'High tech' demolition, New Zealand style (demolition starts at
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2021
- 0:00 Literal over-view
2:35 Demolition
13:46 Miracle pigeon
A new church has since been built.
The Historic Place Category 2 heritage building, opened in 1889, sustained major damage in the Canterbury earthquakes and has been shut since 2011.Opihi Parish finance chairman Mark Robins said the parish hoped to rebuild a church on the neighbouring tennis courts at a cost of more than $1 million.
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This was just a quick edit, I accidentally left an earlier clip on the end. - Věda a technologie
Extremists, please make an attempt to at least read something:
This was demolished due to earthquake damage(which has always been in the description, not that such commenters tend to have much concern with reality), and a new church has since been built.
Ranting about supposed anti-religious reasoning is beyond ridiculous, and an extraordinarily bad example to use this demolition as an example.
Both old & new church are attached to a catholic school, and there are 2 other churches in the same town of around 1000 people. It is oversupplied with churches if anything.
Go elsewhere to rant about fictional problems, you have nothing in common with reasonable religious or non-religious people. You have much more in common with your chosen 'enemies', each with your own grossly oversimplified, largely fictional 'problems' as an excuse to be hateful.
Personally I think possibly(depending on the cost) more effort should've been made to reinforce & save the building, but the demolition was in NO way some kind of supposed anti-religion bias. Aside from the church obviously owning the building, and making the ultimate decision, other historic (& much more unique) non-religious buildings have also been demolished.
8,000 churches are abandoned in the USA every year so things are moving in the right direction.
@@katzgar Hope you move past such anger in your life, this is about replacing a failed structure, nothing more.
@@katzgar More anger :) how about a hug?
@@Artoconnell nope you religious types have stuff that's communicable
@@Artoconnell All of that pretend based on nothing but a fairy tale
"Damn, this tower is too high. John, get me that giant metal stick extension!"
How come nobody saved the stained glass windows? seems like a waste
It was disappointing, but presumably it was deemed too dangerous due to the instability of the building. I often find demolitions to be disappointing in regards to saving materials though.
If it is red stickered then no one can go in and retrieve anything. Would have been worth a try but, I had the same thought, as it would cost a fortune to replace the stained windows.
It’s debatable what took longer, building it or knocking it down!!!!
Personally, 15 minutes doesn't seem very long to demolish a tall, old building in an urban area. I guess it's an eternity for the usual internet attention spans though, how this video suddenly became somewhat popular is a bit surprising for this reason.
Presumably the drone was also used to monitor for potential hazards/safety issues.
I forgot to note the miraculous pigeon escape previously, I've just added timestamps.
Even stepping through the frames, it looks impossible - so much for it being cockroaches that survive everything.
Yes but I bet they had young in there , they wouldn't have stayed in there that long otherwise
Flying rats 😅
nice work
based on your comments below, I'm surprised it sat 10 years before being pulled down, especially it's proximity to the road, and yes to you're other comments, N.Z has pulled down a lot of beautiful buildings because of earthquake risks.
Que igreja era essa ,? Onde eu moro tem uma idêntica a está torre aqui no Brasil.
A igreja era St. Mary's Church, Pleasant Point, Nova Zelandia. Tem mais informações aqui:
www.pointhistory.org.nz/chapters/religion
Há uma nova igreja lá agora.
@@DoubleMonoLR
Agradecido 🙏
If he keeps on like this it’ll take a week…
So many demolition " experts " watching this !
Ever heard the Seinfeld sketch of men being drawn to where work is bwing done?
I'd love to see the video that drone is catching.
I had assumed it was just being used internally, but I recently found it had been uploaded:
czcams.com/video/DpjOipwaTKY/video.html
@@DoubleMonoLR Thank you, thank you, for posting this. A beautifully conceived and shot video. Despite the practical reasons your notes mentioned, this presentation brought sadness that demolition was necessary. BW.
What a scene! What happened?
It was damaged after an earthquake, and deemed not viable to repair. A new church has since been built. More details are in the description.
An Earthquake
A good job well done, almost surgical precision due to the proximity to other buildings.
No. To me it looked like amateurs working.no Longfront excavators available in NZ?!
An ICON... gone. What a beautiful skyline wiped out. They should have tried to save the beautiful architecture.
People who don't think make decisions.
A tourist attraction is gone.
Its never that simple, someone has to pay and as its owned by the church they have to pay, otherwise its the taxpayers, then its a question of who would own the building. It boils down to you cant save them all. The restoring cost may have been beyond economical justification.
It was a death trap. Should have been demolished decades ago.
They should have called Fred Dibnah
Unreal - that church was totally unsafe - he barely touched it and it came tumbling down. Didn't look like any seismic stengthening upgrades had ever been done. Surprised anyone would step inside that thing.
Being familiar with excavators being used in demolition (I investigated a "long-boom excavator" that had a special claw on it, not unlike the one shown), I know the use of the claw as a tool to hold a steel beam and push/pull over a structure, is outside the usage parameters of both the excavator and claw. Last one I saw the operator, used the claw to bend a hook in one end of an 8" "H-beam". Holding onto the straight end, the operator hooked onto the structure (4 stories up) to pull sections over. The section came loose and fell. Doing so it pulled the excavator over. A heavy chain, used in the structure, was under extreme strain. When it snapped a 4-foot length of it was shot over 300-feet away. It scoured the hood of a parked car smashed into the rear window of a second car and narrowly missed hitting a pedestrian.
That sounds like a significantly different scenario to be fair, including their use of a hook, and that this building was unreinforced brick.
While seemingly adding some risk, they did seem pretty cautious.
@@DoubleMonoLR The issue comes from overloading the hydraulic system and the weight of a beam (or anything else) sticking out past the operating radius of the machine. This moves the center of gravity forward from the designed c of g. If an incident occurs the first thing to be consulted would be the operators manual along with the design specs and manual for the claw.
The real reason this becomes an issue is that in the event of an incident, it's quite common for the company to say they didn't know this was being done. Then put the blame on the operator. They may even fire him/her for a while, to distance themselves from the incident, then rehire the same operator.
You don't have a clue what you're yammering about.😂😂😂
@@richardkawucha1232overload the machine?? 😂😂😂
Ffs, it's designed to lift a full bucket of earth that weighs ~10x more than that tiny piece of I beam. You simply don't have a clue what you're yammering about. That old unreinforced brick crumbled at the slightest touch - besides lack of any reinforcement, it looks like the mortar was substandard and barely had any strength - he barely touched the walls and they crumbled.
@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Just as a final point. I have 23 years working, as a journeyman tradesman/trainer with heavy construction equipment in all kinds of weather and conditions. Then an additional 23 years working for Michigan OSHA as a Senior Construction Safety Officer inspecting construction sites on safety, accidents and fatalities. I think that after all that time I know a little bit more than the average person on how a machine's center of gravity is affected by moving a load. Such as an excavator operator who's machine was equipped with a "long boom" attachment and a claw on the end. He picked up about 800 pounds of dirt/debris and swung, not having learned that center of gravity lesson. He put the load outside the manufacturer limit and tipped the rig over. Have a nice day, sir.
I still don't know what meaning NZ demolition style .
I was being a bit sarcastic with the title, as it's not 'high tech', and is more of a 'whatever works' method with a digger holding a steel beam. Diggers are used for a wide variety of purposes in NZ.
it means do it slowly, to much osh gosh.@@DoubleMonoLR
Um pena não terem de preocupado em retirar os Vitrais antes da demolição, fico pensando será que tiraram os da igreja, a história sendo destruída. 😢
Não ficará pedra sobre pedra.
Très significatif de notre époque d'apostasie générale. Le signe de notre démolition culturelle , sociale et spirituelle. Ils lnt des yeux pour ne pas voir et des oreilles pour ne pas entendre !
Rubbish, the church themselves chose to demolish it & build a new church. Not to mention that it's attached to a catholic school. It was people *not* associated with the church or religion that were against the demolition, due to it's historical value.
There are also *three* churches in this very small town.
Once again an extremist *wanted* to believe something, and didn't even bother reading the description.
You couldn't have been more wrong.
@Jacques
Agree, western society is going downhill, left wing extremists with no values, without any moral principles, are the major problem.
@@tomekhauzer Another ignorant comment, which clearly doesn't care for reality.
The only 'extremists' here are demonstrated in such comments.
You're displaying an absence of morals right here, baselessly assuming that anyone who doesn't share your religion lacks morals - which is transparently false.
Nor does religion somehow magically give people morals, as vividly demonstrated by the most prominent 'conservative' NZ politician who was sent to prison for pedophilia, and others who have repeatedly been misbehaving behind their facade - as is common with extremists of any variety.
People are people, religion is overwhelmingly irrelevant to morals, other than some people using it as an excuse to be immoral.
People endlessly use a dumbed-down, extreme assumption-based version of 'others' as an excuse to rant about supposed problems - many of which are transparently invented.
Extremists of the supposed 'left', 'right', or any variety, have far more in common with each other, than they do with reasonable people, who are aware of the complexities of life.
A później będzie „płacz i zgrzytanie zębów ". In manus tuas Domine.
NO BELL ?
I think it did have, but if so I'm not sure what happened to it. Perhaps it did fall, but just the manner it fell didn't cause any noticeable sound.
Drone operators footage can be viewed here:
czcams.com/video/DpjOipwaTKY/video.html
Certo, dev'essere un bella soddisfazione, per gli operatori, tirare giù chiese e campanili !!!!
davvero. Sai che figata demolirle con la ruspa? anche è meglio l'esplosivo
@@fuorisagoma anche con la sfera non c'è male !!!
ma in Italia non s usa. almeno, io non l'ho mai vista usare. sempre con la pinza
@@alessandroalberto6431
I think you should have had a crack at it with that Toyota hilux before the excavator. cheers
Shame none of that leaded glass or the bell was saved
It had been inspected by structural engineers and found to be unsafe to enter.
Not worth risking lives to recover.
For a second there I thought it was my wife chewing on those bricks 😅
They didn't use explosives. That's boring!
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, as that's pretty ridiculous. Explosives are basically never used unless it's required for a very large building.
The thumbnail showing exactly how it was being demolished probably also should've been a hint...
Não sei os porquês daquela doliçao
It's in the description.
Obrigado pela v/ resposta.
👍
I guarantee the birds were sat on either eggs or fledglings.
Quite likely unfortunately, particularly the latter birds. I was annoyed that they made no effort to move the birds out prior to demolition, whether they had eggs/young or not. They could've at least sounded a horn inside.
Albeit it was in the middle of winter, so presumably the least likely time to have laid eggs, albeit it seems more common with pigeons.
Birds can move some where else.
@@allenelswick6961 not if they are dead
No way to enter the structure safely. Not worth risking lives to save birds that reproduce like rabbits anyway.
Não sei os porquês daquela demolição.Pelo que vi no vídeo era uma torre antiga,ora sendo a N.Z.um pais novo, acho que devia preservar o passado.Tudo tem história.😮😢
O motivo da demolição está na descrição.
A Nova Zelândia não é boa em salvar prédios antigos, mas também é mais cara aqui - terremotos são comuns e pode custar muito para torná-los seguros.
Parece echa la torre con material de tapia, hoy no sabrían hacer la misma y de la misma manera. Así que no me explico, ¿ porque la tiran? ¡Acaso son antirreligiosos!
Очень слабая кладка, на грязь ложили кирпич, совсем без цемента!!!
It was built in the 1880s, it seems quite common for mortar from the era to dry up and lost it's adhesion.
@@DoubleMonoLR согласен!...
This operator needs a refresher course!
@@DoubleMonoLR Портланд цемент изобрели в 1824 году, массово производить, использовать для кладки и производства бетона стали с 1845 года..., но в Новой Зеландии, похоже, об этом узнали намного позже. 🙂
Didn't even remove the irreplaceable extremely valuable windows.
While it's a shame nothing was saved, I don't think they were irreplaceable or extremely valuable. As noted, this was demolished due to quake damage, it almost certainly would've been considered too dangerous to manually remove windows etc.
The building had been fenced of for years, since the first big earthquake near Christchurch.
They weren't extremely valuable. Otherwise they would have been saved. Just more ecclesiastical trash to be smashed up.
@@PreservationEnthusiast Hiding and removing the true history of this country
Red stickered most likely.
No Church, no future! Bravo!
An inability to read, and making ridiculous extremist assumptions, bravo!
As in the description, It was demolished due to quake damage. It has since been replaced with a new church.
There are also 3 churches in this small town. Not that having churches or not makes any difference to the future.
@@DoubleMonoLRi bet the new church is nowhere near as nice as this one, most modern buildings ar awfull i,m not a fan of any modern building, i live in uk my house is around 300 years old, & is just about the same as it was when built, new windows etc, but i made sure they were as close to what would,ve been in originaly,
@@michaelgoulding6609 It's not as nice, though it is still a reasonably nice building - it was severely lacking in plants around it when I saw it, so that doesn't help.
bon c'est ancien ; manque d'armature c'est risqué ;l'être humain est plus chère ....
It could have potentially been made safe, though it would probably be expensive - particularly going by amounts that have been spent on some other buildings that were strengthened after the Christchurch earthquake. Personally I think the best/most effective method could potentially be to effectively build a safe structure inside, and attach all brickwork to rigid mesh inside - not so much to save the brickwork in a quake, but simply to prevent it causing injury. Albeit that would suit some structures better than others.
im sure he's charging for hour
Komatsu!!!
High-what?
"High tech" is a common term in english that means "high technology" / cutting-edge / advanced. I was using it sarcastically here (this is why it was in quote marks), as it's very low-tech, as seen in the thumbnail.
GET ON WITH IT !!!😁🤠
Yes the operator was far too timid to be doing demolition. He'd be better off in a council landfill site.
Definitely getting paid by the hour.
Nice !
Come on man, I haven’t got all day
Apparently you had enough time to write comments, but not to press an arrow, or move the time marker. I can't imagine the excavator operator was terribly concerned with how entertaining it was anyway.
Прекрасная архитектура! Зачем было сносить такою светлую, устремлённую вверх башню??
See the description.
Translated:
С тех пор была построена новая церковь.
Историческое здание категории 2, открытое в 1889 году, сильно пострадало во время землетрясения в Кентербери и было закрыто с 2011 года. Финансовый директор прихода Опихи Марк Робинс сказал, что приход надеется восстановить церковь на соседних теннисных кортах за счет более 1 миллиона долларов.
@@DoubleMonoLR I appreciate your reply.
It was painful to watch such a beautiful architectural structure being destroyed.In my city, small one-story and two-story apartment buildings built in 1880-1910 are considered architectural monuments, although their owners considered these houses temporary and planned to destroy them in 30-40 years. It is a smile of fate that these temporary houses are now considered to be of historical value.
I wish you all the best and peace to your country!
Nun too late
Apparently they didnt notice that some birds wanted to get on the bridge
Fred dibney sorted it lol
He was the best at it, omg nerves of steel he had and always made the job entertaining!
Due to the demolition a lot of birds became homeless... Haas anyone though about the birds? 😃🤣
Would have thought peoples safety more important than birds I am sure they will find somewhere else to live and annoy people
@@mariebennett5739 It is not the question safty for the birds or for the people. You can have both. With a little thinking it is not that difficult. First look for any birds, move them to a new spot then taking down the old church. That's the way we do it in Germany... Trust me it works.
Birds will make it just fine.
Do you mean the flying lice ridden rats ...
I've seen them since on another building nearby, pigeons are pretty adaptable, that wasn't really an issue. I wasn't happy that they seemingly made no attempt to get them out prior though, such as using an air horn. It does also seem fairly likely they had nests unfortunately, which could explain why they were so reticent to leave.
Ma come hanno costruito?? Senza armatura?? Solo mattoni. Un piccolo terremoto e va giù come gelato al sole.
The construction seems much the same as churches everywhere, of that age (1889)
While definitely not suited to handle earthquakes, it was still standing after well over 100 years, despite some earthquakes (albeit this area doesn't typically have as many or as strong earthquakes as elsewhere in NZ). It hadn't collapsed at all prior to the demolition, it was just deemed too expensive to bring up to a safe standard. Other old churches in the nearby city of Timaru were also damaged - those were repaired & presumably strengthened though.
Così come la Mole Antonelliana !!!
Parola di torinese !!!
@@alessandroalberto6431If it had the same architectural & cultural significance as that, I have no doubt it would've been saved.
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😢😢😢😢😢
HURRY UP!
They don't demolish buildings for entertainment, 15 minutes is nothing.
@@DoubleMonoLR I would have sacked his slow ass.
Shame..a work of art building has to be erased....
What a waste😢
An earthquake damaged it so badly it could not be entered or even approached safely. It had to come down.
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High tech?
It's sarcasm, hence being in quote marks.
Why is the operator not wearing his cow boy hat????
The people who are against this for environmental reasons need to swim out into the ocean to help save a shark from starvation.
Nobody was against this for "environmental reasons", I don't know where you got that idea, it doesn't really make sense.
Some people wanted to retain it for historical reasons, as a lot of older buildings have been lost in NZ.
This video was 18 minutes long and in that time he still didnt get it fully demolished. I could have been quicker with a tooth pick.
18 minutes is completely insignificant to the overall cost, there would've been no point in rushing and potentially causing a dangerous fall of material, etc.
I didnt see any serious damage neither in the dronefootage nor in this video, pobably just a cheap excuse to build some ugliness from concrete.
You can't expect to see obvious problems in every situation, and there's no basis for such an assumption, nobody really benefited from it. Building inspectors, engineers, the insurance company, etc also aren't all going to conspire to build something else (for a nebulous reason)
It would be quite bizarre to wait more than a decade, with a fenced off church, to use something as a supposed excuse.
As it is, clearly the mortar was in very poor condition, and was doing little to nothing to hold the bricks together.
Another old (but much smaller) building nearby partially collapsed during the earthquake, along with general damage in South Canterbury. Some other buildings have been repaired, and took many years(and so, it can be assumed, cost a lot of money) to do so.
The only reason that could really be inferred, was that it was simply too expensive to repair.
I don’t understand why they let a 90year old do a job like that
Too long does nz not know how to use DYNAMITE 😊
Probably a bit better to spend a little time than send shrapnel flying through a town ;)
bad video....couldn't see what the tool was doing.
Unfortunately I can't make videos in braille, I think what could be seen was perfectly adequate. As should be reasonable to assume, I was standing where I could get the best available view point, and is why you can hear other people talking around the camera. Short of standing far up the hill, where I wouldn't see much in person, there wasn't really any other option. No doubt I'd then have complaints about shaky video, not that I had any inclination that it would have a significant number of views anyway.
The way the lower part of the building fell apart suggested that the earthquake had already damaged it beyond repair.
Was spielt der da rum...
Pulling down other house of god
They built a new church to replace it, if you'd bothered to read the description or pinned comment. Stop looking for excuses to complain.
All for a parking lot
No, it wasn't, you've completely invented that.
Also not much demand for a parking lot in a very small town, which also already has more public parking than it needs.
@@DoubleMonoLR and your right total guess on my part . Probably a halfway house or drug rehab center or a chain drugstore or something worthless
@@VOTEREPUBLICANS594 This phenomenon of inventing things, that people want to be angry about, is pretty absurd.
The 'something worthless' they built in it's place was...another church, as you could've found by reading the description or the pinned comment.
Not that a halfway house or drug rehab center would be worthless, obviously quite the opposite.
Boring !
And?, you find it boring, so just go elsewhere. The video is exactly what it says it is.
@@DoubleMonoLR shit video maker