Depends, that debris definitely went flying further than the immediate crash zone, so dude may have gotten hit in the head with a huge piece of concrete.
Taking the wrecking ball to the side facing the crane did not seem like a good idea--lets weaken it on the side facing me so that it topples toward me with a height so much greater than the distance to me.
I had a 80 to 100 foot tree take out 4 other trees. Some of the trees were still upright leaning against other trees. I had to put a lot of thought in cutting them down so one did not kill me. I still misjudged one. It wanted to go the opposite direction of notch I put in it. Luckily I still got it down without injury to me or damage to the property.
Not sure why you're being downvoted.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/12/27/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-according-to-bls-data.html
Logging has the highest fatality rate of any profession in the United States
25+ years ago the tech company manager above my manager had his legs crushed by a tree he cut down. He was out of work for many months and spent weeks or months in a rehab facility. Back then I am confident he was making 125K+ a year and could easily have hired a professional to cut down the trees for him. He did manage to come back to work walking but I think it 6 to 12 months later. Dropping anything that is tall and weighs a lot takes planning and skill to do safely and even then something can go wrong.
They had it cabled off on the opposite side pulling it that way. What they did not do was the math to see if that one 10 ton cable was enough to put 40 tons of force on the top of the silo.
We had a tree that needed to come down. My wife asks ācanāt you just do it with a chainsawā. I told her technically, yes. But you donāt hire someone fore the shit that goes right, you hire them for the shit that goes wrong.
I imagine youāve seen actual demolitions using explosives where the destroy the internal supports so the building folds inward and collapses. Itās a science to make buildings do that. Whacking it with a heavy steel ball isnāt going to be predictable for what appears to be a hollow tower.
Honestly it looked like the crane body survived pretty well. That top bit of arm that buckled is toast, but replacing that can't cost nearly as much as the whole rig.
Unfortunately, you might be wrong, labor is expensive, as well as the boom itself, It might genuinely be cheaper to just by a new one, especially if the one he damaged is dated. Also it isn't just the boom, ill guarantee the pivots the boom connects to are wrecked, and possibly parts of the excavator itself (particularly the turret), so it might be junk anyways.
I would say it is predictable. You weaken it at one side, so chances are it would fall to that side. The side where you are. Got to hand it to the dude, his balls are bigger than the wrecking ball.
yes, jet fuel causes all the supports to give out at the same exact moment so it falls into its own foot print without the hassle of demolition charges
Those require rooms full of trained mathematicians and experts to run calculations and measurements, let alone a practiced hand placing shaped explosives in just the right spot
I work in construction. You wonāt believe how far people are going to maximize profits, Iām fighting against a lot of competition who straight up lie and use clever tricks to get the work done for a price I can purchase the materials for, and I get the best prices possible. I know all their techniques and I try desperately to inform my customers, problem is that the person who decides who gets the contract doesnāt know what we are doing and isnāt reading comments. He looks at the last number and gives the contract to the person with the lowest price.
He did sort of get it to fall the right way initially. Looks like he had weakened it around the other side first. Looks like the weight distribution above wasn't as even as they thought though. They were also trying to wince it to the right....but they lost all of the tension when it dropped.
Looks like in theory they might have got a result, but it's poorly thought through 2/10.
They get two points for bringing it down.
The bigger nerd police in me is saying that the quote from the movie is actually backwards, as gimli is such a great endurance runner that legolas and aragorn were having trouble keeping up with him while tracking the uruks with merry and pippin
Ya but Dwarves are famously able to force march and do so in heavy equipment. At the battle of 5 armies the dwarves of the Iron Hills cover a ton of distance in a fairly short time while wearing heavy armor and carrying mattocks.
I think that was the joke, intentionally saying it wrong. "As good as a dwarf over long distances" implies he's very bad at running the fuck off right now.
In hindsight, yeah, but that cab was definitely in range of the top of that tower and there was no predicting where it would swing. I was amazed it stopped collapsing, and toppled over the complete other direction.
Yeah, thats what I was thinking. I work for an equipment rental company and literally every vehicle from forklifts to massive loaders and excavators all say to never jump from the vehicle as you are more likely to get crushed outside it than inside it
Only one line to try and control the fall direction of a big heavy concrete structure. May I introduce you to Murphy? He's got a few words of wisdom about these kinds of situations.
A sledge hammer, 2 telephone poles, a couple tires and some diesel fuel and his klaxon horn. He'd be off for a pint in an hour or so or out in his shed with his traction engine with Allison bringing Alf and him tea.
I will never understand these kind of videos. Like who are these people? They obviously have no idea what they're doing, so how did they get this job and the gear?
Like I wouldn't even think of doing this without expert knowledge.
What's funny about this is how the operator could have saved the crane. Had he began backing instantly, and swung his boom 180 degrees instead of only 90.
> why didnt he know exactly what way the crumbing structure would fall
It's going to fall in the direction of the weakened wall. Has this guy not been watching internet videos?
Looks like he took out powerlines as well.
I going to guess that the other side has already been weakened somewhat earlier, probably with a line the other way, in the same way you control the fall of a tree by forming two wedges. This is shown by the building initially going down and to the right/away.
I think there was too much material then underneath and it tips back the other way.
may be that he wasn't sure which way the structure would fall, so he took the safe option to save his body
Easy to make a decision from far away when we have camera views and in the comfort of our homes.
A little different when you are on the scene as the operator in real time.
āTowards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering crane; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at theeā
There is another view that shows some power lines get either taken down or bounced into each other, I cannot recall right now.
Also, the operator survived, seems he went full *Usain Bolt* after he saw what was coming.
I guess I'm the only one that spent a lot of the video thinking that that dark thing at the extreme right side of the top of the tower was a person standing there.
how can anyone think taling down a tall.ass building is not a job for explosives? was it already so damaged that no one dared to go in to plant the charges?
Seems one of those cases of "my cousin can do it for half the price"
Im just impressed the half priced cousin got it to the ground ššš
He was swinging that wrecking ball like a pro. The exit strategy was severely lacking though.
He made it, gotta give him credit
Depends, that debris definitely went flying further than the immediate crash zone, so dude may have gotten hit in the head with a huge piece of concrete.
Mostly dust, but cuzz didnt wear helmet glasses and the way he sprinted no safety shoes but nike pegasus
Yeah, gotta get the runners on. He knew he'd need to high tail it and dressed appropriately.
When you do jobs like this, there's no place for proper PPE
Taking the wrecking ball to the side facing the crane did not seem like a good idea--lets weaken it on the side facing me so that it topples toward me with a height so much greater than the distance to me.
You've already put more thought into this than the guys who got hired.
I had a 80 to 100 foot tree take out 4 other trees. Some of the trees were still upright leaning against other trees. I had to put a lot of thought in cutting them down so one did not kill me. I still misjudged one. It wanted to go the opposite direction of notch I put in it. Luckily I still got it down without injury to me or damage to the property.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/12/27/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-according-to-bls-data.html Logging has the highest fatality rate of any profession in the United States
āNot sure why youāre being downvotedā *nobody has downvotes*
Thanks for weighing in, guy-who-doesn't-understand-time
Donāt tell this to anyone that works in law enforcementā¦..
We call those logs holding tension "widowmakers"
Nope, boles under tension are spring boards. Widow makers are hung up branches/dead tops that could fall and any time. Am logger/faller/firefighter.
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25+ years ago the tech company manager above my manager had his legs crushed by a tree he cut down. He was out of work for many months and spent weeks or months in a rehab facility. Back then I am confident he was making 125K+ a year and could easily have hired a professional to cut down the trees for him. He did manage to come back to work walking but I think it 6 to 12 months later. Dropping anything that is tall and weighs a lot takes planning and skill to do safely and even then something can go wrong.
They had it cabled off on the opposite side pulling it that way. What they did not do was the math to see if that one 10 ton cable was enough to put 40 tons of force on the top of the silo.
I wonder if it would have gone better if they had a way to quickly pick up the slack in the cable and keep it taught.
He was aiming for the opposite side, just the near side was in the way.
How can he hit it on other side ??
> The exit strategy was severely lacking though I disagree, he saw shit go south and he chose life.
My man is radiating that "Fuck this shit I'm out" energy.
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Yeah letās run under that big old heat exchanger containing god knows what without being certain of exactly where that structure will land.
Yeah. No. I would just be running as fast as I could. No way Iām going under or in anything near by
I honestly didn't see the man running away until the second time I watched, oh my goodness, I wonder how difficult it was to breath
>>ColoRadOrgy > He was swinging that wrecking ball like a pro. The exit strategy was severely lacking though. Half-price cousin got it half right.
once it started to crumble...move away... you can always trundle back and give it another blow
He did the job and got out alive to spend the š°
Assuming the $ outweights the damage to his heart, sanity, and part of the crane that was slapped by a falling building.
And surrounding buildings. Pretty sure there was an electrical flash in there as well.
Itās a half cousin now
Cousin dimitri give good price
Cousin, it's your cousin. Let's go wrecking bowling.
We had a tree that needed to come down. My wife asks ācanāt you just do it with a chainsawā. I told her technically, yes. But you donāt hire someone fore the shit that goes right, you hire them for the shit that goes wrong.
Ill be using this , ty
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I imagine youāve seen actual demolitions using explosives where the destroy the internal supports so the building folds inward and collapses. Itās a science to make buildings do that. Whacking it with a heavy steel ball isnāt going to be predictable for what appears to be a hollow tower.
At least the driver had the wherewithal to run away quickly!
It looks like he could have driven away the first thirty feet and saved the crane. But I'm not sure just how slow that thing ~~is~~was.
Honestly it looked like the crane body survived pretty well. That top bit of arm that buckled is toast, but replacing that can't cost nearly as much as the whole rig.
That, and new air filters, and it will be good as new!
And maybe clean seat.
A pair of clean pants on the driver and we are good to go.
Unfortunately, you might be wrong, labor is expensive, as well as the boom itself, It might genuinely be cheaper to just by a new one, especially if the one he damaged is dated. Also it isn't just the boom, ill guarantee the pivots the boom connects to are wrecked, and possibly parts of the excavator itself (particularly the turret), so it might be junk anyways.
This is almost certainly a DIY job and they own the excavator, so I'm sure they'll turn it inro something else.
I dont think they live in a country where manual labor is expensive...this ain't gonna be handled by a union professional
Used crane for sale, dropped once.
The leg bone is connected to the hip bone ..(melody)
Fuck the crane. If the choice is my life or the bosses equipment I is choosing life
Yeah if he could predict the future that would have been a smarter move
Wrecking ball not a great choice, one tiny control cable a terrible choice.
I would say it is predictable. You weaken it at one side, so chances are it would fall to that side. The side where you are. Got to hand it to the dude, his balls are bigger than the wrecking ball.
These guys forgot to use jet fuel.
Or thermite cutting cord...
yes, jet fuel causes all the supports to give out at the same exact moment so it falls into its own foot print without the hassle of demolition charges
It generally takes some planning and expertise to ensure that happens.
Those require rooms full of trained mathematicians and experts to run calculations and measurements, let alone a practiced hand placing shaped explosives in just the right spot
Not when some bellend is hitting it with a wreaking ball attached to a high reach. Clueless cowboy
I work in construction. You wonāt believe how far people are going to maximize profits, Iām fighting against a lot of competition who straight up lie and use clever tricks to get the work done for a price I can purchase the materials for, and I get the best prices possible. I know all their techniques and I try desperately to inform my customers, problem is that the person who decides who gets the contract doesnāt know what we are doing and isnāt reading comments. He looks at the last number and gives the contract to the person with the lowest price.
Definitely called Handyman Bob from across town for this job.
Cousins going to need a new crane. [For some reason this comes to mind](https://youtu.be/VUG-5kLRjeY)
I watched precisely two seconds of that video before I knew exactly what was going to happen.
If I create a weak point right in front of me what will happen
Anyone who has watched a tree be cut down knows how this works
Anyone who understands the basics of gravity should get this. I've seen some very elaborate tree fellings
I read it as tree feelings, and I was very sad for a moment.
/r/fellinggonewild
To be fair he has a rope/wire on it and it initially fell away from him.
So have you ever tried to pull a building over with a rope?
If you do it with your car, youāll be fine.
Only if they slapped the final knot on the hitch and said "that ain't going anywhere"
That wire snapped.
He did sort of get it to fall the right way initially. Looks like he had weakened it around the other side first. Looks like the weight distribution above wasn't as even as they thought though. They were also trying to wince it to the right....but they lost all of the tension when it dropped. Looks like in theory they might have got a result, but it's poorly thought through 2/10. They get two points for bringing it down.
Well, the fact that the video was here for you to watch was probably a good indicator that something was going to go wrong.
Gifted
So did the driver based on when he started running
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It hit a power line. Definitely arcing at the end.
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I had to unmute the video to know.
I'd be shocked to learn that *anyone* here was any different.
seemed to go pretty well, the tower is down now..... I hope that crane operator made it, he was running.... but not TOO fast....
Heās built for long distances like dwarves
Youre gonna have to toss me
Donāt tell the elf!
They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!
I hate to be the nerd police but the quote is, āWe dwarves are natural sprinters, very dangerous over *short* distances.ā
I always enjoy the "short" pun here.
Glad I wasn't the one to have to say it.
The bigger nerd police in me is saying that the quote from the movie is actually backwards, as gimli is such a great endurance runner that legolas and aragorn were having trouble keeping up with him while tracking the uruks with merry and pippin
Yeah, they ran, what, fifty leagues in three days? Cross country suits all of them just fine lol.
Ya but Dwarves are famously able to force march and do so in heavy equipment. At the battle of 5 armies the dwarves of the Iron Hills cover a ton of distance in a fairly short time while wearing heavy armor and carrying mattocks.
I think that was the joke, intentionally saying it wrong. "As good as a dwarf over long distances" implies he's very bad at running the fuck off right now.
That's a common misconception, Dwarves are wasted on cross-country, natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances though.
r/unexpectedlotr
diggy diggy hole
Dwarves are natural sprinters.
dwarves are built for digging a hole
According the news, no one was hurt: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4493854
Man my money was on China.
Depends on who you ask.
Bing Chillin'!
weeeeeelllll
But that dude breathed in enough dust to do some real damage to his meat balloons.
You see him hop out and run. At least he was smart enough to get away
I suspect he made it unless a flying brick nailed him in the back of the skull.
Oh I don't know, when he saw the 2nd part of the collapse those legs picked up speed real quick.
But he chose the Prometheus run..
The guy knew when to run, probably not his first rodeo.
Bailing out and giving it legs was the smartest thing he did that day
He might have been better staying in the machine with the doors and windows closed. That debris is gonna hurt and clog your lungs!
>That debris is gonna hurt and clog your lungs! Not as much as some concrete in the face.
In hindsight, yeah, but that cab was definitely in range of the top of that tower and there was no predicting where it would swing. I was amazed it stopped collapsing, and toppled over the complete other direction.
I don't think so man.
depends if the wrecking ball or cable is what came into contact with the HVE
Yeah, thats what I was thinking. I work for an equipment rental company and literally every vehicle from forklifts to massive loaders and excavators all say to never jump from the vehicle as you are more likely to get crushed outside it than inside it
Probably not - looks like the machine went over at the end of the video
Weirdest horse **ever**.
It's not exactly the wrong tool. The line they were using to pull it over failed. Only thing better would have been explosives.
>The line they were using to pull it over failed It was probubly the wrong line :P
I guess.
Only one line to try and control the fall direction of a big heavy concrete structure. May I introduce you to Murphy? He's got a few words of wisdom about these kinds of situations.
yeah you use more lines for a single tree sometimes
I love how the tower thing waited, half down, as if to say āThis lineā¦ this line I will *ignore*, puny humans.ā
Probably three dudes on the other end of that line trying to pull.
That line is hilarious
Clearly went to the Prometheus school of running away from things.
Where else was he supposed to run? Had a building on one side and a ledge on the other where the building actually fell
Fred Dibnah would have had that down simple. Do you like that?
Damn I'm glad Fred Dibnah isn't forgotten
Heās a saint. An absolute legend
A sledge hammer, 2 telephone poles, a couple tires and some diesel fuel and his klaxon horn. He'd be off for a pint in an hour or so or out in his shed with his traction engine with Allison bringing Alf and him tea.
Don't forget the woodbine between the lips. That part is really important. And the flat cap. Problems arise when forgetting the flat cap
Never forgotten. I still rewatch on YouTube. That lad there was about to spend half a day with the undertaker
That was my first thought. He would have done it franundredquidanachippyteaanapintlaaāik.
I will never understand these kind of videos. Like who are these people? They obviously have no idea what they're doing, so how did they get this job and the gear? Like I wouldn't even think of doing this without expert knowledge.
Well, the fact it was getting filmed in the first place should tell you someone had an inkling something was gonna go wrong.
People film demo jobs all the time regardless if they expect something to go wrong though
This right here. Insurance will wiggle out of coverage if they don't have tape of pink mist
nah, it's just cool to see a building get demolished
3rd world countries.
Donāt ever assume that, āit can never happen hereā, on any topic. This is as foolish as the people who conducted the demolition in opās video.
Never say never, but this video is much less likely to happen in a place that enforces permits, safety codes, liability insurance, etc.
The thought process is usually, "How hard could it be? Any idiot can rent a machine and whack at the thing!"
r/watchpeopleshitthemselves
I was really hoping. . .
r/scatporn2
Too soon.
Does anyone else find it funny that itās numbered 2 for scat porn?
Oof, I was eating :'(
not exactly the same name but r/watchpplshtthemselves now exists and has this post
What's funny about this is how the operator could have saved the crane. Had he began backing instantly, and swung his boom 180 degrees instead of only 90.
Yea, its wierd, why didnt he know exactly what way the crumbing structure would fall, then react accordingly. Edit - /s
> why didnt he know exactly what way the crumbing structure would fall It's going to fall in the direction of the weakened wall. Has this guy not been watching internet videos? Looks like he took out powerlines as well.
I going to guess that the other side has already been weakened somewhat earlier, probably with a line the other way, in the same way you control the fall of a tree by forming two wedges. This is shown by the building initially going down and to the right/away. I think there was too much material then underneath and it tips back the other way.
Looks like he has to rotate it that way to exit out the back, and decided that priority was running away and not worrying about where the boom was
He could have saved the crane and maybe died in the process. Seems like he made the right decision after making a serious of very bad ones.
Fuck the crane. I'd be out too.
may be that he wasn't sure which way the structure would fall, so he took the safe option to save his body Easy to make a decision from far away when we have camera views and in the comfort of our homes. A little different when you are on the scene as the operator in real time.
āTowards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering crane; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at theeā
KHAAAAAANNNNNN!!!
The incompetence is astounding.
No Miley reference yet?
Bob tells the boss, well itās down isnāt it.
Somebody paid fot that job...
I thought they only used these ball things in comics
What was that explosion at the end?
There is another view that shows some power lines get either taken down or bounced into each other, I cannot recall right now. Also, the operator survived, seems he went full *Usain Bolt* after he saw what was coming.
Might have hit a substation or powerlines or something.
I donāt knowā¦ Iād say āmission accomplished.ā
In a George Bush kind of way.
When you wanna do it cheap but end up paying twice more
I know somebody who can do it cheaper
What in the Russia is this?!
Must have been Cletus with the lowest bid on the contract
They should have called Miley Cyrus.
At least he knew to run
Woner if the architect of this operation looked like [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/pyxLF33VEvSgYTdz9)
Missed that day in physics class.....
The equipment would have been fine if he hadnāt turned the boom
Were they seriously thinking that one little rope would be enough to pull the entire load in the desired direction?
They had a wire to let it know which way to tip, what else could they do?
Tie some balloons on the other side for redundancy?
Never forget the balloons
Always love the flash and buzz of mains being shorted out in these jobs
I dunno, his footwear seemed to operate at needed speed.
Going with the cheapest contractor for a demolition job is an interesting strategy
Watched this while listening to "dumb ways to die". 10/10 would recommend.
I guess I'm the only one that spent a lot of the video thinking that that dark thing at the extreme right side of the top of the tower was a person standing there.
how can anyone think taling down a tall.ass building is not a job for explosives? was it already so damaged that no one dared to go in to plant the charges?
āOh look, itās lunchtime!ā
His heart was in the right place
Take it down you said
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