped ? Thanks for sharing your work with this video! Hope you do more longer videos in the future! 👍👋
Thank you Luke - I will look into your questions and get back to you.
Fast and efficient. Shame it’s not being torn down to Jarvis.
The video feels like a Reality TV show. Was expecting them to have "challenges" and fake obstacles to create drama.
The challenges do happen. But they get dealt with, without drama. It also helps there's no overdramatic music in the real world :)
I remember Lakeshore all clogged up traffic hardly moved back in the 60s and than things got running well when the Gardner Express Way was done -Lived at Indian Grove High Park area
Another great project undertaken and completed by PDI...love seeing the next generation of Priestly's getting involved as well...a true family business!!!!
Loved seeing the adaptation of the excavators into protection & guides for the rubble from the deck demo above...ingenuity at its finest...which is something that stands out in a lot of the PDI projects...ingenuity and adaptation...brilliant and what seemingly sets PDI apart from others within the industry!!!!
Should I ever move back to Canada...would certainly be looking to work with such a professional company as Priestly's are!!!!
Cheers from Aus and keep up the great work!!!!
Happy New Year by the way 😁😁😁😁 and all the best wishes for a prosperous & safe 2022!!!!
hope you get the contract for the rest of the ugly thing soon
Do y'all recycle everything ? Great job y'all !
100% recycled.
Impressive work guys 👍
Why did they closed that section on Lakeshore
I've never seen those excavators with chutes mounted on them. Creative idea!
@R L Pipeline work uses highly specialized equipment too. I would love to design these.
Love seeing no one wearing a STUPID MASK!
Good 👍👍
London bridge,s falling down but this is happening in Canada
Was the concrete crushed and recycled? What was the value of the scrap rebar and steel beams?
Yes, we are still crushing the concrete, and it will all be recycled.
why did they tear it down? now it seems like its just street level and stopping at Lights compared to driving right through. is something else going to be built?
It is part of a much larger flood prevention plan for the city. If you look up Waterfront Toronto Flood Prevention you can view the whole plan.
Hopefully the ramp will be rebuilt wider and better.
If Toronto gets its way, the Gardiner will be eliminated altogether. Former mayor Rob Ford considered it a blight on the landscape that prevented people from seeing the lake. Unfortunately, he forgot about the Condos that are 3 times the height of the raised highway and completely obscure any view of lake Ontario
@@mfranzusan3014 That is ridiculous. The Expressways are main traffic arteries and desperately needed in good repair.
@@gordbaker896 I agree. It doesn't mean that's not what war planned
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So impressive! Now please take down the rest of this awful eyesore.
This makes getting around the city hell.
no better time to get used to it than now!
So is the Gardiner Expressway going to be rebuilt?
Your description doesn't say where this was.
Interesting video, music? Not so much. The work is interesting enough to nix the music. If you have to have the music lower the levels against the speaking. I was adjusting up and down so I wasn’t turned off by the music but wanted to hear the speaking.
Thank you for the feedback - noted for next time.
Any particular reason the deck wasn't saw cut and taken out in slab sections between girders?
Time
Obviously, no job goes perfectly smoothly. I wonder what hurdles or unexpected roadblocks these guys encountered during the teardown?
Great video! Also I very much appreciate the lowering of the music when people are talking!
Have used the GE many times over the many years that I have visited Toronto - can someone explain why there was a need to remove this structure that seems to have been extremely well built given the effort to demolish it ?? Also why was the work done on weekends when clearly the GE couldn't be used as it was being broken up ? Best Wishes from Australia.
I had similar questions. Noticed near the end of the video that during the week traffic was using the space under the structure as a road. So this would have to be closed for demo work, and clearly could only be closed in the weekend. As to why the demo, I don't know.
The removal of the the ramp is part of a much larger flood protection plan for the city of Toronto. The work was done on the weekends as to not disrupt the flow of commuter traffic through the week. Visit the Waterfront Toronto website for more info.
@@zestoslife Traffic is still able to move below the GE on Lakeshore Boulevard.
Im just amazed the Underworld (Italians or Russians) didnt pay big money to get this contract-good to see it was an honest bidding.
Look no further than Union Station (Bondfield Construction), Italians got involved there!
Loved seeing a longer video, amazing work . They need to do a big dig like Boston did then tear the rest of that shit hwy down lol cheers .
Nice idea, but this is Ontario where nothing gets built, and if it does, like the 407 it’s given away to private enterprise and no one can afford to drive on it!
The title should include a location. I had to look up the expressway's name to find the location...why?
When was this done
September 2021
Hey, don’t stop. You can just take down the rest of the highway if you want…
Why was it demolished?