It took me FOREVER to find this video!! SIXTEEN YEARS to be exact! I thought it was sooooooo satisfying when I was a kid! Thank you for not deleting it :)
It is clear now what my son should do for a job. He does this with rc vehicles and anything lincoln log that I build. I would love to do this to a house for free!
@ird9999 hi my house was built in the late 1700's, its 3 storeys high, and built from red sandstone. basically the blocks are about 1 foot thick by about 1 foot tall, 2 foot long, at the base, both internal and external sides. the middle is filled with a mix of rubble, lime mortar, straw, horse-hair old bits of china and whatever else was lying about. the walls taper up to the roof where theyre about 1.5 feet thick. the house is about 50 foot by 25 foot footprint, they built it to last 500 years
This happened years back to one of the homes in the neighborhood I lived in, but the only problem was, they had the wrong house. We tried to stop the idiot running the excavator, but he wouldn't listen to us. We called 911, but by the time the police arrived, he realized he was in the wrong...all this after watching the family's dog jump out of the gaping hole in the side, and especially when he saw the vase of fresh flowers on the dining room table! He payed dearly for that one!
So many comments going through my head: -Honey, I'm home! -Doesn't anybody knock any more? -Doorbell must be broke. -When Mr Gumby locks himself out. -Making way for the new basement. -No one EVER beats Jimmy at hide and seek!
@tgcooney Brick walls alone would fall as easy, as you say, but not if they have reinforced concrete foundations, pillars and many more reinforcing elements (which is common, and which you cannot apply to wooden walls). Destruction of brick and reinforced concrete structures would hardly be possible using excavator (there is specialized machinery, however), and it would last longer.
yep, wooden houses, i laughed at the bit where he started from the beginning then went to the back for a few seconds, althought it probably took about an hour
i agree. ours was built with locally quarried stone, which there was loads of so it wasnt a problem. they just used wooden scaffold and ladders, they were built with stone outer, and stone dividing walls, and beams holding the floors up. pretty standard for english houses, especially old ones. i suppose all the 1700s houses in america were built from wood as it was easier to work with, more readily available and free. ours was built with stone from the quarry up the hill local, free and tough
@headshooter44 It depends really ,alot of older homes have a strong foundation and structure.Now if your talking about homes built in large quantities by devolopers then yes.The houses where i live are built like paperbags haha, then again we never have any tornados.
well wood construction if done right is a lot better against tornadoes than stone, because it's a lot more resilient and flexible. My aunt's house in Iowa has been hit with tornadoes countless times, but never had any severe damage. And as far as European houses go, their quality sucks compared to ours.
+tosgem Since I read some psychology books that mentioned similair thought processes like "think about all the homeless/starving/poor" etc. I stopped being a fan of those sayings... The truth is, most of the "broken" are that way for a reason. It's not so unfair as it seems in most cases... But still the world gets quite disposable at times, that's true.
+dante4d Yes, many homeless are that way for many reasons. My point is we build so many houses, and yet while others still struggle to own one or have a secure roof over their heads (we'll think about those people instead of the homeless), we knock houses down because the land it's on is worth too much. It just seems stupid, to have psychological value of things (that land) have an unconstructive impact on the real world
well of course it only took a wee length of time, its wooden, if it were my 500 year old cumbrian farmhouse with walls 5 feet thick itd be a different matter entirely. plus, i dont think a tornado would do any damage if yankee houses were built like mine either. so theres a handy tip, build your yankee houses like the houses that were around at the same time as your country was just being founded by chris columbus.
@LeandroMuntendam Man our houses are wooden like that in Canada too, I build them, they can have brick exteriors too, ALSO an excavator CAN smash a brick house, what do you think that brick houses never get demolished because its too hard?? LOL ALLLSO Even brick and concrete houses are framed with wood... Unless you live in a jail or a bus terminal, then its probably mostly steel and concrete.
Who would use one against a building made of bricks and usualy those old houses dont get destroyed because they easily survive 100 years without many changes
I guess it all landed on a dump somewhere. Considering the material value, it was probably a waste not to reclaim the wood. Or was it rotten to the core by termites and fungus?
