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A Kurdziel  
#1 Posted : 26 November 2015 12:59:41(UTC)
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A Kurdziel
See this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34929970
for an example of what happens if you decide to get on with out without planning an operation properly. He was so lucky to survive!
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walker  
#2 Posted : 26 November 2015 14:56:39(UTC)
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walker
Why you think that would not happen "over here" I don't know.
I saw it on the news last night and assumed it was in the UK.

Fred Dibner would have not made that mistake ;-)
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Graham Bullough  
#3 Posted : 26 November 2015 15:12:48(UTC)
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Graham Bullough
Some thoughts about the BBC clip:

It might be used as an advert for the resilience of the make of excavator involved.

Did anyone suggest to the demolition engineer that if the task went wrong the chimney would come down on him like 'a ton of bricks'?

Also, he should have considered using Fred Dibnah's standard method! There are plenty of examples available on YouTube including


p.s. To help ensure that nobody takes any of the above comments seriously this response concludes with a smiley :-)
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walker  
#4 Posted : 26 November 2015 15:18:51(UTC)
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walker
Graham Bullough wrote:
the resilience of the make of excavator involved.



Surely its a design feature to control a known hazard.
What make was it by the way?
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achrn  
#5 Posted : 26 November 2015 15:29:12(UTC)
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achrn
walker wrote:


Surely its a design feature to control a known hazard.
What make was it by the way?


Komatsu. No, it wasn't equipped with a demolition duty type cage over the cab - it's apparently a plain standard cab.

The most disappointing aspect of the whole incident, it seems to me, is that machine driver does something really very stupid indeed, ought to be dismissed for gross safety violations, and instead gets celebrated as some sort of lucky-chappy have-a-go hero type because he happened to get away with it with only minor injury.
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A Kurdziel  
#6 Posted : 27 November 2015 12:03:25(UTC)
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A Kurdziel
Looking at the video again it looks to me that what happened was that the contractor(I won't call him a demolitions expert) tried to bring the chimney down twice with explosives( he called it dynamite... anyone still use that?) after that failed he got hold of a digger and tried to demolish it with that leading to what we saw in the video. it looked very made up on the spur of the moment ..but that is apparently how they down Down South yee ha!

happy Friday
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Mgadd78  
#7 Posted : 27 November 2015 12:45:21(UTC)
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Mgadd78
A Kurdziel wrote:
Looking at the video again it looks to me that what happened was that the contractor(I won't call him a demolitions expert) tried to bring the chimney down twice with explosives( he called it dynamite... anyone still use that?) after that failed he got hold of a digger and tried to demolish it with that leading to what we saw in the video. it looked very made up on the spur of the moment ..but that is apparently how they down Down South yee ha!

happy Friday


Like going back to a fire work when its gone out springs to mind !
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