...it appears to be one of the most damned dangerous tasks to do without explosives!
They had one where the silo came down and began walking as it fell towards a guy running like hell...it made me think of this:
Posted on 04/09/2018 3:56:18 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
... every now and then, something goes wrong... The 170-foot tower was supposed to fall onto a cleared area
No one was injured.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
But our models predicted . . .
It will be difficult for anyone to top your comment.
Well, down is a direction. And it did go down.
Am I missing something?
I swipe to get other Pics and it’s not of the Silo.
It could only have been a controlled demolition.
Ooopsy
We dropped an 150 foot chimney on a boiler building when I was a kid.
Blammo! it went right were it should.
We were hauling off bricks for 6 months!
We lived in that building when I was a baby
Same here.
I heard they’re really into gay rights there.
That happened to me once with a 2 1/2 foot diameter eastern white pine. They seem to fall slowly when you are far away, or perpendicular to the fall. But, when it’s coming at you, they move real quick! I dove into the snow, and a couple of huge branch stubs (which would have gone right through me) were on either side, holding up the trunk. No harm, no foul, right?
I wonder if the engineers were educated in a school of engineering within a college of engineering or were educated in the department of engineering education within the education department or liberal arts studies department.
...it appears to be one of the most damned dangerous tasks to do without explosives!
They had one where the silo came down and began walking as it fell towards a guy running like hell...it made me think of this:
That being said, after safely taking down a couple dozen trees, I took down a 18" trunk ash, over 50 feet high.
For some stupid reason I waited a bit too long to start moving and instead of going to the side, I chose to outrun it.
I had the same experience as you did. There were broken limbs driven in so deep I needed a pry bar to get them out. If I had fallen, I would have been speared. I lost the race but all that hit me were some thin branches at the top.
I still don't understand why I made such a dumb move.
Once you start watching it is hard to stop!
More than a few lucky ones!
I usually found that walking 135 degrees from the intended path worked for me... when I was doing the cutting.
But, in this case, carelessness and inattentiveness were a problem. I wasn’t the guy with the chain saw. I had taken a break and was maybe 15 feet off to the side of the tree, and my partner was felling the tree. There was no wind, the tree was bushy ,but not asymmetric. The guy doing the cutting was pretty good about making his notch and his undercut.
Nevertheless, the tree twisted on the stump as it fell, and came down in a completely unexpected direction. Had I been the guy with the saw, at the stump, no problem, I would have adjusted and walked away. But really, I should have been 60 feet away, since I didn’t have that central position at the stump or control of the notch.
My bad. But, like a few other stupid situations I could have avoided, the worst didn’t happen.
The text says that no one knows what went wrong. I’m guessing the problem was the building fell the wrong direction.
I’m guessing the problem was the building fell the wrong direction.
If you can expand that concept into a few thousand words, plus ten or twelve diagrams, add an in-depth analysis...
You may do well as a consultant for hire.
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