When dynamite just won't do..

[snotrag]

And you really must use a digger to demolish a bazillion foot chimney...

[King Herald]

Never mind knocking it down, imagine the poor buggers who laid all them bricks a century ago!

I can't imagine it is in a first world country, HSE laws would never allow a guy to sit in a JCB hanging off a huge crane.

[snotrag]

How scared were you going up that ladder onto the new garage of yours?

Imagine what the guy in the CAT can see if he leans forward!

[anonymous-user]

Fecking hell!!!! You'd never find me up there I can tell you!

[King Herald]

snotrag said:

How scared were you going up that ladder onto the new garage of yours?

Imagine what the guy in the CAT can see if he leans forward!

There is no way you'd get me in that digger.

I wonder how many bricks he can knock down the middle of the chimney before he realises it's full?

[esselte]

He's not done much for the past couple of days

[Pigeon]

King Herald said:

I wonder how many bricks he can knock down the middle of the chimney before he realises it's full?

Me, I'm wondering if it might burst. A loose pile of bricks with repeated impacts to the top would probably behave more or less as a fluid over a long enough timescale, transferring the weight of the column to a tensile stress in the brickwork. There may well also be damage to the masonry from impacts of the falling rubble.

[paddy27]

Thats just insane. Wouldn't get me any where near that digger. Bloke must have no fear of heights!

[VetteG]

I hope he is well paid for that!

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[bob1179]

Well there is a novel approach to chimney demolition.

Is it me or does there seem to be a lot of flex in the 3 supports holding that 360 in place?

I wonder where it is too as the red crane supporting it all seems to be a modern piece of kit. I reckon its Eastern europe or maybe even China. I wonder what sort of lifting plan they drew up?

I could imagine the look on our HSE guys faces if they saw that!

[ALawson]

The red crane is probably circa 350-500 tonner, with a fly jib extension.

[Trooper2]

[startmaracas] cojones......cojones.........that dudes got cojones.........[/endmaracas]

[cara jynwyth]

Fred would have got it sorted.... "Did ya like that?!?!"

[tubbystu]

cara jynwyth said:

Fred would have got it sorted.... "Did ya like that?!?!"

I'd guess that chimney is a bit bigger than those that dear old Fred used to drop using the victorian chop & burn method. He would do 200' maybe - this a right big bugger.

If the digger body is 2.5m wide then the chimney is about 6m wide and probably 100m + tall still - who knows how much has already been demolished.

What happens when the digger driver has knocked off all the clear brick work between the legs of the frame ? Crane lift and rotate 60 degrees and knock off a load more, repeat and rotate 60 degrees.

The digger driver is ok, he's going nowhere - its the crane driver (and the crane - double ) that is in danger from falling debris..........

Does the posse think it all gets lowered down at night ? Or does the driver have to climb down the access ladder up the outside of the chimney he's busy trashing during the day ?

Can't be in EU bit of Europe, must be Eastern Euroe, China, Russia or even US maybe ? They all still have a a-hem somewhat relaxed attitude to work site H&S.