It must have been an emergency when a 10 count only took 7 seconds!

As a Radio tech, I’ve been working in tower buildings since 1984. This confirmed to me how safe I would be in one of those reinforced concrete buildings, if the tower came down while inside. Looks like it just left a couple of scuff marks on the roof edges.👍 nice work

Can’t wait for the channel ‘uncontrolled demolition inc’

@Mikelica69

2 жыл бұрын

xD

@vladimpaler9274

2 жыл бұрын

😝

@timekiller11

2 жыл бұрын

Next week, 6 homeless guys armed with a box of dynamite vs a skycrapper.

It's always impressed me how all that weight is on one tiny little bolt on a concrete pad and how well guying works to hold it all up.

@devherrick5775

Жыл бұрын

Impressive but freaky upon first climbing

I was actually across the valley on a tower myself in Fairview doing a wave 2 upgrade and got to see this live. Incredible work.

Poor Catherine, they made a short work of her knob.

@salvadormaduro587

2 жыл бұрын

There are probably not many Catherine’s with a knob.

@TheNamesArif

2 жыл бұрын

looks like she's finally finished

Demolition crew: "Our work here is done". Cutting torch guy: "Job security till Christmas".

@atoka2206

2 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how much tenstion stress built up in those struts bending over the hill I sure don't want to get hit in the face by that lol

1.20 nice solid built shed, took weight of tower no problem.

It’s amazing that you can have a (small) crew arrive with emergency stock and plan and fell something like this before lunchtime. You guys are the best.

Nicely dropped as usual! Crazy that the failure was caused by water intrusion, as I would imagine that has to be a known issue to be dealt with on all of these towers.

What makes this a great video, is that it has a detailed description of why this had to be brought down. Good job in and on the video.

"Hey boss, Catherine's knob's gone.." *"Well if that's what she wanted"*

Catherine’s Knob eh? Ahem ahem...as a Brit I cannot stress how differently that goes down...bloody wonderful 😂

@chouseification

3 жыл бұрын

Considering it's an old term that came over with the colonists, it shouldn't be too confusing. Yes, in modern English it means a hummer, but in their English it meant "hill". It shows up a lot in New England down through hillbilly country, but not so much in the rest of the US.

I love all the different capture angles. How different it appears to collapse from each angle is surprising. The first shot is sweet with the tower moving before the explosion sound reaches us.

I sure would like to have those antennas that are on those towers after demolition!

@ThatOldStoner

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the video title should be "how to make a ham cry".

Impressive that the top of the tower landed right next to the bottom at 1:27

@irok1

2 жыл бұрын

That's when you know it's a good drop

@Mikelica69

2 жыл бұрын

True

@GamerMason123

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure how to explain it especially in scientific explanation, but I'm pretty sure since the center of gravity and the way to the tower falls that the top should ultimately not move essentially.

@Ocker3

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, I reckon they use this as one of their promo videos, folding something in half on itself has to make it much easier to chop up and cart away, without falling in your neighbour's yard :)

1:25 That was cinematic level precision.

@jeniferbalansag5815

3 жыл бұрын

Lullaby songs

When my son was about 11 years old he entered a Jaycee Relay Race. He’d never ran track before and didn’t know everybody wore shorts. He came in jeans, to everyone’s amusement. He ran the last leg for his team - and came away the fastest runner of the day, and made up considerable distance to win. This video made me think of that day. How I wish I had been able to see it, instead of only hear and read about it. I was a single mom and had to work. My son was an amazing athlete. ❤️

I like how it politely fell on the little building and didnt hurt it

Wow, the engineers in the demolition team did an ace job. Well done!

That shed is SOLID! Didn't even flinch when the tower touched it!

Your crews are fantastic and never cease to amaze me. Keep up the great work 👍 👍

1:15 anyone else think this building was going to get pulverized and then feel dumb?

You guys are really great at your job. I still remember a documentary of when you felled the Travelers Building in Boston. How amazing the work you do!

Excellent job! I loved the shot of the base as the uppermost antennae slammed into the ground right next to it.

Those were some great angles. Thanks for posting.

The way you described the reason behind the demolition reminded me of something from Life After People. The thing being water logged.

The dude doing the countdown needs to rethink why he's actually counting down, he's acting like it's just to say all the numbers between 10 and 0. He should be treating it like someone's running for their life and he's giving them a short window to escape.

As a Brit, the name of this tower is hillarious.

@Ellarian_Liara

2 жыл бұрын

her 450 ft stiffy was explosive

1:21 laughed when I realized how light the tower was. Kinda assumed it would destroy the building, but no

@magicalfetus729

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it’s just aluminum.

Great job pivoting off of that brick structure and not even breaking it. Looks like it altered the center of gravity to create the breaking point on the tower sending it back at you. I bet this was done purposely because I did something similar once cutting down a tree.

Less than 3 hours from start to finish! That's some impressive work.

Just read the description, less than three hours from prepping to demo, damn. Impressed 👍🏻

Its a sad day for the lose of a communication tower but that tower definitely gad to come down . Nice job and glad no one was injured

Cdi that’s awesome I was going thru all the videos to see if you guys had imploded any of the stuff around where I’m from and then found this one this tower was only a few miles from where I grew up! As always awesome job!!!

Absolutely Amazing and a "Perfect Landing". I like it when a plan comes together...lol

Well done guys. Looks like the OSB building survived the blast and tower felling unscathed.

Really great footage, I love the multiple angles, especially the view from right at the bottom

The tower came down like a work of art

I used to put up guidewire towers for long distance telephone (early 1980's). This was a rather soothing to watching one come down!

I love how you took down something that was gonna fall down to prevent harming others

Perfect demo as always 👌

Excellent work!

Beautiful engineering and execution

Those radios on the top are worth a fortune. I bought a storage unit for $200 and it ended up being full of 4g and 5g radios, high power equipment, everything on that tower basically. I sold it back to AT&T and made a substantial return. Best day of my life so far!

@JeffReeves

2 жыл бұрын

Sick AW11 in your profile pic. I'm willing to bet the sales to AT&T *almost* made up for car project costs lol

I'm from near Phoenix, MD and it's pretty neat to see this stuff!

Random recommended video for last week or two, time to watch it I suppose. Nice job.

This is literally a Battlefield levolution

Loads of respect for CDI. Another fantastic demo! Precise AF!

fascinating! One of the coolest things I ever got to see live was when CDI was demo-ing an old decommissioned powerplant in Webster, TX, and my employers, as separate subcontractors, were tasked with saving and transporting the still good to use massive industrial transformers. Got to watch the workers torch triangles into the structural steel columns and then they literally pulled the structure down with their excavators!

That’s a lot of expensive equipment to write off.

I’m impressed by how much the tower flexed before ultimately breaking apart, whoever designed that aspect of it needs a pat on the back

Seen from some great new angles

Never even considered the "emergency demolition" of a tower before. Fascinating.

"Look, the elevator! It coming down... Beaver for impact!" - a marine in the Uplift Preserve in New Mombasa

Its amazing how small the actual surface is thats attached to the concrete. looks like a postcard. really amazing.

@crawlinkingsnakegaming9794

2 жыл бұрын

It's not attached. There is a round pin sticking up from the concrete and the base of the tower has a plate with a hole large enough for the pin to fit in. Tower is just sitting on the pin. Given the right conditions, guide towers have been know to bounce and jump off the ground. -old tower hand here

These guys are the pros when it comes to demolition

This was executed really well.

Awesome, good work everyone.

Nice demolition the way it fell was amazing

@TIANIC121

3 жыл бұрын

Hi

Dag..those boys are good. Didn't even damage the control House and the power line was a challenge also...good job.

setting up all the cameras was probably the most time consuming part of the job! thanks for starting the video with the final countdown... i hate vids that stat with 20 mins of prattle. i formative comments, too!

Having the top land right where the base was….. friggin nailed it.

Another great job.

Always a pleasure to watch professional’s at work.

It would be interesting to see the damaged area on the tower before demolition.

Ok guys thanks for your support !

They really know how to make a knob go down well

Beautiful and safely done.

My, what a tangled web CDI leaves!

why is this so terrifying

That giant thing is held up by that little tip. Damn.

You keept the video natural that was .... SO PERFECT IT WAS MAGNIFICENT WOW !!! 😎

Wow that was pretty much perfect, the top landed right on the bottom. Nice

I love how it bounced off the roof of that building like it weighed about 2 pounds.

Skilled work guys 👍

it is so cool, you can see the tower begin to fall before you hear the explosives

*Brilliant work... Wow! How did they keep the elements vertical like that???*

Excellent job! 👍🏻

Cool video! You guys (and gals) are the gold standard when it comes to demolitions. South Padre Island and the RCA Dome were proof. 😀

They knew damn well what knob meant and they still went with it

It's interesting how relatively intact the antennae are when the tower comes down fully. I wonder if you could ride it down and survive...probably!

Kind of funny how the very top of the tower ends up right next to the very bottom like that.

catherine’s got a lovely knob tower

Amazing how the top landed almost perfectly at the base

1:20 - To hear this thing falling sound like a drunk fighting to unfold an aluminum lawn chair was legitimately a shock.

Being a known problem, could they not have drained the water from the structure to then mitigate any further freezing/expansion problems?

That was the exact moment I lost cellphone coverage

imagine that in a videogame your climbing a radio tower to fix it and suddenly in the distance you see them dropping one by one in succession towards you.

It's kind of elegant, in a way, to see a tower gently leaning after the first explosion but before it breaks.

That was SICK.

Whoever built the little structure that it landed on deserves a medal

@grandinosour

2 жыл бұрын

That building is steel and solid concrete so the communication systems can continue operations during most types of distruction.

The tower looks really heavy from a distance, but in the close-up it looks light. It almost looks and sounds like a ladder falling over.

That was awesome.

I don't know why this is in my recommended but this is pretty interesting.

Bunch of wires from one side of the tower are exploded, meanwhile everyone is amazed about the accuracy of the demolition.

the angle made it look like it fell in on itself in one place, as opposed to falling over like it did

I've had my knob tower demolished before too. Wild night in Vegas.

@MrBen527

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Exquisite precision!

What is enough to demols out just one set of tension cables to bring down a tower resembling old medium-wave amplitude towers?