Idk why but I could watch wrecking ball demolition videos all day.

Purdue needed the building's footprint to construct an important new addition to the school, and yet in the name of progress we continue to destroy more and more vestiges of our industrial technological history which is fast-disappearing. In the early 20th c.when this facility was built, plants such as this with their tall, brick, Stirling watertube boilers and steam-powered turbo-generators were the most efficient way to supply heat, hot water, and electricity to large numbers of users. In addition to their functionality, they were also compact and built with architectural sophistication and a type of rugged beauty. Instead of one type of common brick, this plant included extra-cost white keystones and capstones,, highly-stylized brick arrangements, and other decorative touches designed to make the building blend-in with its surroundings. If such a facility were built today, it would probably be apurely functional design w/added on architectural touches, not a built-in integrated design where engineering and architecture meet in seamless good taste. If we keep removing such structures from the landscape, there will be little to remind us of the history of America's industrial infrastructure, and that would be a terrible, permanent loss.

Demolition videos are great but for some reason watching this beautiful old brick building being destroyed made me sick.

This is one of the first wrecking ball videos were the crane operator is actually very experienced with the ball he hits a good effective hit almost evey time even on the narrow steel beams

Nice old building. Those arches and that Indiana limestone

wake me up if something comes down

I’ve seen cases where the cable would break and they would lose the wrecking ball inside the building on the lowest floor

Some of these guys think too much. Cycle times are too slow.

Call in Luff of Germany and get the job done in half the time.

Its 2020 now, let me guess , still working on knocking it down??????????

Can anyone tell me why they are using such a small ball?

Andrew thanks bad ass wrecking ball fun video to watch!!!

its 2025 and they still wrecking that building

They need a dragline excavator crane to control the ball for direct hits. This demolition job is going to take weeks,

This is a joke !

Look how inefficient this is compared to say, explosives or one of those excavators with a sphere drill type thing at the end (not sure what it's called, help me out here)

Watching this operator is like watching paint dry.

If only operators had a plan ---and stuck to it

We'll be here forever at this rate. Get the dynamite out.

They’ve upgraded to high reach excavators and 360 degree grippers and beam slicers. It takes half the time to bring down a large building. The crane and wrecking ball and clamshell are becoming obsolete nowadays

KINDA SEAMS LIKE A WASTE OF RESOURCES..building looks ok to me

All the big building can do is watch helplessly as the nasty little wrecking ball attacks it.!

ANOTHER UNION JOB?????? HAY, YOU, SLOW DOWN ! ! ! ! ! SOME OF THE BRICKS ARE CRACKING ! ! ! ! ! !

Getting paid by the hour not the job I see 😂😂😂

This is not working but playing.

Top of the stupidity! Demolition of nice historical biulding...

good work

he needs a bigger ball and something to swing it with..he will be here for a year

The wrecking ball needs a fairlead attached to make it more controllable.

Leave your automatic focus do the job (that is a pain in the but)

He doesn't know how to Steer that Wrecking ball

So boring I hate wrecking balls they take to long to demolish the building. And I’m dozing off just watching it.

Good operator! Hard and accurate!

Worse camera lighting angle ever.

Piss poor angle!

フォーカスずれまくり、画面ぐにゃぐにゃ。

Oida! De pfeifn kons ja überhaupt ned!

This took too long. It would be better to drop some JDAM bombs and it would collapsed momentarily.

Luff hätte das mit seiner alten Möhre schneller gemacht

this operator has no clue how to run this machine. Just before the impact, the jib should already be swinging back out again to pull the ball away and just before it swings all the way out, the jib should be coming back toward the building. Instead, he takes one hit, then lets everything settle down and then starts anew. He never gets a good flowing rhythm going.

Why use the wrecking ball? Explosive charges would have brought this down in ten seconds, Lazy mans way is time wasted

Au man,habe mir das ganze Video angesehen und muss korrigieren. Luff hätte es 100 mal schneller mit einem halb so großen Gerät gemacht. Guckt euch es an bei KZfaq. FA Luff Abbruch