Massey Building Demolition, Fairfax
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
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Late in the process of demolishing the Massey Building in Fairfax County, Virginia. A three-story-tall mound of dirt was trucked in to create a platform for a demolition excavator to reach the top of the 13-story building. As we join them, the mound of dirt is still there, but only the bottom few floors remain.
Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".
these guys are sort of annoying the building down in preference to systematically working at its demolition. No materials seperation no pattern no zones, just stab at bit and then move on leaving it with as many jagged bits sticking out and as much overhanging debris as they can. There was no need to expend so much energy bending lengths of steel and then using a cutter head to poke at concrete. What a mess. They should watch the Dutch or Germans and learn.
To me, it looks more like training rather than experienced workers.
It depends on the way the job is done sometimes if they got a due date the building needs to be completely cleared
I do agree they were using the shear wrong also I noticed it seemed the shears blade was extremly dull
The steel sections were wider than the bite depth so he had to take a second bite to widen the slot and allow another deeper bite to complete but over and over he got distracted or tried to tear it off instead of completing at original position.
I worked in this building .19 years old as a custodian for Fairfax county in 1978.
One operator of the jaw machine must be new or not trained. Would take ten years for him to demolish that building. He spent 10 minutes trying to remove tin from under concrete blocks instead of knocking blocks down and then tin would have fallen out on its on.
Why was he building demolished?
I know you should wear the machines out before yourself but this is another level.
demo is the hardest thing on a machine, 5000 hours on a demo machine is about equivalent to 15000 on a dirt machine
Knocks it all down with a vibrating steel beam lol👌 nice!
improvise, adapt, overcome
Thanku
This isn't as rough on the machine as everyone thinks. A labounty scrap shear does no damage. What really destroys an excavator is a hydraulic hammer attachment. Doesn't matter how much grease is applied to the pins/bushings.
Mortar mix looks under strength
The brick work is very substandard.
Some of these videos make me nervous because some of the operators are a day late and a dollar short when it comes to waiting for them to do the right thing. I'm not even a heavy equipment operator-"NO EXPERIENCE" and I have a better idea for the most part, about much better ways of demolition just by me watching them. I've seen really good operators & they work from the top of a bldg. to the bottom (vertically). The good ones dig into the core of a bldg. & work all or most of a floor from the core to the outside walls. Doing it this way helps to keep the debris & dust falling to the inside. I would say it could be as high as 25%-30% or higher, the percentage of these operators who are either untrained or possibly incorrectly trained. Heavy equipment is so incredibly powerful & some of these operators are actually using the crusher/cutter head to crush brick & concrete block. WHY?!? Utter insanity! I've seen it so I know the strength of heavy equipment can easily knock down brick &/or concrete walls just by touching them. These "SO CALLED" operators are really smart, they know just how to "SSSTREEEEETCH" a job out to make it last a long, long, long, long time. If there were a test about the best/ easiest/ quickest ways that the operators should already know about for demolishing buildings, I can see that there would be many of them failing miserably. It's good that they're not in a vitally important job like being a doctor, nurse, paramedic, firefighter, police officer, etc. Many bldg. demolition contractors have earned a very "LARGE--THUMBS DOWN" for the very small or non-existent water spray they're supposed to be providing for dust suppression on all bldg. demolition jobs.
What’s the purpose in using the H beam when you could use the jaws the strip the bricks back?
Might be faster to knock out the non supporting parts of the building then using the jaws for supporting parts
Looks like you lost a tooth off your bucket! Demolition is hard on the equipment. an excavator is used for excavating dirt, not demolishing buildings.
Not true Excavator are needed for this type of stuff.
There's an excavator called Demolition Excavator. They are used to demolish buildings
This guy can't make up his mind where he wants to work. Drives me CRAZY
Why don’t you cut the top first then pull it down
Late '60s architecture.
1969.
Hmmm I wonder is this National Geographic where predictors rip apart a carcass. The guys truly ripping the building apart.
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Like vultures picking at a dead carcass. persistence is key.
Fascinating and no verbal diorrhea
Humans have taught machines to use sticks.
where is the first part
Unfortunately, I wasn't there to film the demolition of the upper stories.
a lot of the bricks don't even look like they have been mortared in. 8:42
I was just here. Good idea to bring this machine to some of the traffic lights on 50. Think I wait 20 minutes on just one to cycle through over and over.
Lil bit rough with the operating lol
Thats what I'm saying!
Maybe a rookie or just really sucks?
I don't think this guys could deconstruct a cardboard box!
Operateur aprantie ou nul !!!
GRAU GERARD en meme temps faut pas de diplomes pour ce genre d’emploi...
Wrong machine wrong attachment wrong operators do youwant me to go on
nicholasanderson55 no, you’ve proven you’re a know it all already
@@roadweary5252 Worked in demolition long enougth to know what i do
@Chad Stephen Use a high reach machine with a proper attachment
You need these machines to do this stuff, but yes he was not using the right attachments
This is just too much to watch, get a driver for fec sake.
muy errático.
No insulation behind that brick
That was an interior brick wall in the building lobby. I do not know what there was for insulation in the exterior walls, but the building was built before energy efficiency was a priority.
@@JohnZWetmore Ah that makes sense.
An exterior wall would normally have had a couple inches of rigid foam attached to the blocks under the brick.
He'll have this knocked down in a year, no problem. Maybe less.
Put a tooth on that fucking bucket. Obviously the operator doesn't have to pay for shit.
That's just a mess . Not very professional
Check hydraulic seals after this job lol
that claw could do some serious damage
Losers! Losers! Losers!!!
Not a very efficient way to bring a building down ,I could have done more with a hacksaw and sledge hammer
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