Sad news: Paul passed away on 7/9/22. May he Rest in Peace 🙏 The silos were decaying. The barn looks like new today: czcams.com/video/vrGDx0UkTP0/video.html
Something for those who we're weak of Others Standard Adrenalin kickin activities like jet skiing, Sky diving, wingsuiting, speedskiing oder Downhill biking... Must be An ultra Thrill to be in a 20m Silo you are self hammering down!!!
They need to knock out more than half of the base for it to fall on its own. It only fell with the help of the bulldozer pulling it down. Knocking out some of the base, helps direct the fall.
My dad wanted to put up a grain silo, but an old silo was in the location where it was to be built. It was hand built out of three rows of steel reinforced bricks. On day one, the guy showed up with a sledgehammer and went to work. At the end of the day, he had a hole about five feet tall and five feet across. On day two, he showed up with a jackhammer. By noon he had removed bricks about two thirds of the way around. He stopped for lunch, and it fell during lunch, leaving one ten foot wide section still standing. We hooked a tractor to the remaining section, while he jackhammered away. The section finally fell a couple of hours later. We picked up bricks for days.
Thanks for the comments/questions. Like good stuntmen their work looks reckless, but is carefully calculated: they know the exact number of staves to remove before the silo will fall, the cable was used to save the barn, which is being renovated, there were no funerals (except for the silos, which we were sad to see go, but they aren't used for storage anymore and become dangerous when decaying). At 3:13-3:14 it appears Larry gets chomped by the silo, but that's a filming illusion!
I’m not criticizing or complaining or cry babying I’m just noticing that he was INSIDE the silo trying to knock it down. That just seems a little dangerous.
I did notice when the weight got onto the block he was hitting it changed pitch and took more to knock out at that point he moved outside. I've seen one's where the guys got half knocked out then pushed it over it didn't go well.
You are supposed to prop a bottle between the top and bottom of the hole, so when it breaks you know the thing is about to come down; the way the British steeple jacks use to do when demolishing chimneys ................
@@olivermckeever804 Definitely silage. The tubes on the sides were used to get it back out with a top unloader. I had to climb those things and lower the unloader as the year progressed. That was a nasty job.
I used to cut trees and have taken down a couple of silos. An old guy with experience told me to notch them in the shape of a smile. I was never sure why until watching this video. When the notch closes, there is a moment of hesitation when the silo is deciding which way to fall. You had the cable to coax it in the right direction.
@@TomRRmoT SPOILER ALERT. LOL! That was actually picked up from the movie "Gus" with Don Knotts/Ed Asner/etc. from the 60s. Not sure if you've ever seen the movie but Gus was a mule who could kick 100-yard field goals. I had to improvise it a bit but one day Gus got into a grocery store and over the P.A. system as Gus "toured" one could hear, "Clean-up on aisle 5...aisle 6...aisle 7...aisle 8, please...aisle 9..." HAHAHAHA!!!!
Done a few metal silos, with a burner, from the inside, as I cut the bin, it would just fold down piece by piece, as I cut round,, I had a good idea what was going on, no chance of total collapse, but the concrete silo,, that's total different,,, big risk inside,, but this guy did look very confident,,
Don tyou Walk with oben eyes through society. there are daily hundrets of men Seen who werent wearingsafety glasses while using disc grinder, riding motorcycle or welding metal. its much more seldom to see someone with protective Gear. in my opinion only when employee says or one of those rarely people who pay attention for the health ..
Seriously dude. Looked pretty safe to me. Minimal safe distances, cutting wedges and using a bulldozer to tidor it down. What was missing safety glasses, hardhat , vest, sitting on your fatass in the office all morning filling out j.h.as and pretask cards? Maybe some dickhead with a dress shirt ,tie and a shiny helmet using a laser pointer to explain how to take it down but in reality has only ever got his hands dirty wiping his ass. No real world experience. Or perhaps demolition crews. Sure the farmer could take out a second mortgage just to pay those pricks.
I’ve seen enough of these old tile silos come down I have to ask. Wouldn’t it be helpful to knock out an arch? When you knock out a uniform two foot section, we see many that drop two feet and stop, now you don’t know which way it will go. If you knocked out an arch the silo falls much farther in the direction you want before it hits any resistance. I know in this video they had a line on it with a tractor pulling it, but many of these videos do not.
Our farm had the wooden stave/slat silos but I wonder in watching these why no one knocks a hole in one spot and opposite it knock another. then feed a cable with an eye through it. Then feed one end through the eye making a slip noose around half the tiles ()or less even) hooking the tag to a tractor or cat. Would the closing noose squeeze the tiles out making that wedge to weaken one side. That was a question and would it work? Does anyone know or has it not been tried?
The two-hole cabling concept seems to make sense. Not sure if it would give quite as much directional control, but would be much easier and safer. Might work with another cable still attached up high to direct it. (We had a barn a few feet away to save and renovate). I'll run it by the guys who did the actual planning/work sometime and reply with their thoughts on that idea. Your wood stave silo was really old school!
I hate to see silos come down. They are landmarks on our rural, and formerly rural countryside. Monuments to our heritage and the former dairy farms that filled the land.
He is hammering from the inside because the wall below him is extra thick and possibly below floor level. What I would like to know is how they attached the cable way up high with no ladder nearby. These guys earn their paychecks.
You're exactly right about why he was inside that silo. With the cable, you can't tell from the video but you could climb up inside the metal shield under it to get to the top. It's actually a vertical series of doors with rungs -- as the silage went down lower in the silo you could pop open a door and jump inside to work on the silo unloader.
Someone commented, "Guy inside with sledgehammer, that's scary." No, guy inside total bleeping idiot! MY GUESS IS THESE GUYS COULDN'T EVEN SPELL HEALTH AND SAFETY!
the Thing ist, there are hundrets off millions of this Kind on this Planet and they aren' t become less. when one was " too much Like this species" , No Problem, condome is something what has to do with protection...and so they do not use and next Generation ist always " in production and growing Up Phase".
They seemed to do a fairly good job at it, especially considering the awkwardness of having to swing at an unstable vertical structure, even having having to stand on a board propped up and flexing.
What if you hammered two holes big enough to loop the cable through. Make the holes so the center between the two holes is the path you want the silo to drop in. Then loop the cables through and hook them to your bulldozer. Pull the cables with the dozer until a notch is created that is big enough to bring down the silo.
Well it would give a health and safety man a heart attack🤣🤣 having said that all silos dropped in the same direction with out incident. Swinging that sledge looks hard work. A job well done I think
Why not put a few grapples into the side where he is hammering holes then pit cables through to the grapples inside then pull each cable one by one to rip chunks of wall out until it toppled..no need to be close when it falls & all setup in minutes just need a tractor
Damn look pretty strong evidently this person was not a farmer because they were built really good the ones now are cheap I never would have done that unless a tornado would hit it
Five of them were standard stave silos. During building, once all the staves are in place, they coat the entire interior with a cement coating to make it air and waterproof. During demolition, if more of the reinforcement rigs are removed first, it falls easier, but cannot be controlled as to where.
Sad news: Paul passed away on 7/9/22.
May he Rest in Peace 🙏
The silos were decaying. The barn looks like new today: czcams.com/video/vrGDx0UkTP0/video.html
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Working from inside is absolutely suicidal! You never know if it collapses early!
Oh, you will know alright. Just won’t be able to tell anyone about it!⚰️
Something for those who we're weak of Others Standard Adrenalin kickin activities like jet skiing, Sky diving, wingsuiting, speedskiing oder Downhill biking... Must be An ultra Thrill to be in a 20m Silo you are self hammering down!!!
I don't believe someone was working inside that, amazing no one was killed..........................
Credit where credit is due.... those old fellas can swing a sledge hammer better and longer then most 20 year olds these days.
👍🏼💪 I bet most 20 year olds have no idea how heavy sledgehammers are!
@@TomRRmoT First you have to explain to them what a sledgehammer is and what's it 's for.
@@lilorbielilorbie2496 🎯😂
@@TomRRmoT Hey man I just call stuff like I see it. I have been told more than once that I have a kinda bent sense of humor. O well.
@@lilorbielilorbie2496 That’s a good thing!
BTW do 20 year olds know we used to call a sledgehammer a BFH? 😁
I've seen some dumb stuff in my life but standing inside a giant block silo as you knock out its base with a hammer probably tops all of them 👏👏👏👏
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!!!
@@harchan448 LET'S GO BRANDON from the UK
They need to knock out more than half of the base for it to fall on its own. It only fell with the help of the bulldozer pulling it down. Knocking out some of the base, helps direct the fall.
It's like standing on a tree branch that you are cutting, 90 foot up in the air 😳😳😳😳
Guy inside with the sledge, that's scarry.
this was indeed carefully planned out according to OSHA standards:
4:00 hammering from inside
4:19 dedicated scaffold
My dad wanted to put up a grain silo, but an old silo was in the location where it was to be built. It was hand built out of three rows of steel reinforced bricks. On day one, the guy showed up with a sledgehammer and went to work. At the end of the day, he had a hole about five feet tall and five feet across. On day two, he showed up with a jackhammer. By noon he had removed bricks about two thirds of the way around. He stopped for lunch, and it fell during lunch, leaving one ten foot wide section still standing. We hooked a tractor to the remaining section, while he jackhammered away. The section finally fell a couple of hours later. We picked up bricks for days.
Great story!
Thanks for the comments/questions. Like good stuntmen their work looks reckless, but is carefully calculated: they know the exact number of staves to remove before the silo will fall, the cable was used to save the barn, which is being renovated, there were no funerals (except for the silos, which we were sad to see go, but they aren't used for storage anymore and become dangerous when decaying). At 3:13-3:14 it appears Larry gets chomped by the silo, but that's a filming illusion!
As a farmer with silos these videos are kind of creepy to watch. Every silo acts different when they fall.
Well put. Viral video of a ‘dancing’ silo going down.
9 lives. 6 down, 3 to go😂😂😂 Seriously, I know these guys know exactly what they are doing - they are pros. And it is very addictive to watch.
They are not pros but idiots.
They violated every single work-saftey rule applicable!
lolol 2:36 The guy is INSIDE beating the blocks out. WTF?
That bottom unloader was solid.
Good God, he is actually working inside the thing!
fitting that you see a circus tent appear each time one falls
I’m not criticizing or complaining or cry babying I’m just noticing that he was INSIDE the silo trying to knock it down. That just seems a little dangerous.
I did notice when the weight got onto the block he was hitting it changed pitch and took more to knock out at that point he moved outside. I've seen one's where the guys got half knocked out then pushed it over it didn't go well.
The RECAP after each structure - totally helping me learn to count.
This guy took a much safer approach than other videos I’ve seen.
Except the silly fecker standing inside knocking out. Dammn fool didn’t have a hard hat on
If y'all think this is bad you should see some of the other silo demo videos on youtube... this was pretty well done.
You are supposed to prop a bottle between the top and bottom of the hole, so when it breaks you know the thing is about to come down; the way the British steeple jacks use to do when demolishing chimneys ................
that is a very simple and effective idea.
@@tylerbonser7686 But obviously reserved for real professionals!
It's sad to see these farm icons disappear, but they degrade and become a hazard, and they aren't used for storage of silage any more.
I think they were used for storing grain, not silage
@@olivermckeever804 Definitely silage. The tubes on the sides were used to get it back out with a top unloader. I had to climb those things and lower the unloader as the year progressed. That was a nasty job.
@@user-br4hv3pt5s I have never seen silage stored in buildings like that before, i stand corrected!! Best wishes from Ireland
@@olivermckeever804 czcams.com/video/AEd--GSHRSU/video.html
If you are from Ireland you may not know we call maize corn. Best to you and yours sir.
So they tore down six silos and built one backyard observatory.
Sort of reminds me of the fellow who climbed out on a limb and sawed the limb off behind himself.
That's workout with that sledge.
OSHA heart attack
Kudos for using a bull dozer. Seen some one with a hammer skidder crash a silo on a house with out a dozer.
I used to cut trees and have taken down a couple of silos. An old guy with experience told me to notch them in the shape of a smile. I was never sure why until watching this video. When the notch closes, there is a moment of hesitation when the silo is deciding which way to fall. You had the cable to coax it in the right direction.
Well, at least now I know, why they filmed "Shake hands with danger" :D :D
Look up a BBC documentary on Fred Dibnah. A steeplejack who climbed and repaired, and then demolished with a bonfire. Amazing stuff!
They come down "kinda" easy. The cleanup well that takes a little bit longer.
Imagine the stories those silos could tell. As well as all the people who worked that farm.
Lol the weather vane was unharmed.
Turn the tops into vacation rentals. 😬
Hmm, this does not seem dangerous enough. I know, I'll smash it from the inside.
Hard work , now the clean up.
Those weren't young guys swinging that sledge. I've used sledgehammers a lot and they'll wear you out quick!
Older=tougher (up to a certain age :)
@@TomRRmoTIf they survive!
Farmboys 👍
kuddos to the sheet metal guys the roof or (head) stayed in one piece good job lads.
YIKES! Gives new meaning to the term, "Clean-up an aisle 5"...(and 6...and 4...and 3...and...)
Can only imagine.
😂😂
@@TomRRmoT SPOILER ALERT. LOL! That was actually picked up from the movie "Gus" with Don Knotts/Ed Asner/etc. from the 60s. Not sure if you've ever seen the movie but Gus was a mule who could kick 100-yard field goals. I had to improvise it a bit but one day Gus got into a grocery store and over the P.A. system as Gus "toured" one could hear, "Clean-up on aisle 5...aisle 6...aisle 7...aisle 8, please...aisle 9..."
HAHAHAHA!!!!
Ah, yes! Thanks for the memory. One of my favorite movies as a kid! Saw it at a drive-in theater, which is also gone of course.
You guys are total pros. Well done. Great to watch. You must have balls the size of coconuts (unhusked).
And brains the size of peanuts
That’s called playing with death inside while knocking down the bottom bricks .a gust of wind could come through knock it down like dominoes
It feels like it Disintegrated.
Done a few metal silos, with a burner, from the inside, as I cut the bin, it would just fold down piece by piece, as I cut round,, I had a good idea what was going on, no chance of total collapse, but the concrete silo,, that's total different,,, big risk inside,, but this guy did look very confident,,
These dudes are so hard core they sledge hammer masonry in front of their faces with no safety glasses anywhere near.
Don tyou Walk with oben eyes through society. there are daily hundrets of men Seen who werent wearingsafety glasses while using disc grinder, riding motorcycle or welding metal. its much more seldom to see someone with protective Gear. in my opinion only when employee says or one of those rarely people who pay attention for the health ..
That first top would make a good Garden Pavilion if supported on several 10 foot columns.. BBQ anyone..?
Camera man ost his bottle!😂🤣😂
It went well. Would not have been beating on that thing from the inside though
Uh noo hell noo 😨
Looks like a dangerous project
Sad to see this American history of agriculture taken down. But I understand that we have to move forward
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All stave silos, could be identified as to who built it, by the color and pattern of the painted staves in the top two rows.
I know they were not needed at all anymore. Just so sad to see them go and all the memories also.
Heartbreaking indeed.
Me thinks this not their first silos , biggest balls for knocking from the inside out ,
absolutely fearless Like skyscaper ironworkers , carpenters or steeplejack in past Times..!
@@MrDriftspirit Don't forget The Pile Drivers on that list.
Did that idiot have a name?
When SAFETY doesn't matter.............
Seriously dude. Looked pretty safe to me. Minimal safe distances, cutting wedges and using a bulldozer to tidor it down. What was missing safety glasses, hardhat , vest, sitting on your fatass in the office all morning filling out j.h.as and pretask cards? Maybe some dickhead with a dress shirt ,tie and a shiny helmet using a laser pointer to explain how to take it down but in reality has only ever got his hands dirty wiping his ass. No real world experience. Or perhaps demolition crews. Sure the farmer could take out a second mortgage just to pay those pricks.
@@nofatchicks2315 you kiss your momma with that foul mouth?
Satisfying demolitions!
I’ve seen enough of these old tile silos come down I have to ask. Wouldn’t it be helpful to knock out an arch? When you knock out a uniform two foot section, we see many that drop two feet and stop, now you don’t know which way it will go. If you knocked out an arch the silo falls much farther in the direction you want before it hits any resistance. I know in this video they had a line on it with a tractor pulling it, but many of these videos do not.
Never did find the top of our silo when the tornado took it out on Palm Sunday 1965
Brian G. Lee It's in my backyard let me know if you want it back.
We lost the top off our silo the sale way, along with a windmill miles away.
Didnt Fred Dibnah have a word for these sledgehammer steeple topplers ?
Nice!!!
Fun to watch👍👍👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
and this years Darwin award goes to ......
I bet he was aching for a week after swinging the sledge all day 🙄
Damn straight.
Must be a large farm with so many silos. Have you had a lot of cows before?
Crazy but got the job done
Farmer was angry 😡
Our farm had the wooden stave/slat silos but I wonder in watching these why no one knocks a hole in one spot and opposite it knock another. then feed a cable with an eye through it. Then feed one end through the eye making a slip noose around half the tiles ()or less even) hooking the tag to a tractor or cat. Would the closing noose squeeze the tiles out making that wedge to weaken one side. That was a question and would it work? Does anyone know or has it not been tried?
The two-hole cabling concept seems to make sense. Not sure if it would give quite as much directional control, but would be much easier and safer. Might work with another cable still attached up high to direct it. (We had a barn a few feet away to save and renovate). I'll run it by the guys who did the actual planning/work sometime and reply with their thoughts on that idea. Your wood stave silo was really old school!
I hate to see silos come down. They are landmarks on our rural, and formerly rural countryside. Monuments to our heritage and the former dairy farms that filled the land.
Agree 100% 👆🏻
Dude must have some hellacious pent up hostilities to keep that up.
Um guys, wrong farm.
I love silos it’s a shames to see them
Come
Down
Yes, it was a sad day for our family.
He is hammering from the inside because the wall below him is extra thick and possibly below floor level. What I would like to know is how they attached the cable way up high with no ladder nearby. These guys earn their paychecks.
You're exactly right about why he was inside that silo. With the cable, you can't tell from the video but you could climb up inside the metal shield under it to get to the top. It's actually a vertical series of doors with rungs -- as the silage went down lower in the silo you could pop open a door and jump inside to work on the silo unloader.
What no 🧨🧨🧨🧨
Moo hip
I've got to wonder what these guys have against a little thermite?
Omg!
Someone commented, "Guy inside with sledgehammer, that's scary." No, guy inside total bleeping idiot! MY GUESS IS THESE GUYS COULDN'T EVEN SPELL HEALTH AND SAFETY!
@dave davis LOL
the Thing ist, there are hundrets off millions of this Kind on this Planet and they aren' t become less. when one was " too much Like this species" , No Problem, condome is something what has to do with protection...and so they do not use and next Generation ist always " in production and growing Up Phase".
RREEEEEEEEEE
@@MrDriftspirit please speak in the queen's English
Where the hell did those guys learn to swing a sledgehammer …?
The school of hard knocks?
Farmers
From me....😁😁😁😁
They seemed to do a fairly good job at it, especially considering the awkwardness of having to swing at an unstable vertical structure, even having having to stand on a board propped up and flexing.
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What if you hammered two holes big enough to loop the cable through. Make the holes so the center between the two holes is the path you want the silo to drop in. Then loop the cables through and hook them to your bulldozer. Pull the cables with the dozer until a notch is created that is big enough to bring down the silo.
Hard workers
3:52 hitting silo with hammer while inside silo equals a suicide squad.
Why are the silos being taken down.?
Deterioration, animals aren't there to feed with silage, property taxes.
I hate to see them go, too, but it's part of farming these days.
So long to an almost bygone way of life.
Dorque
Hey clam how many Shiloh’s is there is it six or five hours or Izone really have five fingers on each hand so how many is there for six
Farmers are the Craziest,Ballsiest SOB’s I have ever known. I am proud to have been one. I am sorry that I was not invited to this party.
Truth! 🎯😆
WHY? Why take them down? They seem sturdy; leave them go!
not useful these days. do not want to pay taxes on them anymore
Well it would give a health and safety man a heart attack🤣🤣 having said that all silos dropped in the same direction with out incident. Swinging that sledge looks hard work. A job well done I think
Yes, looks crazy, but was carefully planned out.
No people were harmed in the making of this video.
Looks more like Moe, Larry, and Curly
Chapeau intacte, bon pour faire une cabane pour les enfants.
Why not put a few grapples into the side where he is hammering holes then pit cables through to the grapples inside then pull each cable one by one to rip chunks of wall out until it toppled..no need to be close when it falls & all setup in minutes just need a tractor
Easier to control the direction of the fall, by knocking out some of the base.
Safety third...right?
Damn look pretty strong evidently this person was not a farmer because they were built really good the ones now are cheap I never would have done that unless a tornado would hit it
Five of them were standard stave silos. During building, once all the staves are in place, they coat the entire interior with a cement coating to make it air and waterproof. During demolition, if more of the reinforcement rigs are removed first, it falls easier, but cannot be controlled as to where.
you are America!!!!
You see? It's much faster to knock down then build. It's called entropy. Science.
More like Russian roulette
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That's terrible to knock down good usable silos...
menonites would take them down for free and reuse them.
Too late …
Where are the chipmunk going to.live ?
No hard hat , asking for trouble
Sore mussels that night😊