Excavator chimney demolition gone wrong - GIF

[Jon]

Excavator chimney demolition gone wrong.




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[Frank S]

The operator was clearly trying his best to get as far away from the silo coming down as possible.

[Radioman]

What did he friggen think was going to happen?

When you cut a wedge out of a tree that’s the way it’s going to fall. Same thing with a concrete silo.

[Scrounga]

But did he survive that???

[Frank S]

But did he survive that???

I imagine he would have as long as there was a rock shield in front of the windscreen glass
If he wasn't asphyxiated from the dust.

[C Tucker]

I have help drop a cement block silo and that is NOT how ya do it. We knock a couple holes in the bottom just less than half way around from each other. Ran a cable thru the holes and looped it back to a tractor. The cable was long enough to keep the tractor out of the fall area and you just drive away, pulling the support out from under half the silo. It dropped right where we wanted it to.

[Paul Alciatore]

For better or worse, evolution works.

I hope no innocent bystanders were hurt. And I guess I hope the driver was OK too.

[Buster Gonad]

Lucky his cabin was on the left side of the machine. They should be fiited with stand-alone
Face air'supply.
Probably not.