Why use the tried and tested method when a new one will be so much more risky?
We just came across the following video during our daily sweep through the vast YouTube archives. While many YouTube videos have us laughing (ducks falling down stairs) or hiding behind our hands (a lot of demolition videos), this one had us sat in an intrigued silence for quite some time.
We tried to figure out how the contractor came up with this “innovative” solution and we reckon the conversation went something like this:
Client: OK, the building’s six storeys high. I guess you guys will be using a high reach, right?
Contractor: You’d think so wouldn’t you? But we thought we’d try something different, you know, freestyle it. We thought we’d build a huge earth ramp that would test even an experienced mountaineer, drag a smaller excavator up the slope, and tackle it that way.
Client: Well, that sounds like a lot of hassle but hey, you’re the demolition experts. But let me ask you this. What will happen to all the debris?
Contractor: I’m glad you asked that. We thought it would be a good idea to let that just gather at the top of our mini earth mountain and then move it later.
Client: Er, how do you plan to move it?
Contractor: Oh that’s the clever part. You know that little excavator that we have stood on top of Everest over there. Well, when there’s a big enough pile of debris, we’ll drive that to the foot of the mountain and start removing the debris from there. And the great thing is that gravity will help us. Because that mound is so steep, all that concrete and steel will all fall towards the excavator…
Client: Wait, WHAT!!??
