Extremists, please make an attempt to at least read something: This was demolished due to earthquake damage(which has always been in the description, not that such commenters tend to have much concern with reality), and a new church has since been built. Ranting about supposed anti-religious reasoning is beyond ridiculous, and an extraordinarily bad example to use this demolition as an example. Both old & new church are attached to a catholic school, and there are 2 other churches in the same town of around 1000 people. It is oversupplied with churches if anything. Go elsewhere to rant about fictional problems, you have nothing in common with reasonable religious or non-religious people. You have much more in common with your chosen 'enemies', each with your own grossly oversimplified, largely fictional 'problems' as an excuse to be hateful. Personally I think possibly(depending on the cost) more effort should've been made to reinforce & save the building, but the demolition was in NO way some kind of supposed anti-religion bias. Aside from the church obviously owning the building, and making the ultimate decision, other historic (& much more unique) non-religious buildings have also been demolished.

@katzgar

9 ай бұрын

8,000 churches are abandoned in the USA every year so things are moving in the right direction.

@Artoconnell

6 ай бұрын

@@katzgar Hope you move past such anger in your life, this is about replacing a failed structure, nothing more.

@Artoconnell

6 ай бұрын

@@katzgar More anger :) how about a hug?

@katzgar

6 ай бұрын

@@Artoconnell nope you religious types have stuff that's communicable

@katzgar

6 ай бұрын

@@Artoconnell All of that pretend based on nothing but a fairy tale

I forgot to note the miraculous pigeon escape previously, I've just added timestamps. Even stepping through the frames, it looks impossible - so much for it being cockroaches that survive everything.

@lliambunter

7 ай бұрын

Yes but I bet they had young in there , they wouldn't have stayed in there that long otherwise

@skuula

3 ай бұрын

Flying rats 😅

"Damn, this tower is too high. John, get me that giant metal stick extension!"

How come nobody saved the stained glass windows? seems like a waste

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

It was disappointing, but presumably it was deemed too dangerous due to the instability of the building. I often find demolitions to be disappointing in regards to saving materials though.

@woodliceworm4565

6 ай бұрын

If it is red stickered then no one can go in and retrieve anything. Would have been worth a try but, I had the same thought, as it would cost a fortune to replace the stained windows.

It’s debatable what took longer, building it or knocking it down!!!!

@DoubleMonoLR

10 ай бұрын

Personally, 15 minutes doesn't seem very long to demolish a tall, old building in an urban area. I guess it's an eternity for the usual internet attention spans though, how this video suddenly became somewhat popular is a bit surprising for this reason. Presumably the drone was also used to monitor for potential hazards/safety issues.

based on your comments below, I'm surprised it sat 10 years before being pulled down, especially it's proximity to the road, and yes to you're other comments, N.Z has pulled down a lot of beautiful buildings because of earthquake risks.

nice work

So many demolition " experts " watching this !

@Hannodb1961

5 ай бұрын

Ever heard the Seinfeld sketch of men being drawn to where work is bwing done?

An ICON... gone. What a beautiful skyline wiped out. They should have tried to save the beautiful architecture. People who don't think make decisions. A tourist attraction is gone.

@woodliceworm4565

6 ай бұрын

Its never that simple, someone has to pay and as its owned by the church they have to pay, otherwise its the taxpayers, then its a question of who would own the building. It boils down to you cant save them all. The restoring cost may have been beyond economical justification.

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb

5 ай бұрын

It was a death trap. Should have been demolished decades ago.

Unreal - that church was totally unsafe - he barely touched it and it came tumbling down. Didn't look like any seismic stengthening upgrades had ever been done. Surprised anyone would step inside that thing.

Que igreja era essa ,? Onde eu moro tem uma idêntica a está torre aqui no Brasil.

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

A igreja era St. Mary's Church, Pleasant Point, Nova Zelandia. Tem mais informações aqui: www.pointhistory.org.nz/chapters/religion Há uma nova igreja lá agora.

@reginaldomartins4155

9 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR Agradecido 🙏

If he keeps on like this it’ll take a week…

I'd love to see the video that drone is catching.

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

I had assumed it was just being used internally, but I recently found it had been uploaded: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dqSescupp8S6e7w.html

@brucewilliams8714

9 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR Thank you, thank you, for posting this. A beautifully conceived and shot video. Despite the practical reasons your notes mentioned, this presentation brought sadness that demolition was necessary. BW.

They should have called Fred Dibnah

What a scene! What happened?

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

It was damaged after an earthquake, and deemed not viable to repair. A new church has since been built. More details are in the description.

@LindsayWilson-vj1wc

5 ай бұрын

An Earthquake

Um pena não terem de preocupado em retirar os Vitrais antes da demolição, fico pensando será que tiraram os da igreja, a história sendo destruída. 😢

I still don't know what meaning NZ demolition style .

@DoubleMonoLR

10 ай бұрын

I was being a bit sarcastic with the title, as it's not 'high tech', and is more of a 'whatever works' method with a digger holding a steel beam. Diggers are used for a wide variety of purposes in NZ.

@egonhaslebacher7082

9 ай бұрын

it means do it slowly, to much osh gosh.@@DoubleMonoLR

Não ficará pedra sobre pedra.

A good job well done, almost surgical precision due to the proximity to other buildings.

@grokranfan8578

6 ай бұрын

No. To me it looked like amateurs working.no Longfront excavators available in NZ?!

Très significatif de notre époque d'apostasie générale. Le signe de notre démolition culturelle , sociale et spirituelle. Ils lnt des yeux pour ne pas voir et des oreilles pour ne pas entendre !

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

Rubbish, the church themselves chose to demolish it & build a new church. Not to mention that it's attached to a catholic school. It was people *not* associated with the church or religion that were against the demolition, due to it's historical value. There are also *three* churches in this very small town. Once again an extremist *wanted* to believe something, and didn't even bother reading the description. You couldn't have been more wrong.

@tomekhauzer

9 ай бұрын

@Jacques Agree, western society is going downhill, left wing extremists with no values, without any moral principles, are the major problem.

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

@@tomekhauzer Another ignorant comment, which clearly doesn't care for reality. The only 'extremists' here are demonstrated in such comments. You're displaying an absence of morals right here, baselessly assuming that anyone who doesn't share your religion lacks morals - which is transparently false. Nor does religion somehow magically give people morals, as vividly demonstrated by the most prominent 'conservative' NZ politician who was sent to prison for pedophilia, and others who have repeatedly been misbehaving behind their facade - as is common with extremists of any variety. People are people, religion is overwhelmingly irrelevant to morals, other than some people using it as an excuse to be immoral. People endlessly use a dumbed-down, extreme assumption-based version of 'others' as an excuse to rant about supposed problems - many of which are transparently invented. Extremists of the supposed 'left', 'right', or any variety, have far more in common with each other, than they do with reasonable people, who are aware of the complexities of life.

@tomaszpiotr437

9 ай бұрын

A później będzie „płacz i zgrzytanie zębów ". In manus tuas Domine.

Drone operators footage can be viewed here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dqSescupp8S6e7w.html

👍

Being familiar with excavators being used in demolition (I investigated a "long-boom excavator" that had a special claw on it, not unlike the one shown), I know the use of the claw as a tool to hold a steel beam and push/pull over a structure, is outside the usage parameters of both the excavator and claw. Last one I saw the operator, used the claw to bend a hook in one end of an 8" "H-beam". Holding onto the straight end, the operator hooked onto the structure (4 stories up) to pull sections over. The section came loose and fell. Doing so it pulled the excavator over. A heavy chain, used in the structure, was under extreme strain. When it snapped a 4-foot length of it was shot over 300-feet away. It scoured the hood of a parked car smashed into the rear window of a second car and narrowly missed hitting a pedestrian.

@DoubleMonoLR

6 ай бұрын

That sounds like a significantly different scenario to be fair, including their use of a hook, and that this building was unreinforced brick. While seemingly adding some risk, they did seem pretty cautious.

@richardkawucha1232

6 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR The issue comes from overloading the hydraulic system and the weight of a beam (or anything else) sticking out past the operating radius of the machine. This moves the center of gravity forward from the designed c of g. If an incident occurs the first thing to be consulted would be the operators manual along with the design specs and manual for the claw. The real reason this becomes an issue is that in the event of an incident, it's quite common for the company to say they didn't know this was being done. Then put the blame on the operator. They may even fire him/her for a while, to distance themselves from the incident, then rehire the same operator.

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb

5 ай бұрын

You don't have a clue what you're yammering about.😂😂😂

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb

5 ай бұрын

​@@richardkawucha1232overload the machine?? 😂😂😂 Ffs, it's designed to lift a full bucket of earth that weighs ~10x more than that tiny piece of I beam. You simply don't have a clue what you're yammering about. That old unreinforced brick crumbled at the slightest touch - besides lack of any reinforcement, it looks like the mortar was substandard and barely had any strength - he barely touched the walls and they crumbled.

@richardkawucha1232

5 ай бұрын

@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Just as a final point. I have 23 years working, as a journeyman tradesman/trainer with heavy construction equipment in all kinds of weather and conditions. Then an additional 23 years working for Michigan OSHA as a Senior Construction Safety Officer inspecting construction sites on safety, accidents and fatalities. I think that after all that time I know a little bit more than the average person on how a machine's center of gravity is affected by moving a load. Such as an excavator operator who's machine was equipped with a "long boom" attachment and a claw on the end. He picked up about 800 pounds of dirt/debris and swung, not having learned that center of gravity lesson. He put the load outside the manufacturer limit and tipped the rig over. Have a nice day, sir.

Certo, dev'essere un bella soddisfazione, per gli operatori, tirare giù chiese e campanili !!!!

@fuorisagoma

9 ай бұрын

davvero. Sai che figata demolirle con la ruspa? anche è meglio l'esplosivo

@alessandroalberto6431

9 ай бұрын

@@fuorisagoma anche con la sfera non c'è male !!!

@fuorisagoma

9 ай бұрын

ma in Italia non s usa. almeno, io non l'ho mai vista usare. sempre con la pinza @@alessandroalberto6431

Shame none of that leaded glass or the bell was saved

@jwboatdesigns

8 ай бұрын

It had been inspected by structural engineers and found to be unsafe to enter.

@josephastier7421

8 ай бұрын

Not worth risking lives to recover.

They didn't use explosives. That's boring!

@DoubleMonoLR

10 ай бұрын

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, as that's pretty ridiculous. Explosives are basically never used unless it's required for a very large building. The thumbnail showing exactly how it was being demolished probably also should've been a hint...

Очень слабая кладка, на грязь ложили кирпич, совсем без цемента!!!

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

It was built in the 1880s, it seems quite common for mortar from the era to dry up and lost it's adhesion.

@ershvv7567

9 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR согласен!...

@jamescampbell7780

7 ай бұрын

This operator needs a refresher course!

@strufian

5 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR Портланд цемент изобрели в 1824 году, массово производить, использовать для кладки и производства бетона стали с 1845 года..., но в Новой Зеландии, похоже, об этом узнали намного позже. 🙂

I guarantee the birds were sat on either eggs or fledglings.

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

Quite likely unfortunately, particularly the latter birds. I was annoyed that they made no effort to move the birds out prior to demolition, whether they had eggs/young or not. They could've at least sounded a horn inside. Albeit it was in the middle of winter, so presumably the least likely time to have laid eggs, albeit it seems more common with pigeons.

@allenelswick6961

9 ай бұрын

Birds can move some where else.

@vincenthalas7055

9 ай бұрын

@@allenelswick6961 not if they are dead

@josephastier7421

8 ай бұрын

No way to enter the structure safely. Not worth risking lives to save birds that reproduce like rabbits anyway.

NO BELL ?

@DoubleMonoLR

8 ай бұрын

I think it did have, but if so I'm not sure what happened to it. Perhaps it did fall, but just the manner it fell didn't cause any noticeable sound.

Прекрасная архитектура! Зачем было сносить такою светлую, устремлённую вверх башню??

@DoubleMonoLR

3 ай бұрын

See the description. Translated: С тех пор была построена новая церковь. Историческое здание категории 2, открытое в 1889 году, сильно пострадало во время землетрясения в Кентербери и было закрыто с 2011 года. Финансовый директор прихода Опихи Марк Робинс сказал, что приход надеется восстановить церковь на соседних теннисных кортах за счет более 1 миллиона долларов.

@user-jy9tm9kz2c

3 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR I appreciate your reply. It was painful to watch such a beautiful architectural structure being destroyed.In my city, small one-story and two-story apartment buildings built in 1880-1910 are considered architectural monuments, although their owners considered these houses temporary and planned to destroy them in 30-40 years. It is a smile of fate that these temporary houses are now considered to be of historical value. I wish you all the best and peace to your country!

Didn't even remove the irreplaceable extremely valuable windows.

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

While it's a shame nothing was saved, I don't think they were irreplaceable or extremely valuable. As noted, this was demolished due to quake damage, it almost certainly would've been considered too dangerous to manually remove windows etc. The building had been fenced of for years, since the first big earthquake near Christchurch.

@PreservationEnthusiast

9 ай бұрын

They weren't extremely valuable. Otherwise they would have been saved. Just more ecclesiastical trash to be smashed up.

@vicrigg9390

9 ай бұрын

@@PreservationEnthusiast Hiding and removing the true history of this country

@woodliceworm4565

6 ай бұрын

Red stickered most likely.

Komatsu!!!

I think you should have had a crack at it with that Toyota hilux before the excavator. cheers

Não sei os porquês daquela doliçao

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

It's in the description.

@antonioaguilar4396

9 ай бұрын

Obrigado pela v/ resposta.

bon c'est ancien ; manque d'armature c'est risqué ;l'être humain est plus chère ....

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

It could have potentially been made safe, though it would probably be expensive - particularly going by amounts that have been spent on some other buildings that were strengthened after the Christchurch earthquake. Personally I think the best/most effective method could potentially be to effectively build a safe structure inside, and attach all brickwork to rigid mesh inside - not so much to save the brickwork in a quake, but simply to prevent it causing injury. Albeit that would suit some structures better than others.

Não sei os porquês daquela demolição.Pelo que vi no vídeo era uma torre antiga,ora sendo a N.Z.um pais novo, acho que devia preservar o passado.Tudo tem história.😮😢

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

O motivo da demolição está na descrição. A Nova Zelândia não é boa em salvar prédios antigos, mas também é mais cara aqui - terremotos são comuns e pode custar muito para torná-los seguros.

@carmelogomez2780

9 ай бұрын

Parece echa la torre con material de tapia, hoy no sabrían hacer la misma y de la misma manera. Así que no me explico, ¿ porque la tiran? ¡Acaso son antirreligiosos!

For a second there I thought it was my wife chewing on those bricks 😅

im sure he's charging for hour

No Church, no future! Bravo!

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

An inability to read, and making ridiculous extremist assumptions, bravo! As in the description, It was demolished due to quake damage. It has since been replaced with a new church. There are also 3 churches in this small town. Not that having churches or not makes any difference to the future.

@michaelgoulding6609

9 ай бұрын

​@@DoubleMonoLRi bet the new church is nowhere near as nice as this one, most modern buildings ar awfull i,m not a fan of any modern building, i live in uk my house is around 300 years old, & is just about the same as it was when built, new windows etc, but i made sure they were as close to what would,ve been in originaly,

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

@@michaelgoulding6609 It's not as nice, though it is still a reasonably nice building - it was severely lacking in plants around it when I saw it, so that doesn't help.

นิวnawซีceelandๆๆๆ

High-what?

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

"High tech" is a common term in english that means "high technology" / cutting-edge / advanced. I was using it sarcastically here (this is why it was in quote marks), as it's very low-tech, as seen in the thumbnail.

Ma come hanno costruito?? Senza armatura?? Solo mattoni. Un piccolo terremoto e va giù come gelato al sole.

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

The construction seems much the same as churches everywhere, of that age (1889) While definitely not suited to handle earthquakes, it was still standing after well over 100 years, despite some earthquakes (albeit this area doesn't typically have as many or as strong earthquakes as elsewhere in NZ). It hadn't collapsed at all prior to the demolition, it was just deemed too expensive to bring up to a safe standard. Other old churches in the nearby city of Timaru were also damaged - those were repaired & presumably strengthened though.

@alessandroalberto6431

9 ай бұрын

Così come la Mole Antonelliana !!! Parola di torinese !!!

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

@@alessandroalberto6431If it had the same architectural & cultural significance as that, I have no doubt it would've been saved.

Nun too late

😢😢😢😢😢

Come on man, I haven’t got all day

@DoubleMonoLR

8 ай бұрын

Apparently you had enough time to write comments, but not to press an arrow, or move the time marker. I can't imagine the excavator operator was terribly concerned with how entertaining it was anyway.

High tech?

@DoubleMonoLR

5 ай бұрын

It's sarcasm, hence being in quote marks.

What a waste😢

@josephastier7421

8 ай бұрын

An earthquake damaged it so badly it could not be entered or even approached safely. It had to come down.

Nice !

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Apparently they didnt notice that some birds wanted to get on the bridge

Fred dibney sorted it lol

@ivandickson6063

8 ай бұрын

He was the best at it, omg nerves of steel he had and always made the job entertaining!

GET ON WITH IT !!!😁🤠

@haddockface

6 ай бұрын

Yes the operator was far too timid to be doing demolition. He'd be better off in a council landfill site.

@hazelwood55

6 ай бұрын

Definitely getting paid by the hour.

HURRY UP!

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

They don't demolish buildings for entertainment, 15 minutes is nothing.

@vincenthalas7055

9 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR I would have sacked his slow ass.

Shame..a work of art building has to be erased....

Due to the demolition a lot of birds became homeless... Haas anyone though about the birds? 😃🤣

@mariebennett5739

9 ай бұрын

Would have thought peoples safety more important than birds I am sure they will find somewhere else to live and annoy people

@udorechner6846

9 ай бұрын

@@mariebennett5739 It is not the question safty for the birds or for the people. You can have both. With a little thinking it is not that difficult. First look for any birds, move them to a new spot then taking down the old church. That's the way we do it in Germany... Trust me it works.

@allenelswick6961

9 ай бұрын

Birds will make it just fine.

@johnnyross3340

9 ай бұрын

Do you mean the flying lice ridden rats ...

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

I've seen them since on another building nearby, pigeons are pretty adaptable, that wasn't really an issue. I wasn't happy that they seemingly made no attempt to get them out prior though, such as using an air horn. It does also seem fairly likely they had nests unfortunately, which could explain why they were so reticent to leave.

Why is the operator not wearing his cow boy hat????

bad video....couldn't see what the tool was doing.

@DoubleMonoLR

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately I can't make videos in braille, I think what could be seen was perfectly adequate. As should be reasonable to assume, I was standing where I could get the best available view point, and is why you can hear other people talking around the camera. Short of standing far up the hill, where I wouldn't see much in person, there wasn't really any other option. No doubt I'd then have complaints about shaky video, not that I had any inclination that it would have a significant number of views anyway.

@johnbrewer9833

9 ай бұрын

The way the lower part of the building fell apart suggested that the earthquake had already damaged it beyond repair.

I didnt see any serious damage neither in the dronefootage nor in this video, pobably just a cheap excuse to build some ugliness from concrete.

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

You can't expect to see obvious problems in every situation, and there's no basis for such an assumption, nobody really benefited from it. Building inspectors, engineers, the insurance company, etc also aren't all going to conspire to build something else (for a nebulous reason) It would be quite bizarre to wait more than a decade, with a fenced off church, to use something as a supposed excuse. As it is, clearly the mortar was in very poor condition, and was doing little to nothing to hold the bricks together. Another old (but much smaller) building nearby partially collapsed during the earthquake, along with general damage in South Canterbury. Some other buildings have been repaired, and took many years(and so, it can be assumed, cost a lot of money) to do so. The only reason that could really be inferred, was that it was simply too expensive to repair.

Too long does nz not know how to use DYNAMITE 😊

@DoubleMonoLR

10 ай бұрын

Probably a bit better to spend a little time than send shrapnel flying through a town ;)

I don’t understand why they let a 90year old do a job like that

The people who are against this for environmental reasons need to swim out into the ocean to help save a shark from starvation.

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

Nobody was against this for "environmental reasons", I don't know where you got that idea, it doesn't really make sense. Some people wanted to retain it for historical reasons, as a lot of older buildings have been lost in NZ.

This video was 18 minutes long and in that time he still didnt get it fully demolished. I could have been quicker with a tooth pick.

@DoubleMonoLR

4 ай бұрын

18 minutes is completely insignificant to the overall cost, there would've been no point in rushing and potentially causing a dangerous fall of material, etc.

Was spielt der da rum...

Pulling down other house of god

@DoubleMonoLR

6 ай бұрын

They built a new church to replace it, if you'd bothered to read the description or pinned comment. Stop looking for excuses to complain.

Boring !

@DoubleMonoLR

5 күн бұрын

And?, you find it boring, so just go elsewhere. The video is exactly what it says it is.

@Listening2024

5 күн бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR shit video maker

All for a parking lot

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

No, it wasn't, you've completely invented that. Also not much demand for a parking lot in a very small town, which also already has more public parking than it needs.

@VOTEREPUBLICANS594

9 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMonoLR and your right total guess on my part . Probably a halfway house or drug rehab center or a chain drugstore or something worthless

@DoubleMonoLR

9 ай бұрын

@@VOTEREPUBLICANS594 This phenomenon of inventing things, that people want to be angry about, is pretty absurd. The 'something worthless' they built in it's place was...another church, as you could've found by reading the description or the pinned comment. Not that a halfway house or drug rehab center would be worthless, obviously quite the opposite.