Caterpillar excavator crushes entire retail building
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
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Today we're tearing down a small commercial retail building, and we're taking away everything except the asphalt parking lot.
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Fun to watch. Thanks for letting us hear the equipment work and the sounds of the demolition. Too many nowadays have music instead of the sounds of the equipment.
This!!!
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Awesome demo! Straight into it, no mucking around.
Great to watch, well done!!
My 4 year old grandson picked this video to watch. We both loved it.😊
Just a suggestion...I think if you record until after cleanup you might grow your channel more. Keep up the great work 👍 love your videos!
Thanks for letting us hear the equipment work and the sounds of the demolition.
Although my company is primarily engaged in road construction, forestry contracts, I was approached last year by a development company to tear down three strip centers. I did the math, gave them what I thought would be a bid too high for consideration. A day later their attorneys were putting together a contract and securing a performance bond, insurance. Since I’ve done four more contracts. What are being paid is amazing. Best of which, I don’t have to haul away the wreckage. I bring in one of my 395s, easy money.
Easy money if you already have a fleet of equipment, good operators, and insurance/bonding/legal to handle contracts and liability. But that's a big hurdle to clear. Still, surprised there's not more competition. Where is your company based?
@@txviking I was thinking the same thing, especially liability. That must be why there's not much competition where he is. Laws are always dependent on the locality. The worse the laws are for businesses, the fewer the competitors he's gonna have.
@Leo-fk9ch Out or curiosity, where are you based?
He won’t say where he’s based. My experience in the peoples socialist republic of New York with those easy money jobs-no bid or insider government contract with kick backs.
That's fantastic! It's great to see your expertise paying off, and having the right equipment like the 395 makes everything so much easier. Congrats on the success!
50yrs ago as a kid thought these machines were dinosaurs watching this i still do great job must be very satisfying to do this
Were those LVLs or solid beams that you kept picking out?
Now that’s what I call a professional, great job 👏
I enjoy watching your videos keep making great videos I like your videos keep making great videos I like your videos a lot
Great stuff! Like how you pulled those giant planks out. Saving those?
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! Yep, when they come out nice and clean like these ones, we save them.
Hello I'm from good old Europe, Austria. You have a great feeling when demolishing with the excavator. We separate everything here into wood, metal, building rubble, problematic materials and residual waste. How does it look for you?
Have a good time an enough work.. 😊
We had an operator working material at a cement plant with a FA 21 with a ripper. And it impressed me so much. This 11 is so impressive. I would have loved seeing him run this machine on the pile pushing it to the hopper of the cement plate. Beautiful machine.
Somebody would love seeing you getting on the machine and running it. Step up homie
That sounds exciting but I have no idea what any of it means
Even though I'm growing up I can still watch them operate the machine, as long as nobody thinks im weird.
What is the water for? To keep down dust or asbestos? Or in case the demolition creates heat and then a fire?
That was my first thought. I used to do asbestos abatement, and we sprayed water on any open insulation to keep the particles from contaminating the air.
Yes, for dust reduction
Hey everybody, I hope you liked the video. Head over to the community posts section on my channel and check out this bank vault door that's coming up soon. I don't know if we should try to save it or not. Let me know what you guys think.
Used bank vault doors sometimes end up on EBay as long as they're not beat up from removal.
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Sir I really want to get into doing this. I have my class A licenses with tanker endorsement. I long to demolish a building.
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Three months to build, 30 minutes to destroy. Nice job. 👍
That roof must have leaked every time it rained. I haven't seen a building come down so easy
If you noticed, there was a duct at ceiling level. On top of this was a rooftop air conditioner unit. It had been removed. Rain leaked into the ducts.
@@brianleeper5737 looked like the roof membrane was removed sometime before demolition, too. It might have contained asbestos.
I love to watch homewrecker when I can find him on UA-cam, I always wondered if what happens if you take that scoop and just drop it right down the middle of a building can that make the whole building come apart really easily I always thought it would but I might be wrong I would like to know if somebody can answer this back I really would appreciate it thank you for your time and your videos are very satisfying, thank you for making him so we can watch them
This channel is wonderful!!!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that.
I subbed because of how you took that first big bite out of the building. You weren't afraid of it, just jumped right in. Best of luck!
Awesome demolition bud. I could watch it all day.
Well done. I enjoy the heck out of watching demo videos like this, Thanks for sharing,!!
OMG 12:37 lifts the back of the roof in one massive grab. Wow!
Thanks buddy I skipped over that and I would have missed it
What’s with the hose water? I’m clueless
Keeps the dust down
In New York, we recycle heavily. Our strategy is (As much as possible) keep like materials together. Also not all of our dump sites take all materials thus the separation. Sometimes the metal recycle sales pay for the entire expense part of the job. Keep up the good work. Also like others have suggested show the job after all is said and done. Clean, graded, Etc. Good Work 😄👏
Can someone explain the purpose of spraying water on it
@@donak2773, to keep the dust down.
@@donak2773dust control
I take it all the materials have to be separated before going to the landfill?
from one demo operator to another nice work bro
Much appreciated.
You did really well, nothing damaged. Slow and methodical. Only thing I'd suggest is not to work over the final drives, I know, not always going to happen, but its a good habit to be in especially when doing heavier work. Subscribed! Love your channel!
Nothing damaged except the entire building, ha ha.
Nothing damaged
These are fun to watch. As for the bank vault door, I'm not sure where you'd use it, but it would seem worth saving.
Didn't see any bank vault door.
Hey, what's the address on the building ?
How did you determine how many dumpsters you needed?
No need for sorting out the E-waste before demolishing? Do everything go to landfill or incineration?
Did you put everything into a dumpster or try to separate the cinder block onto save weight ?
What are they spraying water for
It keeps dust to a minimum. Dont want the workers or machines to breathe it in, so they hose down the building
Why not salvage the windows?
How much of that could have been salvaged? I see big windows and wooden doors that could have been reused.
Thanks for sharing - I like the way how you demolish. If you use the "put everthing in the center-method" there would be not so much to see for demolition lovers. I hope you will get a lot of fans. By the way it would be cool to see how you crush the metal stuff like fridges, stoves or AC.
He needs a toy store to demolish - still filled with merchandise! 😂 😂 😂
I think in this case, the concrete and cement masonry unit blocks need to go to a different place than the rest of the building scrap. This is probably why he was carefully peeling off as much of the wood pieces as possible, then toppling the block walls away from the main spoil pile. It takes a little longer to knock down the building this way, but its a lot less work later when loading out the trash than manually sorting out cement blocks from the wood and interior building debris.
What does a commercial demo like this typically pay out?
Great video! Light work for a 323!!
Not sure if anyone has ever asked this question: Can you make a video on the 'clean up' process? What happens to all the broken down materials. Recycled? Taken to the dump? Sold for recycling? I would be curious. It would be extra work for you to edit an additional video.
Cool video!! Well done.
Amazing job, Thank you for sharing ❤
I was impressed by the zero recycling during each demolition. Glass, wood, metals, electrical waste... Or is it sorted afterwards?
In all the years I've stood at an airport, I've been impressed by the power that gets the plane into the air. I have a similar feeling with excavators. Planks like 2"*8" become like matchsticks when the bucket presses on.
My neighbor, who is not used to driving, swerved to the left with the bucket, when the intention was to the right. It took us a week to repair. Meanwhile, the children were without a playhouse.
Were we made aware of the power of an excavator perhaps..?
A lot of unnecessary pushing and scraping of lumber!
No hopper to fill with the debris?
To building something like coasts a lot of money, would it not be more right to fix it abs sell it?
Thanks for a great video! such a underrated channel!
fun to watch professionly done
Nice video. Seems the machine loves it.
How did you get into the demolition industry?
Cool video. Stay safe out there
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How much you charge. Need help on bidding
Just discovered your channel. Great watch. I'm in the UK. Where are you?
Wow, that's awesome, thank you.
We're in the Pacific Northwest, US.
Nice videos! My son loves them!
What did you charge for this job??
Its even more fun to drive the excavator right thru the building, but a bigger excavator though
The goal is to not damage the excavator, including scratching the paint, if it can be avoided.
Now I know what to do if I ever win a lot of money. Hire a guitarist to jam live while I'm at it
That looked like tooooo much fun.
These were mini banks. I built a few of these in the 80's.
How much you charged the owner for this job???
Imagine making a prank, and booking a demolition of your neighbor’s house, when they are out !
i was just gonna ask you what was the purpose of using water when tearing down a building? and i found the answer! it controls dust and prevents it from spreading to other areas :D interesting!!!
Amazing how powerful these machines are! I saw a group of them a while ago cut a path thru a mountain for a pipeline. They looked like T Rexes chewing up the earth from a distance. 😗BTW I wonder if most of those cinderblocks can be cleaned and resold.
Well done uve done a great job keep it up
I appreciate the brief walkthrough my man. Good to know this POS was torn down haha!
that guy running the machine is awesome
What a mess. How NOT to do it, mixing it all together.
Enjoyed, Cat at work😼🤝
hey buddy great video keep up the good work
Great content, keep it coming 👍🏼
you should show the clean up also i feel like i seen half a video 😁
I'm so glad we haven't got smell-o-vision. I love it when you can get close to the action.
Potted plant is like hey man I had nothing to do with this.. Never even been inside that place...
just subscribed always been fascinated with construction equipment so awesome 😮
Just curious why you dont work with scrappers to recycle a bunch of this. A lot more worth saving than just the beams.
What’s the water for?
Reducing dust in the air
Good job 👍🏻
That roof and over hang came apart way way too easy.
As if the put just enough nails to hold it there.
Surprised high winds never ripped that stuff of the structure.
Nice job separating the debris.
I like it…the demo….but…all that metal scraps….I wish I can load it and cash it N 😊
Nice demolition !
i saw absolutely positively one hundred percent nothing wrong with this video!!! no one got hurt everyone was safe! plus you were doing your job from a safe distance! but i have a question for you!!!!! how do you know what is salvageable or not salvageable when it comes to tearing down a building ???
I work with an excavator here in Brazil too, my dream is to work with an excavator there in the United States
What? It's not this building?
Simply Satisfying
Why do they spray water of whatever that is?
To suppress dust. It is likely required by the demolition permit.
what's with the water ?
I said the same thing
The water is to keep the dust dy
Where are you doing all of this at? I know its not Arizona !!!!!!!!!! LOL
No way I could be that meticulous. The child in me would have to destroy everything as fast as possible.
Good operator!
Why do you spray water on it?
Just to try and keep the dust down.
Ah ok
your a fine operator save the lvl beams for resale
Why the water spraying? 💦
Keeps the dust down.
my daughter loves watching this heh
what about that other building
They're coming up soon!!
Waisting alot of time on small lumber!
Well,it has ventilation now
Tear it down.Waisting hours and time and fuel!
the fun part is over, now you have to clean up the mess
Nice job