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Flagpole Demolition - Loosening Anchors

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What happens here

After realizing the flagpole's foundation is structurally compromised and tied into the retaining wall, the crew decides to remove the flagpole. A worker (Bruce) uses an adjustable wrench to loosen the metal anchoring cables that connect the flagpole base to the retaining wall. As the tension in the cables is released, the retaining wall is visibly observed to shift, confirming its instability and dependence on the flagpole for support. The team acknowledges the risk involved in this delicate operation, joking about the potential for the wall or pole to fall during removal.

Goal: Safely disconnect the flagpole from the retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable Wrench — Loosening bolts on the metal anchoring cables
  • Metal Anchoring Cables — Connecting the flagpole to the retaining wall

What they say

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example all right so after very great discussion theyve decid they have decided that they want flag pole gone and and so we got to wait till all the kids and stuff are gone at around 1 or 1 or two to be able to actually get it down cuz they want to try and save the pole so we're going to have to do some very gentleness but that one they want that gone and then we're going to we're going to rip out the wall feel this moving when he loosens it yeah I know I could feel it moving too so I think the Wall's going to collapse on me and then the flag pole is going to fall yeah yeah flag pole come that way wall goes that way squish Bruce in the center oh yeah that's exactly what they're definitely using it to hold up the wall man yeah oh hey Cole and another guy out here the flake pole is tied in with the wall with metal bracing and they want to take the flake pole out now but they're they don't want to do it till about 1:00 so we can still tear our wall out and start basing on the other side I said the day it's paid for the wall is going to be I don't know man I don't I don't really know she struggles to lift anything really she's about good she's about she's geared for pushing that's about it I almost want to push on the push on the wall a little bit with the loader just to get release some tension on that for you so it's like for how much you're screwing out of it you should be already out of the out of the other side of that club we the that thing is just fighting you the whole way that's what I say I think that that wall has tension on it that's why she's being a coming I don't know yeah I feel this wall moving every time you loosen that so that anchor is definitely holding this wall up hopefully the pole ain't moving backwards I haven't really looked at that can't say I've ever anchored a wall to something I know we've done where we've anchored garages garage walls to soil behind it cuz the wall was blowing in why don't why don't you get out of there Bruce I'll we'll push a little bit on the wall here and it'll it'll let go but then this whole Wall's probably going to fall this direction cuzz if if it's under that much tension it's not under a great deal of tension no but enough can you back that excavator up real quick case this wall CL which ex oh

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