House vs. Excavator: Gone in 40 Seconds

My neighbor's house gets demoed.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Gone
• in
• 60
• Seconds
• 40
• house
• excavator
• demolition
• destroy
• carnage
• tear
• down
• neighbor
• waltham
• massachusetts
• building
• torn

[Chloronium]

Best job EVER demolishing things that aren't yours and get paid for it.

[greeptown]

Opps... Wrong house! O.o

[dshmechanic]

This happened years back to one of the homes in the neighborhood I lived in, but the only problem was, they had the wrong house. We tried to stop the idiot running the excavator, but he wouldn't listen to us. We called 911, but by the time the police arrived, he realized he was in the wrong...all this after watching the family's dog jump out of the gaping hole in the side, and especially when he saw the vase of fresh flowers on the dining room table! He payed dearly for that one!

[ironhorsedb]

i agree. ours was built with locally quarried stone, which there was loads of so it wasnt a problem. they just used wooden scaffold and ladders, they were built with stone outer, and stone dividing walls, and beams holding the floors up. pretty standard for english houses, especially old ones. i suppose all the 1700s houses in america were built from wood as it was easier to work with, more readily available and free. ours was built with stone from the quarry up the hill local, free and tough

[lrd9999]

@ironhorsedb Anyway, I hope your house lasts hundreds of years more; it must be much quieter that what they're building now. I think one of the reasons US houses seem so cheap is that the housing stock is so much younger here. Well built houses tend to survive storms and fires, so as time goes on they'll slowly replace the junk we often build. Also, our building codes aren't often based on dense development, they only get upgraded after a big fire or natural disaster.

[lrd9999]

@ironhorsedb Hard to imagine building that without modern equipment. My house is brick & block, but if the walls were that thick, half my kitchen would be gone! There are 1700s houses around here, but they're usually wood framed, warped and weathered. Surprised by how many of these commentators believe this house really went down in 40 seconds; in the real-time videos, the wood structures were usually harder than brick to demolish, long as bugs and rot didn't get them first.

[TheRickdma1]

cool 

[ztwntyn8]

It is clear now what my son should do for a job. He does this with rc vehicles and anything lincoln log that I build. I would love to do this to a house for free!

[StubbyEE]

At the end, the excavator farted. xD

[ironhorsedb]

@ird9999 hi my house was built in the late 1700's, its 3 storeys high, and built from red sandstone. basically the blocks are about 1 foot thick by about 1 foot tall, 2 foot long, at the base, both internal and external sides. the middle is filled with a mix of rubble, lime mortar, straw, horse-hair old bits of china and whatever else was lying about. the walls taper up to the roof where theyre about 1.5 feet thick. the house is about 50 foot by 25 foot footprint, they built it to last 500 years

[MegaBOBCATMAN]

LOL, he must have had one to many cups of coffee this morning!

[lrd9999]

@skeebert It's still there. I may well get replies on mine after another year. Maybe from some vinyl-siding contractors ; -))