When I was younger I got hired to clean a couple tons of sour silage out of a silo. After 30 minutes of being inside breathing the vapors I was higher than a kite. Lots of fresh air and ventilation is definitely a must.
Yes, it’s called alcohol - produced by the fermentation of the silage. It evaporates and you breathe and absorb it into your blood. Also more than enough CO-2 to kill you as well.
We had to take down an old grain silo when I was living in Georgia. We marked the area to be removed with paint. We gave Beuford a 16 pound sledgehammer and told him to go to work, but be ready to get out of the way. Now Beuford was was strong as an ox, but not very smart. He ate a LOT of paint chips when he was little. Well, after an hour we heard this tremendous"crack" and saw the silo going down. We lost sight of poor Beuford due to the dust, and thought he might be dead. But when the dust cleared, there he was with this guilty look in his face. He said, "I didn't mean for it to fall over, but I promise to rebuild it."
@@mattronaldholloway3428 No he’s extremely lucky and extremely careless & negligent,,,you know when they say don’t ever try this at home well this is one of those moments
Which is why most women outlive us men. Yet, they lack the adrenaline rushes, of accomplished missions of unimaginable peril, with the end resulting success...most of the time!
The best and safest way to take down stave silos, is to loosen the bottom 4 feet of hoops and then shoot out the bottom row of staves on the side you want the silo to fall. A 30 caliber rifle or shotgun slugs work great!
Hi He did ok he's still alive and he got them down as he intended. The only thing he might do different if there was a next time is cut the bottom few bands. That seems to be the way others have done this that I have watched. then he might not end up with his wrecking hammed stuck in the bands. Thanks for sharing the video. Take care
my thought too.. even the cheap training ammo to my 30-06 ould have done that demolition FASTER AND SAFER, that concrete lookd quite brittle But if you wanted fast and fun,,, contact the army and borrow a 50 cal+ maskinegun. hehe
Don't understand the comments. This guy, regardless of the method, made the job. The silos fehlt away from the excavator and both in the same direction w/o and bigger left overs. The result can't be any better.
Agreed. And he has kept himself safe by using the wrecking 'ball' instead of driving into the fall area. Also he has been at ninety degrees to the line of the fall at all times. Seems to me the video has been titled by someone who feels that only an 'expert' can do something. And the commenters are mostly armchair experts.
Zit tears me up to see old farm houses get busted I think of all the people kids animals they had especially the friends I had there I wasn't gonna say it cause it hurts too much. I love you allmisscomin up to see you I think of my boy and his new beagle God help the other two boys and pa love you sorry I couldn't say it before love ya Mary -------Mare
Wow flatter than a flitter....Lol Use to live near a coal mine that had two standing in West Frankfort, Illinois n these were poured concrete in sections. Not as easy to take down.
Bunks are becoming more popular. My cousin put 2 a couple of years ago. 50x100x10 foot tall. Enough feed for 200 head dairy for the year. Lot easier to manage
This was quite a few years ago but I set up an amp and a boom box and introduced them to Jimmy Stuart live from Batenrough, La. When my neighbors try ed that on me and it didn't take them long to quite down
In 2015 our two silos were destroyed by a tornado on our farm in SE Iowa. Some cattle were killed in the lot. 2016 we rebuilt with a poured concrete silo over 70 feet. We continue to feed cattle as our contribution to feeding the world.
Cool vid, but would to see it done with 55 gallon barrel of Tannerite. Put hole in side of silo just large enough to stuff plastic barrel in. That would be cool to watch.
GREAT, another "hold my beer and watch this" video. ;-) That looks exceedingly dangerous, all kidding aside. I'm amazed that second one was still standing with basically half of it's circumference knocked down.
Looks as if someone could knock a hole in silo , run a one inch cable thru , clamp it off inside, hook a dozer to it and pull as if a can opener in reverse. Silos are dangerous to tear down
I did not think that this was going to end well. Thought for sure something bad was going to happen. All I could imagine was the silo crashing down on the guy.
My dad did ours with a sledge hammer, and a 16’ 2x4. Cut a few bands, knocked out every other block, then ran rope, chain thru. Hooked to tractor pulled almost half a row out. It walked till I damaged roof. Mom took video. 8mm no sound. Except when she filmed cats as too scared to watch.
What are they made of? It does not realy look or behave like regular steelsheets or wood. Good to see that Your brother where not injured by this, it would be a lie pretending that i hawen't done pretty similar things at some point in my life...
