It never ceases to amaze me the amount of items that could be salvaged, from a building that is torn down, like the shelves, blinds, inside doors and front doors, they could be sold or reused.
They are too lazy to dismantle it properly. This country is stuffed with cheap oil and high salaries. The Americans live in a delirium of abundance which should not exist if they did not wage war to have oil and cheap gold. the USA is a country of illusionists based on steal petrol oil and ressources to realy low cost
They are too lazy to dismantle it properly. This country is stuffed with cheap oil and high salaries. The Americans live in a delirium of abundance which should not exist if they did not wage war to have oil and cheap gold. the USA is a country of illusionists@@BelleMorue
Having demoed dozens of buildings myself, you guys have it figured out. Smaller the break down the better, air space in the truck equates to higher dump fees, less profit, Good job.
You getting charged per load? We get charged per pound. So time is money. Ain't spending all day fitting things in like tettris. Make one or two extra trips. Diesel is cheaper than the man hours.
I watch a house next door get demolished like this. I wasn't happy a bigger house that was to replace it, but there was something satisfying about watching the demo.
Kinda wild that such a fairly new building is getting razed. There seems to be a lot of useful material left in it. Crazy that it's not being salvaged. I guess we really do live in a wasteful, throw-away society.
You're so eco-friendly and smart 😱😍That's so inclusive of you to admire the metal shelves purpose so they don't feel left out! 🥰 We need more people like you in the world ❤
Almost as if they were well made and could have been used by someone else. Maybe that glass would have lasted, you know, afew more years ? ( lol ). Maybe the glass had reached its expiry date though. Glass lasts afew years and then it returns back to sand, right ? -_- ... x_x
@@LORFCASTER guess the issue with glass is finding someone who wants it with the EXACT same dimensions and frame type. Cant just cut glass simply too just ends up being cheaper to break and make a new one
Here in Germany this wouldn´t be allowed to demolish. Here you have to separate all Materials from each other, before you could begin. For example you must screw wooden railings off and dispose them separately.
Well the thing is, "bad shape" is only one of the conditions that can be a reason to demolish a building. Another one is: "Someone buyed the land and the building and decided to demolish it to build a new building on the same place" Could me a bigger store, or something else.
@@JackMacLupus most of the time, it is more cost effective to demo an existing building vs retro fitting it to meet requirements of its new purpose. for example retro fitting an old gas station/service station is fools errand, easier faster to knock it down start over
I was really surprised to see how easily the roof collapsed when the front wall of the store was pulled down. I would have expected a little more structural rigidity from it
@@gregwaters7830 I understand that, but there are still three other walls that was holding the roof up after the front wall came down. I was slightly surprised that the roof was not rigid enough to remain up with one out of four supports removed.
@@DownundaThundaif the roof stayed up with an entire wall missing that means it was overdesigned. These buildings are a dime a dozen and don’t need that level of engineering. There’s no reason to make a roof that rigid since normal use of the building would have all the walls present.
They are built to legal standards for the area they are in. Why would I want to spend an extra $100,000 to make my building more bulldozer-proof if I don't have to?
As an architect who spends countless hours sweating blood to design buildings, it's heart-wrenching to see how quickly dreams can be turned into rubble.
I'll admit that I was surprised by how easy it was to bring down. Once he grabbed a hold of that big beam at the front, it was over. You'd think the structure would be stronger than that.
For those who say there's a lot that could have been salvaged I can tell you from first hand experience it's just not worth it unless you value your time at zero. If you have some feel good hobby and your compensation is emotional then it works, otherwise no.
I teally dont know why nothing was removed before demolition. I live in Germany and a couple years ago ive seen a big old department store building being demolished. Everything like the sealing and wall panels, furniture, lamps etc. was taken out and put into separate containers. Also things like concrete and metal were separated. Here just Everything is torn down and all materials are mixed up
It is astonishing to see how the US is 25+ years behind when it comes to environmental concerns, recycling, etc. In many ways they are on par with developing countries.
You'd have to use them at their original size since tempered glass can't be cut. It'd be an odd-looking greenhouse. But yeah, shame the materials can't be reused instead of recycled or binned.
"no more cold refreshments. nothin. just some empty shelves". 15 seconds later: "no more cold refreshments or anything. just some empty shelves". I'm convinced this man is a construction worker robot. they took er jobs
This video was suggested to me and towards the end realized you're local. This gas station is just a few minutes from my work. Keep up the videos! Love to see some more local demolition jobs.
@@marcelosrn4805 I don't know for sure but there was another gas station built just down the street a few years ago and this one probably just wasn't profitable anymore.
Same with me. In fact, I used to live in that part of town and shopped there as well. I bet that Maveric put them out of business. Corner of Argonne and Trent. Also used to go to that Taco Time all the time!
For foreigners like me is so amazing how fragile construction is in the USA. It's even more amazing when one understands that these buildings constructed mostly with plywood and paper that will never pass construction codes of LA or Germany cost a fortune.
I'm surprised that no one knew how to use those metal shelves. I have some at home (also from a closed store) and they are very practical for storing household items.
There is also a computer chair and a clock that could have been salvaged. The shelves could be used in a garage to store stuff....or bought by someone who owns their own small mom and pop store.
Just stumbled across your channel today and realized you're local to me, I've been in that gas station several times. Any idea why it was demolished? Wasn't that old of a building
The new owner is building something completely bespoke to their operation. These retail buildings are designed to last only 30 years or so and are cheap to demo and build.
That was a pull handle, not a push bar! Brian, I’m really disappointed that you didn’t try pulling the front door open with your excavator bucket. You are suppose to put “entertaining us” in front of “getting the job done! “ 😂😊 Another great video!!!
@@mrknotthallIt’s not you exactly, that’s breaking the building, all you’re doing is controlling, turn the machine with the knobs or whatever they’re called and another to make the machine break the building.
To what extent does it make sense to separate out different materials as you demolish the building, like metals? Or do these get separated if/when the debris is shredded at some other location?
Cost of disposal is the primary determining factor. Scrap metal has value and is usually sold to a scrap dealer. Mixed demolition waste is very expensive to dispose of. Paying demolition waste rates to get rid of valuable steel doesn't make sense, so the easy to pick or significant chunks of steel are always plucked out. Most demolition companies don't process their waste any further then they do on site. Typically a third party waste removal company will be hired to remove and dispose of the waste from the site (what they do with after that is a whole other discussion). Some demolition companies will spend more time tearing down the building and more thoroughly sorting the debris as they go(concrete/brick, Wood, Metals, etc). More common on very large building demolitions where the disposal cost to just send it all mixed would be astronomical. Some even go as far as deconstructing certain parts of the buildings and saving things like windows, doors, fixtures, etc to resale or donate. Its ultimately a numbers game for the owner and/or demolition company.
2:57 here i was like " oh shit hes got a huge hydraulic leak" then he kept going and i was like " damn he doesn't even care, what a badass". then i realized it was someone else with a hose further away from the excavator, spraying to keep down dust lol
Must have had a mouse they found a BIG CAT to et rid of it!! This is why they don't allow pets in the stores, just look at what that CAT did to the place!!! LOL Just having a little fun with you all. It would be nice to see what you see from the excavator and hear your thoughts on how it's going or what the next move will be.
I watched a hockey rink being torn down close to my home. It amazed me how they sorted all the demolished pieces into piles. The steel in one pile, aluminum in another, copper pipe in another, etc. It was all sorted and put in trucks and hauled away.
Gas Station demolition. Reminds me of the Gas Station demolition by Jonathan Winters in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Only Jonathan was much faster and only had a pickup truck. HA!
Videos like this explain why tornadoes in the US ripp everything from the ground included entire houses, everything is built out of cardboard and plywood...
Here in the Netherlands it works very differently. All usable materials are first neatly removed. Then controlled demolition and sorting all materials for recycling. What's happening here is just tearing everything down. The result is an unimaginable mess that you can no longer do anything with and you have a lot of clean-up work to do.
What i do not understand is You've got a 30 year old building in good usable shape being demolished yet you look around and old 1950s gas stations in really bad shape still stand. Part of the permit possess should be evaluating a structures usefulness regardless of its area. That could have been used for other stuff like a doctors office or a dentists or even daycare. Whats going back in its place? Whats the value to the local area as is or replaced? Same holds true for building permits.
Sometimes the land under a building is (or becomes) way more valuable than the building. Someone buys the property for, say, an office building. Clearing off a 30-year old convenience store is a minor expense. Moving or parting out the building isn't cost-efficient. So... demolition. It's a shame, but it's the reality.
I just happened to come across this video looking for videos of excavators. I knew this store. I recognized the trains going through there and the Yokes signs. I was so mad when it got torn down lol. It was the cleanest, coldest, most organized convenience store I had ever been in and they closed it down.
Wieso werden die Scheiben bei Euch nicht vorher ausgebaut für ins Recycling ? Bei uns wird ein Gebäude erst entkernt (Fenster heraus, Heizkörper heraus, Elektroleitungen heraus) und dann abgerissen.
Problem would be recovery of the camera. Once the roof is damaged, it would be too dangerous to enter the building, so they would have to manually sift through the debris to find it. There's also no garuntee that the camera won't just be destroyed by the excavator as it does it's work.
I'm kind of amazed at how easily this building came apart. The first bites out of the front seemed to have collapsed the whole thing. Almost kind of scary that it came apart that quickly. I was amazed at how much space the "managers office" used. Looks like theyd have used it for more retail space. I collect old phone systems and would have loved ripping out the CCTV stuff, and maybe some of the electrical. Great video. Loved the opening; going in for a final tour!
@@HomeWreckerBrian Thanks man, really enjoyed this one. From the puns to the water line busting, this was not short of action! Perfect times to speed things up too, appreciate that a lot!
lemme guess, you couldve hand stripped that building in a quarter of the time, salvaged every screw, washer, piece of wire and metal and cleaned up the debris
Well if you could pay someone to strip all materials that could practically be reused you'd spend as much on labor as you would recoup from the effort. Plus this demolition is probably on a time schedule so you don't have a month to fool around doing that. Besides other than the metal you're not going to get much value from used building materials from these cheaply constructed buildings. I would assume these demo projects are more profitable the less time you take for each job and move on to the next one.
Aqui no brasil se aproveitaria tudo, os vidros, o alumínio das portas, os cabos eléctricos, as telhas, calhas, praticamente ficaria apenas as paredes pra se demolir, aqui não é facil comprar os materiais então tudo é aproveitado ao máximo.
This thing is very cool to watch. I'm back in my early grade school age, watching big equipment tearing down greenhouses surrounding our property. This type of machinery has ALWAYS fascinated me- human beings multiplying their physical strength (in essence) by hundreds - or even thousands - of times via technology. And it's just straight, linear motion via hydraulic cylinders & pistons, hooked up to levers -the excavator's arms- that combine to do work that requires enough force to easily knock down walls. Very cool.
🤔😒too bad the huge panes of glass cant be physically removed and recycled, cut smaller to other uses🤔 remove and sell of door hinges and etc. 2nd hand stores could resell🤔
Exactly. I'm homeless in my car watching this. I would've loved to turn that manager's office into a bedroom and build a shower somewhere. I'd finally be able to function like a human being again and hold down a full-time job.
Lmfao. Yeah tell the new land owner that. Or the city that has deemed this building unsafe or didn’t follow building code and fixes cost too much. lol ooorrr get a job and buy yourself a house. Bum little liberals.
Crazy for a western European guy to see stuff get torn down like this, over here it's all sorting at the source. Wood/metal/waste/rubble it all gets separated and recycled, seems like across the pond they just throw it all in a big pile and haul it off
I like to see someone who's happy in their work! It's a shame that this business failed, probably down to the cost of living crisis. FYI you tore down the wrong store it was meant to be the one across the street.
It is so weird seeing this with a European lens. Landfills have been outlawed here 25 years ago. So everything needs to be sorted and recycled. You can still get a dumpster/container for "mixed waste", but it is something like 10 times the price, since someone has to manually dig thru it all and sort it later. Here this building would have been stripped of everything inside. Even wires and plumbing removed from the walls. All windows and doors would have to be removed first too. And the demolishing would only be an empty shell of mostly only one material.
