Posted: 2/6/2015 10:40:44 PM EDT
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Judging by the jib on the crane, they're up 150+ feet
If they're trying to dismantle it without hurting much, its a legit way to do it. As long as those are certified lifting straps. Ive seen this picture before, my only thing is I'm surprised there is no cab on the machine. |
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Don't they make devices that take tall stuff apart? What is it they call that device? Is it...ummm....oh yeah....controlled demolitions or a wrecking ball? You can't do it in a tight area. Old stacks stay up at coal plants when they put in new scrubbers. Until they start to degrade and bricks fall off. They actually do something similar in the OP. It's a machine on a table that nibbles the bricks and causes them to fall inside the stack. They eat it away from the top down. I think it's called a scorpion or something like that. This is the setup at the Duke plant in Asheville NC. 
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Judging by the jib on the crane, they're up 150+ feet If they're trying to dismantle it without hurting much, its a legit way to do it. As long as those are certified lifting straps. Ive seen this picture before, my only thing is I'm surprised there is no cab on the machine. Guy I know posted it on facebook. I'm pretty sure its from a job in STL going on right now. Building an IKEA. |
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Guy I know posted it on facebook. I'm pretty sure its from a job in STL going on right now. Building an IKEA. Quoted:
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Judging by the jib on the crane, they're up 150+ feet If they're trying to dismantle it without hurting much, its a legit way to do it. As long as those are certified lifting straps. Ive seen this picture before, my only thing is I'm surprised there is no cab on the machine. Guy I know posted it on facebook. I'm pretty sure its from a job in STL going on right now. Building an IKEA. Google has the image dating back to 2013. So I don't think its that. |
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Google has the image dating back to 2013. So I don't think its that. Quoted:
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Judging by the jib on the crane, they're up 150+ feet If they're trying to dismantle it without hurting much, its a legit way to do it. As long as those are certified lifting straps. Ive seen this picture before, my only thing is I'm surprised there is no cab on the machine. Guy I know posted it on facebook. I'm pretty sure its from a job in STL going on right now. Building an IKEA. Google has the image dating back to 2013. So I don't think its that. I stand corrected then. |
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Start at the top, bricks go down the stack.
Never saw it done like that. Can't always use explosives. Plant I worked at, team had a device, like the playground ride, big steel circle, not merry go round, steel hoop type.(what is it called, think you just ran in a circle and held on) Any way, it was hoisted by a mobile crane, workers were strapped in, as they chipped away, bricks fell into the stack. Then lowered as need, quick, and efficient. 1970 ish. |
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You can't do it in a tight area. Old stacks stay up at coal plants when they put in new scrubbers. Until they start to degrade and bricks fall off. They actually do something similar in the OP. It's a machine on a table that nibbles the bricks and causes them to fall inside the stack. They eat it away from the top down. I think it's called a scorpion or something like that. This is the setup at the Duke plant in Asheville NC. https://jonostendorff.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ashdc5-6dk8jfceiljumto96nn_original.jpg Quoted:
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Don't they make devices that take tall stuff apart? What is it they call that device? Is it...ummm....oh yeah....controlled demolitions or a wrecking ball? You can't do it in a tight area. Old stacks stay up at coal plants when they put in new scrubbers. Until they start to degrade and bricks fall off. They actually do something similar in the OP. It's a machine on a table that nibbles the bricks and causes them to fall inside the stack. They eat it away from the top down. I think it's called a scorpion or something like that. This is the setup at the Duke plant in Asheville NC. https://jonostendorff.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ashdc5-6dk8jfceiljumto96nn_original.jpg This is how they tear down old reactor vessels at the Lee site. Interestingly, if you remember that movie The Abyss, a lot of the underwater scenes were filmed in that vessel. 
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Guy I know posted it on facebook. I'm pretty sure its from a job in STL going on right now. Building an IKEA. Quoted:
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Judging by the jib on the crane, they're up 150+ feet If they're trying to dismantle it without hurting much, its a legit way to do it. As long as those are certified lifting straps. Ive seen this picture before, my only thing is I'm surprised there is no cab on the machine. Guy I know posted it on facebook. I'm pretty sure its from a job in STL going on right now. Building an IKEA. Ikea? Where i come from we build inexpensive imported furniture with basic handtools, not cranes and jackhammers. |
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You can't do it in a tight area. Old stacks stay up at coal plants when they put in new scrubbers. Until they start to degrade and bricks fall off. They actually do something similar in the OP. It's a machine on a table that nibbles the bricks and causes them to fall inside the stack. They eat it away from the top down. I think it's called a scorpion or something like that. This is the setup at the Duke plant in Asheville NC. https://jonostendorff.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ashdc5-6dk8jfceiljumto96nn_original.jpg Quoted:
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Don't they make devices that take tall stuff apart? What is it they call that device? Is it...ummm....oh yeah....controlled demolitions or a wrecking ball? You can't do it in a tight area. Old stacks stay up at coal plants when they put in new scrubbers. Until they start to degrade and bricks fall off. They actually do something similar in the OP. It's a machine on a table that nibbles the bricks and causes them to fall inside the stack. They eat it away from the top down. I think it's called a scorpion or something like that. This is the setup at the Duke plant in Asheville NC. https://jonostendorff.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ashdc5-6dk8jfceiljumto96nn_original.jpg NM, Ladder. Thought he had stilts on. |