www.pedestrians.org Part 1. Demolition of an office building at 1750 Old Meadow Road in McLean, Virginia. Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".
Is it the same machine as for the demolition of the Heating Plant because the machine is quite similar but this one in this video does not seem to have the expandable boom
Yes, the same machine as the Heating Plant, and the RCA Building before that. They changed booms toward the end of the Heating Plant demolition. You first see the new boom late in Part 18: ruclips.net/video/8jdGMongrhw/видео.html
One of the flimsiest office buildings I've seen. I live 20 miles from here and I'm shocked one of our stronger storms hasn't taken this thing down previously.
I dont understand the bucket and thumb setup on the cleanup excavator. Why do they Never use a sortinggrapple ?
I always wonder the same too. Here in UK and EU a grapple is standard on a professional demo site
awesome demolition vid ! love the sound of breaking glass ! great thanks for posting !
Glad you like it. Here is more breaking glass:
ruclips.net/video/5LyThWwS2Sc/видео.html
@@JohnZWetmore great thanks for showing this link !
Nice.
Just for once it's good to see a US demolition company using a correct machine plus attachment instead of a digger bucket. :)
Yeah, this guy sure knows what he's doing!!!!
Nice to meet you jonh this morning.
Good to meet you, too.
Is it the same machine as for the demolition of the Heating Plant because the machine is quite similar but this one in this video does not seem to have the expandable boom
Yes, the same machine as the Heating Plant, and the RCA Building before that. They changed booms toward the end of the Heating Plant demolition. You first see the new boom late in Part 18:
ruclips.net/video/8jdGMongrhw/видео.html
Thats not a good job. In Norway we take out all windows to recycling
The metal in the frames will be recycled.
Pelo qque assisti até agora operador excelente
Seems like a lot of those windows could have been saved & recycled.
The saving-process would cost more then just making new ones (wich are so much better then these ones.
Those windows and all the brick and concrete are recycled it gets ground up and used as filler it's valuable
Is the operator told what to grab?
Yes, the building.
This guy isa pro
The guy with the tall rig sure didn't waste any time getting it down. But then this wasn't built like the heating plant.
One of the flimsiest office buildings I've seen. I live 20 miles from here and I'm shocked one of our stronger storms hasn't taken this thing down previously.
When you get paid for smashing windows... 🙂😁
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E o filmare foarte frumos că e copacul dă te și tu într o filmare mai așa ca să nu mai filme pomi
100s of thousands of dollars worth of glass just destroyed. What a waste. I wonder did they at least strip the copper?
Since the windows are probably double glazed, the seals eventually fail. Better to recycle the glass.
After watching only 5 minutes of this video it's good to know that it was demolished. Very poor construction to say the least.
Wonder what year this cheapo looking thing was built
1985.
Piece of junk building: cheap to build and easy to tear down. But I guess it served its purpose.
Seems like it was built to a residential standard almost lol
Damn that is a weak building