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Planning the Demolition

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Live house demolition. Noob behind the controls. #heavyequipment

What happens here

The video opens with the presenter introducing the job site, which involves demolishing a former pool house. He explains that the swimming pool has already been removed. The main focus of this step is to introduce the excavator operator, Alex, who is operating this type of machinery for demolition for the first time. The presenter outlines the initial strategy: to "fold" the house inwards like a deck of cards, emphasizing the importance of keeping broken glass and debris contained within the structure to avoid scattering. He also mentions the difficulty of obtaining permits compared to the actual demolition.

Goal: Prepare for demolition by understanding the strategy for collapsing the structure inwards.

Tools and materials

  • Kobelco Excavator Kobelco — For demolition tasks

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we are live out on our job site we are going to be knocking down this small pool house we've already taken out the swimming pools and Alex is behind the controls right now and this is his first time knocking down structures like this one of the things that I'm going to tell you that knocking the house down is a lot easier than actually getting the permits to knock down the house so we're just going to walk you through as we're doing this and let you guys just tag along guys can hear me okay let me know first thing that he's gonna do is try to fold this house in like a stack of cards what he wants to do is he wants to keep as much of the broken glass inside of the structure we don't want it to flop all over the place [Music] Johnny was just saying that Timmy could take up pick a guy's wallet out of his back pocket with that machine back in the day this is our old cabelka high stand Wheels proper hi Will how you doing hope all is well love your videos thank you man really appreciate it we're gonna have some fun today we're gonna have uh just knocking down this structure I'm gonna just kind of talk you guys through some of the stuff that goes on one of the things that uh you guys don't know about is the fact that uh it's tougher to get the permits than it is to actually demo the house

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