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@@stevengrimes2115 Try breathing without them! We should be planting 2 trillion trees to replace the ones that we cut down in the last 200 years. Just in the US we're losing 36 million urban trees per year. That's why the earth can't even breathe without its lungs.
What a waste of a beautiful tree surely they could have demolished the building with out ripping tree to bits just what we need when we are crying out for replanting cut down a big mature tree of course money is always key and as long as these idiot have enough beer money it dont matter
Great memories for me too. My parents would go there and we would hang out in dad's 66 Mustang Fastback munching burgers and fries in the parking lot. I think a regular cheeseburger at our local McDonalds at that time costs like 25 cents.
Every little boys dream would be to run a big piece of heavy equipment and get to tear down a big building. I know mine was. That's why I just had to operate mobile cranes for the past twenty six years and loving every single minute of doing so. And even to today I still have a wish to do what this guys doing. To all the future equipment operators, stay in school, learn every little bit of everything you can and one day you'll be able to not only sit in the seat, but you'll get your wish to too and run big machinery just like this guy....😊
This demolition makes absolutely no sense. He started off by ripping the tree and shrubbery showing no mercy. But then when it came to the bricks, he "carefully" scraped them off!
Because demo has to be sorted before it can be dumped. A painful lesson most people learn while remodeling after they filled the bed of a pick-up and took off for the dump.
What I'll never understand with these demolitions is, why don't they remove all the glass before letting loose with the excavators, so much glass that could have so easily been repurposed, or recycled, I know they'll go through and recycle all the metal, but just watching all that glass go to waste, never to be used again is just disgusting.
Glass can’t be reused for anything else as it’s already been cut for those types of windows, you obviously aren’t a very smart person if you can’t figure that out 😂
@@Cooke125could be repurposed for green houses or maybe a garage window, but realistically it should have been taken to recycling along with the bricks, wood, so many things that were just sent to a landfill instead of being recycled or reused, but that’s I guess the ‘Mercian way 🤷♂️
*_Gotta love a good building demo. Brings back fond memories of trackhoe vs building._* Hint... trackhoe always wins and after a couple of hours and many truckloads of debris later, a 'clean' building site is ready to be re-purposed. Sometimes it's far more cost effective to demo and start new than remodel old. New codes can make re-purposing an old structure more expensive than a blank sheet of paper and new design. *_Only thing better than trackhoe vs building is high explosives vs building..._*
honestly it is sad to see architectural history get erased but in this world money is king and we cant keep anything nice, probably fun as hell to knock it down though
@@circleinforthecube5170 Thanks for comment. I too hate seeing classic buildings demolished for something new. Many times old structures need TLC. Years ago I worked for Coldwell Banker in an affluent city. Lots of multi-million dollar mansions there. Great views also. I toured some of them when there were Open Houses. Sometimes, house was old, but the building lot had million dollar views. People bought these, knocked them down then build new mansion.
@@circleinforthecube5170 Thanks for comment. Do you remember when we built things like the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building? Both were done in Art Deco Style. Both used natural stone products like Granite, Marble, Slate, Brick, and Stainless Steel. Even the little town I live in has an old brick 12 story building done in Art Deco. Every time I go there on business, I am floored with the beauty before my eyes.
@@SJR_Media_Group art deco is nice but i feel like the 70s-80s skyscrapers are worth applauding too, the works of mies van der rohe are simply beautiful and there is beautiful 70s splitlevels and cedar contemporaries all over my town
The operator was trying to separate the materials for recycling, which is easier to do now than manually later by labor's, therefore cheaper costs. You can see another example of this as he separated metal into its own piles too
@@nickhale2900 because they can that’s why, if it’s in the way it has to come down, it would’ve been brought down anyway as something was obviously gonna be rebuilt in its place
Welcome to McDonalds can I take your order please ... " yes I'll have one mcbush, shredded tree, mcbrick combo with extra insulation on the side, and a side of crushed glass " lol
We had a McDonald’s that was that way from 1974 to 21 or 22( I forgot ok?)I loved it when I was young and had the play place but it got knocked down and has a boring cookie cutter one in its place.
Tree life matters. In my country, if a leafy tree of this size is slaughtered in such a cruel way, the entrepreneur is punished so much that he urinates into his own underwear. (Even if the tree was on private ground.)
I miss rax we had a couple of them here where I grew up. one of the northside got tore down and rebuilt as an arbys and the one downtown is... well i have no idea what it is now cause i don't go downtown but its not a rax.
How old was this McDonald's it not the red roof (it just has red apstacts) or the 50s version so when was this on built, this kinda looks like an Applebee's is that just me or what!
You obviously don't live in America. And, if you do, you've clearly never had to go through the process of bringing construction demo to a dump site. But, yeah, America bad and all that internet rah rah...
I'm a contractor, i dont take big jobs like this, mostly little ones with small excavators. But our local disposal site charges 120/ton for mixed construction debris, but they charge only 70/ton for clean wood, and 20/ton for bricks, tile, or masonry. Consiring the big price difference, and how many tons of materials there is to dump on this job, separating materials for recycling makes a lot of sense economically.
@@newjerseybill3521 Lol, all the glass for my greenhouse is from shopping centers that were slated for demo. If I had to buy that glass it would be insanely expensive.
@@newjerseybill3521 My mom was a huge recycler, composted all our food scraps, used swing sets from the garbage for hanging tomato plants, rainwater harvesting for gardening irrigation. I even heat my greenhouse with free woodchips that local companies throw away. I remember reading about Dennis Weaver's earth ship project as a kid back in the '70s, heat and cooling from the earth and aquaculture where the fish waste fed the plants and vice versa. Most people just want shiny new crap to prove they make a bunch of money and to keep up with the Joneses. I saw a 8x12 greenhouse on Amazon for 8k dollars, mine is 16x40 and cost maybe 2k, it's paid for itself 20x over with the produce I've sold. Cheers! My brother's in Jersey BTW, he's one of the Joneses, lol.
Recycling has to be cost effective. To disassemble this store piece by piece so you can recycle individual items would cost a fortune and take forever. They did separate the metals for scrap though.
McDonald's owns the property and are chose to build a brand new restaurant and get rid of that rundown structure , they operated that as a McDonald's restaurant for a while but it appears to not be in good condition.
@@josephbennett3482 architecturally those newer ones will fall apart way faster than the 70s buildings, it was too expensive to remodel was the real one
@@mrnasty02106 Ah yes, the days when they were called out for: Using lead paint in their toys Finding beef in US French fries, despite claims that the fries were vegetarian Using a beef flavoring during the production of fries to get around that dumb little loophole of vegans not wanting beef Not paying minimum wage Putting extra sugar into coke Being questionably racist Denies deforestation issues until a literal court case makes them address it (Steel and Morris) Serving literal boiling coffee so hot that multiple times the health department tried to tell them to stop (we all know that one, but did you know it was still BOILING?) Yeah, not too sure about those golden days. You can't actually think that, can you? That they weren't greedy snakes then?
I always watch these demos at 2x speed, much more satisfying and fun!
Excellent recommendation
Tear all the McDonald's down, but leave the trees and bushes
yeah sure but can't leave the tree because building more big
No
What a great video I enjoy watching your videos keep making great videos I like your videos a lot keep making great videos I like your videos keep making great videos
“Can you run my camera, I’ll give you a couple cigarettes”
Can’t think of a more perfect line to go along with this video.
😂😂😂
Yea hold my camera amber
Amber can buy her own cigarettes!!!
Sad to see the tree in the beginning be murdered 😢
Had to be taken out
Sure thing tree hugger
@@stevengrimes2115 Try breathing without them! We should be planting 2 trillion trees to replace the ones that we cut down in the last 200 years. Just in the US we're losing 36 million urban trees per year. That's why the earth can't even breathe without its lungs.
That looked more like a Wendy's store then McDonalds store
What a waste of a beautiful tree surely they could have demolished the building with out ripping tree to bits just what we need when we are crying out for replanting cut down a big mature tree of course money is always key and as long as these idiot have enough beer money it dont matter
Really intelligent commentary here...........
I'm old enough to remember, when Mc Donalds fast food house 🏠. Like this. Red & Yellow. Ronald McDonald was the ICON. 🍔🍔🍔
Great memories for me too. My parents would go there and we would hang out in dad's 66 Mustang Fastback munching burgers and fries in the parking lot. I think a regular cheeseburger at our local McDonalds at that time costs like 25 cents.
Also looks like a Wendys made into a McDonalds, some of the old ones here have the wrap around front windows.
Nah dude it was a former rax roast beef
@@gtnighty7729
WHERE'S THE BEEF?!?
Every little boys dream would be to run a big piece of heavy equipment and get to tear down a big building. I know mine was. That's why I just had to operate mobile cranes for the past twenty six years and loving every single minute of doing so. And even to today I still have a wish to do what this guys doing. To all the future equipment operators, stay in school, learn every little bit of everything you can and one day you'll be able to not only sit in the seat, but you'll get your wish to too and run big machinery just like this guy....😊
That's not just little boys. I'm 47 and this is still on my bucket list. :)
Good luck with that destroyed mc Donalds
This demolition makes absolutely no sense. He started off by ripping the tree and shrubbery showing no mercy. But then when it came to the bricks, he "carefully" scraped them off!
I guess it's for recycling, sorting out the different materials right there
Because demo has to be sorted before it can be dumped. A painful lesson most people learn while remodeling after they filled the bed of a pick-up and took off for the dump.
WOW 😳😳😳. This Demolition Machine, is Awesome 👍. BIG MAC eating the small Mac. 🍔🍔🍔
That's the quick way to take a tree down. I bet the tree surgeons were mad as heck.
Sir, this is Wendy's. The Mcdonald's you were supposed to demo is down the road.
You can see the m logo at 12 minutes in definitely a McDonald's
@@cod_joker_4205 I didn't notice that. You're right.
It certainly had a Wendy's style greenhouse. Ironically, I came here from a video of a Wendy's being demolished.
Never seen someone take so long demo a Mcdonald
What I'll never understand with these demolitions is, why don't they remove all the glass before letting loose with the excavators, so much glass that could have so easily been repurposed, or recycled, I know they'll go through and recycle all the metal, but just watching all that glass go to waste, never to be used again is just disgusting.
Can't safe everything the Glass was not worth saving
Someone could have used that for a sunroom.
Glass can’t be reused for anything else as it’s already been cut for those types of windows, you obviously aren’t a very smart person if you can’t figure that out 😂
@@Cooke125 Lmao right
@@Cooke125could be repurposed for green houses or maybe a garage window, but realistically it should have been taken to recycling along with the bricks, wood, so many things that were just sent to a landfill instead of being recycled or reused, but that’s I guess the ‘Mercian way 🤷♂️
7:47 me when they get my order wrong for the 70th time
I like the looks of this place!
Tear down the stupid fast food joint, but save the tree.
Where the bobcat skedster Where the dump truck or dump trailer demolition should be easy if all power and utilities are off
No dumpsters
4:00: And that video got uploaded to RUclips.
(and I'm watching it)
*_Gotta love a good building demo. Brings back fond memories of trackhoe vs building._*
Hint... trackhoe always wins and after a couple of hours and many truckloads of debris later, a 'clean' building site is ready to be re-purposed. Sometimes it's far more cost effective to demo and start new than remodel old. New codes can make re-purposing an old structure more expensive than a blank sheet of paper and new design.
*_Only thing better than trackhoe vs building is high explosives vs building..._*
honestly it is sad to see architectural history get erased but in this world money is king and we cant keep anything nice, probably fun as hell to knock it down though
@@circleinforthecube5170 Thanks for comment. I too hate seeing classic buildings demolished for something new. Many times old structures need TLC.
Years ago I worked for Coldwell Banker in an affluent city. Lots of multi-million dollar mansions there. Great views also.
I toured some of them when there were Open Houses. Sometimes, house was old, but the building lot had million dollar views. People bought these, knocked them down then build new mansion.
@@SJR_Media_Group architecture in general if it was built before 1999 it probably is a nice building,not so much after
@@circleinforthecube5170 Thanks for comment. Do you remember when we built things like the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building? Both were done in Art Deco Style. Both used natural stone products like Granite, Marble, Slate, Brick, and Stainless Steel.
Even the little town I live in has an old brick 12 story building done in Art Deco. Every time I go there on business, I am floored with the beauty before my eyes.
@@SJR_Media_Group art deco is nice but i feel like the 70s-80s skyscrapers are worth applauding too, the works of mies van der rohe are simply beautiful and there is beautiful 70s splitlevels and cedar contemporaries all over my town
I like the drive thru window at 7.48......I SAID NO PICKLES ON THIS.........CRUNCH
Not sure why that “operator” peeled the wood trim then proceeds to pull brick down onto it 🙄
The operator was trying to separate the materials for recycling, which is easier to do now than manually later by labor's, therefore cheaper costs.
You can see another example of this as he separated metal into its own piles too
Was that Freon gas recovered from AC units per EPA regulations before busting them open?
Why did he have to cut the tree down?
Because they had to
@@nickpatrick1636 Why?
@@nickhale2900 because they can that’s why, if it’s in the way it has to come down, it would’ve been brought down anyway as something was obviously gonna be rebuilt in its place
@@Cooke125 That's not obviously true. Planners often incorporate existing trees into the lot plan when suitable.
To make mc toothpicks
Que construyeron ahí?
I told you ketchup on my burger.
Why th f*** did they destroy the grand tree?
It there job there boss might of told them.
😮Good Lord!! They're tearing down my favorite haunt! Now, where am I going to get my bag of burgers from?!?😮
Did that McDonald's reach it's "over five million sold" before demolition?
Welcome to McDonalds can I take your order please ...
" yes I'll have one mcbush, shredded tree, mcbrick combo with extra insulation on the side, and a side of crushed glass " lol
Operator has a good touch
I love watching demolition, and hearing the glass smash.
Me too!
amazing how flimsy they actually build them i thought there would more concrete than that!
Keep the tree and demolish that "restaurant"!
architecture of that resturaunt is important
@@circleinforthecube5170 McDonalds doesn't do architecture! They just do a box with window dressing all over the outside and inside of it.
@@steadholderharrington9035 fair, however, more interesting 70s-2000s buildings definitely need to be preserved
That machine could replace a SWAT Team.
Let me guess the ice cream machine broke for good!
It was fun to watch the drive-throuhgh window box try to escape. :)
So why are half of the pads missing on those tracks????
Seems like that would had been a fine building during an earthquake, it took a little bit of a step to mow it down.
They should do this to all the McDonald's garbage food sheet holes, I'd rather eat soilent green !
fuck you, mcdonalds is the best
@@jessicacon McDonald’s is disgusting.
Omg that beautiful tree😢
i kinda miss their old look, red roof with the yellow ribs in top🤔😐
We had a McDonald’s that was that way from 1974 to 21 or 22( I forgot ok?)I loved it when I was young and had the play place but it got knocked down and has a boring cookie cutter one in its place.
1:28: Oh. Could've started on the side of the building, working your way to the front.
Please let me know if you’re going to demolish any buildings in Maryland .I would like to do a video of them
On to the next Mack Donald’s
Tree life matters.
In my country, if a leafy tree of this size is slaughtered in such a cruel way, the entrepreneur is punished so much that he urinates into his own underwear. (Even if the tree was on private ground.)
Not this one
your country sounds like a Crum hole glade were free here. 🤣
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@@billp6191 fjb usususususus
@@dakotabowes2387 maga
Best thing ever for a McDonaIds!
日本のマクドナルドでも単独店の改築で旧店舗を解体し、跡地に新店舗を建設するケースも有ると思います。
Why were they messing with the bush too? What's the reasoning?
I did this to a Carl's Jr. one time just for messing up my order.
Hey look wow it’s all gone yayyyyy
Oooooh! That McDonald's is McDemolished!!
hey waitaminite- lemmee get a couple whoppers
Great video why the demo
I miss rax we had a couple of them here where I grew up. one of the northside got tore down and rebuilt as an arbys and the one downtown is... well i have no idea what it is now cause i don't go downtown but its not a rax.
amazing video, great stuff!!
This was built new as a Rax and oddly was repurposed into a McDonald's.
You know what's funny?
I was one of the guy's that built that location. Oh well, I got paid! lol.
I’ve always have wondered what those who build think when their work is demolished. You took it well!
Looked like Wendy's
Architecture and colors match Wendy's
@@DudeGigger right everyone knows what old Wendys and what an McDonald's looks like with the infamous roof
Somebody mad because the happy meal was cold
6:10 "This guys going to work slower because he's got smaller equipment"
Luv this stuff!
Only specific type of glass can be recycled ,clear, brown, green. any glass that has any type of low-e coating cannot be reused
How old was this McDonald's it not the red roof (it just has red apstacts) or the 50s version so when was this on built, this kinda looks like an Applebee's is that just me or what!
Applebee's has Rats 🐀 😆
Looked like a Wendy’s with its sunroom
I Found a whole Rat in my Cob salad!
The structure used to be a Rex Roast Beef restaurant and McDonald's turned the building into a McDonald's restaurant.
Cool
I used to deliver to that McDonalds.
...sewage?
Rest in peace tree 🙏
Looks like they actually try to sort out the materials for recycling during demolition. Don't see that much in America I believe
lot more common then you think it is actually.
You obviously don't live in America. And, if you do, you've clearly never had to go through the process of bringing construction demo to a dump site.
But, yeah, America bad and all that internet rah rah...
I'm a contractor, i dont take big jobs like this, mostly little ones with small excavators. But our local disposal site charges 120/ton for mixed construction debris, but they charge only 70/ton for clean wood, and 20/ton for bricks, tile, or masonry.
Consiring the big price difference, and how many tons of materials there is to dump on this job, separating materials for recycling makes a lot of sense economically.
Somebody hold my beer .
Could have saved the doors and some of that glass...
Never heard of recycling?
Turn the glass enclosure into an attached greenhouse, grow some vegies and herbs!!!!
@@newjerseybill3521 Lol, all the glass for my greenhouse is from shopping centers that were slated for demo. If I had to buy that glass it would be insanely expensive.
@@genefogarty5395 Exactly, the three R,s Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle. :)
@@newjerseybill3521 My mom was a huge recycler, composted all our food scraps, used swing sets from the garbage for hanging tomato plants, rainwater harvesting for gardening irrigation. I even heat my greenhouse with free woodchips that local companies throw away. I remember reading about Dennis Weaver's earth ship project as a kid back in the '70s, heat and cooling from the earth and aquaculture where the fish waste fed the plants and vice versa. Most people just want shiny new crap to prove they make a bunch of money and to keep up with the Joneses. I saw a 8x12 greenhouse on Amazon for 8k dollars, mine is 16x40 and cost maybe 2k, it's paid for itself 20x over with the produce I've sold. Cheers! My brother's in Jersey BTW, he's one of the Joneses, lol.
Recycling has to be cost effective. To disassemble this store piece by piece so you can recycle individual items would cost a fortune and take forever. They did separate the metals for scrap though.
I'm lovin it
Who eats crap out of these places. Corporate food kills people slowly.
People will pay for signage from stores like this.
Where was this at in Jenison?
Even the excavator is going to get plugged arteries from demolishing a McGrease!
Why the tree
Too bad that the tree could not be trimmed and transplanted.
best things to ever happen to mcdonalds and their plastic so called food
This guy sounds like Elmer Fudd.
VERY ODD A MCDONALD'S PUT IN A OLD RESTAURANT WHEN THEY USUALLY BUILD THERE OWN BUILDING
AND TOOK A SUPER LONG TIME TO GET BUILDING A REAL MCDONALD'S
that was a nice tree. =(
Ah they were the days when we paid for a job in Cigarettes I miss those days
Another Mcdonald's Bites The Dust.
New one rebuilt on same site.
Also a way to cut a Tree down . A Motorsaw would make it in 2 Min.
a what
Damn look at all that insulation
sorry closed McDonalds demolition store abandoned
2:22: That's a lotta trees
Why wasn't that beautiful tree protected? Where I live they wouldn't have been fined $50,000-100,000 depending on the age of it.
Ronald’s rent was due 🍟🍔🤡
Why NO DUST CONTROL???
That poor tree.
What I call McDemolition
are there no bird's nest in that tree! It's a shame that that tree is being demolished like this 😒
They are not loving it ☹
And another tim Horton's is born
destroyed a 100 year old tree
So what is gonna be built on that property after that place was tear down?
Wow...another uneducated commenter.
TGI Friday's
McDonald's owns the property and are chose to build a brand new restaurant and get rid of that rundown structure , they operated that as a McDonald's restaurant for a while but it appears to not be in good condition.
@@josephbennett3482 architecturally those newer ones will fall apart way faster than the 70s buildings, it was too expensive to remodel was the real one
This is what happens when you can’t trust the food anymore and the company has gone evil
When was McDonalds known as an ethical company of any type?
@@BillionairesArentYourFriends Years ago, they were. In the late 90s (roots)/early 2000s, they went too big, and became too fancy.
@@mrnasty02106 Ah yes, the days when they were called out for:
Using lead paint in their toys
Finding beef in US French fries, despite claims that the fries were vegetarian
Using a beef flavoring during the production of fries to get around that dumb little loophole of vegans not wanting beef
Not paying minimum wage
Putting extra sugar into coke
Being questionably racist
Denies deforestation issues until a literal court case makes them address it (Steel and Morris)
Serving literal boiling coffee so hot that multiple times the health department tried to tell them to stop (we all know that one, but did you know it was still BOILING?)
Yeah, not too sure about those golden days. You can't actually think that, can you? That they weren't greedy snakes then?
The tree.... really? Don't care about the building but they could have torn the building down without messing up the tree