#97 Demolish Trailer House with Excavator

[@williamholley1232]

I appreciate you taking the time to make these videos. I really enjoy your tree cutting videos. 🇺🇸

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Thank man. I enjoy it too

[@ADOTlied]

The chassis on that trailer is gold, you can build a tiny home on it, even cut it in half and make two.

[@Just_Chuck_It]

Been doing these kinds of demos for about 6 years now. I like to cut the windows out (from outside) using a sawzall with a demo blade. Makes quick work of removing them. Once out I break the glass out and scrap the window frame. Then I demo the entire trailer in place. Once the entire trailer is down I crush and smash the material into smaller sections. Then place in bins. I have a rock bucket for my excavator (skeletonized bucket). I use it like a rake towards the end and get if if the large to medium pieces of material policed up. Then I do a final touch with a rock rake by hand placing the picked up material into the excavator bucket then to the dumpster. I like to use 3 dumpsters. I use 2 as you did. And 1 for strictly metal.

[@ernestoibarra1847]

How long does it usually take you to demo a single wide?

[@Just_Chuck_It]

@@ernestoibarra1847 Usually 2 days. Day 1 is window removal, and busting it down to the ground and separating the metal. Day 2 is loading it into 40 yard cans. It usually takes 2 cans for trash and 1 can for scrap.

[@WaynesAdventure]

Awesome! Enjoyed watching. New here 👍

[@robynwenz7551]

I appreciate u all u videos ❤❤❤

[@karencary3312]

Thanks for doing this video. It is very interesting. It's hard, dirty work but your the man to do it. I hope you make a good profit off this job. You deserve it. Again, thank you again for acknowledging the women who love your videos.

[@jasonwest3879]

How many dumpsters would it typically take for a single wide 18’x55’ mobile home?

[@green18kg]

2 to 3 40yd dumpsters = 1 single wide manufactured home

[@E-jc9iy]

Very good nice job okay

[@bensanders7392]

I look for scrap metal sometimes, so I'm just seeing a ton of aluminum siding going in there with the wood and everything. Although it's probably loaded up with 1000s and 1000s of rivets and 1000s of ferrous nails that would be way too much headache to get out, so a scrap yard doesn't downgrade all that non-ferrous siding( and possibly the roof metal too) to "dirty" aluminum or aluminum breakage price.

[@powrguy1696]

The ol' excavator had no problem chewing that one up, Ben. Sure beats a wrecking bar and a sawzall.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I agree. I'd be there forever with a Sawzall. A wrecking ball would be cool thou. Haha

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Nice going. Lots of work stay.safe

[@teejay2726]

Just like a surgery is done. Great job

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Thanks man

[@bigDH123]

Your just having way too much fun, I love your videos Ben, looking forward to the next one. Stay safe buddy.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Thanks big d. Im getting a thrill out of working on this deal. Gon go haul the steel frame to the steel yard tomorrow

[@AllRightHauling]

I enjoy the excavator work, but did you look into putting a set of wheels/tires on it and towing it whole to the scrap yard or landfill? Might have been more cost effective.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I sure thought about it. I think my pickup might have pulled it. Maybe.

[@Gus1966-c9o]

Hope no asbestos Ben , good job and great video !

[@csb772]

Any tips on scraping debris off the geound after a demo?

[@billhauck6425]

Thanks for your reply on the axles but it is a little far even if they were free. However, they are rather valuable. List the on Craigs list. Good luck. Love you splitter I am building a homemade one very much like it. I also own a 372 Hutfarme saw.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Thanks Bill. Get a log lift on the aplitter your building if ya can. It makes things so much easier

[@andyl2221]

Bet you wish you would of removed the windows first , we learned the hard way that glass is a pain to clean up . Keep up the good work.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Thanks man. Just cleaned it up quick n dirty. Did end up paying more weight for throwing away dirt when I cleaned all the glass up

[@Living-The-Dream]

👍🤠👏

[@Gus1966-c9o]

4:15 new Alfresco area Ben 🤣

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Haha. No way

[@vinnymelvin5246]

Just as long as the weight is street legal to haul. Yet many demo crews double that weight and don’t care. That’s why you get hit with over weight fees or get the dumpster dumped out to reload it to legal weight.

[@AffordableplumbingNEPA]

What did you charge the customer?

[@Lemmy2.0]

8:19 a ceiling fan just fell

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

At the very least. Haha

[@traviscover590]

I like your new video the moming you did a really good jop the moming me and my wife and bsby girl's and son say Hi too you guys

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Thanks man. We just read my little girl books and put her to bed

[@traviscover590]

This good my little girl's is doing really good too buddy

[@curtanderson8655]

Great job getting rid of an eye sore, the one question I have is why not take out the glass first or at least take out what you could? Just asking, have a great day

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I don't have any use for the glass so I just crushed it with the rest

[@curtanderson8655]

@@survivingcountrylife7069 I just would hate to see someone or a pet get cut on a missed piece of glass, that's all

[@bensanders7392]

Say a 1 ton of aluminum at say 42c lb or....maybe 45 dollars a 100 weight would be....like 800 or 900 dollars if it is "clean" no ferrous screws or nails or rivets mixed into there. If they downgrade it to less than half the scrap money for all the ferrous screws and nails that would be like 400 bucks, or maybe $425.

[@edkrumm5197]

why didn't you scrap the aluminum siding? You could have made a few extra dollars and saved room in the dumpsters.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I didn't because I didn't think it was worth my time. I could have been wrong

[@jessespurlock9842]

The siding isn't aluminum.

[@juslostone]

What was your bidding price accepted for?

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

4500

[@juslostone]

@@survivingcountrylife7069 nice. I was just researching this and came across your video. Mobile home community I do flips in said the lowest they pay is $3, 000 to get a home demoed. So just wondering. 4500 sounds pretty good

[@aldredske6197]

Hi Ben!!😀😀 Too bad you couldn't have just hooked onto it and towed it to the landfill in on peice. It really makes a mess ripping it apart like that. If it was only 3 miles from my place. I would have hooked my truck or my 100hp tractor to it and towed it home and stripped it apart. Recycling the tin, copper and steel. Then just burned the rest. Hopefully it all fit in 3 dumpsters. Take care my friend!! Logger Al

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I really thought about trying to tow it. My pickup might have done it but I'd have had to find some tires and rims to put under it. Also my acerage is too small. Wish I had a bigger acerage where I could have a burn hole. Would have saved some land fill fees

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Also I gave ya a shout out in my next video

[@aldredske6197]

@@survivingcountrylife7069 I towed a trailer house to my place with my 2002 Dodge 3500 from about 6 miles away and scrapped it out about 10 years ago. But I have 75 acres to do it on. It wasn't quite as big as that one was though. That one looked like a 14 x 70. Witch is a pretty good load for the hitch on your truck. Wheels aren't too hard to find for them. The one I towed was a 12x60 .it was a good load. That one I would have used my tractor for moving it. How many acres do you have?

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

@@aldredske6197 I've just got 1.1 acers on my place. I've pretty much got everything used up that isn't lawn. My dad used to have a 20 foot flat deck trailer that ran trailer house axles. But thats gone now since he died about 3 years ago. If that was around I could have robbed the wheels and rims off of it

[@aldredske6197]

@@survivingcountrylife7069 is there any way you can buy a few more acres next to your house for extra room. Our even just rent it?

[@Dmoney2times51]

How much do u get paid to twar down trailers and houses

[@BGTech1]

Did you pull all the copper out first?

[@jdub229r]

I’ve got one to tear down this fall, built in the early 60’s. I’m definitely going to wear a respirator & wait for rainy weather. Who knows what will be in that dust?

[@coryblanchette8369]

I don’t know this but would it have been a good idea to remove the siding and roof and you could have taken it to a recycling center? Not sure what Aluminium is selling for now days.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Lotta extra work for low return I think. But thats just me. To me my main goal was to take it down and get it cleaned up to keep my word to the city that hired me to take it down

[@BGTech1]

Aluminum is $.50 per pound. In a trailer like that there is several hundred dollars worth of copper and aluminum

[@billhauck6425]

Looking forward to the final video. Hope you bid enough around $3000 for this job. I need two moble home axles.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I just cut 3 of those axles off yesterday. I live in iowa. Where do ya live at

[@fanningconstruction2050]

3000 is on the cheaper end... not making money.. just did this job for 3000. I also back filled the foundation for $1000

[@fanningconstruction2050]

You definitely should have your blade up front and those final drives in the rear.

[@mack6551]

Can I have the ceiling fan

[@rramz1345]

How much did you charge?

[@jase5415]

What did you charge for that demo? Now way it all fits in 3 is my geuss.

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I budgeted about 1500 in my head for disposal. Im going to end up going over that by about a hundred bucks. But I got a 117 dollars for the frame at the steel yard. It took 4 of those dumpsters plus 3 dump trailer loads I hauled to my brothers to get all the debris

[@jase5415]

@@survivingcountrylife7069 That was a pretty good estimate I was also wandering what the labor charge was. I live in Texas and have a old trailer house on some property I was considering buying..

[@rinairis5510]

@@survivingcountrylife7069 I just have the foundation and frame left of a mobile home due to a house fire and I’m being quoted $1,500-$4,500. Is that reasonable?

[@GypsyPaz]

Nice job, couldn't have done it better if I tried. Though, three and a half minutes of talking was a bit much for a 10 minute video.

[@sinseizae]

How much does a job like this cost ?

[@greatnorthern706]

So how long had that trailer been abandoned? Any interesting backstory on it?

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I'm guessing around 20 years. I talked to several people who said for as long as they can remember its been abandoned

[@adanr150]

What size is that excavator? Can it demolish a one story home not trailer?

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

It's an e35 bobcat and yes it can

[@jimrichards8703]

Couldn't you get paid for the metal if you sorted it?

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

I will sell the frame for steel. But I didnt bother with the tin cause metal is not a real big price

[@Goofyboi41]

what did you charge

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

4500

[@megamike4357]

Was i the only one half expecting to see some squatter in there when he 1st ripped a wall down?

[@survivingcountrylife7069]

Haha. That would have been bad

[@TF856]

That kind of trailer is usually more commonly called a mobile home. Not a trailer house. Trailer house is an older term usually referring to a travel trailer.

[@robertjhilliard2403]

cheappppppp.....30 yd here is 1200 each add day rate 1 for trailer total 4800

[@davidpatrick2997]

How's your nicotine kick going brother?