Near miss from demolition debris - GIF

[Altair]

Near miss from demolition debris.




Previously:

Excavator building demolition gone wrong - GIF
Demolishing a roof while sitting on one of its supporting poles - GIF
Neat and tidy building demolition - GIF
Perfect controlled demolition of twin chimneys - video
Failed tower demolition - GIF

[sossol]

Ages ago I worked with a landlord renovating his buildings (he bought remuddled buildings and returned them to their original appearance). We were removing the stucco fascade from an 1850s apartment building. I'd cut the concrete in squares with a hammer and chisel (it was easier than heaving a machine tool), cutting or tearing the metal lathe, then tossing the chunks to the ground. This stuff was ~1 1/2" thick.
One day we were working at the second floor level on the scaffold. We're both the sort who tend to see how far we can push our luck, and we were cutting bigger and bigger chunks. We lost our grip on a roughly 2'x2' chunk. We both grabbed at it, but only managed to impart a forward rotation to it. It hit the porch in a spin, rolled off the porch, down a 4' tall ~45* bank, across the sidewalk, curb and a few feet of the street. We both stared, dumbfounded as it rolled toward my car, getting smaller and smaller. By the time it reached my car it was only about 4" round and it fell over harmlessly.
We had a good laugh at what happened and our deer-in-headlights reaction, then decided to stick with smaller chunks.

It would have been youtube gold if youtube and camera phones had existed.

Neil

[suther51]

Are those bricks?

[baja]

Ages ago I worked with a landlord renovating his buildings (he bought remuddled buildings and returned them to their original appearance). We were removing the stucco fascade from an 1850s apartment building. I'd cut the concrete in squares with a hammer and chisel (it was easier than heaving a machine tool), cutting or tearing the metal lathe, then tossing the chunks to the ground. This stuff was ~1 1/2" thick.
One day we were working at the second floor level on the scaffold. We're both the sort who tend to see how far we can push our luck, and we were cutting bigger and bigger chunks. We lost our grip on a roughly 2'x2' chunk. We both grabbed at it, but only managed to impart a forward rotation to it. It hit the porch in a spin, rolled off the porch, down a 4' tall ~45* bank, across the sidewalk, curb and a few feet of the street. We both stared, dumbfounded as it rolled toward my car, getting smaller and smaller. By the time it reached my car it was only about 4" round and it fell over harmlessly.
We had a good laugh at what happened and our deer-in-headlights reaction, then decided to stick with smaller chunks.

It would have been youtube gold if youtube and camera phones had existed.

Neil

I love free lessons on what not to do.

[drivermark]

I love free lessons on what not to do.

[Haroun]

In my estimation that was not a near miss but pretty much a direct hit. By multiple projectiles.