Neighbor who bought the old barn has been taking it down bit by bit, providing lots of entertainment...:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4RX5-mZtQM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4RX5-mZtQM)
Run Away. :D
Site looks a lot like the place where I've been milling. Luckily the silos were shorter and galv steel, so a decent excavator was able to mash them into something the scrap metal guys could haul off.
Was good to just get rid of it, but a check for $1400 turned up next month. Was some solid cast iron stuff in there. ;)
About 10 or so years ago we had a former FF member that needed a silo like that removed. He opted to host a party and shoot it down with a .50 cal Barrett!
Looked like a lot of fun; the vide may still be in the archives somewhere.
The stupid is deep there. He was lucky to live through that.
What he said :o
I was thinking "Another candidate for a Darwin Award."
I assume the best way is to take it down from the top. If someone wanted to take it down from the bottom, and didn't have expensive equipment, how would you do it? Got me thinking. Knockout the bottom like that guy was doing, add wood supports, when you've undermined CoG, yank the supports from a distance. Reasonable?
Use long cables and heavy equipment and pull it over. We had a fire in a metal frame warehouse in Bagram Afghanistan and that is how we took it down. It was unsafe to get in so we hooked the cables to the outside of building frame and to a couple of heavy loaders then cut the brace cables on the outside and pulled and it folded up like an accordion in the direction we wanted.
See what happens when you cut hammer through the hinge? Should have bore cut hammered it. :D
On the stave concrete silos they remove part of the staves and prop them up with heavy timbers ,fill the insides of the silo with brush and set it a fire .Set back a couple hundred feet .Drink beer shoot the breeze and several hours later the timbers burn out and over it goes .Sounds like a plan to me .Simple things for simple people ,I like it .
The funniest one I ever saw was on a grain terminal right next to the rail road tracks .It had a grain dust explosion that rendered one silo unsafe .So in comes this so called expert powder man and his dynamite .Blocked off a half mile in each direction, made certain no train traffic, set it off .Boom just cracked it more .It was a slip form reinforced concrete deal made about 1952 vintage .It took a wrecking ball to finish that one and several months .--the best laid plans of mice and men ---- :D