Friday, September 28, 2018

Oops!


Shamelessly stolen borrowed from Wirecutter:







Peter

9 comments:

Bob Gibson said...

Heh. I *meant to do that* . . .

Feather Blade said...

I can see what they were trying.

Their mistake was in thinking that masonry would behave like wood.

Nuke Road Warrior said...

And that my friends is why they put cages on heavy equipment.

emtgene said...

This was in my AO. The idiot tried to demo it with explosives and failed to bring it down, then did the mechanical trick, almost killing himself in the process. He faced criminal charges over the demo, not having one of the pesky licenses required, lol.
A brick-layer friend who lives there told me there was no need to take it down and that it should have been left in place as a historical monument to the Avondale Mills site that it was on.

Ritchie said...

Fred Dibnah has numerous videos on tube-thing about dropping industrial chimneys, or climbing up and dismantling them brick-at-a-time. I think he must be retired by now.

Old NFO said...

Teh stoopid... Darwin missed that time, but I'm betting the shorts had to be changed, and the seat of the cab cleaned out...

Sam L. said...

My local power plant had been closed for years, but the chimney still stood. I got to watch it toppled when one side was blown in. I was 1/2-1 mile away.

Will said...

As emtgene imputes, not a very bright guy doing the demo. He certainly had time to drive out of the impact zone to avoid being hit. He wasted his time spinning the arm instead of moving the rig. You can do both at the same time, but dividing the power may slow the crawler somewhat.
Hope he was smart enough to be wearing a dust mask!

Magson said...

Here'sa more successful smokestack demo from 2000. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV5iOQjOtiM