00:00:00 Miami Resort Demolition In this episode, the team from CDI travels to Bal Harbour, in Miami Beach Florida to take down an old resort complex set in the middle of some of Florida’s most expensive real estate. 00:50:16 NASA Rocket Tower Demolition In this episode, the team from CDI travels to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida to take down an obsolete rocket launch tower. 01:40:21 Nuclear Reactor Cooling Towers Demolition In this episode, the team from CDI travels to Sellafield, England to take down four outdated cooling towers on the site of the world’s first commercial nuclear reactor. 02:30:06 Las Vegas Casino Demolition In this episode, the team from CDI descends on Las Vegas to take down the Frontier Hotel and Casino landmark using 5000 sticks of dynamite. So, we’re in Florida twice, Sellafield and Las Vegas. We’ve got another five blow downs a week from now. Enjoy!

@vsuryaR

6 ай бұрын

😊😊

@vsuryaR

6 ай бұрын

❤

@shawnveal4774

4 ай бұрын

😅Aoupuu 😅

@shawnveal4774

4 ай бұрын

😅Aoupuu 😅

Not easy to destroy buildings in tight spaces!. From Joe. X

That must be soooo gratifying for Stacy and her crew to see! I know they have done it many times before, but still!!!! WOW!

The attention to detail never bores and is greatly appreciated. We're getting every problem, solution, explanation, diagram, visuals, even the thoughts and words of the workers.

I appreciate these dedicated experts for their essential service.

Great video; thanks for posting. Well done to CDI and all the other tower wreakers.

Huge fan ... Love from Nepal..🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵❤❤

Ii would not go anywhere near a demolition! But find the videos fascinating. This family works so hard and know their stuff. We are thankful for them.

Thank you for such a great demolition video. Stacy mention having the chance of a charge not going off and the danger it poses during cleanup. How do they know if a charge or two didn't go off. Does the cleanup crew just hope and pray they all went off ??

Looks like wt7 !

@Knape-vz5ml

28 күн бұрын

Exactly

Cool when I played it it came on my TV too..love this rain!

Feels like September

Excellent entertainment.❤😊

🖤Wow interesting🖤

Amazing how they fall like a house of cards.

When he said they stopped a demo in dc for a kitten and they’d do it again that made my night

Deep in the woods.....got me rolling with laughter. Thanks Pea I needed that.

CDI ROCKS!! THE best hands down. What red-blooded American male don't get wood observing these true masters? So cool to watch this team drop these structures. Implosion- THE safest best way to go.... when this legendary family handles the job! What a legacy. Tfs

I sub👌😁😘🔥❤️

@FreeDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

welcome aboard 😀

Never saddle a dead horse.

@abcdef-qk6jf

8 ай бұрын

Just flogg it..

I would watch a 6 hour video from Andrew. It seemingly went by so fast.

was it intentional to release it so close to 9/11?

Great compilation. My eyes did roll on the Miami one every time they said "Bal Morale" instead of Balmoral, but otherwise great videos.

@janebrown7231

6 күн бұрын

I cringed every time. If they can say "moral", they should be able to say "Balmoral" without inventing an inaccurate pronunciation!

Wow lots of history with that building

Thanks for a great series of videos. As for Vegas, it's sad that nothing ever got built on the Frontier site and that it is still vacant due to a crappy economy.

BlowDown: Most Dangerous Demolitons 9/11

Thank you for the content. I was hoping you might be able to remove the police pursuit logo from the lower left corner of the screen as it blocks many Pursuits mile per hour readout. Police pursuit is already shown in large print elsewhere on the screen so removing that or at least repositioning it would allow viewers to see how fast the speed is. Thank you

@2:30 Nice...Thanks

Do they know anything about Building 3 during the world tower takedown???

@gilzor9376

8 ай бұрын

Well, not sure about 'they', but the rest of us can clearly see it was detonated. For it to go down that straight and level, when the structure was asymmetrical to cantilever over the old power substation, those beams were massive and would not have allowed such a drop without twisting and distorting.

@BushidoNinja

Ай бұрын

​@@gilzor9376lol you are ignorant to reality. You obviously know nothing of what happens to heated metal. Evidence would be left behind if it was detonated. Then you also lack any evidence of a motive. I take it you believe in Slenderman and the Goat man as well.

@gilzor9376

Ай бұрын

@@BushidoNinja . . . lol . . and you are just plain ignorant period! You know NOTHING of what I know! You know NOTHING of the real facts on site about the debris. Your ignorance of Larry Silverstein's motives are INCREDIBLE! . . . . your head is in darkness because your sphincter is wrapped tightly around your neck (; . . . . . don't hurt yourself out there in the real world.

Leo is such a little dude his yellow truck , I enjoy watching is lil Leo adorable , the new adding to your home ,

11. september 2001 2 airplanes took down 3 buildings

@haroldshields5647

Ай бұрын

4 airplane's and 2.5 building's.

@BushidoNinja

Ай бұрын

​@@haroldshields5647ty for educating this moron.

@Knape-vz5ml

28 күн бұрын

Wow 21 days in a row 12 hours each .

@Knape-vz5ml

28 күн бұрын

​@@haroldshields56473 planens4 buildings

Fred Dibnah would have brought those cooling towers down with a big wood fire underneath and a tug from his steam roller.

@gilzor9376

8 ай бұрын

If only Fred could have hung around a little longer. I find it amazing he could climb a skinny little ladder so high up and not trip over those big brass balls! . . . . RIP Fred

@11000038

8 ай бұрын

Honk honk. Crunch. Did you like that?

@abcdef-qk6jf

8 ай бұрын

Not from the UK. But watched the series about the guy. He was one of if not the last of a kind doing it all the old ways. I didn't envy him his jobs. But liked his multiple skills and personality.

A CURSIE WTH DONT WUSSY UP A DEMO EXSPLOSION !

and tower 7!

Wow, 15 years ago. Interesting that it looked like there was nearly 0 wind that eve.

Reminds me of the towers in nyc

The 12 gauge slugs on the new game “Warpath” look evil, wicked, mean, & nasty y’all !!! I mean slo mo into the enemy with a headshot and the camera follows the round downrange like it’s happening in your front yard. I think their sponsor got me, all thanks to Free Documentary’s channel I’m downloading it ! Warpath thank you for sponsoring the folks over at Free Documentary ! As much as I watch KZread I just want to be sure that we take time out every once in a while and say “Thank You” to all of the extremely talented people that make all of this possible, sincerely. Love & respect.

Fire ! Lol

Hey I want all the electronics from that box 😂

I just love a big boom

Imagine uploading this the day before Sept. 11th 💀 this is just a spit in the face at this point.

@pigbenis8366

9 ай бұрын

😂

@bricknmotor

8 ай бұрын

Yea they should hire terrorist for these gigs. They're way faster at taking buildings down

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

@bluecollar58

8 ай бұрын

Loved Faulty Towers. 👍

@fredflintstoner596

8 ай бұрын

@@bluecollar58 HE BITE POLLY TOO !

As a US Military UFO dismantler I found this video interesting!

@FreeDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

oh good!

@Fdeubcfhbbjhfd

9 ай бұрын

Hello fellow ufo disassembly enthusiast!

@allentimmerman7233

9 ай бұрын

Tell me some ufo stories, probably better than this video!!

@juarezderrick9647

9 ай бұрын

​@@allentimmerman7233ask your mom, 9 months after she got abducted you popped out 😂

@bluecollar58

8 ай бұрын

I’ve heard the compensation is out of this World. 🥸

Yeah, everytime i see footage of buildings being 'pulled' all i see is the towers coming down on a certain infamous day. Identical.

They should have big vacuums that suck most of the dust in hmm

"Biggest Ibeam you've seen other than at the World Trade Center?" Why would have been looking at the World Trade center beams?

@a_plus_luxe3426

7 ай бұрын

I imagine demolitions crews know alot about how to take apart a pile of rubble without collapsing the entire pile on whoever’s stuck in the basement.

@1:47 That's so cool

That Frontier Hotel was built like a "brick s---house"; is this back in the day when short-cuts via $$$ inspectors $$$ were unheard of ?? On another note-- if this were today, our leader JB would make the Frontier into a boarder-jumper "no income" housing project..

You misspelled the video title, genius.

E-Team

CDI is the best

I can say with certainty that sparks from cutting or welding are very dangerous. I burned about a 1/2 acre of scrub brush in Chanute, KS while working on a water tower years ago. I was welding near the edge of the tower, 150 foot in the air and still started a fire.

One question. What is old?

I'm 65, 66 next month also. Scott I have been a carpenter since my teen years. I have enjoyed my life and family and great wife as you . Still at church every Sunday. I couldn't tell you how similar our lifes have been. Honestly, I would do it over in a heartbeat. The strength and confidence in myself today is unbelievable and I keep it to myself. As for retirement, don't want to. My son and I decided to establish an excavation business.. life is worth all the effort . I wish young men especially would consider the trades. There is something missing in todays world where men need to be true men. And experience that strength , example to thier children . Sorry , I'm getting too lost in my comment trying to comment on over almost a half century . Thank you for your video. Don

Sound track is spotty in the first 8 minutes

Still out here running windows xp to control explosions 💀

Oh man, look at that counterweight coming down at 1:12:00! Blink and you miss it!

🎉🎉🎉

Hello

I grew up in Los Angeles and before my parents retired to Henderson NV the Frontier Hotel was my folks favorite hotel since the 1960’s. I had stayed there a few times. It was an old school Las Vegas Hotel. The employees had stayed there a long time and every time my parents would come to town they would remember them and they would get a lot of comps. Too bad they could not rebuild the hotel complex to a new modern hotel. I hear they are going to destroy the Tropicana Hotel to build the Oakland A’s new baseball stadium so I wonder if they will blow it up like they did to the Frontier Hotel?

2:00:20 You forgot to mention the Twin Towers

Fred dibnah is watching 😂

Wow, this disproves so many 911 conspiracies

@BushidoNinja

Ай бұрын

Not to the believers lol they are insane.

Also, when people stay in Vegas, it's a Neverending building site. 😮😢

That looks like an Oxygen/Acetylene torch to me not a propane torch. Considering I have never heard of a torch run by Propane and Oxygen before but I have heard of Oxygen and Acetylene and with that cutting tip I recognize exactly the tool he is using. My father had one and when he bought the torch my mother wasn't very happy.

0230 AM that’s like rush hour in Vegas. Oh darn no broken windows at Trump

I remember (decades ago) driving along the highway and encountering signs which said things like _”Blasting Zone - No 2 Way Radios”._ What sort of detonation system would be sensitive to stray radio frequency emissions?

@christurnblom4825

8 ай бұрын

I'm not an expert in demolition but just from the standpoint of understanding physics, I'd say maybe... No. 1: if they use any RF to send detonation signals, you can have harmonic frequencies when RF bounces off structures & if the right frequency ever matches up, there may be a problem. You may have experienced this when your TV turned on or off or the channel changed for no apparent reason. headlights can do that as well as a lot of other things. The light (wich is electromagnetic waves) bounces around windows & metals & sometimes the right frequency isproduced & picked up. No. 2: Radio waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. If enough radio waves are picked up by a wire and move in the right direction it can be used as useful power. For instance, if you've ever heard of the old Crystal Radio kits, it's not hard to make an AM radio & run enough wire to hear it through an earphone or a small speaker. No battery required. Maybe there is a chance that enough radio energy could be picked up through conductor to make a large enough charge to set off some Det.chord. ...? ...That's all I got.

@davehumphreys4210

7 ай бұрын

A more like explanation would be so as not to interfere with radio communication between the demolition team.

No bad vibes then Proceeds to tell a goat she just ate goat. Lol.

21:30 seems familiar

That’s hilarious the crusher says omega on it

@CrownOfGoldCompleatSacrifice_2

2 ай бұрын

That’s right their dug in implosion with “environmental” damage rate 0< mike you got this

It still amazes me to this day how the Brits figured an air cooled reactor was a good idea . . . crazy. Ironic how it happened to be named after a bluff overlooking the Calder river 'Windscale' . . . . . the deadly scale of that wind was not at all surprising.

@ashhawk2346

8 ай бұрын

Indeed! The air cooled reactor was such a good idea that the U.S. adopted it too! And guess what, even better, The U.S. thought air cooled Nuclear reactors would be a great idea as propulsion for aircraft! Now THAT was "Crazy". Thankfully that idea never took off 😉

@gilzor9376

8 ай бұрын

@@ashhawk2346 lol . . before you get all excited about your 'theory' . . .lol, the US used helium in the X-10 graphite reactor to breed weapons grade plutonium during the Manhattan Project, in a secluded location away from population and NOT to generate electricity for public consumption. Britain was warned that it was not a viable solution by the US as they had learned of it's difficulties. When atomic energy was first harnessed, they were looking at all kinds of crazy ideas from the Bomber in the sky, using it for excavating huge amounts of material for construction, to using small devices for demolishing skyscrapers into a deep pit by boring a deep hole under it and detonating a small amount. After this period of 'learning' and analysis, these were all abandoned during the research stage.

@ashhawk2346

8 ай бұрын

@@gilzor9376 Looks as though you outweigh me on knowledge of this subject, thus i stand corrected. Also thanks for the added info, that's some pretty interesting and scary stuff haha. I had no idea about those extras! I learned something today, Thankyou.

@gilzor9376

8 ай бұрын

@@ashhawk2346 Well, lol thanks but idk nearly what I wish. Yeah, some of the ideas sure made me wonder what the heck were they thinking, but we have the benefit of hindsight. We are all learning everyday, well, most of us anyway lol

awesome clips pity you cant spell demolitions in the title

escape pods?

Yup, it's a two coffee problem.

3:06:05 its called PPE. Look into maybe?? 🤣🤣🤣

Gravity is amazing.

Flammable insulation in a literal rocker tower??? 🥴🥴 I believe the engineers skipped on the common sense on that one 😂😂

@reddog10usa

8 ай бұрын

No doubt! Typical over-dramatization on DaTube.

@DynamicSeq

8 ай бұрын

It was inside ducts well protected from flames... but not from a gutting torch cutting said ducts...

Actually woke up to this vid and loved it but now this bought question and I thank you guys in advance this was a steel building and to bring it down precisely it had to be cut in certain locations on certain floors so now someone explain to me how did the twin towers in NYC fall if only a plane hit them at the very top and how did they fall with so much precision ?

@phrixos2826

4 ай бұрын

Yea, shaped linear charges!

Dust suppression on hotel site: Would it be possible to cover the whole area with water sprays to knock the dust back down onto the site? Or in this case, wait until the wind is blowing out to sea. Launch tower: Push it back until it falls off the edge and tips over on it's own. No explosives needed.

@tbeller80

5 ай бұрын

The problem you'd run into is having water trucks or a helicopter close enough to spray or drop water also being close enough to get hit by debris. Winds can shift every few hours so that's not really reliable. Regarding the tower, I imagine whatever you'd use to pull/push the tower all the way over is suddenly in the path of the falling tower. And instead of tipping it they might just rip off a portion.

About ! hr 8 minutes in, that was a Gemini launch. steve

between 00:47:10 and 00:47:39 there is no sound. again. why? Can somebody explain?

1:33. Hard to concentrate on a physics lesson from someone with their headlamp on upside down. I wonder if there's a good reason why this is done.

Those miami neighbors best stock up on Swiffer.

audio is gone at the 46:26 mark.

How bad shape hotel need to be, if it's cheaper to pay expensive complex demolition and build new one than renovate old?

2:24:50 the cows didn’t care one bit.

never seen an i-beam that large except the world trade center..interesting....

It's Literally.....literal, Literally. The "Like" of millennials.

@1:29 Stacey...Wow! You're one... ? I like your style!

@captaincobb8146

8 ай бұрын

@1:38 Had just a few more cuts been made on the top 2/3s horizontal beams, that became vertical beams, halfway down the fall, timed 3-5 seconds after the initial blast. Inertia would have done most of the work, so just a few more cuts could have done a lot of work. And you could shape the cuts to facilitate the momentum of the half moving the fasts.

@dpeter6396

7 ай бұрын

Well, go ask them for a job if you know it so damn well!@@captaincobb8146

victor zuniga gots a 20k cyban gold necklace on . he making bank

i hope they recycle what can be used in some other system or building.

what happens to all the toxic dust? do they have people with giant vacumes to suck up all the dust? do they compensate neighbors for future medical bills and health problems to those who are forced to inhale the toxic asbestos, concrete dust which once inhailed cannot come out of the body?

@donkerouac3746

7 ай бұрын

If the building is old enough to have asbestos (not so common anymore), it would have to be remediated first...you won't get a permit to implode otherwise. Disassembly the old, slow way would require asbestos removal before hand also. The risks of silicosis from concrete dust depends somewhat on the concrete mix, it's dust would usually be watered down and scooped up. These would still be problems if you took the building down in the traditional way. The dust looks more dramatic with a high velocity disassembly but it's pretty much the same either way.

Id like to be the contractor hauling away all that conduit full of fat copper cables

That’s funny mark not mike corrected so you seen the distraction. Easy everyone wins no loss, only we need need to be brought back to our that’s the new we get it now we keep trying to salvage the building ok you got it

All this but they brought down the Miami condo in 5 days?

CDI needs to wear filter masks and full finger gloves all the time.

The narrator got the description of the Windscale Fires way off.

The best pulls I've seen with minimal effect on the surrounding buildings has got to be the three world trade structures..... the government got the right people for job on those ones.

@maddmatter2003

8 ай бұрын

I wonder how they got all that work done without disrupting the tenants? Let alone tipping anyone off to whats going on! SERIOUSLY HOW??

@lurin971

8 ай бұрын

​@@maddmatter2003elevator shafts

@mcearl8073

8 ай бұрын

@@maddmatter2003exactly. It’s so absurd, not to mention these buildings are gutted before hand and are a fraction of the size and still takes this long with that much explosives.

@clifffowler2581

8 ай бұрын

@@maddmatter2003 many, many ways...... grasshopper.

@clifffowler2581

8 ай бұрын

@@lurin971 perhaps, but shafts are usually a spinal cord for a building... and if you take the top off, it doesn't make the rest of the body's collapse to ground zero.....

It always seems to come down to knowing how to attach wires to binding posts.

At 14.21 the skid steer doesnt have a pneumatic hammer. It is hydraulic powered. Whoever wrote the script didn't do their homework.