Look up Fred Dibnah. 3 good ones are Climbing a overhang at 50 and Scaffolding a chimney. Fred celebrates the Royal wedding. This guy does it the old way. Enjoy.
He’d have loved how quick it is, but it could definitely be done with more care and precision. Seemed sloppy to me, but I’ve watched about 15 Fred Dibnah documentaries over the last couple of days😂
I realise this is a Swedish company but I can imagine Fred Dibnah fitting those bands around the chimney 45 years ago. And bringing it down with hammer and chisel and perhaps a box of matches.
Totally agree, in the place where I come from they built a park where a factory used to be and they left the chimney, some levers and cogs. It looks pretty cool now.
@soundseeker63 Yes, the mortar joints between the bricks seemed very loose. Plus, the brickwork looked like it badly needed repointing. Due to this, the mortar joints had no doubt been open to the elements for years, allowing severe weathering to take place, weakening the structure. That said, most brick-built structures seem to look very weak in comparison to machines like this. Brick buildings can't bend or move, so when forced to, they just crack and break up.
good video and great job! Pity it had to be done from the downwind side though, with the dust blowing all over the machine. I also think of all the man hours, effort and skill that went into building the chimney in the first place!
First looking at that smokestack, I thought it was a wonder it held up to the wind for so long, but then I noticed those metal bands holding together; kind of a clever design. Cool video.
Thanks for posting this video. The operator demonstrated great skill, deftly poking, knocking and brushing small parts to minimize unexpected consequences as he carefully worked his/her way down. To do that with such a large and inherently clumsy machine, given its extreme length and the difficulty seeing what is happening more than a hundred feet up, deserves kudos.
sweet work, two questions Did you reclaim the brick? (just curious) And have you thought of mounting a camera on the tool on the end? it would give a nice site picture when you were lining up your next push
Give us Fred Dibnah anyday! At least you knew with him where the 'rubble' would fall!. His method at least gave the chimney some dignity in its final destruction!.
Man, I wish I was working that thing. Talk about fun! Like the greatest video game only in reality not cyberspace. How come nobody ever asks me to do something like that?
WOOOWWW - no mas dinamitas, no mas contaminacion y ruidos molestos a explosiones.. muy buena maquina, exelente futuro en las demolicions, cero polvo y suciedad..
You're absolutely right. Maintenance and insurance costs. Our children, and their children, will have only photographs of our industrial heritage to look at. We should be preserving some of our heritage buildings. When it's gone...it's gone :-(
Great video. Sad to see a brick chimney like that go down but i need to go. Just think about the labor that was needed back in the day to build that and it took that machine probley less than a hour to knock down. 5*****
Thanks, now I can see the sky behind it, because I was wondering what the sky would look like or looked like behind it. Because walking around it would put me in another realm which wouldn't be the same as where the vid is taken from. But now I am wondering what it would look like with it up so do that. So I can see the realm with it up on the other side. So ya put it back up. Thanks.
as entertaining as fred was,he should ve stuck to steeple jacking,he was fucking dangerous at demolition.he wouldn't even get on site with the way h&s is in uk today.
Interesting to see how masonry structures fail over broad areas when outside force is applied. Were they attempting to save or protect any of the other structures in the area, such as the silver stack?
Just think Fred Dibnah was a steeplejack that climbed up those chimney stacks and knocked them down, brick by brick, with a hammer and chisel. He said he could feel the chimneys swaying in the wind when all the way up there. Interesting videos about him on RU-vid
even with tons of planning sometimes these buildings fall the wrong directions, especially smoke stacks. You can find tons of videos on the net of smoke-stacks and other buildings not falling as planned. Tearing it down like this is much safer. I have no idea bout exact costs but mechanical demo is usually much more expensive than explosive demo on a similar structure.
When I was a kid my Dad payed a penny a brick to chop the mortar off and stack'em. How many masons did it take to build that remarkable silo? Incredible machine to knock it down so quickly.
Hello Lego. Well it was an eternal project, never an end to bricks as well as old lumber to de-nail. I remember at age six perhaps doing one every minute or so. Old mortar is very different than what we use now. Also, every mason mixed his own. But, I was easily distracted and rarely kept at it, at the pace Pa wanted. It went on for years!
ANYONE who thinks that is easy needs to research it a bit more! working at that height and taking into account the weight of the boom/dipper is VERY hard!!! this is a job well done!
I always wanted to be in the demolition business. Unfortunately I would have a tendency to demolish any building or structure I didn't like the look of!
@mattmgmhs Thank you for your reply. Now i know very little about demo and explosives, but could a good explosive expert not drop that stack in on itself. and also out of intrest, what is the cost of the two options, mechanical demo and explo'
He is not a moron. There are different ways of demolition. Some choose to use explosives and have it all collapse and some decide to take it all apart piece by piece. It's all on preference and whether or not you want to salvage the parts. It's all time vs. money.
This is a conspiracy! I saw parts of the chimney in almost free fall! Also if you watch closely, you see small clouds coming from the sides of the chimney, clear signs of explosives like termite. The giant machine is so easy to spot as pure CGI! This was an insider job!
"clear signs of explosives like termite." I grew up in New Orleans and have been threw many termite swarms. Even so, I never knew they could explode. Now I feel lucky to have survived.
Taking that structure brick by brick would be more expensive than buying new bricks. You can do like you described only in poor country where labor force is cheap enough.
хороший метод. Надеюсь "оператор" этой машины был достаточно защищён. Мы трубу 60 метров 1 месяц рушили одним отбойником, зато безопаснее намного для прилегающих объектов.
