Massive dust cloud from cooling tower demolition - GIF

Massive dust cloud from cooling tower demolition.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...956#post175778
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...139#post172435
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...889#post140486
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...228#post180740
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...664#post201592

That guy operating the excavator must have had solid steel cojones

or he is wearing his brown pants...

Yeah, that could have turned out really bad for the operator.

Looks to me like everybody on site had steel between their ears. Idiocy!

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Originally Posted by awright

Looks to me like everybody on site had steel between their ears. Idiocy!

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No argument there, but they had as job to do and got it done with a spectacular ending

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Originally Posted by Frank S

No argument there, but they had as job to do and got it done with a spectacular ending

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I don't see where this was done but it had to be a country with weak or missing safety regulations and insurance industry.

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Originally Posted by awright

I don't see where this was done but it had to be a country with weak or missing safety regulations and insurance industry.

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It's China. But I know from first hand experience there are tough safety laws in China. Just like over here, people try to get away with all kinds of sketchy things.

Before getting in the excavator, the operator was rumored to have said, "Here! Hold my beer!"