This is one Lucky Guy...!!

John B. · Feb 6, 2013

I've watched another video of some one doing this and now I know that some people are living proof why we have OSHA today.
Too Risky

Randysouthmississippi · Feb 6, 2013

talk about slow thinking....he should get the prize

JRSutton · Feb 6, 2013

mother nature isn't perfect. She misses every now and then when removing genes from the pool.

Gotta give her credit though - she was REAL close.

Billy NY (peg leg) :) · Feb 6, 2013

Good way to complete your life in a hurry, just too darned close to the action.

I watched a guy from the seat of my D8K dozer one afternoon, poking at one of those in clay tile or whatever the heck those older ones made of the dark brown block, he collapsed in on himself with the excavator, just like that one, takes that one lucky poke, no demo cage or protection either nice mess in the cab, another one, who was "lucky".

We were working on an old Farm off Vanderveer Road in Howell, N.J. nice flat site, deep topsoil, and another outfit was doing the demo of the old farm, house, barns and silo's, something about that end of the site, every time I was sent over there I would get stuck, some inexperienced framers setting trusses later on when the houses were going up, lost most of the roof on one house, trusses went over like dominoes, I had a ring side seat on the ole D8, see what happens when you build houses on farmland, place was incredible, so much top soil they had us dig huge borrow pits and buried it. Flat land, perfect hay ground, farm was connected to 200 acres and there was several hundred more undeveloped adjacent, your post got me thinking back about this job.

Adirondack case guy · Feb 6, 2013

There has been many concrete stave silos dropped around here by knocking it's legs out from under it, HOWEVER they only knocked a hole in the side and then pulled them down with a long cable and a tractor or dozer. That guy was lucky doing it the way he did it though.
The Amish around here take them down stave by stave from the top. They drop each stave into a pile of sand or hay so the staves don't break, and then they take them home and reerect them. and their ladders are far from OSHA approved.
More people have been killed felling trees than silos around here.
Can't you just imagin what OSHA would expect you to do, when you cut a tree along your fence line.
Loren, the Acg.

D beatty · Feb 6, 2013

Dad and I took one down years ago in a similar way. We tied a large hay rope to top of silo and hung a 6" steel shaft about 4 foot long and hung it about 3 1/2 foot off ground. We welded a loop on the end of the shaft and tied another rope on it long enough to be out of range when it fell. We would pull that shaft out as far as we could and let go of it.

massey 333 · Feb 6, 2013

There was a 70-80yr.old Amish man at the NFMS show 8-10 yrs.ago,that was his business taking them down with a sledge.We have taken several down with two holes and chain or cable.A lot of the blue tombstones have been taken down the same way.

bill mart · Feb 6, 2013

heres a dozer taking one down. bill
dozer fail

Murray2 · Feb 6, 2013

That was a scary situation to watch, especially when the silo started to topple. Idid not think the guy would survive. Brought back the sadness of another silo in my area where somehow there bccame a space where the silage had been removed in the center and a young guy slightly mentally challenged was told to go in and work to loosen the silage from the top and when the silage fell he was suffocated, very sad,how a young lifw can end so quickly, through someone's elses stupidity. Murray

Gambles · Feb 6, 2013

He could have AT LEAST cleared the junk away from behind him so he could get a clean exit. The guy is lucky.

Billy NY · Feb 6, 2013

I remember seeing that one, he's fortunate, seems enough of a canopy, and the fact that it appears this type of material is hollow, seemingly light, you can see the way it formed around the dozer, broke all apart.

I'm not sure if the demo of these is typical, but there used to be a least a dozen around here, most are gone now. I would seem one would want a line up top with enough cinch and enough to clamp it as a whole, tag line before you start, then weaken the side you want it to fall, use a line to shear off, using the dozer, tractor, truck or what have you out of the path. It does appear that the demo of these can go wrong easily, even a tag line could shear off the top and let the rest fall backward I suppose.

The one that started this thread, he is way to close, not even a hardhat, of course a big piece or stave, would not matter, then there is the matter of those cable and hardware, any of those snap, being that close..... not good.

mkirsch · Feb 6, 2013

(quoted from post at 07:40:44 02/06/13) mother nature isn't perfect. She misses every now and then when removing genes from the pool.

Mother nature has been regulated out of existence. The truly stupid, weak, and unlucky are no longer weeded out by natural selection because it's ILLEGAL!

Goose · Feb 6, 2013

Kinda reminds me of this..........

John B. · Feb 6, 2013

Where did you get this one at Goose?

Goose · Feb 6, 2013

Showed up somewhere on the 'Net and I just had to save it.

rrlund · Feb 6, 2013

Holy Moley! That's not how you do that! You leave a couple of blocks in front standing,break'em back around both directions from there,then hook a cable around the two and pull them out. I sure as you're born wouldn't have taken the bands off that high up. Looked to me like that was his biggest mistake. It colapsed down instead of tipping.

Rick Kr · Feb 6, 2013

OSHA would have been all over him, how dare he hammer on concrete without ANSI Z87.1-2010 safety glasses. If not careful, he could have lost an eye!

Rick

Mark-Mi · Feb 6, 2013

Been a lot of em taken down around here that way.
They cut way to many bands off. Should have only cut enough for two rows of staves.
Start in the center for the way you want it to fall. Two guys, one on each side of center and keep working your way back around evenly.

Neighbor took down four Harvestor silos. Hooked a cable at the top, started around the bottom with Matabo cutting wheel. Left a 30 inch piece uncut for a hing.

farmerjohn · Feb 6, 2013

I have seen that one before, they didn't show the first part. If I remember correctly they were pulling it down with the dozer and cable and it started to fall and stopped, then tried to push it the rest of the way when it collapsed. The reason it didn't fall with the cable if you look closely there is a tree grown up inside nearly the entire height.

NCWayne · Feb 6, 2013

WOW, HE WAS LUCKY. All I can say beyond that is what my Great Grandma used to say, "All fools aren't dead yet....."

JRSutton · Feb 7, 2013

Great point!

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Feb 7, 2013

I did notice that as he kept hammering the camera operator kept backing up.

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