You sir win the internet.... That would be perfect and to put a cherry on top.... He says " like a good neighbor state farm is there... As he points to the landing zone where the silo falls on the new Jake or should we say Jamal from state farm.
@@waynemillard7426 Very astute, bud. I’m 71. And still fondly remember the Laurel and Hardy movies. (For those less “aged”, lol, they were a comedy duo. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy
Two big mistakes: 1) When you fell a tree, you don't just do a single straight cut and expect the tree to fall in the desired location. You have to cut a notch in the tree to control it's direction. Same thing here. 2) They should have attached one end of a cable to the top of the silo, with the other end to a truck or tractor. Then, the driver should have slowly driven away from the buildings, pulling the silo in the right direction.
Agree. A few minutes on RU-vid researching how to fell a tree would have been well spent. Start with a wedge on the side you want it to fall, then cut just above the apex of the wedge on the other side and job done.
Well, at least the next guy can find a RU-vid on how NOT to take down a silo. My 50-footer is all concrete tiles, held together with wrap-around steel rings. I've watched some of the Amish companies take them down one layer at a time, starting from the top. They drop them down with a rope and pully and stack them on a truck, ready to go to another farm that needs a silo. These "chopped corn" or "silage" silos fell out of favor for a few years (around 30 years ago) but now some of the more progressive dairy farmers are putting up more than they ever had so they can fill 'em with enough chopped corn to feed their larger dairy herds. It seems to work out rather well and they don't have as much spoilage as they did with the plastic covered "silage trenches" they used to use.@@Tailspin80
As heavy as that is, if that was cabled to just about any automobile or even a small heavy equipment, it would have thrown the auto in the air like a Trebuchet.
@@Tailspin80explain to us how you are going to drive this wedge into the side of a silo. I suppose you could bust out a small section of block and have a bottle jack in there. But who you gonna pay to stand there and pump that next to a falling silo haha? Also, how many jacks are you going to destroy in a year?? Bigger 'notch' is what was needed.
@@travisjohnson1500 It’s called a wedge cut when felling a tree. Remove a wedge shaped chunk on one side, then cut across above it from the other side. This creates a hinge and the tree falls towards the hinge. You could probably apply the same principle to a silo.
That what s happens when you don't make the hole/gap bigger at the end you want it to keep falling. You have too keep momentum going it the direction you want it to land.
An anchor cable to the top, attached to something large in the direction of desired fall would have been prudent, but hindsight is 20/20. I took down a 45' stave silo once. Very successful. Won't try it again.
I think we've all had days at work when something bad went wrong. Maybe it wasn't really our fault and just bad luck. Or maybe it really was our fault due to an honest mistake. Things probably didn't go as bad as dropping a silo on someone's house though, and that can cheer us up when we are thinking about the disasters we have caused. And for the guy who did this, well, hopefully no one died, so there is that. Property can be repaired.
The operator didn't open up the "fall side" high enough for the silo to tilt. He took out an even number of courses and so it fell straight down. Think about how a forester notches a tree for felling.
@QuietlyContemplating obviously I don't. Question. Does this make your life have meaning that you go on RU-vid to correct spelling or grammar? 4 or 6 yrs of college?
@@QuietlyContemplating oh it is, because nobody is that condescending and delusional without college indoctrination. And seeing how you won't answer the question, you knew why I was asking. An uneducated college product.
I just saw a video of a guy doing this be "sawing" out the lower tiers with gunfire (looked like it was just a shotgun shooting slugs from about 50 meters), and it actually worked. Granted not a viable option in all countries, but I don't see why more people don't try more ballistic demolitiom on these things from a safe standoff rather than getting so close and risking getting crushed.
Nobody thought about a strap/ chain hookup to help create direction of fall? You’re telling me nobody thought about attaching a strap or chain and tying it around something across the fall site? Smh
When are they going to realize tipping silos is no different than falling trees! You have make the notch (take out concrete higher up)on the side(direction) you it to fall. Higher and wider on staves then poured. 👨🏻🦳 🐄🐄 🚜
The video suggestion that pops up 20 seconds before it's over covers up the damage of the house. Kind of defeats the whole point of watching the video.
In the long run, it is cheaper to hire a professional. Second Question, since this silo was still in good shape, it needed to come down, Why??? Created more problems than it solved.
That would have been my luck. I hope no one got hurt as no one should have been even close to that silo. Looks like they did not remove enough rows of staves so when it tried to fall it got hung up.
It's pretty obvious that the person doing the job is not experienced in silo demolition. Whaddya wanna bet that the REAL professionals gave a quote and this clown said "I can do it for 1/4 that much..."
One tough silo. Obviously thinking it would collapse under it's own weight and not bounce back in the other direction. If you watch these videos you would learn that you need a bigger notch to keep this from happening.
How hard would it of been to winch a cable onto a couple spots to prevent this exact thing from happening? WOW hope it was a real company so they could sue and not their drunk uncle lol
The worst part of this, was tha swarm of bees at the end!! The silo fell the wrong way, wrecks their house, and the family gets attacked by a swarm. You heard it at the end, the screaming, the running, and the swarm noise. Just tragic.🐝🐝🐝
Old Silos are a liability and need to be removed. They are meant to be filled with something and when there is no outward pressure pushing on the metal rings the structure becomes weaker.
Gee, I had to watch countless demolitions to get to see one fails ! Hole too small, you can see the fall then the rebound leading to the fall going the other way.
