The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Heh. I *meant to do that* . . .
I can see what they were trying.
Their mistake was in thinking that masonry would behave like wood.
And that my friends is why they put cages on heavy equipment.
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.
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.
Teh stoopid... Darwin missed that time, but I'm betting the shorts had to be changed, and the seat of the cab cleaned out...
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.
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!
Here'sa more successful smokestack demo from 2000. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV5iOQjOtiM
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