You're right. Consider it a bonus of cool non-HVAC stuff falling from rooftops. (This building had their exterior HVAC equipment at ground level a short distance to the west of the building.) Here is the cell antenna discovering gravity: ruclips.net/video/I5yhs0C7eS0/видео.html
@JohnZWetmore I used to install cell phone equipment on roof tops. I always wondered what it looked like if the equipment fell off the roof. This happly gave me my answer.
@@markmyjak7739currently do civil work now and haven’t seen a shelter on a rooftop platform like that. And I know one thing, haven’t seen them come off the roof, but damn if I don’t know what it’s like if you can’t get a crane and gotta dolly them cabinets up stairs😂
My god, so much expensive equipment could be extracted and used/sold on to eBay, never mind, the tech guys knows their toys, took out all hardware and made the cellphone room empty.
@@nomnomburrito27 yeah I can see that too. I love pit vipers. I like to think engineers can be practical and have a little fun with designs at the same time. I used to want to be one until I left school to start working.
@@johndorazio3759 Been there, done that after a Salesman told the client his men can easily get those units up there. All he was interested in was his sales commission.
All the work that went into building these buildings, there's something special a certain feeling one gets by watching th being demolished. I myself moved away from the big city and now live in a country town but even now there's way too many houses being built and too many people moving here. I need to movie further inland here in Australia 😭😭
all our neighbors signed a land contract that protects us for having dense houses built here, at minimum there must be at least 250 yards between residential units.
The RCA building was an iconic part of the Rosslyn skyline. I remember it from my childhood being so imposing and modern. Years later - would they save it? No. The demand to extract as much money as possible has Arlington re-making itself much the same as Las Vegas. But there's a reason - The views of D.C. from there are absolutely spectacular! With that, I still remain hopeful that they will spare the original Rosslyn Marriott. It was one of the first J.W. Marriott hotels and I believe was built on the land where the original Hot Shoppes was. From the original Watergate clandestine parking garage to the Marriott and Orleans House, that part of Arlington has a very rich history. I am glad to have been to all those places when they were active.
16:00 "And here we see the stegosauratron gorging on (what looks to be) ventilation units, its favorite snack, as two curious human males watch on while guarding their tower from predators."
Recycling the steel, aluminum, copper, and concrete reduces the need for mining and quarrying. This is beneficial for the environment, energy usage, and reduces costs.
This video combines the satisfying event of building demolition with the unsatisfying event of air conditioning systems of various sizes and complexity destruction. I love it.
It's a great disrespect of HVAC feat of engineering. I would happily take some screws drivers and wrenches and take all of these useful parts if given free.
@@sto2779 agreed, my house will be demolished in the upcoming years and I might sell my Ruud air conditioner. It was a great and quirky unit but its life is coming to an end. There is an old nordyne unit from the 80s along with 2 vintage whirlpool units I plan on saving and restoring.
I would say it's a bad practice and should be signed off by city officials, but the amount of cars leaking freon and the fact that you can buy DIY cans of unsafe freon 'over the counter'.... oh my!
Couldn’t those chillers be resold? It’s nuts to think that those units were working at one point and now they are being man handled by a crane because the building is being demo’ed….
anything of any value would have already been stripped out by the time the building was to come down. Nobody buys used equipment like the stuff we see in these video's, they get all new equipment for new buildings.
For a moment lets respect the men and women who spend months day and night building such a tower and the engineer too who designed all these , so ez and satisfying to see something get destroyed. why no one ever cares abt the people who built it
Piqued my interest as well, but yeah I think it's for dust, but added benefit I'm sure is cooling all those joints and jaws down. I wonder if the hydraulics cause heat?
This video makes me sad and feel old . In my days it was only the Ball for jobs this high. I used to run the track hoe clearing what the ball took down.
@@JohnZWetmore I have a 1/2 ton one that adorns my eccentric wildflower garden. It's round with non replaceable eye. I'd love to find a 1 ton pearshaped one . Not currently in my budget though.
Lynn Street. I think that was the old RCA building in Rosslyn VA. I've worked on roof tops doing HVAC in that area but not that particular building. Kinda sad to see it go but it looked out of place with all the new development over the past decade.
1:06 "hello customer support? Yes thank you sir, I am having an issue with my air conditioning." "Yeah not sure, doesn't seem to turn on, could you send out a tech? Thank you so much."
As a commercial hvac technician myself this hurts to watch lol 😂 so many technicians sweat, anger, hard thought trouble shooting diagnostics just man handled by a machine 😂
Removing the refrigerants is required, although I have seen a few demolitions where the system obviously still had refrigerants (not the ones shown here). And the copper is usually saved separately from the scrap steel because of its high scrap value - with care taken to keep it safe from copper thieves coming by during the night.
I'm amazed this equipment doesn't get salvaged before the demolition. Instead it all gets crushed along with the rest of the building. No wonder everything is so expensive.
It is required to remove the refrigerant gas before demolition, and most contractors do. It is usually pretty obvious when refrigerant gas is left in the system. You get condensation when the coolant lines are broken and the gas escapes and decompresses, as seen in this demolition: ruclips.net/video/k0hR9UaMvYU/видео.html
It is required to remove the refrigerant gas before demolition, and most contractors do. It is usually pretty obvious when refrigerant gas is left in the system. You get condensation when the coolant lines are broken and the gas escapes and decompresses, as seen in this demolition: ruclips.net/video/k0hR9UaMvYU/видео.html
The wrecking ball video showed just how obsolete that method of demolition is. These cutting arms can do it all and even cut the steel beams and support columns.
@15:50 That's all the cellphone equipment.
You're right. Consider it a bonus of cool non-HVAC stuff falling from rooftops. (This building had their exterior HVAC equipment at ground level a short distance to the west of the building.) Here is the cell antenna discovering gravity: ruclips.net/video/I5yhs0C7eS0/видео.html
@JohnZWetmore I used to install cell phone equipment on roof tops. I always wondered what it looked like if the equipment fell off the roof. This happly gave me my answer.
@@markmyjak7739currently do civil work now and haven’t seen a shelter on a rooftop platform like that. And I know one thing, haven’t seen them come off the roof, but damn if I don’t know what it’s like if you can’t get a crane and gotta dolly them cabinets up stairs😂
1:03:43-- стоит рабочий и не туда направляет струю воды. И напора нет. Ему нужно чтобы день прошел.
My god, so much expensive equipment could be extracted and used/sold on to eBay, never mind, the tech guys knows their toys, took out all hardware and made the cellphone room empty.
Gotta love how the engineers made the claw look like a dragon head. Looks like a steam punk dragon tearing a building apart. Awesome.
I see a viper! Wonder if that’s just how the claw is built or if the design is intentional
@@nomnomburrito27 yeah I can see that too. I love pit vipers. I like to think engineers can be practical and have a little fun with designs at the same time. I used to want to be one until I left school to start working.
Yay!
Reminds me of any kind of Sauropod grazing at a large tree haha
It's simply genetics.
It's father ate skyscrapers for breakfast.
Somewhere there's a mechanical contractor who's saying "thank god I don't have to work on that POS anymore".
You how hard it is to put that shit in those buildings
Lol 😂
That would be me, cooling towers, chillers, air handlers it’s hard work.
@@johndorazio3759 Been there, done that after a Salesman told the client his men can easily get those units up there. All he was interested in was his sales commission.
@@johndorazio3759bro fr boss had me lifting hvac parts to the roof with only a co worker I was pissed
Finally, a thumbnail that wasn't clickbait or make me wait.
Thank you sir.
the first clip had me like "yank it down, yank it down, you know you want to, yank it down, come on, yank it down."
Yeah right I'm getting ad after ad.
It's almost 3am...I'm wasted...and this is oddly hypnotic...
Celtic Demo-Monster to Godzilla: "Hold my hydraulic actuator."
Whoever is running that thing is an artist! Moved ammo for a living way back. Thanks, enjoyed your vid.
My company deals with ventilation and air conditioning systems 😢
This is such a lot of work and knowledge!
I'm an HVAC commercial engineer and I truly enjoyed this video. I wish that I was the demolition equipment operator.
All the work that went into building these buildings, there's something special a certain feeling one gets by watching th being demolished. I myself moved away from the big city and now live in a country town but even now there's way too many houses being built and too many people moving here. I need to movie further inland here in Australia 😭😭
Me too... need Peace and quiet! Greetings from Canada!
Seems like land would be cheap in the inland area.
@@riggitydoo5116yeah, but also void of any needs like stores ect ect
all our neighbors signed a land contract that protects us for having dense houses built here, at minimum there must be at least 250 yards between residential units.
we did it boys. peak civilization. over an hour of demolitions featuring only HVAC equipment.... PEAK I SAY
The RCA building was an iconic part of the Rosslyn skyline. I remember it from my childhood being so imposing and modern. Years later - would they save it? No. The demand to extract as much money as possible has Arlington re-making itself much the same as Las Vegas. But there's a reason - The views of D.C. from there are absolutely spectacular! With that, I still remain hopeful that they will spare the original Rosslyn Marriott. It was one of the first J.W. Marriott hotels and I believe was built on the land where the original Hot Shoppes was. From the original Watergate clandestine parking garage to the Marriott and Orleans House, that part of Arlington has a very rich history. I am glad to have been to all those places when they were active.
16:00
"And here we see the stegosauratron gorging on (what looks to be) ventilation units, its favorite snack, as two curious human males watch on while guarding their tower from predators."
Recycling the steel, aluminum, copper, and concrete reduces the need for mining and quarrying. This is beneficial for the environment, energy usage, and reduces costs.
Thanks captain planet! I'm sure most of us already understand this concept, but nice of you to remind us all again...
@@Chazz838sl Knowledgeable citizens like yourself are far and few between! Gotta go, Woooosh!
The concrete is crushed and used as a base for pavement, or other places where you might use crushed rock.
@@Chazz838sl😂😂😂😂
This video combines the satisfying event of building demolition with the unsatisfying event of air conditioning systems of various sizes and complexity destruction. I love it.
It's a great disrespect of HVAC feat of engineering. I would happily take some screws drivers and wrenches and take all of these useful parts if given free.
@@sto2779 agreed, my house will be demolished in the upcoming years and I might sell my Ruud air conditioner. It was a great and quirky unit but its life is coming to an end. There is an old nordyne unit from the 80s along with 2 vintage whirlpool units I plan on saving and restoring.
You just know as a child you used to think of these machines as dinosaurs.
4:10 "long fence". Very descriptive 😂
Glad to see that it looks like most of those units had the refrigerant removed ahead of time :)
Hahahahaha, yeah you keep telling yourself that......
@@smf2072There would have been plumes of freon going into the air
I have filmed HVAC units that still had Freon. (None are included in this video.) The cloud of condensation from the escaping Freon is very obvious.
I would say it's a bad practice and should be signed off by city officials, but the amount of cars leaking freon and the fact that you can buy DIY cans of unsafe freon 'over the counter'.... oh my!
@@JohnZWetmore yes! Like the car dealership video. Crazy that was overlooked.
its wild to see something that at one point cost several millions of dollars to build be intentionally torn down
Great videos ! 👍
Couldn’t those chillers be resold? It’s nuts to think that those units were working at one point and now they are being man handled by a crane because the building is being demo’ed….
anything of any value would have already been stripped out by the time the building was to come down. Nobody buys used equipment like the stuff we see in these video's, they get all new equipment for new buildings.
Usually outdated components and worn out parts.
Skillful operators !. Great video 👍
2:39 Seeing a chiller that size getting thrown around is crazy.
The old wrecking ball method seem so slow of a way to take down a building. Those pincher machines seem like the most fastest method!👍
The wrecking balls ain't good on surrounding buildings and the people in them.
You should see a controlled demolition, it’s even faster
Here are a few implosions: ruclips.net/p/PLpdpl8imBL0ORDjbhQ2SglfbDW4UAttAq
That metal dinosaur is very destructive 😮
Who ever thought watching destruction could be so relaxing.
It's even better at half speed.
For a moment lets respect the men and women who spend months day and night building such a tower and the engineer too who designed all these , so ez and satisfying to see something get destroyed. why no one ever cares abt the people who built it
I read somewhere that heavy equipment operators have the #1 job as far as job satisfaction goes. Makes sense, that looks super fun.
This is a very narrow topic for a video, but oddly very satisfying...
2:34 Holy shit! These vehicles have water spray cooling?!
I thought that was only on stationary factory machines and small to big power tools!
It's to reduce dust
Piqued my interest as well, but yeah I think it's for dust, but added benefit I'm sure is cooling all those joints and jaws down. I wonder if the hydraulics cause heat?
The hydraulics do get hot, but the spray is for dust control.
It kinda looks like leaking hydraulic fluid
It kinda looks like leaking hydraulic fluid
16:43 I wish I had those 2 Trane 600lb recovery tanks. They don't make them anymore.
HOW DO WE RESTORE THE TINY HVACS (air conditioner)
It looks so light, even the way it hit the ground
HVAC is the most valuable peice of scrap on a building that’s why they tear to out and save it for scrapping
Someone stole 10 AC units like that from the rooftop of a closed mall in Milwaukee. Crazy. Would love to know where they ended up
Scrappers
What a good idea for a theme.
Warning! No HVAC units survived the making of this movie 😳😳🇦🇺
This video makes me sad and feel old . In my days it was only the Ball for jobs this high. I used to run the track hoe clearing what the ball took down.
It's uncommon, but I still see a wrecking ball once in a while:
ruclips.net/p/PLpdpl8imBL0NWXqzxCQqToFj8aIvui2mg
@@JohnZWetmore I have a 1/2 ton one that adorns my eccentric wildflower garden. It's round with non replaceable eye. I'd love to find a 1 ton pearshaped one . Not currently in my budget though.
Great upload! Thanks....scrapping...:)
wow haven't seen a wrecking ball used in a long while!
I don't see wrecking balls very often, but here are a few:
ruclips.net/p/PLpdpl8imBL0NWXqzxCQqToFj8aIvui2mg
This is what every boy dreams of in his sandbox at 5 years old. It's got to be one of the most enjoyable jobs to exist.
I love watching destruction, thank you for this video.
This is my wife pulling me out of the bar at 2am 😁
Looks like a lizard biting the building 🤣
Look at the size of those monsters. Technology has come a long way.
Lynn Street. I think that was the old RCA building in Rosslyn VA. I've worked on roof tops doing HVAC in that area but not that particular building. Kinda sad to see it go but it looked out of place with all the new development over the past decade.
Those cooling towers are in better shape than what is running in the plant I am working in right now!
They should invent "Crane Skins" and over this one with a dinosaur crane skin to make it look like a creature is doing the demo.
What a dream job. Sitting in an ice cold cab destroying shit all day.
It's like a long neck dinosaur grabbing at a baby bird at the top of a tree.
Моя фирма занимается систем вентиляции и кондиционирования 😢
Это такой большой труд и знании !
the strength of these arms is really impressive. That thing grabbed onto a steel I-beam and folded it up like it was made of cardboard.
1:06
"hello customer support? Yes thank you sir, I am having an issue with my air conditioning."
"Yeah not sure, doesn't seem to turn on, could you send out a tech? Thank you so much."
destroyed
AJALES 😱 cuánta destrucción, ajijo 😱
i always thought when would someone mount water hoses to the end of the excavators so someone wouldn't have to stand there spraying by hand
I really love their pet dinosaur LOL
Best Job ever
It’s a hell of a lot harder to install that stuff, believe me.
It amazes me how these things look like creatures.
I like how the machine has a little face in the 2nd clip
anybody can break stuff these guys are professional stuff breakers they break it right
This looks like one of the most fun jobs in the world
Wow I’d love a job like this
As a commercial hvac technician myself this hurts to watch lol 😂 so many technicians sweat, anger, hard thought trouble shooting diagnostics just man handled by a machine 😂
Is there some kind of lottery system for who gets these jobs?
Every once in a while they should play the roar of Godzilla on a loud speaker.
Does anyone remove the refrigerants before these things get torn down? And do they recycle the expensive metals (aluminium, copper)?
Removing the refrigerants is required, although I have seen a few demolitions where the system obviously still had refrigerants (not the ones shown here). And the copper is usually saved separately from the scrap steel because of its high scrap value - with care taken to keep it safe from copper thieves coming by during the night.
Hmmm... what should I eat next? Ooh, this looks interesting...
can you link to the modpack? the game’s hardly recognizable
2:55 My ADHD brain Oh look a Water-Dragon
The first machine is a Hitachi ZX870 with a concrete pulverizer.
That poor cooling tower 😢.
Supa! But even betta at half speed.
I'm amazed this equipment doesn't get salvaged before the demolition. Instead it all gets crushed along with the rest of the building. No wonder everything is so expensive.
Im wondering how much of these materials can be recycled.
if there R22 refigeration they ar epretty much useless they have done away with R22
Can someone help answer this: do they remove the refrigerants gas out of it before demo?
It is required to remove the refrigerant gas before demolition, and most contractors do.
It is usually pretty obvious when refrigerant gas is left in the system. You get condensation when the coolant lines are broken and the gas escapes and decompresses, as seen in this demolition: ruclips.net/video/k0hR9UaMvYU/видео.html
@@JohnZWetmore Thanks, was concern some AC still use the hazard ozone killers gasses. Even cars with R134a Refridgerants.
Shit, I need that scroll compressor tho.
33:44 those old Carrier units were tanks !
First 3.5 minutes: What a lost opportunity! Somebody needs to hire an artist and paint the jaws to look like an angry dragon.
I wonder how many of those brazed components I had a hand in on.
Is it just me or is demolition kinda funny😂 like I just imagine these giant machines going yoink this is mine to all of the buildings structure
They don’t make those jaws look like animals on accident 😂
Is the refrigerant gas removed from old units or just vented to air to destroy ozone layer.
It is required to remove the refrigerant gas before demolition, and most contractors do.
It is usually pretty obvious when refrigerant gas is left in the system. You get condensation when the coolant lines are broken and the gas escapes and decompresses, as seen in this demolition: ruclips.net/video/k0hR9UaMvYU/видео.html
@@JohnZWetmore Key word "most"
I like all the yellow fluid that falls out of the second one.. 3:28
That mechano-beast is trying to eat that air conditioner!!!
Those jaws are like watching a snake getting ready to consume a mouse.
2:10 why not just blow the building rather than going through this process?
How do I get this job?
The AC's are now low on Freon.
They should paint a face on that first machine!
Dino 😂
Lots of air conditioning units bit the dust on that building
The wrecking ball video showed just how obsolete that method of demolition is. These cutting arms can do it all and even cut the steel beams and support columns.
how much money the operator has to paid the company to get this job ?
What's the water sprinkle for ?
The water helps keep the dust down.
Why would you not paint the claw like a T-Rex head?
I just want to make Tim Allen noises ... Arr Arr Arrrrrr - pretend I'm a dinosaur lol
Pro-Tip >>> change the playback speed to 2X... its easier to watch that way.
Proposal for Best of Demolition: Elevators
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll have to review what I've shot to see if there is enough to make a good video.
Here you go:
ruclips.net/video/I8cELhy2bKI/видео.html
@@JohnZWetmore thank you
I suppose the water sprays are to keep down dust.
nice