@@jdelbrid They do if you keep them maintained, but no one seems to do that anymore. Mineral build up in the bottom is the problem and in those areas you need to flush them often. Once the minerals get higher than the drain it is too late.
You Demo house's correctly, keep 97% of all debri in the structure's foot print, you know how to keep the mess down & make's for an easier final clean up, Great Job As alway's!👊💪
Always thought it was kind of fun watching some good ol'boy with a dozer just driving over it again and again until it was flat, pushing fill on top and calling it a day. XD
After spending over 30 years of my life building houses, you can't imagine how much I would enjoy sitting in the cab of that excavator doing a demo like this.
When i see the family looking on i know that the memories that the house represents. Reminds of that song The house that built me. I had my childhood home demo'd and it was a tear jerker.
You were right about that house being well built and I see you took it apart like a puzzle. That was awesome and I love the crushing of the piles, it's just what I needed after a hard day at work! Thanks
But in the 60’s and 70’s we were tearing down much older houses made with “real wood”. Today we are tearing down those houses built after the 50’s so it’s nothing but plywood and dried up dimensional lumber. 60-70 year old pine 2x4’s seem weak like a toothpick after that long.
As a 10 year old in the mid-sixties I remember my grandpa had mason jars full of old bent nails and my job was to straighten them all. Depression era folks wasted nothing.
Reminds me of the Sunday school song: The Wise man built his house upon the rock". Sweet little home that had obviously been loved and upgraded but the no one ever addressed the foundation and in the end the "flood" (rot, soil movement, mold, etc) took this cute place down. Interesting work you do!
When I Remodeled my 105 year old home......all the floors bounced when you walked over them. What I found was all the rough cut lumber floor joists 2.5 x 11x 20 they had huge cracks near knots. I sister 2x8 on both side and raise the floor to be level again.
That place looks like 1940s construction. The way the rafters and roof was framed looks like the attic of the house I grew up in that parents built in 1947. Nice that they saved the water in the heater for you. Good to see Uncle Jon and him helping to save scrap wire. You have more spectators.
That place was built in a whole bunch of years a piece at a time. Porches became living spaces inside the house and new porches added on, etc. The original house was kind of tiny. But like you said, you could find a piece of that place from every decade from the twenties forward.
Yes sir that is exactly what happened or they do not specialize in this and did not know the right way to save one like this. They might not know how to retrofit one and just bid to put footings and walls under it all around like a new job would be done.
Looked like you had an audience there. I myself would've of pulled up a lawn chair and been watching also. It would've of been nice to see a time lapse of just one angle of this cute little home coming down. Nice job.
You were saying that was the cleanest house you had to demolish I remember a double wide that you demolished it wasn't so clean there was something stuck to the floor. 👍👍😀🇨🇦
Was curious why that chimney looked like it was leaning when you got to it during the demo, then you showed the chimney foundation, lol. Surprised it didn't collapse long ago. That house might have been a good candidate to move with as well built it was. Would probably cost more than it would've to fix the foundation. Have seen instances where people give the houses away with the stipulation it has to be moved. And people do it, especially if they have a piece of property. Could be cheaper to move a quality built house and fix it up than to build new. Plus, the older materials are usually better quality than what you can get today if they are in good condition.
It never ceases to amaze me that you can crush a tree, or a porch with that bucket and claw and then pick something without even denting it. Is there some sort of a resistance sensation in the controls that gives you that 'feel'? That old house didn't do down easy. There is a LOT of those kind of houses in NC aren't there?
A lot of 1920s to late 1940s houses were kits, often sold by Sears. Sears never really made anything. They contracted with companies to have their name put on. The appliances labeled Kenmore in the mid 1970s to when they sold out to K-Mart were mostly Whirlpool, GE, Frigidaire and Maytag.
@@fhuber7507 While they were made by all those companies and it changed from year to year, the Kenmore label meant that Sears had insisted on better standards and better parts to justify the warranty and reputation of Kenmore name. They were the best for decades. I know because I use to do appliance repair on those old machines. You could always get the parts for the old Kenmores even if the other names were hard to get. Sears insisted on carrying parts for a full ten years and often longer for every model. Back when they were built to be repaired instead of throw away machines.
@21 there's a pedestrian walking towards the house..... it always makes me think someone is going to say "hey....WTF - that's MY house.... you're meant to demo THAT one over there!" :D
I'd say everyone that owned it tried to do what was right over the decades, it wouldn't surprise me if they ran out of health. It wasn't much of a castle but "he" did what he could to keep it safe, comfy, and sound.
@@lt1nut Yeah, but not enough knowledge. I could have saved it even at this late stage for less than the bid that they had. Just have to go outside the conventional thinking and know how to shore things up correctly.
Did you find the gold coin? It was tradition way back to bury a gold coin under the fireplace. At least it's tradition around here where boat owners would put a gold coin under the masts of ships for good luck. As a kid I found 3 at demo sites.
He Gone !! lolol... On to part #2 of this Demo !! Like you said, Chris, It looked like a nice little house but, ready to go at any time !! House was well insulated, everywhere !! Great so far Chris, on to the part #2 finish ! Have a Great Evening Man , and til tomorrow.....
Down here in New Orleans after Katrina when we gutted or tore down we would have hoses going keeping the dust down. As far as blown in insulation we would spray down the attic it keeps it from blowing around.
Great video! The building reminds me of an old school, an old township hall, an old church. If it was built in the 30s I suspect it had outdoor plumbing as well. Old dirt "cellars" were common in Michigan and often just where the vegetables and fruits were stored in the winter. Perhaps wood, too, for the stove. Lots of memories just watching you work. The old one room school house that I went to was converted into a home as were many where I grew up. I suspect you are right, the wood was free because the families in the township came together to build the school for their children to attend.
At least half of this house is an extension of the old judging by the materials that were never around in the 40"s. Maybe the house was built on the old site.
our old house which burnt winter of 99 was built in late 1800s, the basement walls were made up of rocks. some areas like around the front door was round log, not lumber, and the back part which was an add on but still old had sawdust in it as an insulation, that part i didnt know till after the house fire, part of one of those walls was not completely gone, i noticed that days later when i went back, seeing it happened in the winter nothing was done with it till spring. so i was able to get my mothers cast iron pans out of the oven for her, which i now have.
Hey Chris. Just a thought. Ive torn down several buildings with an excavator over the years. I always found that it was better to get the owner if possible to get someone to remove the windows prior to demo. First one i did literally had thousands of shards of glass everywhere. Since then we removed the windows prior to tear down.
It is as though someone started to build a crawl space, common up this way, but gave up on it. We still have homes with two storey porches sitting on wood footings and knob and tube wiring in the big city.
You mentioned the house had a spongy floor and I suspect it had a bad mold problem too. Rotten or termite eaten wood loses its strength and cause a spongy floor. Water under the house, like this one, is a house killer. The crawl space didn't seem to have any ventilation. Insulation under this floor did a great job of keeping the moisture against the floor framing speeding up the wood rot. If you squeeze that insulation, you will probably see water run out of it like a sponge.
Chris, I'm surprised that you haven't invested in some sort of horizontal or tub grinder yet for as much clearing as you do as well as demos like this. I have a 30-acre yard up here in Ohio that used to be an old agricultural fertilizer plant and has a couple of rail spurs. I also have an older Rotochopper MP 2 horizontal grinder. So here is my wild and crazy idea that might work. I come down to South Carolina with my grinder, a few pieces of equipment, and a couple of trucks. I know you hate messing with trees, brush, and stumps as you don't have time. So I follow you around and knockdown and clear the trees and I will take it from there at no additional cost. I will grind up and remove any green waste you don't want to mess with! You won't have to bury or even burn it! But the key to making this work form is having access to a close-by rail spur where I can load hopper cars with the ground up mulch and any logs or limbs you do not want to mess with! With as much clearing as you do, I have run the numbers and gotten quotes from a few rail companies from central S.C. to central Ohio and I can lightly process your green waste and ship it to Ohio via rail for a decent price! We make a number of products... Anything sawable we saw and dry. larger limbs are cut and processed into firewood with a Bell firewood processor. The small brush is ground up for making wood pellets, charcoal, and compost. Then I can bulk load hopper cars with compost (black gold), boxcars with our 50# bags, bags of charcoal, and other products. The problem is the Depts. of Natural Resources are not keen on transporting unprocessed logs and firewood across state lines, due to bugs, disease blah, blah, blah. I have the prime location. The problem is just too much damn farmland.... lol So we follow logging companies around and do agreements with landowners to go in and clean up tops and other debris left behind. We take tree companies' chips and any wood they don't want. We also take local green waste and get logs out of PA. and W.V. where it is more plentiful. But the trucking is killing me! I know you love to sit in your air-conditioned hoes and run them which is easy. No offense. But damn you are missing out on a lot of money! Every time I see one of you clearing or demo videos, I want to lay down and die watching you burn piles of money! With fuels price continuing to go up, so has the demand for firewood up north! Even with our wood pellets, we can't keep up with demand and everyone want to work from damn home! If you are anyone wants an idea of what we are doing, check out Lumber Capital Log Yard - th-cam.com/channels/3LT-e7q8bRr4bf2OUrglDw.html. We are just doing it on a much bigger scale and without the logging. Everyone go check them out, follow and support them! Emerald is 17 and her sister Jade is 16 and we don't see young teenagers with the work ethic they and their family have these days! I also have another yard where we have an SMI Compact 50TJ Jaw Crusher - th-cam.com/video/WivySwMJG08/w-d-xo.html and the SMI Compact 90TS 3 Way Screener - th-cam.com/video/pSqknjWzQXQ/w-d-xo.html. Basically the U.S. version of the E.U. Red Rhino brand. So I'm kind of like Charlie! LOL They are very portable and a bit slower than Charlie's setup, but we get the job done! The plan is down the road to get a Power Screener like Charlie, but I will still keep these smaller units. We even clean and process fill, clay spoils from job sites. I'm so busy I don't time to make, edit or do a youtube channel, but I'm working on it! Somebody looking to start a business in S.C..... go rent, lease or buy a good horizontal grinder, some equipment to load and handle the green waste, get a Cord King or Bells firewood processor, and follow Chris around! Make compost, firewood, wood pellets, get a Wood Mizer sawmill and process anything sawable! If it wasn't for my 85-year-old elder mother and being close to help care for her, I would close the doors here and move my business to S.C.!!! I'm dead serious and I have talked to CSX railway as they service S.C. and they have a mainline that runs along with my facility. Chris burns and buries that much green waste material that I'm looking at a feasible way to transport it to Ohio! With the way things are and the rucking industry having a massive shortage, I can't get the raw materials we need. Thankfully our compost takes 4 to 6 months to fully process. Right now everyone is still finishing up harvest and even farmers are having trouble getting truck divers to haul corn and soybeans from the fields and from the farm to mills. Meanwhile, I see these videos and see dollar signs being burned, buried, or going to landfills! The Struggle IS REAL!!! LOL $$$$$$$$ LOL So anyone who is looking to start a business here is the info in a nutshell. All you have to do is a bit of planning and become Chris' neighbor before I do, and follow him around. LOL Sorry, Chris! I would love to have a contractor up here to get my raw materials from. But then I'm sure you would end up charging me when you see what I'm making.... and we are still small yet! Love your channel and content but man you should know how to break a businessman burning and burying money, especially right now with the economy the way it is!
Wish I had followed that career , going to work playing with your man toys and taking out your frustrations and getting paid for it. Damn Good Job. Nice vide and thanks for sharing?
If you noticed it was only brick through the attic and above the roof line. Down below it was those square chimney blocks stacked. Sadly they were unlined. Dangerous that way. Good thing that is gone. Likely only uses as vent for a gas furnace the last many decades if at all.
There are old bunglows in the old coal mining village of Cumberland BC that have those pits in the 'basement' under their pier block supported floor beams. They dug holes down there, put in a small slab, dug a ditch around it for drainage to a sump and installed that new fangled furnace and hot water machine on the slab. Sure looks funny standing on that 80 ft square slap looking at the pier blocks and posts.
Realy interesting to see how you can demolish a whole house in that short period of time. Here in Germany nearly all houses are made out of concrete or brick, so you need a lot longer for an operation like this.
Ever come across any of the nasty stuff like asbestos on these demolitions? Plenty used for panelling, gutters & roofing here in the UK between the 30s & 70s & legally it has to be removed under all sorts of restrictions.
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Being a retired plumber, that's the fastest way to empty a water heater I've seen.
Right...after a few years those drain valves no longer work. At least not in our neck of the woods.
Yep seen that few times before. 🤣
@@jdelbrid They do if you keep them maintained, but no one seems to do that anymore. Mineral build up in the bottom is the problem and in those areas you need to flush them often. Once the minerals get higher than the drain it is too late.
Every plumber needs one of these in their service truck for the time savings. It’ll pay for itself.
@@jonathanzellner906 Needs what? A big ass Volvo? :D
You Demo house's correctly, keep 97% of all debri in the structure's foot print, you know how to keep the mess down & make's for an easier final clean up, Great Job As alway's!👊💪
Always thought it was kind of fun watching some good ol'boy with a dozer just driving over it again and again until it was flat, pushing fill on top and calling it a day. XD
After spending over 30 years of my life building houses, you can't imagine how much I would enjoy sitting in the cab of that excavator doing a demo like this.
When i see the family looking on i know that the memories that the house represents. Reminds of that song The house that built me. I had my childhood home demo'd and it was a tear jerker.
That poor woman. Looked like she tried her darnedest to keep her property and house looking good. Glad you saved those two euonymus trees out front.
I know their names, but they prefer to remain euonymus.
A beautiful little house with a lot of memories. What a heartbreak 😔 it looks like it was well Loved.
Makes you wonder about all the people that grew up happy in that house.
That's got to be a Godawful feeling watching your home that you've raised a family/grew up in for decades get torn down.
I feel for that Lady. ☹
You were right about that house being well built and I see you took it apart like a puzzle. That was awesome and I love the crushing of the piles, it's just what I needed after a hard day at work! Thanks
One of these time i wanna see ya just drive the new loader right through one!😎
Tearing down a House is different than a Double Wide w/Polyester Curtains & Redwood Deck😬👍
Not really.
Now she's run off and I've got to trail her, dang her black heart and her pretty red dress!
I know back in the 60s and 70s people would gladly take it down by hand for the wood and what ever. Nothing but waste these days.
Too much time wasted, maybe the debris can be burned into a energy source.
But in the 60’s and 70’s we were tearing down much older houses made with “real wood”. Today we are tearing down those houses built after the 50’s so it’s nothing but plywood and dried up dimensional lumber. 60-70 year old pine 2x4’s seem weak like a toothpick after that long.
As a 10 year old in the mid-sixties I remember my grandpa had mason jars full of old bent nails and my job was to straighten them all. Depression era folks wasted nothing.
Man Chris i love how you have so many different jobs you take us on everyday thanks man
Reminds me of the Sunday school song: The Wise man built his house upon the rock". Sweet little home that had obviously been loved and upgraded but the no one ever addressed the foundation and in the end the "flood" (rot, soil movement, mold, etc) took this cute place down. Interesting work you do!
Glad to see John figured out where to park the Dump Truck so you could Load from the Tailgate.😬
When you are tearing down a house it’s always nice to have a pair of wire cutters handy never know when you will need them
I've done enough remodels on old farm houses to know when it's time to tear em down
Love the precise execution of skill you have using heavy equipment. One of the best channels on the TH-cam!!
Agreed. Should have over a mil in subs.
He is the best operator so he has the best channel on TH-cam
@@BobCaseyAerial At the very least he should have 10 million subscribers
I’m sure there were a Lot of Great Memories in this House over the past 85+ years. 🙏👍
My ocd goes through the roof when material gets stuck to the thumb tines, and what a relief it is when it comes off 🙌🏻
Yeah that's what it is
When I Remodeled my 105 year old home......all the floors bounced when you walked over them. What I found was all the rough cut lumber floor joists 2.5 x 11x 20 they had huge cracks near knots. I sister 2x8 on both side and raise the floor to be level again.
I'm in the same boat! old canal house built in 1857! dirt floor basement. I've lived here for 5 years. have to fix kitchen floor! bowed
Every now n then I have to say hydraulics are amazing.
The bucket and thumb just crunched the back porch up to kindling. Lol
Chris something different for a change! Thanks for sharing. Kevin
11:51 you read my mind. I'm thinking the root cellar was more of a tornado shelter. I bet someone is sad to see it go.
Appliances, air conditioner, bricks from chimney, scrap metals, virtually worthless, watching Chris surgically removing them, priceless.😏😉
Great advice to keep it all in the house and leave the outer walls up! It’s always fun to watch you work and hear your thoughts.
Looks like that house was added on to more than once !
That's not a sump pit, it is a vertical driveway culvert. They were all the rage in the '40s.
Never would have known to keep junk in. Would learn the hard way. Nicely done
The master with the machine great job Chris 👍🏻
That place looks like 1940s construction. The way the rafters and roof was framed looks like the attic of the house I grew up in that parents built in 1947. Nice that they saved the water in the heater for you. Good to see Uncle Jon and him helping to save scrap wire. You have more spectators.
I saw G-P installation removed from the walls. G-P is less than 20 years old higher grade installation.
That place was built in a whole bunch of years a piece at a time. Porches became living spaces inside the house and new porches added on, etc. The original house was kind of tiny. But like you said, you could find a piece of that place from every decade from the twenties forward.
@@deadghost1964 Original build likely did not have insulation at all. Lots of retro fitted insulation at different times and eras.
Great crunchy sounds when you opened the window of the cab! You are a smart videographer!
The specialists gave her the go away
price we don't want to do it. Great job Chris stay safe
Yes sir that is exactly what happened or they do not specialize in this and did not know the right way to save one like this. They might not know how to retrofit one and just bid to put footings and walls under it all around like a new job would be done.
I am hoping the owner was able to rebuild what he wanted on that lot. Sad when the structure fails like that.
Man the amount you work. Much respect.
Looked like you had an audience there. I myself would've of pulled up a lawn chair and been watching also. It would've of been nice to see a time lapse of just one angle of this cute little home coming down. Nice job.
Agreed. A time lapse now n then would be cool
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We tore one down today that had blown in insulation. Nothing like blowing the machine out twice a day🤦♂️. Good job 👍
A careful and considerate demo. Must have been so disappointing for the owners to lose their home like that. Well done Chris.
I felt for those 5 people watching from the front yard. I got the distinct impression they may have grown up in that house 😔
Big Bowl of Capn" C R U N C H ! lol That sounds Crazy
No Love toys in that one!! Lol, great job as always
You were saying that was the cleanest house you had to demolish I remember a double wide that you demolished it wasn't so clean there was something stuck to the floor. 👍👍😀🇨🇦
Was curious why that chimney looked like it was leaning when you got to it during the demo, then you showed the chimney foundation, lol. Surprised it didn't collapse long ago.
That house might have been a good candidate to move with as well built it was. Would probably cost more than it would've to fix the foundation. Have seen instances where people give the houses away with the stipulation it has to be moved. And people do it, especially if they have a piece of property. Could be cheaper to move a quality built house and fix it up than to build new. Plus, the older materials are usually better quality than what you can get today if they are in good condition.
Too many additions.
If that had been all built as one unit to begin with, it may have been a candidate for moving,,,IF the mold issue was fixable.
It never ceases to amaze me that you can crush a tree, or a porch with that bucket and claw and then pick something without even denting it. Is there some sort of a resistance sensation in the controls that gives you that 'feel'? That old house didn't do down easy. There is a LOT of those kind of houses in NC aren't there?
A lot of 1920s to late 1940s houses were kits, often sold by Sears.
Sears never really made anything. They contracted with companies to have their name put on.
The appliances labeled Kenmore in the mid 1970s to when they sold out to K-Mart were mostly Whirlpool, GE, Frigidaire and Maytag.
@@fhuber7507 While they were made by all those companies and it changed from year to year, the Kenmore label meant that Sears had insisted on better standards and better parts to justify the warranty and reputation of Kenmore name. They were the best for decades. I know because I use to do appliance repair on those old machines. You could always get the parts for the old Kenmores even if the other names were hard to get. Sears insisted on carrying parts for a full ten years and often longer for every model. Back when they were built to be repaired instead of throw away machines.
7:10ish "Wood must've been free when they built this house" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Controlled chaos! You do it so well!
@21 there's a pedestrian walking towards the house..... it always makes me think someone is going to say "hey....WTF - that's MY house.... you're meant to demo THAT one over there!"
:D
Sad to see a home go dawn. Sometimes its necessary.
Never judge the quality of a house by the look of the siding :-)
That hole under the house was always going to be a problem. Take care & cheers from 🐨🦘🥰
Demo days are always a good time to watch. Always interesting to see how you take them down. And, you don’t have to shovel the tracks!!
That's a shame. Even though that was a modest home by anyone's standards, it still looked to be in decent shape!
I'd say everyone that owned it tried to do what was right over the decades, it wouldn't surprise me if they ran out of health. It wasn't much of a castle but "he" did what he could to keep it safe, comfy, and sound.
@@lt1nut Yeah, but not enough knowledge. I could have saved it even at this late stage for less than the bid that they had. Just have to go outside the conventional thinking and know how to shore things up correctly.
Did you find the gold coin? It was tradition way back to bury a gold coin under the fireplace. At least it's tradition around here where boat owners would put a gold coin under the masts of ships for good luck. As a kid I found 3 at demo sites.
Thank you for another awesome video. 😀👍🇨🇦
He Gone !! lolol... On to part #2 of this Demo !! Like you said, Chris, It looked like a nice little house but, ready to go at any time !! House was well insulated, everywhere !! Great so far Chris, on to the part #2 finish ! Have a Great Evening Man , and til tomorrow.....
I'm amazed they don't let the fire dept. burn these down for practice in search and rescue. I suppose the EPA would have a fit.
one of the best operators I have seen know his gear and know-how fare he can push them
Hey Chris That's either a root cellar or it's a hideing spot from revenuers.
Might be a coal cellar if the house was early 40’s.
Might be where the still went :)
Perhaps it's a tornado shelter?
Down here in New Orleans after Katrina when we gutted or tore down we would have hoses going keeping the dust down. As far as blown in insulation we would spray down the attic it keeps it from blowing around.
I like the way u demo old houses cos u keep it kinda respectful to it's memories & history 🤔🙂
Why why why is it so satisfying to watch that thing tear💩 up?
Great video! The building reminds me of an old school, an old township hall, an old church. If it was built in the 30s I suspect it had outdoor plumbing as well. Old dirt "cellars" were common in Michigan and often just where the vegetables and fruits were stored in the winter. Perhaps wood, too, for the stove. Lots of memories just watching you work. The old one room school house that I went to was converted into a home as were many where I grew up. I suspect you are right, the wood was free because the families in the township came together to build the school for their children to attend.
At least half of this house is an extension of the old judging by the materials that were never around in the 40"s. Maybe the house was built on the old site.
That would be a nice job for the CAT 977. What will be the first job for the track loader? 😊
There are whole subdivisions with lawsuits over foundations failing. Its what happens when you fill in wetlands but somehow they pass inspection.
our old house which burnt winter of 99 was built in late 1800s, the basement walls were made up of rocks. some areas like around the front door was round log, not lumber, and the back part which was an add on but still old had sawdust in it as an insulation, that part i didnt know till after the house fire, part of one of those walls was not completely gone, i noticed that days later when i went back, seeing it happened in the winter nothing was done with it till spring. so i was able to get my mothers cast iron pans out of the oven for her, which i now have.
Since you Removed the Downspout by the Goose Neck, it wasn’t Showing Off so NO Worries. 😬👍
Hey Chris. Just a thought. Ive torn down several buildings with an excavator over the years. I always found that it was better to get the owner if possible to get someone to remove the windows prior to demo. First one i did literally had thousands of shards of glass everywhere. Since then we removed the windows prior to tear down.
Agree.
Often wonder why they're not removed first.
It is as though someone started to build a crawl space, common up this way, but gave up on it. We still have homes with two storey porches sitting on wood footings and knob and tube wiring in the big city.
Most satisfying job other than explosive demolition.👍
Hell I've seen people who would rent that 20 more yrs. Nice clean up sir. That's a neat,pretty place. U can tell someone took pride in it
Hey he is knockin that house down, you had an audience of kids ,grt job.
It would be cool to see one of these in reverse. 😁
Really does look like an old Sears kit house!
You mentioned the house had a spongy floor and I suspect it had a bad mold problem too. Rotten or termite eaten wood loses its strength and cause a spongy floor. Water under the house, like this one, is a house killer. The crawl space didn't seem to have any ventilation. Insulation under this floor did a great job of keeping the moisture against the floor framing speeding up the wood rot. If you squeeze that insulation, you will probably see water run out of it like a sponge.
Loved the part we’re you took the chimney down ,bet you could pick eggs up and not break them . Good job 👍👍🇬🇧
Sounds like a challenge. Will he take it? 😳
Looked like a nice little house, Chris. Well-kept lot, new-er windows and siding?
There was PRIDE of OWNERSHIP in this one. Sad to see her go! 😥
Looks like a 1960 Jim Walter home! Chris, do the electrical wires ever get in your way? Snagging things, etc?
More likely a Sears house kit.
That was quite a job, A very successful one, but One that is very sad.
knock 'em down special...lol..good one, keep safe..
Really like the house demos Chris keep them coming
Chris, I'm surprised that you haven't invested in some sort of horizontal or tub grinder yet for as much clearing as you do as well as demos like this.
I have a 30-acre yard up here in Ohio that used to be an old agricultural fertilizer plant and has a couple of rail spurs. I also have an older Rotochopper MP 2 horizontal grinder. So here is my wild and crazy idea that might work. I come down to South Carolina with my grinder, a few pieces of equipment, and a couple of trucks. I know you hate messing with trees, brush, and stumps as you don't have time. So I follow you around and knockdown and clear the trees and I will take it from there at no additional cost. I will grind up and remove any green waste you don't want to mess with! You won't have to bury or even burn it! But the key to making this work form is having access to a close-by rail spur where I can load hopper cars with the ground up mulch and any logs or limbs you do not want to mess with!
With as much clearing as you do, I have run the numbers and gotten quotes from a few rail companies from central S.C. to central Ohio and I can lightly process your green waste and ship it to Ohio via rail for a decent price!
We make a number of products... Anything sawable we saw and dry. larger limbs are cut and processed into firewood with a Bell firewood processor. The small brush is ground up for making wood pellets, charcoal, and compost. Then I can bulk load hopper cars with compost (black gold), boxcars with our 50# bags, bags of charcoal, and other products. The problem is the Depts. of Natural Resources are not keen on transporting unprocessed logs and firewood across state lines, due to bugs, disease blah, blah, blah. I have the prime location. The problem is just too much damn farmland.... lol So we follow logging companies around and do agreements with landowners to go in and clean up tops and other debris left behind. We take tree companies' chips and any wood they don't want. We also take local green waste and get logs out of PA. and W.V. where it is more plentiful. But the trucking is killing me!
I know you love to sit in your air-conditioned hoes and run them which is easy. No offense. But damn you are missing out on a lot of money! Every time I see one of you clearing or demo videos, I want to lay down and die watching you burn piles of money! With fuels price continuing to go up, so has the demand for firewood up north! Even with our wood pellets, we can't keep up with demand and everyone want to work from damn home! If you are anyone wants an idea of what we are doing, check out Lumber Capital Log Yard - th-cam.com/channels/3LT-e7q8bRr4bf2OUrglDw.html. We are just doing it on a much bigger scale and without the logging. Everyone go check them out, follow and support them! Emerald is 17 and her sister Jade is 16 and we don't see young teenagers with the work ethic they and their family have these days!
I also have another yard where we have an SMI Compact 50TJ Jaw Crusher - th-cam.com/video/WivySwMJG08/w-d-xo.html and the SMI Compact 90TS 3 Way Screener - th-cam.com/video/pSqknjWzQXQ/w-d-xo.html. Basically the U.S. version of the E.U. Red Rhino brand. So I'm kind of like Charlie! LOL They are very portable and a bit slower than Charlie's setup, but we get the job done! The plan is down the road to get a Power Screener like Charlie, but I will still keep these smaller units. We even clean and process fill, clay spoils from job sites. I'm so busy I don't time to make, edit or do a youtube channel, but I'm working on it!
Somebody looking to start a business in S.C..... go rent, lease or buy a good horizontal grinder, some equipment to load and handle the green waste, get a Cord King or Bells firewood processor, and follow Chris around! Make compost, firewood, wood pellets, get a Wood Mizer sawmill and process anything sawable! If it wasn't for my 85-year-old elder mother and being close to help care for her, I would close the doors here and move my business to S.C.!!! I'm dead serious and I have talked to CSX railway as they service S.C. and they have a mainline that runs along with my facility. Chris burns and buries that much green waste material that I'm looking at a feasible way to transport it to Ohio! With the way things are and the rucking industry having a massive shortage, I can't get the raw materials we need. Thankfully our compost takes 4 to 6 months to fully process. Right now everyone is still finishing up harvest and even farmers are having trouble getting truck divers to haul corn and soybeans from the fields and from the farm to mills. Meanwhile, I see these videos and see dollar signs being burned, buried, or going to landfills! The Struggle IS REAL!!! LOL $$$$$$$$ LOL
So anyone who is looking to start a business here is the info in a nutshell. All you have to do is a bit of planning and become Chris' neighbor before I do, and follow him around. LOL Sorry, Chris! I would love to have a contractor up here to get my raw materials from. But then I'm sure you would end up charging me when you see what I'm making.... and we are still small yet! Love your channel and content but man you should know how to break a businessman burning and burying money, especially right now with the economy the way it is!
This is the most interesting post I have seen on TH-cam EVER!
That water heater looked like the Volvo was having a 🍺 . It's 5 o'clock somewhere!
Wish I had followed that career , going to work playing with your man toys and taking out your frustrations and getting paid for it. Damn Good Job. Nice vide and thanks for sharing?
Monitor in the cab from the Drone so you can see how your feeling the truck🚜🚜🚜
Love a good demo 😊 my Chris fix of the day, thank you ❤
Good to see the 160 again
He who can pluck a brick chimney with huge Volvo tweezer wins!
DIRT perfect, your move. I recommend a challenge!
If you noticed it was only brick through the attic and above the roof line. Down below it was those square chimney blocks stacked. Sadly they were unlined. Dangerous that way. Good thing that is gone. Likely only uses as vent for a gas furnace the last many decades if at all.
The hole under the house was likely to keep it cool during the summer time
There are old bunglows in the old coal mining village of Cumberland BC that have those pits in the 'basement' under their pier block supported floor beams.
They dug holes down there, put in a small slab, dug a ditch around it for drainage to a sump and installed that new fangled furnace and hot water machine on the slab. Sure looks funny standing on that 80 ft square slap looking at the pier blocks and posts.
It is so unbelievable to send a whole hoaus into a landfill without sorting anything.
Good job once again Chris 👍🏻
Realy interesting to see how you can demolish a whole house in that short period of time. Here in Germany nearly all houses are made out of concrete or brick, so you need a lot longer for an operation like this.
That's got to cost a small fortune to do that kind of job.
I have no doubt I could have saved that house for much much less than that foundation repair company gave her 🙁
Ever come across any of the nasty stuff like asbestos on these demolitions?
Plenty used for panelling, gutters & roofing here in the UK between the 30s & 70s & legally it has to be removed under all sorts of restrictions.
What nobody knows, you don’t have to account for.
@@cathiwim What God & my conscience knows is however of concern & there will be a reckoning.
It was inspected for asbestos before demolition
Nice scrap pile, extra bonus
Chris looks like its on fire with that installation
What a shame. House should've been saved.
Needed Betty to run through it!!
The way you took apart that chimney someone might mistakenly think you knew what you were doing. ;-)
I bet your new dozer would have made quick work of that. Now that would have been cool!