Good to see a wrecking ball still being used!

This operator knows what he is doing very good at his work.

Probably the quickest and fasted wrecking ball I've seen

This video keeps popping up on my timeline and it still excites me.

This was Monsour Hospital east of Pittsburgh,Pa. They started out usi g a high reach excavator but the building shifted and became unstable so they had to shift to the ole wrecking ball to finish it off

So creepy. I used to run service calls here in the 90's to work on their kitchen equipment. Watching this channel, a lot of places I worked are now gone.

This is a classic rather than an excavator

These narrow steel columns are extremely hard to hit. And even if you hit it right and the column is already bent, the ball slips easily, causing a shock load on the line. The operator does some impressive swinging here, but I can see why he is preferring to use the drop-method instead. While he was doing the swing-thing, I would love to have the video zoomed out and showing the whole crane in total. Otherwise, great video and thanks for sharing!

I wonder why they used a wrecking ball instead of using another way to demo the building. It looks like it would take so much more time to demo it this way being such a huge building.

Even the missing shots are lethal causing damage 😮

Very satisfying to watch! To all you Armchair Crane Operators on here talking about what a horrible Operator this Guy is, let me tell you there is way more to it than just swing the Ball into the side of the Building. He is doing a good job processing the material into as small a pieces as possible before it gets to the ground. That is the objective here. Always some damn "Experts" in the crowd. Smh

The old timers used to put old truck tires between the connection for the ball and cable. It was for shock protection for the boom and cable. Guess the younger guys are too smart for that

That's Smashing

1922....98 years standing, but its time was overdue. There seemed to be a serious amount of rust on the 1922 portions of the steel frame and decking

And I thought only Miley cyrus rode the wrecking ball. Who knew it's still used to demo buildings.

I like the old method of wrecking ball action. Yes, this could have also been done with a high-reach demolition excavator, but the crane and ball method is justified for this demo job. It comes down to total cost of demolition and the time alloted for the work (mobilizing men and machines, demo, sorting of material, amount of recyclable material, trucking, disposal of unusable material into commercial construction landfills, cleanup, etc.). This building is of steel-frame, with brick veneer and masonry backup. The operator has to remove the steel by shearing off the connections while working on the rest of the structure. The smaller you can break material during the initial process (with the ball), the less secondary breakage required, and easier to haul away, or process on site. Perhaps the height of the building was higher than the available high-reach excavator, hence the use of the crane. The crane being used is a Manitowoc 3500, a friction machine (using clutches and brakes, operated with both hands and feet), requiring skill to operate. It isn't easy spotting the ball accurately, and the operator goes home with a sore neck from having to look up all day!

So relaxing to watch.

if you have a good operator the ball can kill the efficiency of a good jaw operator. but, its not seen enough these days for an average comparison to be made.

This is oddly satisfying 👍🏼

You know it’s a slow process when the video editor chops out repositioning the ball.

He's scared swing that thing

Where did you purchase that ball from WalMart? You need about 10 to 20 Tons on that building.

Why is the operator removing the tonage that will help him or her drop the building in one

The operator would have had greater success had he swung a baseball bat.

Clearly there is still a time and place for old school demolition methods. But it makes me wonder if that old lattice boom crane takes just as much of a beating as that building is taking...

This is actually a 45 consecutive day time-lapse video.

Not a wrecker myself but a painter. I wonder is it possible to attach some kind of remote video camera to a stick of A long reach excavator do the operator in the cab can see on the screen exactly what is happening perhaps 10 stories up.?

Does the debri get also separated at the end or just been transported as debri itself?🤔

What goes up must come down.

Now I see and understand why we don't use wrecking balls that much anymore. They are too time and fuel consuming.

Messer. Not allowing for the G force in rotation every swing so he misses over and over. Stops to look at his work after every thump. Instead of using the ball. Should have his rotation stopped and beginning to go back out as it strikes the he only needs to rotate half as much and works twice as fast Also worth noting is that dropping the ball shocks the crane way more than swinging. Nice camerawork. Nice Menke Crane.

nice big water sprayer

why was the hospital demolished?

How about letting us know where these demolitions are occurring? “Arlington” doesn’t tell us much.

nou lekker dan ... heb ik na 6 jaar wachten EINDELIJK een afspraak met dokter PUINRUIMER .........🤐🤕😷

The dust you see are the souls escaping from the walls.

This guy could not wreck a snowman

Oh gosh, how heavy is that thing?

We are BORG demolition Their structural and material properties are added to ours. Resistance is futile.

Did the comments say that they had a high reach excavator ? Maybe something happened and they switched to the wrecking ball. The only thing I'll say is maybe a spotter to help the crane operator.

yeahhhh,,,top!!!

They need some dynamite

They need more than a wrecking ball

lost some more history I bet the new place wont last as long

Love..wecking..ball

Isso sem contar a péssima ponteria c a bola d ferro.

almost all of his videos is one hour two or three

I have seen many a demolition and operators 100x better than this one. But I do have to admit that building was built extremely tough.

3 strikes ur OUT!

Lil effect siccor crane b easier n quicker,still fun 2 watch

Love.the..wrecking

bad operator

Das ist ein wirklich schlechter Baumaschinenführer. Die Versuche mit der Abrisskugel das Gebäude abzubrechen , wirken ziemlich hilflos. Vielleicht sollte er sich mal die Videos der Fa. Luff aus Aschaffenburg ansehen. Werner Luff würde das Gebäude in einem Viertel der Zeit mit einer über 50 Jahre älteren Baumaschine (zum Beispiel mit einem Menck M152) abbrechen.

50 plus comments of "expert" crane operators here. I wanna put you in a American 90t with a ball and see what ya all got. Bet yer not shit!

Que trabalho mal feito e demorado c essa bola d ferro. É dinheiro colocado fora!!

This is about as interesting as watching paint dry

its not effectiv...

Deze machinist bakt der niks van, zit geen lijn in wat ie doet met de kogel. Laat hem eens kijken family luff te Germany . En kijk hoe die man met de kogel werkt. Maar deze deze doet maar wat .

very skilled operator

That has to be the worst operator of a ball and chain i`ve ever seen. I wonder if he know`s he`s being filmed. You must have the patience of a saint John.

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This clown acts like he was put in the crane because they needed someone to run it. Obviously not for his skills

a slow ass way

Schlechter Kranführer

Guy cant operate....all over the place aint getn squat done

Months to build ! Decades to knock down!!! Worst operator in history!!!!!