When I was younger I got hired to clean a couple tons of sour silage out of a silo. After 30 minutes of being inside breathing the vapors I was higher than a kite. Lots of fresh air and ventilation is definitely a must.
Yes, it’s called alcohol - produced by the fermentation of the silage. It evaporates and you breathe and absorb it into your blood. Also more than enough CO-2 to kill you as well.
We had to take down an old grain silo when I was living in Georgia. We marked the area to be removed with paint. We gave Beuford a 16 pound sledgehammer and told him to go to work, but be ready to get out of the way. Now Beuford was was strong as an ox, but not very smart. He ate a LOT of paint chips when he was little. Well, after an hour we heard this tremendous"crack" and saw the silo going down. We lost sight of poor Beuford due to the dust, and thought he might be dead. But when the dust cleared, there he was with this guilty look in his face. He said, "I didn't mean for it to fall over, but I promise to rebuild it."
@@mattronaldholloway3428 No he’s extremely lucky and extremely careless & negligent,,,you know when they say don’t ever try this at home well this is one of those moments
Which is why most women outlive us men. Yet, they lack the adrenaline rushes, of accomplished missions of unimaginable peril, with the end resulting success...most of the time!
Hi He did ok he's still alive and he got them down as he intended. The only thing he might do different if there was a next time is cut the bottom few bands. That seems to be the way others have done this that I have watched. then he might not end up with his wrecking hammed stuck in the bands. Thanks for sharing the video. Take care
The best and safest way to take down stave silos, is to loosen the bottom 4 feet of hoops and then shoot out the bottom row of staves on the side you want the silo to fall. A 30 caliber rifle or shotgun slugs work great!
Zit tears me up to see old farm houses get busted I think of all the people kids animals they had especially the friends I had there I wasn't gonna say it cause it hurts too much. I love you allmisscomin up to see you I think of my boy and his new beagle God help the other two boys and pa love you sorry I couldn't say it before love ya Mary -------Mare
This was quite a few years ago but I set up an amp and a boom box and introduced them to Jimmy Stuart live from Batenrough, La. When my neighbors try ed that on me and it didn't take them long to quite down
Bunks are becoming more popular. My cousin put 2 a couple of years ago. 50x100x10 foot tall. Enough feed for 200 head dairy for the year. Lot easier to manage
GREAT, another "hold my beer and watch this" video. ;-) That looks exceedingly dangerous, all kidding aside. I'm amazed that second one was still standing with basically half of it's circumference knocked down.
Don't understand the comments. This guy, regardless of the method, made the job. The silos fehlt away from the excavator and both in the same direction w/o and bigger left overs. The result can't be any better.
Agreed. And he has kept himself safe by using the wrecking 'ball' instead of driving into the fall area. Also he has been at ninety degrees to the line of the fall at all times. Seems to me the video has been titled by someone who feels that only an 'expert' can do something. And the commenters are mostly armchair experts.
In 2015 our two silos were destroyed by a tornado on our farm in SE Iowa. Some cattle were killed in the lot. 2016 we rebuilt with a poured concrete silo over 70 feet. We continue to feed cattle as our contribution to feeding the world.
Wow flatter than a flitter....Lol Use to live near a coal mine that had two standing in West Frankfort, Illinois n these were poured concrete in sections. Not as easy to take down.
my thought too.. even the cheap training ammo to my 30-06 ould have done that demolition FASTER AND SAFER, that concrete lookd quite brittle But if you wanted fast and fun,,, contact the army and borrow a 50 cal+ maskinegun. hehe
Cool vid, but would to see it done with 55 gallon barrel of Tannerite. Put hole in side of silo just large enough to stuff plastic barrel in. That would be cool to watch.
Looks as if someone could knock a hole in silo , run a one inch cable thru , clamp it off inside, hook a dozer to it and pull as if a can opener in reverse. Silos are dangerous to tear down
What are they made of? It does not realy look or behave like regular steelsheets or wood. Good to see that Your brother where not injured by this, it would be a lie pretending that i hawen't done pretty similar things at some point in my life...
I did not think that this was going to end well. Thought for sure something bad was going to happen. All I could imagine was the silo crashing down on the guy.
My dad did ours with a sledge hammer, and a 16’ 2x4. Cut a few bands, knocked out every other block, then ran rope, chain thru. Hooked to tractor pulled almost half a row out. It walked till I damaged roof. Mom took video. 8mm no sound. Except when she filmed cats as too scared to watch.
When I was younger I got hired to clean a couple tons of sour silage out of a silo. After 30 minutes of being inside breathing the vapors I was higher than a kite. Lots of fresh air and ventilation is definitely a must.
Yes, it’s called alcohol - produced by the fermentation of the silage. It evaporates and you breathe and absorb it into your blood.
Also more than enough CO-2 to kill you as well.
We had to take down an old grain silo when I was living in Georgia. We marked the area to be removed with paint. We gave Beuford a 16 pound sledgehammer and told him to go to work, but be ready to get out of the way. Now Beuford was was strong as an ox, but not very smart. He ate a LOT of paint chips when he was little. Well, after an hour we heard this tremendous"crack" and saw the silo going down. We lost sight of poor Beuford due to the dust, and thought he might be dead. But when the dust cleared, there he was with this guilty look in his face. He said, "I didn't mean for it to fall over, but I promise to rebuild it."
This looks fun and terrifying at the same time
I like how he narrowly escapes death on the first one and immediately started on the other one
That's a true man not afraid to work escape and move on to the next. NO FEAR
@@mattronaldholloway3428 No he’s extremely lucky and extremely careless & negligent,,,you know when they say don’t ever try this at home well this is one of those moments
@@william38022 yeah living on the edge but still no fear that's me but I'm no idoit just a daredevil.
When you take money to do a job, you get the job done. Very simple concept.
@@_GOD_HAND_ at least don’t do it like this these guys are probably dead by now use a brain
Who needs to watch a bunch of by rich NFL players. This is down home fun.
People really do pride themselves on their ignorance
@@PhancyPants99 Sounds like you are speaking from experience.
Real americans that built this country
Hi Traci,
Except for the wrecking weight catching in the tie bands,
this was the best technique I have seen in 2019.
My compliments to your brother.
This is like watching my dad on Saturday morning as my mom yelled out the window, "Don't stand too close, you're father is an idiot."
Which is why most women outlive us men.
Yet, they lack the adrenaline rushes, of accomplished missions of unimaginable peril, with the end resulting success...most of the time!
I'm YOUR DAD? Holy shit, call me.
At least you had the sense to listen. Mom's know more than we give them credit for. 😃
@@gregjeffcoat4258 Well.... at least the smart kids survive. Evolution ya know.
@@fobbitoperator3620 yep I gotta agree thought I was alone out there lol
Good old fashioned ingenuity! Love It!
Damn it Dave! When I said we were gonna demo the silos I meant we were gonna show the new guy how they worked.
Haha, I laughed way too hard at this comment. Thanks for that.
I could watch people knockin things down n' blowin shit up all day long.
this is actually a lot safer, AND a lot better executed then i've seen in many similar scenarios... it is a lot more controlled then it appears to be.
Going to be pickin tader rocks out of the field for centuries.
Hell yeah!.. Precision demo. Cost effective and fast. Well done!
I can hardly wait for the "redneck cow tipping" video to come out. I gotta be doing something wrong....
I get a kick out of how the silos basically disappear into nothingness.
Amazing, considering they’re filled with so much air!
Nice work!
Now THAT'S a fun job!!!!
That was so much fun to watch.
skills and ingenuity.
Silo tipping by day, cow tipping by night lol
Eeeew. Uhjoooop
Hi He did ok he's still alive and he got them down as he intended. The only thing he might do different if there was a next time is cut the bottom few bands. That seems to be the way others have done this that I have watched. then he might not end up with his wrecking hammed stuck in the bands. Thanks for sharing the video. Take care
Hey Bert, ya took down the wrong one. That's the one we was keeping. You was supposed to take down 'tother one!
Fred Dibnah would have been proud!! Check out his method of bringing down mill chimneys, far more exciting
That was cool....good thing he didn't end up on youtube under one of the 'fail' videos! LOL
Great post, outstanding. For those of you who don’t know...this is how you do it!! Life on the farm...ain’t it great?👍👍
That's a bonkers game of conkers right there ha ha
Good job You made it look easy.
The best and safest way to take down stave silos, is to loosen the bottom 4 feet of hoops and then shoot out the bottom row of staves on the side you want the silo to fall. A 30 caliber rifle or shotgun slugs work great!
Very Nice and a Thumbs Up liked.
Suddenly I no longer have transformer-phobia.
I thought the first silo was going to land on the excavator. Feels like it didn't by pure luck. Driver is going all out for a darwin award!
you're the award.
Those were perfect drops. Nice job!!
More guts than brains.
Don’t criticize unless you’ve actually actually brought silos down yourself.
Ci manadavo i miei bambini , nel doposcuola , un’oretta e due succhi di frutta e il gioco era fatto!!🤭
Yea no one wants to farm anymore they jus want to sell it off for subdivisions !
He got them down and lived to try something else just as fun.
I wanna have a go at this.... No silos where I live... Just a tower block and a bunch of houses....
If I had a shot at these things I'd be swinging an old Buick on the end of that cable instead of that little
piece of metal
Reminds me of when i was learnin how to fly fish.
Zit tears me up to see old farm houses get busted I think of all the people kids animals they had especially the friends I had there I wasn't gonna say it cause it hurts too much. I love you allmisscomin up to see you I think of my boy and his new beagle God help the other two boys and pa love you sorry I couldn't say it before love ya Mary -------Mare
My left ear enjoyed this video.
@1:05 - damn, my line is snagged, but oh, boy it's a big one...
Nice video!!
Well done!
He's better at this than he was at "Cow Tipping"...... really he's pretty damn good at this.
INCOMING!! LOL
High powered rifles and deer slugs make a fun afternoon with beer and buddies
Half empty propane tanks are a must!
what a way to relieve stress. Can I do that? Look like fishing to me. cast that rod n set that hook. Then yank.
Those silo's flattened right out.
Almost as much fun as cow tipping!
🚨Thanks this gives me a good idea what to use on my next door neighbor's house whenever they play their stereo too loud!😱😵💣💣💣💣💣💣
The Gringo Bandito
There is a compound called Tannerite that was specifically designed for that.
This was quite a few years ago but I set up an amp and a boom box and introduced them to Jimmy Stuart live from Batenrough, La. When my neighbors try ed that on me and it didn't take them long to quite down
Change up the music Latin nite, German Night . What ever they are not ,crank it up. It works.
@@dougbrown4332 brunne n bohren
Bunks are becoming more popular. My cousin put 2 a couple of years ago. 50x100x10 foot tall. Enough feed for 200 head dairy for the year. Lot easier to manage
Better than sitting on the porch and watching the bug zapper!
GREAT, another "hold my beer and watch this" video. ;-) That looks exceedingly dangerous, all kidding aside. I'm amazed that second one was still standing with basically half of it's circumference knocked down.
I liked watching this,there's something about demolishing things that makes us feel satisfied.
Your inner haji
i wanted more smashing; less banging...
Tricky Nick i can’t believe i’m giving you a very old o.d. thumbs up for this...
An old diesel crankshaft would make an excellent Mace.
Don't understand the comments. This guy, regardless of the method, made the job. The silos fehlt away from the excavator and both in the same direction w/o and bigger left overs. The result can't be any better.
Agreed. And he has kept himself safe by using the wrecking 'ball' instead of driving into the fall area. Also he has been at ninety degrees to the line of the fall at all times. Seems to me the video has been titled by someone who feels that only an 'expert' can do something. And the commenters are mostly armchair experts.
In 2015 our two silos were destroyed by a tornado on our farm in SE Iowa. Some cattle were killed in the lot. 2016 we rebuilt with a poured concrete silo over 70 feet. We continue to feed cattle as our contribution to feeding the world.
well done !
YEE HAW!
Wow flatter than a flitter....Lol
Use to live near a coal mine that had two standing in West Frankfort, Illinois n these were poured concrete in sections.
Not as easy to take down.
This can be done with one man and a sledge hammer. Start one one side and work backwards. Actually safer.
Way less fun
Did the excavator actually gain any speed by swinging 180?
Good job. I saw one solo solo left.
That was cool! Heh heh. Hey Butthead, let's break stuff.
Good clean fun !!! 😆
Time to call... "The Rifleman"
my thought too.. even the cheap training ammo to my 30-06 ould have done that demolition FASTER AND SAFER, that concrete lookd quite brittle
But if you wanted fast and fun,,, contact the army and borrow a 50 cal+ maskinegun. hehe
Awesome ❤️
1:55 knocked out the buildings heart
I think this would be a lot more fun with tanerite. 😁
Cool vid, but would to see it done with 55 gallon barrel of Tannerite. Put hole in side of silo just large enough to stuff plastic barrel in. That would be cool to watch.
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55 gallons !!! Good lord you want to take down the neighbors silo too.
Hold my beer.
I can ruin a steel ball in a muddy field with a rubber mallet😂
Can anybody say an AR-15 and a shitload of tannerite 😁
I have always wanted to make a house out of a silo
6:34 そして更地になった=3
Looks as if someone could knock a hole in silo , run a one inch cable thru , clamp it off inside, hook a dozer to it and pull as if a can opener in reverse. Silos are dangerous to tear down
Yep that's how I've downed a few when I was doing demolition. ( Deconstruction if the client was rich!)😈.
That's how they tore down the church steeple by me. Half way up run cable through holes and the dozer pulled. Worked great.
What was he using as a headache ball ??
Excellent. 💙 T.E.N.
I was worried the excavator was gonna get crushed when the first silo fell
Hey was that a Van Dale Magnum unloader in 2nd one? Good looking bonet ... well not any more. These taken down after a barn fire?
This is like watching paint dry way to slow
What are they made of? It does not realy look or behave like regular steelsheets or wood.
Good to see that Your brother where not injured by this, it would be a lie pretending that i hawen't done pretty similar things at some point in my life...
Should have got that shovel going around in a complete 360 . would have worked like a weed wacker !
Rent a Twister will be the next big item!
The second one, when it got pushed over, for a moment it looked like a tongue would come out and start licking it. Lol.
There is reason why wrecking balls are round 😂😂🤣😀😎
They came down faster than they went up
One has to assume that there is no OSHA around. Lol
I thought this guy was nuts till I saw its just light fabrication
That was like watching paint dry
I watch paint dry for a living
I think a bunch of tannerite and a rifle would be more fun haha
I did not think that this was going to end well. Thought for sure something bad was going to happen. All I could imagine was the silo crashing down on the guy.
my cousins just used mauls but this does look like more fun and probably less dangerous?
What was he using for ram ? Had to be something heavy
It is not heavy at all. It is just a cylinder of weapon-grade Plutonium
Next time ask Welker farms guys to shoot some bowling balls through it :)
Nice cloud of asbestos dust
You better sue......
Where there is a will, there is a way. Just make sure you don’t forget safety.
No forget safety. It ruins all fun.
Bravo!
today they regret bring it down it could of been used for high speed internet
Looks like theyre using an allison or duramax to hit it
When this started why did I think one of the silos was going to fall over on the excavator ?
Nice
I believe that the first silo brought down in this video was a historical site at one time. Sad to see it meet its destruction in this way.
A historical site? A stave silo built in the 1970's?
I doubt it
My dad did ours with a sledge hammer, and a 16’ 2x4. Cut a few bands, knocked out every other block, then ran rope, chain thru. Hooked to tractor pulled almost half a row out. It walked till I damaged roof. Mom took video. 8mm no sound. Except when she filmed cats as too scared to watch.