yep i worked for a company which developed shaped chargers which was made out of rubber and copper, that way you can mould it to any shape, which is how they got the term shape chargers and a 1" thick shape charge will cut through 6" of hi tensile steel like a hot knife through butter? 👍👍🦘🦘
Yup! Everything removable goes out before the explosion. No mess up, just straight down. Love to watch. Big Red and company was my first encounter with implosion. Hard work, lots of math, many days, storms in the way, but fun for me. Too bad some folk take this as a game. It is dangerous.
It actually makes me cry, to see a structure with so much history behind it, be demolished. Perhaps one good thing must end for a new good thing to take its place I suppose
Its always a tremendous amount of joy to see the product I work on and help make out in the field and to see it used in ways that I hadn't thought it would be used for as that just opens up new avenues of idea of ways to make the product better. I help make the metal shears (orange claw) attached to the excavators.
Fascinating. High speed camera footage was really cool to see the deflagration and detonation progress. The cut beams wow. You can see even the effects of zip ties. Who would know.
you're so right it's ridiculous. The others are f'in lambs and live in California to appreciate the extra steps walking around human excrement and used needles. IDIOTS ALL
They couldnt use the methheads this time, they had a secret mission to find dirt on biden hidden at nasa. Not sure who would waste guberment money on that but....
Out of all the implosions and controlled demolitions I've seen, as soon as they are on the ground the video ends. There is still a lot of work to be done and it seems like there is more inherit danger in removing the debris after the fact. I'd like to see how that is done, especially with this structure. There's a lot of twisted metal in this one.
Will all be cutting torches, the cranes (excavators), and trucks of various kinds involved the most from here out. And yeah....this is where the real danger to the workers starts. When tower was still up, it helped dictate where what was cut fell. That margin isnt there anymore. You cut a 3-5 ton section of "I" beam..it can fall in whatever direction its weight takes it.
CDI had a similar problem in another part of Florida, Concerning a 33 story hurricane proof high rise. The same steel and rebar thickness, the falling route, having to remove bits and pieces first. I am in awe of their work. I wish they would let us see some of the recovery work. Fascinating!
Miami beach highrise that never was finished I believe was a nightmare? Well not a nightmare to them. They are absolutely amazingly brilliant!! That building had rebar and high strength concrete. They had trouble drilling over 800 holes for the chargers and they didn't use sand bags between charges. They used a tape measure. It had tensile cables and anything you could think of to make it hurricane proof
I cant believe they let the crews work with little PPE that is normally required on the base. no reflective or hi-vis. just glasses on while cutting, no face shields.. They make us stop working if there is a storm coming, or even from digging into the ground if there is a launch a day out..
Hi, there is so much maths and experience in this job, and it's different each and every time ; I wish we have had such high skilled teams here in europe and knew it when I was a teenager, it would (perhaps ;-) have changed my life…
Very interesting demolition. I think they had a unique opportunity to bring the tower down without explosives. The tower was on wheels on rails. They could and did move the tower along the rails. At the end of the rails was a 6 to 8 m drop. They were concerned about not being able to stop the tower rolling once it started moving. Then overnight a storm blew the tower onto the concrete lip at the edge crushing the lip. Moving the guy wires was essential. Had they then pushed the tower at the base just above the rollers with a suitable length bars between machines and tower, so that the base of the tower did not kick back on the machines, the tower would have rolled of the edge until its centre of mass was over the edge. Then nothing would have stopped it toppling right over. Even if the lead roller had rotated down after rolling of the edge it had to travel 8m vertically before it reach ground again. By this time the CofG would be well and truly over the lip. They could have saved all the explosives, most of the cutting and removing stuff and they would have ended up with a crumpled heap just as after the explosion. Come to think of it if all they towers are on rollers then digging a suitable depth hole at the end of the rails is all that is needed to topple any tower. But the Yanks can only imagine one way to bring down a steel tower, yes sir, we gotta blow it up with high explosives. Now to clean up the mess they have to cut the steel down from say 50m high instead the full height. Not much advantage I'd say.
@@danburch9989 What you say is true. But haven't they demolished many other structures with explosives. It just seems like a lot of wasted effort for no real gain. Anyway thanks for the reply.
@@danburch9989 It's a pity such a robust structure had to come down. I guess it was not close enough to be used as a viewing platform for launches elsewhere. Or it would have made an awesome apartment block. Dreaming now.
As a yank I agree completely. They only brought it down because SpaceX is now leasing that launchpad and supposedly in the process of building a different (simpler possibly?) Launch tower compatible with their rockets. I've had the good fortune to see a launch live in person near this site as a child a couple decades ago.
15:07 Motion Control Elevator IMC Performa for any elevator constructors that watch this. and One of my favorite traction controllers to troubleshoot from the mid to late 90's
I did not see an implosion all I seen them do is just knock the tower over on its side, so now instead of having to scrap 9 stories they have to scarp 6 stories.
@@GerhardSchroeder I thought the same. So they had a solid and organized structure to grind down on it, from top down, and now they have the same structure, half the height, but contorted steel, difficult to climb. Implosion of a concrete structure is logical, but for steel structure seems dumb.
That looks like a very difficult method to bring down a large steel frame building. They only needed to ignite small fires in the lower floors. This method of building demolition was demonstrated and proven on 9/11/2001 in building # 7 at the World Trade Center.
You mean they could have just flown some airplanes with jet fuel in them into the tower and it would have turned into a pile of dust with molten steel puddles remaining molten for weeks? They already did that I think , in the fall of I think 2001. Yeah, it was in the FALL of 2001, September I think, Yeah I Think. Tripolar cause Mania and Depression aren't Enough.
@@VaporheadATC Before you make derogatory remarks about the intelligence of another person you need to investigate the facts. Do you know why Building #7 imploded at 5pm on 9/11/2001?
nice that they documented how NOT to take down a steel beam structure efficiently, just made the job much more hazardous to finish, on the other hand - who would watch an hour long documentary guys using torches to cut it down piece by piece...
I tell you what I have been around heavy equipment and operating them for almost 15 years and I gotta say this probably has to be the greatest job for a operator I have ever seen, where do I apply? Lol
Pad 40 is on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, not Patrick Air Force Base. I worked out there for many years and supported many launches (the Titan 4) off of 40. Patrick AFB was about 35 miles to the south. I was there for the implosion of this mobile service tower. Lots of good memories.
GEE the cuts look a lot like the inner beam cuts at the World Trade Centers... Det cord & shape charges. funny how they made all the cut beams disappear so fast!
There's one in plain sight in the memorial exhibit hall at the World Trade Center Site. It's a large steel beam sliced at an angle as if a cutting torch had been used. But yes, most of the evidence was destroyed on purpose.
@Joe Kinchicken - you are analyzing pre-recorded animations. We didn't get to see the real demolition. They aired the fake movie as live news while they did it. The whole operation and the planes and hijackers was just a TV illusion, and pre-recorded and approved.
I've never seen someone spend so much effort keeping something upright so they could knock it over later. When they got to the end of that track they could have let it keep going, job done. Or when they had all those excavators there they could have tied cables to the top and pull it over. Too easy I guess, they couldn't have charged them a million.
I see a lot of comments about wasting this MST. Launch Pad 40 was built in the early 60s and well past it’s prime. Antiquated and full of asbestos, it was unusable and sat rusting away. A lot of other countries have launch facilities and the US had to do a massive upgrade center-wide to be competitive and maintain national security. Today, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center (including Pad 40) are world class facilities. Yes, remember the History, but move towards the future.
It had to be done before Dragon came along Pad 40 launched Titans one of them put Cassini on Saturn. Now Elon has labeled the tower as scrap and it will be demolished as for the rails and building as well as the blockhouse below it they will be saved and used for Dragon.
LD Davis......In response to your comment about moving towards a future.....I worked with a contracting crew at LC-40 and LC 39A. It didn't bother me to be re-engineering LC-40 a whole lot, however it disturbed me that we were re-engineering LC-39A. LC=39A should have been designated as a WORLD HERITAGE SITE and preserved as a world monument. Yes...I did like the wages earned, however that is so very insignificant compared to enjoying and respecting the human ingenuity, human accomplishment, and passionate inspiration and ambition that was contributed to Humans reaching the moon and the Shuttle program. Is there any human achievements that may be accomplished in our future that won't be trivialized and ephemeral.....????!!! When I first was offered the chance to work with the re-engineering crew, I was capitivated by the opportunity to be aquiainted with NASA, the aerospace industry, and a world famous location. I was obsorbed by the intrigue of it all. Little did I realize and understand that I was involved with the elimination and removal of such a significant location. I would return those earned wages in multiples if I could return that location to its origins. I've discussed this body of thought with many of my fellow workers, and the vast majority of those individuals felt that their wages will always be their main interest. concern, and choice. I guess that says alot about our mainstream attitude towards our humanity. Sad...disappointing...regretful....shameful...dis-heartning...!!!!!
I thought at the beginning they said that the structure was fire proof, yet when they are using cutting torches, they are super scared of catching things on fire. I wonder if that was just added for a more intense documentary?
At least I'm not the only one who realized that dumbass mistake.. If he needed to cut the stoppers to get it as close as possible to the edge, he should've put something at the wheels to keep it there..
The lack of working hydraulic motors meant the tower permanently sat down in the position where it was on top of the stoppers. If the stoppers at the end of the runway were not cut away, the tower would have hit them instead of being able to slide to the end of the runway. I expect the commentary exaggerated the risk and difficulty of stopping at the end of the runway - the team had ample opportunity to slow the tower using the attached machinery.
Just position a rocket beside it and blow it up isn't like it a rocket did it with this exact pad (Space launch complex (slc-40) after the demolition seen here and reconstruction falcon 9 exploded on this exact pad
Why couldn’t they use it for the next launch 🚀 that’s methed up! Meth heads would have tore it down in less than a week and hauled away for free. But 🧨 is pretty badass!
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just take out a few bolts from each beam, then drop it on its side? It would've been a pile of already separated beams instead of a sideways building.
Launch Pad 40 weighs 9,000 tons if you pull the bolts or blow the legs it will destroy the blockhouse and control bunkers under it. Elon and SpaceX need them intact so that is not an option the solution is to move the tower to the end and than blow it but floor by floor until the structure is on the ground.
Atlas rockets never launched from LC-40... A "launch tower" is not the same as a "mobile service tower". One is moved away from the rocket before launch, the other isn't.
26:30. . This multi-million dollar job. . CRITICAL part of the project. . He has climbed WAAAY up a tower to take these oh-so-important measurements. . To do his "Engineering" calculations. Using is outstreched ARMS to measure it??????!! He can't carry a frigging TAPE MEASURE???!! Cowboys!!
More likely a producer said "Hey, this footage of you sitting at your computer is really boring. We'll need you to run up the tower and wave your arms a bit so idiots at home can feel excited."
now what? That is going to be an absolute nightmare to cut down. Who the hell is going to climb in there and start cutting now that you have no freekin idea what it's going to do every time you cut a beam? Looks to me like it's going to need another half dozen volleys of explosives to actually get it on the ground and even remotely safe for a human to get in there and start scrapping
No mention was ever made about the tensions cables that were moved. Was that move successful? Did the tension cable get severed and if not, did they put the tension cables back in their original spot?
Why weren’t additional charges placed throughout the structure to break it up into smaller chunks? All they did was rotate a solid structure on its side. It’s still a tall structure to dismantle but now it’s damaged and unstable. Adding more charges could have made the cleanup easier.
I assume because explosives are expensive. And since is all metal structure, actually you need an explosive bar for every cut you need to make sooner or later. So I suppose they used explosives only for some part of structure, hoping that the rest will break apart due to gravity, as it happens with concrete.
They could have broken it up into smaller pieces, resulting in a more traditional implosion but they avoided that on purpose. The aim was to preserve the lightning towers and the bat cave, hence keeping it in as big a piece as possible and toppling it AWAY from the bat cave. A classical implosion would have resulted in the entire structure coming straight down, taking the bat cave down with it. As for it being unstable, that is why they wait for a while to let the steel settle. Once settled, they can now dismantle it from all sides far quicker than if it was still standing or of it was in small pieces on top of the bat cave.
The bat cave was actually destroyed in this demolition and was filled in with dirt obtained from the Complex 36 ramps during its demolition. The demolition team, after thirty days or so of unsuccessfully attempting to break up the upper section of the MST with machinery, sent a person up in a crane basket with a cutting torch to start cutting the steel with a now-uncertain amount of preload. Fortunately he didn’t get hurt.
@@VaporheadATC you sir are a troll, and vaporhead is correct. I'll be awaiting your reply on the GO FUCK YOURSELF channel. Tripolar cause Mania and Depression aren't Enough.
I did an extensive research project by duplicating WTC 1,2, and 7, full scale , in the Mojave desert; then using mothballed 747's , I repeatedly flew fully fueled planes into WTC 1, and WTC2 in an attempt to topple WTC 7. I am unable to claim success as yet , and have used all 34 747's and haven't as yet imploded WTC 1,or WTC 2, though I have created quite a mess , 100 stories tall, plane engines litter the ground , some even as far away as building7, but little damage and no sign of an imminent collapse of 7, 2, or 1, for that matter!! Since I've run out of flyable 747's I plan to start flying the much smaller 707's into the two towers, this time loaded with TNT to produce a much higher rate of damage , closer to what was produced with the two planes on 9-11-2001 , but I hold little hope of affecting building 7 unless we fly something directly into it, perhaps a few DC-3's loaded with ANFO, there's plenty of those here. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, the repetative nature of scientific experiments! I'LL just keep doing this untill I prove or disprove landing on the Moon with The Apollo Lunar Lander(ALL) ALL work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy! Tripolar cause Mania and Depression aren't Enough.
What the Air Force has to do with this NASA tower? The launchpad was used by the United States Air Force for 55 Titan III and Titan IV launches between 1965 and 2005.
One small step for man, one giant demo for CDI. Nice job as always.
Take care of just quit burning jet fuel on it
This was a fun film to direct and shoot. Thanks to Parallax Films, enjoyed working with you all.
These guys are who u call to get the job done right in demolition .these guys are number 1
This actually makes me cry, to see a launch tower with history in it, be destroyed
Nobody does it better than CDI! They have a great a TH-cam Channel too!
yep i worked for a company which developed shaped chargers which was made out of rubber and copper, that way you can mould it to any shape, which is how they got the term shape chargers and a 1" thick shape charge will cut through 6" of hi tensile steel like a hot knife through butter? 👍👍🦘🦘
I like the Life After People Building Collapses!!!!❤
Yup! Everything removable goes out before the explosion. No mess up, just straight down.
Love to watch. Big Red and company was my first encounter with implosion. Hard work, lots of math, many days, storms in the way, but fun for me. Too bad some folk take this as a game. It is dangerous.
High speed photography at its finest!
Super Green - no injuries reported, no deaths. Success
It actually makes me cry, to see a structure with so much history behind it, be demolished. Perhaps one good thing must end for a new good thing to take its place I suppose
Its always a tremendous amount of joy to see the product I work on and help make out in the field and to see it used in ways that I hadn't thought it would be used for as that just opens up new avenues of idea of ways to make the product better. I help make the metal shears (orange claw) attached to the excavators.
Skip to explosive demolition: 45:49
stanfordcoffee u saved me an hr sir, salute to u
no.
Ty so much
meh its actually more fun to watch the journey
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Fascinating. High speed camera footage was really cool to see the deflagration and detonation progress. The cut beams wow. You can see even the effects of zip ties. Who would know.
That was flipping amazing to watch!! Technology today is insane!!
BRAVO ! ! ! Another stupendous Blow Down! ! ! CONGRATULATIONS ON YET ANOTHER SUCCESS! ! !
Space x logo was not expecting that
Should have hired some local methheads they would have had that copper and steel out of there in 15 mins
TRUMPTARD.Trumptard.
Tripolar cause Mania and Depression aren't Enough.
you're so right it's ridiculous. The others are f'in lambs and live in California to appreciate the extra steps walking around human excrement and used needles. IDIOTS ALL
They couldnt use the methheads this time, they had a secret mission to find dirt on biden hidden at nasa. Not sure who would waste guberment money on that but....
Let The leftist in Congress and their hot air will melt it down in place.
@@bobbob2890 You are just proving OP's point you neanderthal.
15:27 that is one of the most badass things ive seen this year demoing a tower with a blowtorch while smoking a cigar
AMAZING how much preparation goes in to the final blast...brilliant to watch top experts do a great job.....
Nice job!
Out of all the implosions and controlled demolitions I've seen, as soon as they are on the ground the video ends. There is still a lot of work to be done and it seems like there is more inherit danger in removing the debris after the fact. I'd like to see how that is done, especially with this structure. There's a lot of twisted metal in this one.
They didn't want to show that part because they knew they cocked it up.
Will all be cutting torches, the cranes (excavators), and trucks of various kinds involved the most from here out. And yeah....this is where the real danger to the workers starts. When tower was still up, it helped dictate where what was cut fell. That margin isnt there anymore. You cut a 3-5 ton section of "I" beam..it can fall in whatever direction its weight takes it.
Those excavators with the nipping sheers don't play
@@dubsydubs5234 please share your expertise and enlighten us as to exactly and precisely how they "cocked it up"
45:50 The demolition
46:11 sickest angle I’ve ever seen
46:45 slow motion and explanation
I must compliment the talking voice man. It is a enjoyment to listening to a warm relaxed calm and with the right speed.
Btw who is he?
Great to watch
Beautiful SAD Fillence
Don't you just love all the unnecessary drama that comes with these documentaries?
Lol, i was just noticing that, at any second the whole job seemed like anything could go wrong
no. :D
@John Smith Edited by P. Adding
50 minutes video? I don't think so. I watched the last 5 minutes. I have more important things to do. (read: waste my time on other videos)
pretty much the New .. the Shows... the series.. and daily america !
24:06 You guys can’t take five minutes to remove that extension ladder...
More like 30 seconds.
Put it
the whole thing is an incredible WASTE OF MONEY
My goodness what beautiful information , God bless America !
Good job
CDI had a similar problem in another part of Florida,
Concerning a 33 story hurricane proof high rise.
The same steel and rebar thickness, the falling route, having to remove bits and pieces first.
I am in awe of their work.
I wish they would let us see some of the recovery work.
Fascinating!
I believe what you are referring to is the hurricane proof high-rise from Texas.
Miami beach highrise that never was finished I believe was a nightmare? Well not a nightmare to them. They are absolutely amazingly brilliant!! That building had rebar and high strength concrete. They had trouble drilling over 800 holes for the chargers and they didn't use sand bags between charges. They used a tape measure. It had tensile cables and anything you could think of to make it hurricane proof
The Ocean Tower
Great!
"opens electrical cabinet and says, "guess this is why I don't build anything".
I cant believe they let the crews work with little PPE that is normally required on the base. no reflective or hi-vis. just glasses on while cutting, no face shields.. They make us stop working if there is a storm coming, or even from digging into the ground if there is a launch a day out..
Hi, there is so much maths and experience in this job, and it's different each and every time ; I wish we have had such high skilled teams here in europe and knew it when I was a teenager, it would (perhaps ;-) have changed my life…
46:10 that camera is the luckiest camera in the world
probably like a 50k camera they used to film it with lol
Luis Pena I was going to write that to🤣👍
there were probably like 20 other cameras that weren't so lucky lmao
That camera : ha ha
Other camera 1: D'oh
Other camera 2: dammit
The cameras that survived captured some awesome perspective into the whole explosion part.
i never thought that blowing something up would be so complicated
Very interesting demolition. I think they had a unique opportunity to bring the tower down without explosives.
The tower was on wheels on rails. They could and did move the tower along the rails.
At the end of the rails was a 6 to 8 m drop. They were concerned about not being able to stop the tower rolling once it started moving. Then overnight a storm blew the tower onto the concrete lip at the edge crushing the lip.
Moving the guy wires was essential.
Had they then pushed the tower at the base just above the rollers with a suitable length bars between machines and tower, so that the base of the tower did not kick back on the machines, the tower would have rolled of the edge until its centre of mass was over the edge. Then nothing would have stopped it toppling right over.
Even if the lead roller had rotated down after rolling of the edge it had to travel 8m vertically before it reach ground again. By this time the CofG would be well and truly over the lip.
They could have saved all the explosives, most of the cutting and removing stuff and they would have ended up with a crumpled heap just as after the explosion.
Come to think of it if all they towers are on rollers then digging a suitable depth hole at the end of the rails is all that is needed to topple any tower.
But the Yanks can only imagine one way to bring down a steel tower, yes sir, we gotta blow it up with high explosives.
Now to clean up the mess they have to cut the steel down from say 50m high instead the full height. Not much advantage I'd say.
... but explosives have a more dramatic effect than just rolling off a cliff. That footage can be sold to movie makers.
@@danburch9989 What you say is true. But haven't they demolished many other structures with explosives. It just seems like a lot of wasted effort for no real gain. Anyway thanks for the reply.
@@mayflowerlash11 I can't say if they will use the shears. But the lauch building is now low enough so that they can use it.
@@danburch9989 It's a pity such a robust structure had to come down. I guess it was not close enough to be used as a viewing platform for launches elsewhere. Or it would have made an awesome apartment block. Dreaming now.
As a yank I agree completely. They only brought it down because SpaceX is now leasing that launchpad and supposedly in the process of building a different (simpler possibly?) Launch tower compatible with their rockets. I've had the good fortune to see a launch live in person near this site as a child a couple decades ago.
15:07 Motion Control Elevator IMC Performa for any elevator constructors that watch this. and One of my favorite traction controllers to troubleshoot from the mid to late 90's
Great
I did not see an implosion all I seen them do is just knock the tower over on its side, so now instead of having to scrap 9 stories they have to scarp 6 stories.
yeah what a joke
6 stories that are much bigger and far less accessible.
@@GerhardSchroeder I thought the same. So they had a solid and organized structure to grind down on it, from top down, and now they have the same structure, half the height, but contorted steel, difficult to climb. Implosion of a concrete structure is logical, but for steel structure seems dumb.
@@ehombane Yes, I fully agree.
@@ehombane its 300 feet tall standing, where are you getting 9 stories from
Another professional job very well done.
Don't you just want to cheer each time job well done. Love watching.
No never. Why don't they just use jet fuel?
It would of brought the whole thing down, core and all
A job well done. A work of high art!
"Don't step on it " Stacey is back.
That looks like a very difficult method to bring down a large steel frame building. They only needed to ignite small fires in the lower floors. This method of building demolition was demonstrated and proven on 9/11/2001 in building # 7 at the World Trade Center.
You are dumb.
You mean they could have just flown some airplanes with jet fuel in them into the tower and it would have turned into a pile of dust with molten steel puddles remaining molten for weeks? They already did that I think , in the fall of I think 2001. Yeah, it was in the FALL of 2001, September I think, Yeah I Think.
Tripolar cause Mania and Depression aren't Enough.
@@bobbob2890 no. I am referring to Building 7 at the WTC complex in NY.
NO airplanes hit that building.
@@VaporheadATC Before you make derogatory remarks about the intelligence of another person you need to investigate the facts.
Do you know why Building #7 imploded at 5pm on 9/11/2001?
Awesome to see that in slow motion, not to mention the meticulous work going into such a feat.
nice that they documented how NOT to take down a steel beam structure efficiently, just made the job much more hazardous to finish, on the other hand - who would watch an hour long documentary guys using torches to cut it down piece by piece...
Just use jet fuel right?
Complex 40 was leased to SpaceX and they use it now to launch Falcon 9 rockets.
This drags itself out like my school essay assignments
I tell you what I have been around heavy equipment and operating them for almost 15 years and I gotta say this probably has to be the greatest job for a operator I have ever seen, where do I apply? Lol
Yeah and $11.95/hour - woo hoo!
"The crew cuts the blocks the tower rests on, to free the wheels." Sounds really dangerous...
It is dangerous!
At 46:50 Holly crap! That was AWESOME!
Milwaukee got these new metal blades that r awesome.. 😉 thumbs ☝
Pad 40 is on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, not Patrick Air Force Base. I worked out there for many years and supported many launches (the Titan 4) off of 40. Patrick AFB was about 35 miles to the south. I was there for the implosion of this mobile service tower. Lots of good memories.
LD Davis I caught that too !!! Scratching my head sayinf ....Patrick Air Force Base 😏🤦🏼♀️
GEE the cuts look a lot like the inner beam cuts at the World Trade Centers... Det cord & shape charges. funny how they made all the cut beams disappear so fast!
There's one in plain sight in the memorial exhibit hall at the World Trade Center Site. It's a large steel beam sliced at an angle as if a cutting torch had been used. But yes, most of the evidence was destroyed on purpose.
As Baldrick would have put it, "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom". ;-))
so many advertisements can air when you drag out a 20 second implosion to 45 minutes.
yes but sometimes i do enjoy the story. besides if it were only 20 seconds, some would complain it wasnt long enough.
It looks like they screwed up, and left too much of the top half intact. That structure that is still sticking up will be super hazardous to raze.
That's Why they call it C.D.I , Contract Drama Idiots. Just another fake reality show.
@Joe Kinchicken - you are analyzing pre-recorded animations. We didn't get to see the real demolition. They aired the fake movie as live news while they did it. The whole operation and the planes and hijackers was just a TV illusion, and pre-recorded and approved.
Nice job on the video.
Hard to watch this beautiful structure and piece of history come down, but new technology has to come.
Right, next one will be 3D printed.
I've never seen someone spend so much effort keeping something upright so they could knock it over later. When they got to the end of that track they could have let it keep going, job done. Or when they had all those excavators there they could have tied cables to the top and pull it over. Too easy I guess, they couldn't have charged them a million.
It's coming back.. just over budget and late.
It's NASA.
That were my thought, too. If it has to lay down there,why not let it roll over the edge?
There were other considerations. I directed the film and no body does it better than CDI in terms of demolition.
It is best to fall straight, than to side ways.
would love some insight into the finances.. what are CDI being paid for such a demo job.?
brilliant work, all seem to go according to plan..
Nice work
I see a lot of comments about wasting this MST. Launch Pad 40 was built in the early 60s and well past it’s prime. Antiquated and full of asbestos, it was unusable and sat rusting away. A lot of other countries have launch facilities and the US had to do a massive upgrade center-wide to be competitive and maintain national security. Today, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center (including Pad 40) are world class facilities. Yes, remember the History, but move towards the future.
It had to be done before Dragon came along Pad 40 launched Titans one of them put Cassini on Saturn. Now Elon has labeled the tower as scrap and it will be demolished as for the rails and building as well as the blockhouse below it they will be saved and used for Dragon.
LD Davis......In response to your comment about moving towards a future.....I worked with a contracting crew at LC-40 and LC 39A. It didn't bother me to be re-engineering LC-40 a whole lot, however it disturbed me that we were re-engineering LC-39A. LC=39A should have been designated as a WORLD HERITAGE SITE and preserved as a world monument. Yes...I did like the wages earned, however that is so very insignificant compared to enjoying and respecting the human ingenuity, human accomplishment, and passionate inspiration and ambition that was contributed to Humans reaching the moon and the Shuttle program. Is there any human achievements that may be accomplished in our future that won't be trivialized and ephemeral.....????!!! When I first was offered the chance to work with the re-engineering crew, I was capitivated by the opportunity to be aquiainted with NASA, the aerospace industry, and a world famous location. I was obsorbed by the intrigue of it all. Little did I realize and understand that I was involved with the elimination and removal of such a significant location. I would return those earned wages in multiples if I could return that location to its origins. I've discussed this body of thought with many of my fellow workers, and the vast majority of those individuals felt that their wages will always be their main interest. concern, and choice. I guess that says alot about our mainstream attitude towards our humanity. Sad...disappointing...regretful....shameful...dis-heartning...!!!!!
I'm a simple man, when I see an explosion, I click on it.
I agree as i am also a simple man who likes when things go bang.
So i must also click to watch the boom boom boom
I thought at the beginning they said that the structure was fire proof, yet when they are using cutting torches, they are super scared of catching things on fire. I wonder if that was just added for a more intense documentary?
Well done keep safe
Great job
It isn’t “implosion.” They just cut it down.
dream job right here
It's on wheels just tell "Terry to back it up" 🤣
They are making everything up-gradable now. I hope they never have to do this again. That tower had to be pricey.
1500 horsepower excavator? Ya right. I've never seen a 330 with 1500 horse...
Yup, don't need mass horsepower when you use that diesel to run hydraulics.
Exactly. They didn't think people that know would watch it lol
You mean it doesn't take 1500 horsepower to turn a hydraulic pump..
A 1500 hp diesel engine in a excavator.. prob like 150 - 250?
1500 torque maybe but not hp
CDI does another great job
Stacy is my hero
considering the tower almost fell over the edge, why the hell did you cut the stoppers at the end of the runway?
At least I'm not the only one who realized that dumbass mistake.. If he needed to cut the stoppers to get it as close as possible to the edge, he should've put something at the wheels to keep it there..
@@Acepilot235 EXACTLY
The lack of working hydraulic motors meant the tower permanently sat down in the position where it was on top of the stoppers. If the stoppers at the end of the runway were not cut away, the tower would have hit them instead of being able to slide to the end of the runway.
I expect the commentary exaggerated the risk and difficulty of stopping at the end of the runway - the team had ample opportunity to slow the tower using the attached machinery.
Surely NASA /SpaceX could have rigged up something ...Boom 💥 Job done!
You mean to tell me that the air Force can't take that little tower down faster and cheaper 😉😜
Faster maybe, but cheaper? You've never seen a government accounting book.
Well it is a government entity.... Wasting money and resources is what they do best...
Seems to me that it would have been easier just to cut it in pieces starting on the top. How long did it take to demolish the giant pile of wreckage?
Agree,they should of just reduced it level at a time with torches
Just position a rocket beside it and blow it up isn't like it a rocket did it with this exact pad (Space launch complex (slc-40) after the demolition seen here and reconstruction falcon 9 exploded on this exact pad
John Page then the company would be out a million in revenue from their version lol
I want to see the clean up. They could have made like 10 more 45 minute videos on it.
Nice
Alot of great Steel for re-firing
Why couldn’t they use it for the next launch 🚀 that’s methed up! Meth heads would have tore it down in less than a week and hauled away for free. But 🧨 is pretty badass!
CDI are the consumate professionals
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just take out a few bolts from each beam, then drop it on its side? It would've been a pile of already separated beams instead of a sideways building.
Launch Pad 40 weighs 9,000 tons if you pull the bolts or blow the legs it will destroy the blockhouse and control bunkers under it. Elon and SpaceX need them intact so that is not an option the solution is to move the tower to the end and than blow it but floor by floor until the structure is on the ground.
Use a rocket! Lol
9:12 "I'm gonna move it myself"
huh huh huh. On top.
Hmm. Seems to me that they could have let the wind blow it a little further north and it would have fallen into the same spot weeks earlier.
Exactly
I was thinking the same thing, but this crew gets paid by the hour not the job I guess
Atlas rockets never launched from LC-40... A "launch tower" is not the same as a "mobile service tower". One is moved away from the rocket before launch, the other isn't.
Can I get a timestamp?
man, if i was the air force, id have just tried to use it as target practice.
No shit... right?
That what i said, launch and hit it with a rocket
do you think these were the guys that also help to collapse two other towers in one day?
26:30. . This multi-million dollar job. . CRITICAL part of the project. .
He has climbed WAAAY up a tower to take these oh-so-important measurements. . To do his "Engineering" calculations.
Using is outstreched ARMS to measure it??????!!
He can't carry a frigging TAPE MEASURE???!!
Cowboys!!
thought the same thing. an guessing in feet. Not a form of measurement even used in engineering.
Like NASA didn't have drawings. @_@ LOL
More likely a producer said "Hey, this footage of you sitting at your computer is really boring. We'll need you to run up the tower and wave your arms a bit so idiots at home can feel excited."
@@LastAvailableAlias actually i think they did this so the people that enjoy complaining, had some material
When “hijacked planes” brought down towers faster, cleaner, and easier than an actual demolition team...
and you fail to mention 3000 innocent Americans died too... asshole
now what? That is going to be an absolute nightmare to cut down. Who the hell is going to climb in there and start cutting now that you have no freekin idea what it's going to do every time you cut a beam? Looks to me like it's going to need another half dozen volleys of explosives to actually get it on the ground and even remotely safe for a human to get in there and start scrapping
No mention was ever made about the tensions cables that were moved. Was that move successful? Did the tension cable get severed and if not, did they put the tension cables back in their original spot?
Why weren’t additional charges placed throughout the structure to break it up into smaller chunks? All they did was rotate a solid structure on its side. It’s still a tall structure to dismantle but now it’s damaged and unstable. Adding more charges could have made the cleanup easier.
I assume because explosives are expensive. And since is all metal structure, actually you need an explosive bar for every cut you need to make sooner or later. So I suppose they used explosives only for some part of structure, hoping that the rest will break apart due to gravity, as it happens with concrete.
They could have broken it up into smaller pieces, resulting in a more traditional implosion but they avoided that on purpose.
The aim was to preserve the lightning towers and the bat cave, hence keeping it in as big a piece as possible and toppling it AWAY from the bat cave.
A classical implosion would have resulted in the entire structure coming straight down, taking the bat cave down with it.
As for it being unstable, that is why they wait for a while to let the steel settle. Once settled, they can now dismantle it from all sides far quicker than if it was still standing or of it was in small pieces on top of the bat cave.
The bat cave was actually destroyed in this demolition and was filled in with dirt obtained from the Complex 36 ramps during its demolition. The demolition team, after thirty days or so of unsuccessfully attempting to break up the upper section of the MST with machinery, sent a person up in a crane basket with a cutting torch to start cutting the steel with a now-uncertain amount of preload. Fortunately he didn’t get hurt.
Boom make thing go boom vs boom make thing go fast
saw a falcon 9 launch there yesterday on pad 40!
Would be interesting to get their expert opinion on the twin towers and building 7!!!...
Loser.
@@VaporheadATC you sir are a troll, and vaporhead is correct. I'll be awaiting your reply on the GO FUCK YOURSELF channel.
Tripolar cause Mania and Depression aren't Enough.
I did an extensive research project by duplicating WTC 1,2, and 7, full scale , in the Mojave desert; then using mothballed 747's , I repeatedly flew fully fueled planes into WTC 1, and WTC2 in an attempt to topple WTC 7. I am unable to claim success as yet , and have used all 34 747's and haven't as yet imploded WTC 1,or WTC 2, though I have created quite a mess , 100 stories tall, plane engines litter the ground , some even as far away as building7, but little damage and no sign of an imminent collapse of 7, 2, or 1, for that matter!!
Since I've run out of flyable 747's I plan to start flying the much smaller 707's into the two towers, this time loaded with TNT to produce a much higher rate of damage , closer to what was produced with the two planes on 9-11-2001 , but I hold little hope of affecting building 7 unless we fly something directly into it, perhaps a few DC-3's loaded with ANFO, there's plenty of those here.
What was I talking about?
Oh yeah, the repetative nature of scientific experiments! I'LL just keep doing this untill I prove or disprove landing on the Moon with The Apollo Lunar Lander(ALL)
ALL work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy!
Tripolar cause Mania and Depression aren't Enough.
Too bad NASA's tribute to Mystery Science Theater 3000, MST-40, had to come down. It's nice that the agency are fans of the show!
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What the Air Force has to do with this NASA tower? The launchpad was used by the United States Air Force for 55 Titan III and Titan IV launches between 1965 and 2005.