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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Roll-Tide]
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02/25/20 02:58 PM
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I’m pretty sure the company is dragging this out for free publicity. As a business owner, I would want that thing down ASAP. I cant imagine the crap they are catching in the demo industry right now and I'd have to imagine they will loose business because of this.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/25/20 03:59 PM
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I agree with Sneaky above. Those cranes are made to lift , not swing a big ball off center. If y’all saw the implosion video, the structure that remains actually started to fall as they probably had the explosives at the bottom. The remaining structure is absolutely unpredictable. I would not want to be the crane operator.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/25/20 04:36 PM
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/25/20 04:51 PM
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Chopping down a tree from the top. Why aren't they swinging that ball into the side of the structure at the base? It’s highly unlikely that’s a safe thing to do. That structure is unpredictable, at this point, and the crane can only get so far away. Exactly. Don't forget sneaky this forum is full of structural engineers that never went to school.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/25/20 05:06 PM
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I'm not a structural engineer, but I once built a tree house. Two guys who can run really really fast could take that down with sledge hammers at ground level.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/25/20 05:25 PM
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I bet 5 THF'ers with their trucks loaded with their best toys and a cooler full of cold beer could have had that sucker down in less than an hour. Bunch of rookies!!!!
On a side note: I guess there is no danger of it falling over so just leave it. Seems like it has become an unofficial tourist attraction. Although I think your statement is probably correct, the following statement is NOT correct! "I bet 5 THF'ers with the trucks loaded with their best toys and a cooler full of beer could have that sucker SAFELY down in less than an hour.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Mickey Moose]
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02/25/20 05:33 PM
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that video was not realistic there were no homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks, I didn't see anybody getting mugged, there were no traffic jams.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/25/20 06:23 PM
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Heck, I could do better than that with a ball peen hammer. ^^^^^^this
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/25/20 06:34 PM
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Mel Gibson did it in DieHard with one truck. That looks like a 5 truck job.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/25/20 06:34 PM
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I bet 5 THF'ers with their trucks loaded with their best toys and a cooler full of cold beer could have had that sucker down in less than an hour. Bunch of rookies!!!!
On a side note: I guess there is no danger of it falling over so just leave it. Seems like it has become an unofficial tourist attraction. I remember enough about C4 that I bet Sapper and I could air deliver the entire tower to downtown Fort Worth. Don't forget me, I know a little bit about C4 myself.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/25/20 07:48 PM
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I bet 5 THF'ers with their trucks loaded with their best toys and a cooler full of cold beer could have had that sucker down in less than an hour. Bunch of rookies!!!!
On a side note: I guess there is no danger of it falling over so just leave it. Seems like it has become an unofficial tourist attraction. I remember enough about C4 that I bet Sapper and I could air deliver the entire tower to downtown Fort Worth. Don't forget me, I know a little bit about C4 myself. The more the merrier!
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/25/20 08:16 PM
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/25/20 08:36 PM
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well , just checked the video again . I think Ill check back in next week.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/26/20 01:36 PM
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Just post the vid of the last swing here when it happens. My DGAF is maxed out on the topic for now.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/26/20 02:23 PM
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Mel Gibson did it in DieHard with one truck. That looks like a 5 truck job. Lethal Weapon 2*
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/26/20 02:32 PM
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Espy
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Mel Gibson did it in DieHard with one truck. That looks like a 5 truck job. Lethal Weapon 2* My brain is on break
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/26/20 05:39 PM
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Last night for about 15 minutew. Pretty funny.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/26/20 06:28 PM
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/26/20 06:38 PM
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Has anyone tried peeing on it?
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/26/20 06:49 PM
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Any nuclear missile launchers need practice? Take out some of Dallas too, but oh well
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/27/20 12:38 PM
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
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02/27/20 06:50 PM
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this is really pizzing me off. Blow the sumbish up!!! me too. plastered all over the news channels, people taking pics, and now it has infiltrated the THF and probably TFF
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/27/20 06:53 PM
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Well dang , the thing is standing just as tall as ever.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/27/20 06:58 PM
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When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.
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Re: Crews use wrecking ball to demolish 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
[Re: Tin Head]
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02/28/20 04:19 PM
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