Silo demolition FAIL

Silo Demolition Gone Very Wrong

[johnhabeck]

Would be a great Allstate insurance commercial, with Mayhem working the skidsteer.

[fritz]

That's what happens if you spend more time planning the camera angles than the actual demolition.

[TheRichtaber]

This is one of those “my brother in law said he could do it a lot cheaper” situations!

[tomrogers]

“Well, Stanley, this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into!”.

[bushputz]

Two big mistakes:
1) When you fell a tree, you don't just do a single straight cut and expect the tree to fall in the desired location. You have to cut a notch in the tree to control it's direction. Same thing here.
2) They should have attached one end of a cable to the top of the silo, with the other end to a truck or tractor. Then, the driver should have slowly driven away from the buildings, pulling the silo in the right direction.

[repairmanjoe]

Silo was like, really, I gave you how 🤔 many years of loyal service? Here's a little something to remember me by!😂😂

[tommy]

That what s happens when you don't make the hole/gap bigger at the end you want it to keep falling. You have too keep momentum going it the direction you want it to land.

[MorganOtt-neqj]

An anchor cable to the top, attached to something large in the direction of desired fall would have been prudent, but hindsight is 20/20. I took down a 45' stave silo once. Very successful. Won't try it again.

[OlafFichtner]

Technically, the silo demolition itself wasn't a failure at all. The thing WAS demolished...

[ThubanDraconis]

I think we've all had days at work when something bad went wrong. Maybe it wasn't really our fault and just bad luck. Or maybe it really was our fault due to an honest mistake. Things probably didn't go as bad as dropping a silo on someone's house though, and that can cheer us up when we are thinking about the disasters we have caused.

And for the guy who did this, well, hopefully no one died, so there is that. Property can be repaired.

[blipco]

The cackling afterwards is off the charts.

[montagray]

OMG!! LMFAO!! The squealing lamentations of the women are hysterical!

[Cyclonestorm]

... well, at least MOST of the house is still intact.

[whitesapphire]

Ever wondered why when even the professionals do it, they cordon off at least a hundred yards radius around the demolition site?

[dansanger]

When you think about it, it's probably not a good idea to have any buildings close to a tall grain silo.

[RJx]

Must of been there first silo demolition, because you never ever trust a stave silo

[thvarebel]

I just saw a video of a guy doing this be "sawing" out the lower tiers with gunfire (looked like it was just a shotgun shooting slugs from about 50 meters), and it actually worked. Granted not a viable option in all countries, but I don't see why more people don't try more ballistic demolitiom on these things from a safe standoff rather than getting so close and risking getting crushed.

[AJ-qngd]

Should have got Fred Dibnah to do it 👍🏻🇬🇧 (if you don’t know who he is look him up).

[shaneharrison]

“We know a thing of two because we’ve seen a thing or two”

[eas]

Love how someone is still flying the drone.
Priorities.