Redneck Silo Tipping

[@lesschattermoresplatter5769]

When I was younger I got hired to clean a couple tons of sour silage out of a silo. After 30 minutes of being inside breathing the vapors I was higher than a kite. Lots of fresh air and ventilation is definitely a must.

[@tomrogers9467]

Yes, it’s called alcohol - produced by the fermentation of the silage. It evaporates and you breathe and absorb it into your blood. Also more than enough CO-2 to kill you as well.

[@Alan_CFA]

“sour silage out of a silo” 😁sounds like a tongue-twister😁

[@arailway8809]

Hi Traci, Except for the wrecking weight catching in the tie bands, this was the best technique I have seen in 2019. My compliments to your brother.

[@rhondavanzante5682]

In 2015 our two silos were destroyed by a tornado on our farm in SE Iowa. Some cattle were killed in the lot. 2016 we rebuilt with a poured concrete silo over 70 feet. We continue to feed cattle as our contribution to feeding the world.

[@cryhavoc9748]

We had to take down an old grain silo when I was living in Georgia. We marked the area to be removed with paint. We gave Beuford a 16 pound sledgehammer and told him to go to work, but be ready to get out of the way. Now Beuford was was strong as an ox, but not very smart. He ate a LOT of paint chips when he was little. Well, after an hour we heard this tremendous"crack" and saw the silo going down. We lost sight of poor Beuford due to the dust, and thought he might be dead. But when the dust cleared, there he was with this guilty look in his face. He said, "I didn't mean for it to fall over, but I promise to rebuild it."

[@HAMILTONPROVIDEO]

I could watch people knockin things down n' blowin shit up all day long.

[@therubberduck1165]

I like how he narrowly escapes death on the first one and immediately started on the other one

[@mattronaldholloway3428]

That's a true man not afraid to work escape and move on to the next. NO FEAR

[@william38022]

@@mattronaldholloway3428 No he’s extremely lucky and extremely careless & negligent,,,you know when they say don’t ever try this at home well this is one of those moments

[@mattronaldholloway3428]

@@william38022 yeah living on the edge but still no fear that's me but I'm no idoit just a daredevil.

[@_GOD_HAND_]

When you take money to do a job, you get the job done. Very simple concept.

[@Grggeorge]

@@_GOD_HAND_ at least don’t do it like this these guys are probably dead by now use a brain

[@MeltingRubberZ28]

This looks fun and terrifying at the same time

[@kevingrant2326]

What , kind of material is that silo made of ? Asbestos ?

[@MeltingRubberZ28]

@@kevingrant2326 some sort of masonry.

[@rongrace5435]

Hell yeah!.. Precision demo. Cost effective and fast. Well done!

[@gomerromer7708]

This guy is about as unprecision as they come. He keeps getting is headache ball stuck in the hoops and he doesn't know how to aim it consistently. There are guys who would have it down in half the time. If he cannot improve his aim he should take a cutting torch and cut every other hoop. They don't play any structural role unless the silo if filled with rolled corn or ground ear corn so when it is eampty there is no danger in cutting some hoops. They he would not have to fart around nearly as much getting his ball free when he misses his aim.

[@BradAdams-fu4qx]

Shut up,no it all.😮😮😊​@@gomerromer7708

[@denisknobloch7908]

The best and safest way to take down stave silos, is to loosen the bottom 4 feet of hoops and then shoot out the bottom row of staves on the side you want the silo to fall. A 30 caliber rifle or shotgun slugs work great!

[@sanantoniofurnituredecor9560]

Good old fashioned ingenuity! Love It!

[@gregjeffcoat4258]

Who needs to watch a bunch of by rich NFL players. This is down home fun.

[@PhancyPants99]

People really do pride themselves on their ignorance

[@westerntruckandtractorrepa1353]

@@PhancyPants99 Sounds like you are speaking from experience.

[@kt2816]

Real americans that built this country

[@fisbuar]

this is actually a lot safer, AND a lot better executed then i've seen in many similar scenarios... it is a lot more controlled then it appears to be.

[@henrykoplien1007]

Don't understand the comments. This guy, regardless of the method, made the job. The silos fehlt away from the excavator and both in the same direction w/o and bigger left overs. The result can't be any better.

[@peter.24.7]

Agreed. And he has kept himself safe by using the wrecking 'ball' instead of driving into the fall area. Also he has been at ninety degrees to the line of the fall at all times. Seems to me the video has been titled by someone who feels that only an 'expert' can do something. And the commenters are mostly armchair experts.

[@mangomussolini7986]

Damn it Dave! When I said we were gonna demo the silos I meant we were gonna show the new guy how they worked.

[@TopoPilot]

Haha, I laughed way too hard at this comment. Thanks for that.

[@jonroth9656]

I can hardly wait for the "redneck cow tipping" video to come out. I gotta be doing something wrong....

[@PH-md8xp]

My in-laws in Canada had a silo taken down, it was adjacent to their house so they wanted to be sure if fell away from the house. They broke a portion of the base of the silo away from the house and hired a couple guys that brought a few sticks of dynamite that were placed under the weakened side of the structure, they wired it up, and detonated it, like in an old cowboy movie. The silo fell in exactly the direction it was intended to. It was cool to watch it come down. I recorded it on 8mm video. 😅

[@shawnbrummett587]

High powered rifles and deer slugs make a fun afternoon with beer and buddies

[@tomrogers9467]

Half empty propane tanks are a must!

[@markszyszkiewicz]

I get a kick out of how the silos basically disappear into nothingness.

[@tomrogers9467]

Amazing, considering they’re filled with so much air!

[@dewaynemiguel3349]

Silo tipping by day, cow tipping by night lol

[@bengtgustafsson7319]

Eeeew. Uhjoooop

[@Xclub40X]

I wanna have a go at this.... No silos where I live... Just a tower block and a bunch of houses....

[@anonymoussources8803]

If I had a shot at these things I'd be swinging an old Buick on the end of that cable instead of that little piece of metal

[@mr.noneyabidness]

Going to be pickin tader rocks out of the field for centuries.

[@altair458]

Great post, outstanding. For those of you who don’t know...this is how you do it!! Life on the farm...ain’t it great?👍👍

[@alberthiebert2213]

Bunks are becoming more popular. My cousin put 2 a couple of years ago. 50x100x10 foot tall. Enough feed for 200 head dairy for the year. Lot easier to manage

[@weozol4065]

skills and ingenuity.

[@annihilator247x]

My left ear enjoyed this video.

[@vangazmicvoyage5077]

That was cool! Heh heh. Hey Butthead, let's break stuff.

[@nic_the_aged_woodworker]

Fred Dibnah would have been proud!! Check out his method of bringing down mill chimneys, far more exciting

[@richardpatureau3980]

Better than sitting on the porch and watching the bug zapper!

[@badlandskid]

Suddenly I no longer have transformer-phobia.

[@diggydice9041]

He's better at this than he was at "Cow Tipping"...... really he's pretty damn good at this.

[@bluesharp59]

Very Nice and a Thumbs Up liked.

[@johnmiller4617]

This can be done with one man and a sledge hammer. Start one one side and work backwards. Actually safer.

[@LawrenceTimme]

Way less fun

[@securethebag1613]

Mans has a lot of faith in it fallin in the right direction

[@lylehart3744]

This is what it looks like when you don't know what you're doing and just making it up as you go.

[@BradAdams-fu4qx]

And you do ?😊

[@frankmeiser8287]

Good job You made it look easy.

[@stevecr8934]

what a way to relieve stress. Can I do that? Look like fishing to me. cast that rod n set that hook. Then yank. Those silo's flattened right out.

[@super6954]

Hi He did ok he's still alive and he got them down as he intended. The only thing he might do different if there was a next time is cut the bottom few bands. That seems to be the way others have done this that I have watched. then he might not end up with his wrecking hammed stuck in the bands. Thanks for sharing the video. Take care

[@maryhutt4263]

Zit tears me up to see old farm houses get busted I think of all the people kids animals they had especially the friends I had there I wasn't gonna say it cause it hurts too much. I love you allmisscomin up to see you I think of my boy and his new beagle God help the other two boys and pa love you sorry I couldn't say it before love ya Mary -------Mare

[@bobdevries4028]

Good job done well and safe. The people whining about safety just don't understand what they're talking about.

[@jemrobinson8888]

You are blind or brain not working - the guy was buried in the rubble when it came down, you didn't see that ? injured, lucky to not be killed. 'whining about safety' - it was very stupid to be standing so close within the fall zone.

[@EyesHoleMedia]

@@jemrobinson8888 ... There was no guy anywhere on the ground in this video. No one got buried or even injured.

[@thomasdailey269]

That was so much fun to watch.

[@k29king1]

That just looks super fun to do.

[@anchorbubba]

my cousins just used mauls but this does look like more fun and probably less dangerous?

[@screaminlordbyron7767]

I thought the first silo was going to land on the excavator. Feels like it didn't by pure luck. Driver is going all out for a darwin award!

[@area51r]

you're the award.

[@caseybhargraves3696]

Those were perfect drops. Nice job!!

[@TIMWILLIAMS29621]

More guts than brains.

[@uthermaceanruig5098]

Don’t criticize unless you’ve actually actually brought silos down yourself.

[@fabrigasan2150]

Ci manadavo i miei bambini , nel doposcuola , un’oretta e due succhi di frutta e il gioco era fatto!!🤭

[@CuriousOldMan]

One has to assume that there is no OSHA around. Lol

[@guyonyoutube6565]

I was worried the excavator was gonna get crushed when the first silo fell

[@ramosel]

Hey Bert, ya took down the wrong one. That's the one we was keeping. You was supposed to take down 'tother one!

[@TheDustysix]

An old diesel crankshaft would make an excellent Mace.

[@MrJdsenior]

GREAT, another "hold my beer and watch this" video. ;-) That looks exceedingly dangerous, all kidding aside. I'm amazed that second one was still standing with basically half of it's circumference knocked down.

[@haroldtalaski4955]

Used to build those. Would recommend loosing the bands part way up

[@shane99ca]

Until technology produces a true powered exoskeleton, hydraulic excavators are the next best thing. :-)

[@praisethelordjesuschrist3554]

1:55 knocked out the buildings heart

[@whatayawant]

I liked watching this,there's something about demolishing things that makes us feel satisfied.

[@MinstrelSentFromAnotherLand]

Your inner haji

[@_dave4460]

i wanted more smashing; less banging...

[@_dave4460]

Tricky Nick i can’t believe i’m giving you a very old o.d. thumbs up for this...

[@RobinRK1962]

Time to call... "The Rifleman"

[@samkom33]

my thought too.. even the cheap training ammo to my 30-06 ould have done that demolition FASTER AND SAFER, that concrete lookd quite brittle But if you wanted fast and fun,,, contact the army and borrow a 50 cal+ maskinegun. hehe

[@tron3entertainment]

Remember kids, cow tipping is much safer and hilarious. 🐄

[@davidkelich]

I can ruin a steel ball in a muddy field with a rubber mallet😂

[@victorjeffers1993]

Yea no one wants to farm anymore they jus want to sell it off for subdivisions !

[@MikeNelson-s4o]

A lot of us do want to farm. But it’s impossible to get a start, unless you inherite a farm. These old silos don’t get used anymore. Their sole purpose is to make and store cow food, sileage. But you can’t compete with the big operations, like in Nebraska, and Kansas.

[@leetuttle5075]

Some friends of mine grandfather passed and they had to sell his farm to pay the taxes

[@terrirose9559]

Isn't that the truth, apparently all they want to eat the GMO food

[@carolynrecio4903]

The state ( s ) can come in buy your property for said amount of money take it or leave it, the state can take it! If you want to go or not! Happened to a cousin of mine! State built a school. A few years ago in Matthews NC the state took old man’s farm made a DAM park, hiking trails, bike paths damn sad!!

[@victorjeffers1993]

@carolynrecio4903 Yes it is , but I guess I'd fight as long and hard as I could !

[@ValleyProud916]

How much beer do you think these good ol' boys went through that day?

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

I'm gonna start a trebuchet demolition company

[@joeputnam4652]

Wow flatter than a flitter....Lol Use to live near a coal mine that had two standing in West Frankfort, Illinois n these were poured concrete in sections. Not as easy to take down.

[@rodmills4071]

There is reason why wrecking balls are round 😂😂🤣😀😎

[@rickvaiBBB]

He got them down and lived to try something else just as fun.

[@jeremyswindell2330]

Nice video!!

[@clarkewi]

Now THAT'S a fun job!!!!

[@tmorgan7939]

When this started why did I think one of the silos was going to fall over on the excavator ?

[@larsharris]

My dad did ours with a sledge hammer, and a 16’ 2x4. Cut a few bands, knocked out every other block, then ran rope, chain thru. Hooked to tractor pulled almost half a row out. It walked till I damaged roof. Mom took video. 8mm no sound. Except when she filmed cats as too scared to watch.

[@richardvsassoon5144]

@1:05 - damn, my line is snagged, but oh, boy it's a big one...

[@thegringobandito6346]

🚨Thanks this gives me a good idea what to use on my next door neighbor's house whenever they play their stereo too loud!😱😵💣💣💣💣💣💣

[@dougbrown4332]

The Gringo Bandito

[@mr.shannon6137]

There is a compound called Tannerite that was specifically designed for that.

[@torquelimiter6776]

This was quite a few years ago but I set up an amp and a boom box and introduced them to Jimmy Stuart live from Batenrough, La. When my neighbors try ed that on me and it didn't take them long to quite down

[@mork00001]

Change up the music Latin nite, German Night . What ever they are not ,crank it up. It works.

[@buggikrueger2546]

@@dougbrown4332 brunne n bohren

[@edwardpottratz969]

I think a bunch of tannerite and a rifle would be more fun haha

[@AndesBoy]

Where there is a will, there is a way. Just make sure you don’t forget safety.

[@LawrenceTimme]

No forget safety. It ruins all fun.

[@dwcon1431]

Almost as much fun as cow tipping!

[@kevinmccune682]

Did the excavator actually gain any speed by swinging 180?

[@mikegroat7732]

That was cool....good thing he didn't end up on youtube under one of the 'fail' videos! LOL

[@americanbulldog2015]

I did not think that this was going to end well. Thought for sure something bad was going to happen. All I could imagine was the silo crashing down on the guy.

[@user-xs5fj3ms2l]

It's very effective. But I would rather have anvil at the end of a chain.

[@Hirndille]

Next time ask Welker farms guys to shoot some bowling balls through it :)

[@jhonsiders6077]

What was he using as a headache ball ??

[@franciscocepeda8416]

Marvelous job and done right

[@joeschlotthauer840]

I have a couple stupid questions, what were silos initially used for, and why are they now obsolete...

[@mresch8]

Used for holding grain.

[@randyblackburn9765]

Looks as if someone could knock a hole in silo , run a one inch cable thru , clamp it off inside, hook a dozer to it and pull as if a can opener in reverse. Silos are dangerous to tear down

[@phillipmckenzie2852]

Yep that's how I've downed a few when I was doing demolition. ( Deconstruction if the client was rich!)😈.

[@anthonythorp7291]

That's how they tore down the church steeple by me. Half way up run cable through holes and the dozer pulled. Worked great.

[@somethinburnin]

Hey was that a Van Dale Magnum unloader in 2nd one? Good looking bonet ... well not any more. These taken down after a barn fire?

[@mattburns7182]

Can anybody say an AR-15 and a shitload of tannerite 😁

[@alexandrajanice6833]

today they regret bring it down it could of been used for high speed internet

[@pauldean8638]

That's a bonkers game of conkers right there ha ha

[@waltpro1945]

6:26 what happened to the guy by the bottom of the silo?

[@raffysungarngar3684]

I think it was just the ram

[@mr.shannon6137]

Cool vid, but would to see it done with 55 gallon barrel of Tannerite. Put hole in side of silo just large enough to stuff plastic barrel in. That would be cool to watch.

[@chrisvaught3396]

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[@anthonythorp7291]

55 gallons !!! Good lord you want to take down the neighbors silo too.

[@Gravitycreatedlife]

Should of contacted local Amish, they would of dismantled it brick by brick, hauled it away and rebuilt it at another farm. At least thats what my brother in-law did- SW Wisconsin

[@grigorirasputin5020]

I believe that the first silo brought down in this video was a historical site at one time. Sad to see it meet its destruction in this way.

[@RJ1999x]

A historical site? A stave silo built in the 1970's? I doubt it

[@sheep1ewe]

What are they made of? It does not realy look or behave like regular steelsheets or wood. Good to see that Your brother where not injured by this, it would be a lie pretending that i hawen't done pretty similar things at some point in my life...

[@superhannar9018]

И 1000000 таких башен не стоят 1 человеческой жизни

[@mohammedines6182]

Combien coûte un bunker sous terrain aménagé grand luxe ?🙂

[@justmewatching]

curious how much to drink or smoke your camera person had prior to filming this....

[@chrisschaiberger8814]

Isn’t there an extended reach of a grinder that could be used to cut the strapping?!?!?

[@joewoodchuck3824]

What was the reason to take them down?

[@S730SD]

Rent a Twister will be the next big item!

[@LD49196]

360 grad turn for swing?

[@outoftownr3906]

Nice cloud of asbestos dust

[@craniostomy]

You better sue......

[@Ward00]

I would have like to have seen how these silos were originally put up.

[@therubberduck1165]

Aliens built them

[@frannicolo8147]

Reminds me of when i was learnin how to fly fish.

[@major600]

What exactly makes a silo obsolete, anyway?

[@whiteknightcat]

First thing that comes to mind is that crops are trucked to large corporate silos nowadays instead of being held in individual farm silos.

[@DaGahbageMan]

The type of silos shown in this video are mostly used to store silage for feeding cattle. In this case, they're obsolete probably because the farmer no longer has cows and wants to build something else there or plant crops.

[@KB4QAA]

Silage, made from chopped green crops like corn, sorghum/milo and grasses, is typically used to feed dairy cows during the winter. Small diary operations have become increasingly uneconomical over the last 70 years and the silos are no longer needed, and represent a danger as they deteriorate. Thousands of small dairy operations have gone out of business after WWII. Additionally, it has become more economical to purchase mixed grain feeds for dairy cows rather than grow and handle wet, heavy silage which has a limited storage life.

[@Alwis-Haph-Rytte]

Major600, The price of milk. One use to be able to make more money running corn thru a cow for milk. Milk prices dropped, labor costs didn't. The kids on the family farm moved out to jobs with more pay. You don't have to milk grain twice a day so you switch to beef and or grain. Old farmers get tired and sell the farm or go bankrupt. I spent many winters pitching silage down the shoot to feed the cows and milk them. Long hard days that are just memories.

[@johnchalleen3278]

@@DaGahbageMan true dat...barn is long gone.

[@u.p.woodtick3296]

I’ve things I must get done but here I am with morning coffee........bye