We Demolished a Convenience Store With a Caterpillar Excavator
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2023
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Today, we’re demolishing a small convenience store. It used to be a gas station, but a different company removed the tanks, pumps, and canopy. Removing tanks requires a whole different set of permits and licenses. So, if that's not your specialty, you're better off letting someone else do it.
For anyone wondering, the machine in this video is a Caterpillar 323 excavator.
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Don't take buildings down that still have purpose...it just makes the cost of available and existing spaces more expensive
@@stevemino142 - pretty sure that the person/company that owns the building wants to repurpose the land... and he is just doing what he is paid to do
Maybe if you posted where these places are, gathered a little history regarding why they're destroyed.
@@stevemino142 shut up
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of items that could be salvaged, from a building that is torn down, like the shelves, blinds, inside doors and front doors, they could be sold or reused.
It does not matter; in the way you spend much more money on workers than materials.
They are too lazy to dismantle it properly. This country is stuffed with cheap oil and high salaries. The Americans live in a delirium of abundance which should not exist if they did not wage war to have oil and cheap gold. the USA is a country of illusionists based on steal petrol oil and ressources to realy low cost
They are too lazy to dismantle it properly. This country is stuffed with cheap oil and high salaries. The Americans live in a delirium of abundance which should not exist if they did not wage war to have oil and cheap gold. the USA is a country of illusionists@@BelleMorue
Rich white folks don't care. Sure all those could have gone to feed hungry black African kids. Lmao
That's because we live in a greedy throwaway society now. It disgusts me greatly when items like this could be donated to needy families.
That store looks awfully new to be tearing down.
It was probably built by mistake and had to tear it down
at times tearing it down is far cheaper than the remodel
@LoadingKlip "Help I accidentally built a house, I need someone to tear it down"
that was i thought sad
Some people don’t know how to run a business. Or most likely taxed into oblivion.
Having demoed dozens of buildings myself, you guys have it figured out. Smaller the break down the better, air space in the truck equates to higher dump fees, less profit, Good job.
You getting charged per load? We get charged per pound. So time is money. Ain't spending all day fitting things in like tettris. Make one or two extra trips. Diesel is cheaper than the man hours.
Yes, I agree with you!
Let me see your 🐓
Kinda wild that such a fairly new building is getting razed. There seems to be a lot of useful material left in it. Crazy that it's not being salvaged. I guess we really do live in a wasteful, throw-away society.
Razed, which ironically is the opposite of raised.
Agree 100%!
@@marks6663 you are correct, my bad.
Had to make room for a dollar general
who says it is not being salvaged? they will likely take it to a recycler.
It’s insane how powerful those excavators are..
Pk no no salí suya como yo digo yo come supote grande 🌎
When I was very small, I had an excavator destroy solid flooring just a few feet away from me. That made me realize just how powerful they are.
When I was very small, I had an excavator destroy solid flooring just a few feet away from me. That made me realize just how powerful they are.
Here in Germany this wouldn´t be allowed to demolish. Here you have to separate all Materials from each other, before you could begin.
For example you must screw wooden railings off and dispose them separately.
Yeah here in America we’re pretty fucking retarded. Consumerism is king here. The earth is an infinite resource to us.
Yes, that's the correct way to do it.
And recycle all metal and glass so they'd be all reused?
Ich stimme zu, mein Freund. Das gesamte Glas und Metall sollte recycelt werden.
Yes correct way 😊
I must admit, those big empty shelves actually looked like they could have been saved for other purposes.
You're so eco-friendly and smart 😱😍That's so inclusive of you to admire the metal shelves purpose so they don't feel left out! 🥰 We need more people like you in the world ❤
@@chad_usa dude your hilarious man i can't lie. Try being a comedian one day, might work out for you.
@@spinoraptorspinosaurus6969 That sarcasm was comedy gold!! 😍🤣🤯
@@chad_usa 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
@@chad_usa We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty
Building didn't seem in bad shape.
Well the thing is, "bad shape" is only one of the conditions that can be a reason to demolish a building.
Another one is: "Someone buyed the land and the building and decided to demolish it to build a new building on the same place" Could me a bigger store, or something else.
@@JackMacLupus most of the time, it is more cost effective to demo an existing building vs retro fitting it to meet requirements of its new purpose. for example retro fitting an old gas station/service station is fools errand, easier faster to knock it down start over
Buildings was very weak though
It wasn't anything special either.
Its barely a building tbf, American cardboard shack.
I watch a house next door get demolished like this. I wasn't happy a bigger house that was to replace it, but there was something satisfying about watching the demo.
It's amazing how much the windows in the right flexed before they popped.
Almost as if they were well made and could have been used by someone else. Maybe that glass would have lasted, you know, afew more years ? ( lol ). Maybe the glass had reached its expiry date though. Glass lasts afew years and then it returns back to sand, right ? -_- ...
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@@LORFCASTER guess the issue with glass is finding someone who wants it with the EXACT same dimensions and frame type. Cant just cut glass simply too just ends up being cheaper to break and make a new one
0:33… “Knock knock, anybody home?” LOL 😂
I was really surprised to see how easily the roof collapsed when the front wall of the store was pulled down. I would have expected a little more structural rigidity from it
The roof sits on the walls
@@gregwaters7830 I understand that, but there are still three other walls that was holding the roof up after the front wall came down. I was slightly surprised that the roof was not rigid enough to remain up with one out of four supports removed.
@@DownundaThundaif the roof stayed up with an entire wall missing that means it was overdesigned. These buildings are a dime a dozen and don’t need that level of engineering. There’s no reason to make a roof that rigid since normal use of the building would have all the walls present.
Made in china
They are built to legal standards for the area they are in. Why would I want to spend an extra $100,000 to make my building more bulldozer-proof if I don't have to?
Videos like this explain why tornadoes in the US ripp everything from the ground included entire houses, everything is built out of cardboard and plywood...
I teally dont know why nothing was removed before demolition. I live in Germany and a couple years ago ive seen a big old department store building being demolished. Everything like the sealing and wall panels, furniture, lamps etc. was taken out and put into separate containers. Also things like concrete and metal were separated. Here just Everything is torn down and all materials are mixed up
this was my thoughts also as we here in Finland also have to put separate materials, at least steel, stones, wood etc.
It is astonishing to see how the US is 25+ years behind when it comes to environmental concerns, recycling, etc.
In many ways they are on par with developing countries.
Perhaps it's worse than developing countries because they pretend they know so much, and yet are hypocritical.
I love watching demolitions, so I might check out more videos after this one.
Awfully nice of you...
That building didn’t look that old .
I'm surprised that no one knew how to use those metal shelves. I have some at home (also from a closed store) and they are very practical for storing household items.
Yeah if you live in a grocery store
It's not that the buyers didn't know it's that they didn't care not even a part of the commenters care
lmao sprav buddy you're not above everyone for knowing what a shelf is used for calm down
@@Snuggle5557 Lmao patent pending grocery store house shelves
There is also a computer chair and a clock that could have been salvaged. The shelves could be used in a garage to store stuff....or bought by someone who owns their own small mom and pop store.
That front counter would have made a good home bar 👍👍
I'm surprised no one bothers removing the windows or doors ... those are incredibly expensive when new.
"We forgot the keys, but do have this excavator handy"
Love it
For those who say there's a lot that could have been salvaged I can tell you from first hand experience it's just not worth it unless you value your time at zero. If you have some feel good hobby and your compensation is emotional then it works, otherwise no.
Man.. those windows and doors would of made an awesome greenhouse!
Да там помимо этого куча полезного материала была. А они бездумно все сгребли
yes yes that i was thinking, super sad.
It is so weird seeing this with a European lens. Landfills have been outlawed here 25 years ago. So everything needs to be sorted and recycled. You can still get a dumpster/container for "mixed waste", but it is something like 10 times the price, since someone has to manually dig thru it all and sort it later. Here this building would have been stripped of everything inside. Even wires and plumbing removed from the walls. All windows and doors would have to be removed first too. And the demolishing would only be an empty shell of mostly only one material.
That’s one way to brake into a store 💀🤣 when he just opened the door like that 🤣
I enjoyed the walkthrough.
This place looks practically brand new
Meanwhile I'm homeless in my car watching this.. 😢
Found the location. He's at the Mobil Gas Station in Millwood, Washington.
I hate to see a business and a nice building go but there was something about all that noise that was oddly satisfying.
For foreigners like me is so amazing how fragile construction is in the USA. It's even more amazing when one understands that these buildings constructed mostly with plywood and paper that will never pass construction codes of LA or Germany cost a fortune.
If you think the US has fragile structures then you should look at japan....
Yeah, was crazy to see this demolish. No bricks, no stones, just wooden materials with some metallic frames.
This video was suggested to me and towards the end realized you're local. This gas station is just a few minutes from my work. Keep up the videos! Love to see some more local demolition jobs.
Porque foi demolido ?
@@marcelosrn4805 I don't know for sure but there was another gas station built just down the street a few years ago and this one probably just wasn't profitable anymore.
Where exactly is this? CA?
Same with me. In fact, I used to live in that part of town and shopped there as well. I bet that Maveric put them out of business. Corner of Argonne and Trent. Also used to go to that Taco Time all the time!
your comment helped me find the location on google maps. street view shows the store when it was still open. @@gamz4fun2
This thing is very cool to watch. I'm back in my early grade school age, watching big equipment tearing down greenhouses surrounding our property. This type of machinery has ALWAYS fascinated me- human beings multiplying their physical strength (in essence) by hundreds - or even thousands - of times via technology. And it's just straight, linear motion via hydraulic cylinders & pistons, hooked up to levers -the excavator's arms- that combine to do work that requires enough force to easily knock down walls. Very cool.
As an architect who spends countless hours sweating blood to design buildings, it's heart-wrenching to see how quickly dreams can be turned into rubble.
Damn I felt that
I'll admit that I was surprised by how easy it was to bring down. Once he grabbed a hold of that big beam at the front, it was over. You'd think the structure would be stronger than that.
Architect sweating blood yeah sure 🤣😂
As an MEP engineer, I feel the same way too.
To what extent does it make sense to separate out different materials as you demolish the building, like metals? Or do these get separated if/when the debris is shredded at some other location?
Cost of disposal is the primary determining factor. Scrap metal has value and is usually sold to a scrap dealer. Mixed demolition waste is very expensive to dispose of. Paying demolition waste rates to get rid of valuable steel doesn't make sense, so the easy to pick or significant chunks of steel are always plucked out. Most demolition companies don't process their waste any further then they do on site. Typically a third party waste removal company will be hired to remove and dispose of the waste from the site (what they do with after that is a whole other discussion).
Some demolition companies will spend more time tearing down the building and more thoroughly sorting the debris as they go(concrete/brick, Wood, Metals, etc). More common on very large building demolitions where the disposal cost to just send it all mixed would be astronomical. Some even go as far as deconstructing certain parts of the buildings and saving things like windows, doors, fixtures, etc to resale or donate. Its ultimately a numbers game for the owner and/or demolition company.
That door stunt was for all the times when he pulled when it clearly said to push. He got the last laugh...
Remember dude, you always carry the master key to anyplace you demo. 😂
This is so satisfying! I hope you double checked the address first 😁
Just stumbled across your channel today and realized you're local to me, I've been in that gas station several times. Any idea why it was demolished? Wasn't that old of a building
The new owner is building something completely bespoke to their operation. These retail buildings are designed to last only 30 years or so and are cheap to demo and build.
@@GrammarPoliceInvestigationslearnt a new word...nice
In my opinion, buildings in general should last a lifetime, although they should be easy to remodel when desired.@@GrammarPoliceInvestigations
I remember back in the 90s when bulldozers were still used for demo... great fun but a big mess.
It’s fun to go inside of an abandoned store you used to go shopping at to try to remember where everything was it’s confusing
I love demo work, so much fun
Some of that electrical at the back would of been nice to salvage.... These demo jobs sometimes you can find some pretty nice things.
I agree I mean those cctv cameras would be been good to salvage
@@wolfblade5949 Yep! Even those outdoor wall pack lights if they were LED....
@@REWYRED yep
@@wolfblade5949not worth it
@@wolfblade5949not worth it
The Illusion of strength... the Building looked strong, but was basically made out of cheap wood & paper.
That excavator driver does not take prisoners/ I would hate to see him in a bad mood. Great job Gents.
What i do not understand is You've got a 30 year old building in good usable shape being demolished yet you look around and old 1950s gas stations in really bad shape still stand.
Part of the permit possess should be evaluating a structures usefulness regardless of its area.
That could have been used for other stuff like a doctors office or a dentists or even daycare.
Whats going back in its place?
Whats the value to the local area as is or replaced?
Same holds true for building permits.
Maybe the owner needs something different. All this hand wringing about a 30 year old building
I've been in here hundreds of times
Cat 323 ominously lurking in distance
This guy should be a comedian 😂. Never want to see that outside of your window 😂
I like that you did a walk inside first.. It would be awesome if you did that on all the demos.
I'd love to save some of the older Emergency Light Units in some of these places...
One man trash is another man treasure.
I hope you were at the correct address.
Here in the Netherlands it works very differently. All usable materials are first neatly removed. Then controlled demolition and sorting all materials for recycling. What's happening here is just tearing everything down. The result is an unimaginable mess that you can no longer do anything with and you have a lot of clean-up work to do.
Next time save the LED lighting from the outside. They are worth a lot of money. They run about $150 to $400 each.
They were at its last legs working 24/7/365x25
not sure if that wallpack on the right hand wall of the building was LED. though i would of saved it before the demo anyways.
It's amazing how long it takes to build and how quick it can be torn down. Great video 👍
Amazing how much glass can bend before it breaks...!
We are the most wasteful society.
It keeps the economy running.
@@mikibihon8826only the obsolete and selfish part of the human society still thinks like that.
Tearing an old unused building isn’t wasteful
@@jrm2383exactly but leaving it there is a waste
Exactly.
I’ve always wanted to operate a machine like that.
do it! go to school and learn
@@MrMinecraft169 LOL, at 77?
@@mrknotthallIt’s not you exactly, that’s breaking the building, all you’re doing is controlling, turn the machine with the knobs or whatever they’re called and another to make the machine break the building.
3:15 that how I demolish Lego
I need that glass for a greenhouse.
I know where this was! Crazy seeing it torn down!
Before doing the demolition i would have got the cctv cameras off the building they would be handy for home security or anything
He said they stripped the building pretty much of anything.
That store had way too many things inside that could've been salvaged...
That guy running the Cat is a good operator.
Wieso werden die Scheiben bei Euch nicht vorher ausgebaut für ins Recycling ? Bei uns wird ein Gebäude erst entkernt (Fenster heraus, Heizkörper heraus, Elektroleitungen heraus) und dann abgerissen.
Sorry I gave you the wrong address, it was on EAST Street, not West Street. My bad.
"no more cold refreshments. nothin. just some empty shelves". 15 seconds later: "no more cold refreshments or anything. just some empty shelves". I'm convinced this man is a construction worker robot. they took er jobs
Gas Station demolition. Reminds me of the Gas Station demolition by Jonathan Winters in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Only Jonathan was much faster and only had a pickup truck. HA!
Very funny scene!🤣
Aqui no brasil se aproveitaria tudo, os vidros, o alumínio das portas, os cabos eléctricos, as telhas, calhas, praticamente ficaria apenas as paredes pra se demolir, aqui não é facil comprar os materiais então tudo é aproveitado ao máximo.
That was a pull handle, not a push bar! Brian, I’m really disappointed that you didn’t try pulling the front door open with your excavator bucket. You are suppose to put “entertaining us” in front of “getting the job done! “ 😂😊
Another great video!!!
Haha, you're completely right! I gotta pay attention to those things!
@@HomeWreckerBrianSince you were witty and engaging, I think we can let it slide - this time!
You've got to get a go pro shot of the bucket coming through the roof on your next demo! It would make a awesome shot!
Problem would be recovery of the camera. Once the roof is damaged, it would be too dangerous to enter the building, so they would have to manually sift through the debris to find it. There's also no garuntee that the camera won't just be destroyed by the excavator as it does it's work.
That store makes think like it's a life like strong and new and then life breaks you down and you end up like the store broken down to pieces. 😧😢
Must have had a mouse they found a BIG CAT to et rid of it!!
This is why they don't allow pets in the stores, just look at what that CAT did to the place!!!
LOL Just having a little fun with you all. It would be nice to see what you see from the excavator and hear your thoughts on how it's going or what the next move will be.
Crazy for a western European guy to see stuff get torn down like this, over here it's all sorting at the source. Wood/metal/waste/rubble it all gets separated and recycled, seems like across the pond they just throw it all in a big pile and haul it off
"Clean-up in isle....never mind"
in France everything is separated to be recycled
Someone took months to build this, gone in an hour. Machine is amazing!
I know theres a method to doing this... but I wanna do this once in my life :)
imagine having to build from scratch, this bldg.....materials, labor, the celebration when this bldg WAS completed so a business could try to make $$$$$$$......MAN! I would be fricken SICK!!!!
That was one hungry dinosaur, so he went shopping at the Food Mart😅😅..... operator man living his best life 😮😮😮
store made out of cardbox?
Ye
Try cardboard.
🤔😒too bad the huge panes of glass cant be physically removed and recycled, cut smaller to other uses🤔
remove and sell of door hinges and etc. 2nd hand stores could resell🤔
I’m not an excavator expert but by watching this video these toys are deadly strong.
It's a pretty weak building to
3:20, when the customer doesn’t pay 😂😂😂
What a waste of material.
lemme guess, you couldve hand stripped that building in a quarter of the time, salvaged every screw, washer, piece of wire and metal and cleaned up the debris
No its not
Well if you could pay someone to strip all materials that could practically be reused you'd spend as much on labor as you would recoup from the effort. Plus this demolition is probably on a time schedule so you don't have a month to fool around doing that. Besides other than the metal you're not going to get much value from used building materials from these cheaply constructed buildings. I would assume these demo projects are more profitable the less time you take for each job and move on to the next one.
All these people wanting to save this stuff, it would take weeks to strip it all down. Who’s going to pay for it?
You seem to do a lot of commercial jobs. Is that more profitable than residential? Harder? Easier? Just different? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Watching this and then realizing - hey, that's Spokane Valley 😀 The Taco Time gave it away
3:10 - Boss, I think we have a small leak in the roof above the checkout counter.
I'm kind of amazed at how easily this building came apart. The first bites out of the front seemed to have collapsed the whole thing. Almost kind of scary that it came apart that quickly.
I was amazed at how much space the "managers office" used. Looks like theyd have used it for more retail space.
I collect old phone systems and would have loved ripping out the CCTV stuff, and maybe some of the electrical.
Great video. Loved the opening; going in for a final tour!
Watching this video was cool and refreshing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@HomeWreckerBrian😂 criag
The way of tearing was quite old-fashioned. It will not occur in Europe. We sort and reuse material in a completely different way. Enormous values in the building which now go straight down the toilet
Watching the excavator pick out that I-beam like it was Godzilla's candy bar.
Looking forward to this demo, already started out amazing breaking in haha!
Thanks, buddy. I hope you like it.
@@HomeWreckerBrian Thanks man, really enjoyed this one. From the puns to the water line busting, this was not short of action! Perfect times to speed things up too, appreciate that a lot!
This has to be the most satisfying job.
I can't believe no rebar in concrete.
Crazy
It's kinda scary how the building just came apart in big huge sections
None of this makes any sense. They could have used this building to house the homeless.
Exactly. I'm homeless in my car watching this. I would've loved to turn that manager's office into a bedroom and build a shower somewhere. I'd finally be able to function like a human being again and hold down a full-time job.
@@Network126 I wish you the best, buddy. Keep working hard to get out of this hole you’re in.
Djkyou 🌹😘😘❤❤❤ are you single how old you are
Lmfao. Yeah tell the new land owner that. Or the city that has deemed this building unsafe or didn’t follow building code and fixes cost too much. lol ooorrr get a job and buy yourself a house. Bum little liberals.
🙄right. The owner is going to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of dollars, and go bankrupt
It’s damn near brand new!
Oh we forgot the keys brakes the store door 😂
А двери могли бы продать по дешевке или что то другое !
Вот весь мир превращается в экологическую катастрофу !