Everyone who is saying all that wood could have been reclaimed has never worked on an elevator. The wood is cribbed meaning it is laid flat. To hold it all together there are metal spikes pounded through vertically about every 6 inches. It would be very labor intensive to remove them all.
indeed! Add to that, that they are old-growth Doug Fir, which gets harder, heavier, and more brittle with age, especially in the dessicator environment of the elevator....and (as you note), NAILS, everywhere!! The elevators were designed/built, to be used, not torn down, thus, the way that they are torn down.....as one who has a prairie background, it is distressing to me, to see these structures torn down, but the wheels of "progress" roll on! 😞.....
Sad to see them go, amazing how it stayed cantilevered like that till it pulled all the spikes in one row. If anyone is building one I have a couple copies of blue prints.
This is great a way to see an actual cross section of a grain elevator in order to build a well detailed model. Too bad the real grain elevators had to be destroyed to see it.
A few in the US have been disassembled board by board for the lumber. It's commonly used for flooring and paneling. It is unique, but expensive as the job of salvaging it is extremely labor intensive.
I've torn down 1. and I have 3 more contracted to do this summer. very good operators. you guys are like surgeons. I have to fall mine the same way as there is no room to fall away from the rail line.
When they brought the main upper part down, it's a wonder they didn't have a massive dust explosion from all the years' worth of grain dust that shook loose- all it would have taken was one ignition source and it would have completed the job for them!
This video reminds me of hungry scavenger-like "Raptors" devouring a skeleton.., with the odd illusion when time-lapsed; also very sad to see the death of manual industry..
A good example of what happens when the wrong people get involved with destroying a valuable reclamation resource. What a waste. Undoubtedly bankers were involved.
bearbon2 hey dumbass. I've torn down one before. they did a great job. and saved all the large timber. the 2x4 cribbing that make the entire structure from the 30 foot mark going up is full of bugs, termites and is half worn away from the grain sliding down it.
My house is only 60 years old, so most of the wood is probably sapwood, but it's like a rock, I've ruined a number of drill bits over the years. It just has to sit around a while without rotting. Too bad they couldn't have used these boards, but it is Canada; they have no shortage. And I'll bet a lot of woodworkers would rather deal with stuff that hasn't hardened yet.
When they built these, they specified green hemlock, one was it was cheap, but the other was hemlock shrinks so much when it dries, it made for a much tighter building.
Am I the only o0ne who looks at that cloud of (combustible) dust and wishes he could throw a match into it just to watch it explode into a massively huge fireball?
it's truly AMAZING, the ignorance of comments on here, re "salvaging/reclaiming/recycling/re-purposing" the wood from these structures!! "just disassemble them, same way they were built!" LOLOL!!
They'll come from Monsanto industry ( a firm which is owning day after day all the vegetables and is trying to brevet animals like pigs and cows)!! But ... people have to read the book of history which happend right now. Omg label don't give grains, Farmers in USA are committing suicide because they have reliable to those commercials people who sold them pesticides ( which poisoned the grounds and water), OMG grain( they have to buy each year because they didn't grow up again the next year). They were enslaved to buy what they could produce themselves in the past. People of USA have to inform themselve and wake up to refuse it, because this plague is implanted in their homeland and is expanding all around the world. ( sorry my english is bad ;) )
I think the bin tanks are built of 2 by 10s stacked like bricks. Imagine laying the building up 2 inch at a time. How many million boards went into this? Why in the fuck don't they try to engineer a deconstruct method to bring 'em down to a manageable level so all those boards could be unstacked for re-use? You could open a lumberyard. By my figures, a 16 foot stretch of wall 100 feet high would yield up 600 16 foot 2-by whatever structural joists. What a fuckin' waste!!
I thought Canadians cared about their environment? Yeah it would’ve taken a lot longer to disassemble it but there are contractors who would’ve bought it and reclaimed the wood… Sad
you have no idea as to how/what these structures are made of; suffice to say, it is almost logistically impossible (and dangerous) to "disassemble" these elevators; despite this, quite often, portions of it are salvaged...yes, we DO "care" about our environment, just as much as any other country; we just don't care so much, for our history........
Sad to see something of such obvious history come down, but testament I think to the build quality of the structure for it to come down so perfectly
Everyone who is saying all that wood could have been reclaimed has never worked on an elevator. The wood is cribbed meaning it is laid flat. To hold it all together there are metal spikes pounded through vertically about every 6 inches. It would be very labor intensive to remove them all.
indeed! Add to that, that they are old-growth Doug Fir, which gets harder, heavier, and more brittle with age, especially in the dessicator environment of the elevator....and (as you note), NAILS, everywhere!! The elevators were designed/built, to be used, not torn down, thus, the way that they are torn down.....as one who has a prairie background, it is distressing to me, to see these structures torn down, but the wheels of "progress" roll on! 😞.....
Great job guy,s great team work, I love it ❤👍✌
2 angry dinosaurs! Eating away, awesome video!
Very interesting Leo! Thanks for making this video.
Very cool. Thanks
True team work . I love that .
Good job and very good operators.
i loved when the trains came by! they were going like 400 mph!
Sad to see them go, amazing how it stayed cantilevered like that till it pulled all the spikes in one row. If anyone is building one I have a couple copies of blue prints.
Great Job on video and good job demolition crew 🖒
end of an era there....
Wow that's sad, can feel the history of it while it's being torn down
wow that would have been cool to watch. Im new to carstairs long after this happened.
This is great a way to see an actual cross section of a grain elevator in order to build a well detailed model. Too bad the real grain elevators had to be destroyed to see it.
wow...that's a lot of wood...
That machinery sped up 16 X reminds me of the skeleton battle in "Jasons and the Argonauts"!
Very interesting. Shame the timbers couldn't be recycled
A few in the US have been disassembled board by board for the lumber. It's commonly used for flooring and paneling. It is unique, but expensive as the job of salvaging it is extremely labor intensive.
@@jeromeclements6532 "labor-intensive" + hazardous/dangerous (slivers...dust...)......
i remember watching that irl lol... i couldn't stay awake for the whole thing though
I've torn down 1. and I have 3 more contracted to do this summer. very good operators. you guys are like surgeons. I have to fall mine the same way as there is no room to fall away from the rail line.
U should make some videos of tearing them down
Are there any elevators in those elevators or do you have to walk up?
When they brought the main upper part down, it's a wonder they didn't have a massive dust explosion from all the years' worth of grain dust that shook loose- all it would have taken was one ignition source and it would have completed the job for them!
Photobomb level: TRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a woodchipper and a Front end loader would of been ideal there to sort out all that waste. (less loads to haul away)
Sad to see this elevator torn down. It would be nice if someone got to use some of the best wood.
This video reminds me of hungry scavenger-like "Raptors" devouring a skeleton.., with the odd illusion when time-lapsed; also very sad to see the death of manual industry..
Setting a match to it would have been quicker
I remember one excavator rolling into the structure but, not coming out again on either end. I hope that team made it out of there.
With how old and dry the wood used to build it is, wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to burn it down?
Why didn't they burn it down ?
That would be cheaper and faster and more spectacular.
I thought this looked a bit creepy, the scream my 5 year old granddaughter let out confirmed it. It's like watching War of the Worlds or something.
Wow... >_>
they were recycling the main structural wood. you can see main excavator putting them to the side. the rest is like tooth picks
A good example of what happens when the wrong people get involved with destroying a valuable reclamation resource. What a waste. Undoubtedly bankers were involved.
bearbon2 hey dumbass. I've torn down one before. they did a great job. and saved all the large timber. the 2x4 cribbing that make the entire structure from the 30 foot mark going up is full of bugs, termites and is half worn away from the grain sliding down it.
What a sad sad shame all that heartwood pine getting destroyed. Something that we can never have on our planet again lost forever :-(
My house is only 60 years old, so most of the wood is probably sapwood, but it's like a rock, I've ruined a number of drill bits over the years. It just has to sit around a while without rotting. Too bad they couldn't have used these boards, but it is Canada; they have no shortage. And I'll bet a lot of woodworkers would rather deal with stuff that hasn't hardened yet.
it's Doug Fir, not pine.....
@@jamesparker1063 Douglas Fir is in the Pine Family.
When they built these, they specified green hemlock, one was it was cheap, but the other was hemlock shrinks so much when it dries, it made for a much tighter building.
LOLOL!!! TOTALLY untrue!! it was Doug Fir, and it was NOT "green/wet"! Not sure where you got your info from...
@@jamesparker1063 From people that built them. My grandfather ran a crew that built them on the hi-line and in Canada.
Build local historical museums !
Carstairs, that’s an interesting and unusual name for a granary and the town. Anyone know the origins of the Carstairs name?
Fascinating! It would be interesting to know what the dim viewers were thinking (trolls?).
😍👍👋
I don't get why you cut out the best part of when then building falls. If that's to frightening for you, then you shouldn't record at all.
Am I the only o0ne who looks at that cloud of (combustible) dust and wishes he could throw a match into it just to watch it explode into a massively huge fireball?
there where no cranes in this video those where excavators
it's truly AMAZING, the ignorance of comments on here, re "salvaging/reclaiming/recycling/re-purposing" the wood from these structures!! "just disassemble them, same way they were built!" LOLOL!!
So... where do the farmers send there grain now
They'll come from Monsanto industry ( a firm which is owning day after day all the vegetables and is trying to brevet animals like pigs and cows)!! But ... people have to read the book of history which happend right now. Omg label don't give grains, Farmers in USA are committing suicide because they have reliable to those commercials people who sold them pesticides ( which poisoned the grounds and water), OMG grain( they have to buy each year because they didn't grow up again the next year). They were enslaved to buy what they could produce themselves in the past. People of USA have to inform themselve and wake up to refuse it, because this plague is implanted in their homeland and is expanding all around the world. ( sorry my english is bad ;) )
@@terminetasoupe1342 You are an idiot! The grain will go to a newer, modern, more efficient elevator!
It's like a bunch of animals, those cranes!
I think the bin tanks are built of 2 by 10s stacked like bricks. Imagine laying the building up 2 inch at a time. How many million boards went into this? Why in the fuck don't they try to engineer a deconstruct method to bring 'em down to a manageable level so all those boards could be unstacked for re-use? You could open a lumberyard. By my figures, a 16 foot stretch of wall 100 feet high would yield up 600 16 foot 2-by whatever structural joists. What a fuckin' waste!!
on some they do re use them for decorations or flooring, but it is very expensive to take one apart.
When the nails get rusty it's impossible to get the boards apart
Swifth
Ma le case le costruiscono così.
Sembra la casa di Barbie.😂
I would pay a lot of money for that wood.
Get out your checkbook
Sad commentary...
Think about how many trees were cut to build that. i could have built 20 good size houses with wood reclaimed from this alone.
they could have taken it down in the same way they built it & the wood to be used for other things
I thought Canadians cared about their environment? Yeah it would’ve taken a lot longer to disassemble it but there are contractors who would’ve bought it and reclaimed the wood… Sad
you have no idea as to how/what these structures are made of; suffice to say, it is almost logistically impossible (and dangerous) to "disassemble" these elevators; despite this, quite often, portions of it are salvaged...yes, we DO "care" about our environment, just as much as any other country; we just don't care so much, for our history........
stoooooop
They could have repurposed that into apartments or a night club
I wonder how many forest they destroyed to build all those grain elevators.
They didn’t destroy forests
Shut up snowflake
You don’t see any trees in the back ground of the video , so that should answer your question .
They should have recycled all that wood. Folks will pay a good price for it.
good thing alberta tax payers have an unlimited amount of money for this waste!