Big house little excavator! Lets see how this goes. We demolish this 2200 sq ft house that was built in the 70s. My Kubota KX080 slightly undersized for this height but it gets the job done.
With the price of lumber now a days I’d be reclaiming a lot of that wood before smashing the house up……about four to six times what I paid only four years ago ( I’m in Australia) for some very basic stuff .
Didn't see any insulation. Wonder if the metals were stripped out of it too. Plus looking at the homes around it, it looks like the area is getting some money around there
I enjoyed tghe video. The little Kubota gets it done. I gotta ask, what's the deal w/ all of those Can-Am containers in the background? Are those side by side off road vehicles or snowmobiles in there? Seems like an odd place to be storing them.
I had demolished a wall with a hammer abd s crow bar and then to the 2x6 roof frames they wanted to keep the wood and I was taking em off in the weakest plywood ever used the trusses to stay up and take em off orher wise I'd be going through
First of all if you're going to make a habit of doing demolition get a fixed rotating demograpple. But when we were just getting started with our Kubota I got the smallest trenching bucket.I could and then put frost teath on it. You can be a surgeon with that set up and pick up any little thing you need to not to mention the thumb Just passes between the teeth like scissors. Lastly take time chewing up the material. We own our cans And we still break up the pieces as small as we can.Within reason and pack the can's tight. Fuel is to expensive and time is to precious for half loads.if those aren't your cans as a hauler we laugh all the way to the bank when guys half load cans and you take 4 instead of 2 or 3
Just like those guys knocking down those really tall farm silo's with a sledge hammer....you just have to keep chipping away at the base with whatever you got. Little pieces. Like eating an elephant...1 bite at a time 😅
probably someone wants to build from the ground up, or could have been a meth house and the cost to do the repairs for the interior is high Idk i'm pulling thoughts out of my ass.
Smart decision 👍 I don’t like the design too. Try to build something less “too modern”but solid. I mean more classic to fit the theme from your surroundings
Do you do any type of recycling? Where I live, you would not make barely any money out of this job, if you just dump everything in one dumpster, as unsorted construftion material is quite expensive to get rid of. We sort metal and untreated timber out, as you can sell both for money, plastic for recycling, "clean" concrete and bricks (cheaper to deposit) and an as small as possible pile of mixed trash with maybe even polluted materials.
How old would that house have been? It's interesting to see such a large structure all made from wood; in the UK nearly all houses are brick. Do old ones get really loose and creaky?
Sure after 60 to 80 years if it's pier & beam. Houses built on a concrete foundation? They are pretty quiet. Homes can last year's and years provided it has a good roof and no termites 😁
It's a hundred+ year old, what I call a T-shaped farmhouse. They used to be everywhere. They are still a lot of them around if you can see through the additions. They were not usually built with indoor plumbing (at least around here), so the kitchens and bathrooms were later additions. We have one on some land that we own. It's kind of cool, but not worth putting money into it where it is located.
Quand je vois ce genre de maison aussi facile à détruire avec une...pelleteuse...Je comprends pourquoi lorsque un ouragan frappe les etats unis, toutes les maisons s'envolent...
American houses remind me of those old western movies where you have a crappy shack with a beautiful facade stuck to it street side :p Sneeze a bit hard and the foundations may shift lol But at least they are dirt cheap
Please tell us where you live with such wonderful housing that a 20,000 pound excavator wouldn't tear it to shreads ? My "American house" is 200 years old and still quite sturdy
Why don't home owners work with the fire department and burn it down? Fire department gets practice with a real house and less for you to clean up? I'm sure I'm missing something.
