My Dad was a brickmason, and seeing all those tens of thousands of individual bricks in this building makes me appreciate the work he did. Each brick set one by one. One man, a board of mortar, and his trowel, brick after brick... Thanks Pop! RIP '80

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@jjMcCartan9686

Ай бұрын

Shall I grab the defibrillator ? 😂

Getting into this one. Thanks John.

Excellent filming John.

You Know that looks like a big dog with puppy dog eyes and this operator really knows how to make that dog hunt

The shear head really looks like the great white shark, Jaws, that black eye says it all..munch munch...

Can they not cut all the pipework as well as the stanchions section by section? Those boilers took a lot of punishment.

Another good one, John. Thanks. What was the structure on the east end? It looked like windows, but it seems to have been screens. An air intake? With no louvers or other protection from rain? The top section seemed to be different. Whenever he touched it there were big clouds of black dust. I saw also a hoist at the top, presumable to service the filters below?

@JohnZWetmore

3 ай бұрын

The structures at the east end, and along the sides, were windows, behind heavy screens. Large hopper windows continuously from top to bottom.. You will see them from a different angle when they take down the north wall. The black dust was coal dust that had been hiding in cracks and crevices since before the heating plant was converted to oil in the 1970s. In a later part, you will see more of the concrete coal bins that run down the center of the building, and more coal dust.

@constructionwatcher5381

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, John. I was puzzled since I could seen the screens bending but never saw the glass breaking.

Do you know w he shed those beams so the beams would bend easy

ganz schoen schwach die kneifzange!!

@tonischuster2751

3 ай бұрын

Das ist auch meine Meinung für den Backstein reicht es aber beim Stahlträger dann nicht mehr.

@constructionwatcher5381

3 ай бұрын

The shear on the tall machine is a multi-purpose shear designed to crush concrete and masonry, and cut light steel. You can see it does fine with the lighter steel, but not the heavy stuff. That machine can't take the weight of the heavy shear, which you can see briefly near the end on the shorter machine. That shear cuts right through even the heavy beams.

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