I find ways to abuse my old ’66 F-100 in endless ways. But I had a little job this weekend that needed a bit more muscle than its 240 cubic inch six would muster. Time to call in the big guns. Can you guess what it’s doing?
Taking down the remaining frame of the old farm house down the street. My helper spent several weeks salvaging anything that might be re-usable, and cleaning out anything other than just the wood to be recycled. Now it just needed to all come down. The solution: wrap a long steel cable around various key parts, and yank on it. But not with my Ford, no thank you. Let it be someone else’s new Ram truck.
I just bought a new camera, and this happened at seven AM on Saturday, so I was not up to snuff on my recording at all. I missed the best pulls of the truck; the video at the top was one of his most gentle pulls. He just slammed it a few times against the cable, with the truck jerking sideways and painful sounds emitting from it. I kept my distance too, lest something go flying.
This whole process took almost two hours, as the cable had to be repositioned after each pull. First, the roof dropped onto the second floor, then eventually that all dropped to the first, and then the old block foundation was yanked out from under it to drop it into the basement. Here’s before and after shots (actually, the after is before the foundation was yanked). I missed that.
Isn’t a Ram supposed to butt into it head-first?
You really should have that old Inter you wanted perfect plenty of weight and traction for this momentum is the key and a real good cable. Plenty of work doing this in Cristchurch NZ at the mo the whole town is falling down
Very cool! Looks like a nice piece of property there too.
What was the trailer for, did they use a skid steer for the final cleanup?
It’s one of the nicest lots in this part of town, given how close in in it is, and yet surrounded on two side by a 2 acre “meadow” preserved from any future development. And it’s two legal lots, which was another reason to tear the house down.
The trailer was for hauling in a tractor and small excavator, which is pulling out the wood to haul to the wood recycling facility, and then the foundation will be pulled out and hauled to an old quarry being filled in.We may likely build on it.
Sounds like a sweet slice of land for sure! One of these days I’ll load the dogs up and make my way back up to the PNW. I’m a bit afraid that, like you did, I won’t leave.
Ive been eyeballing some property in western Il/eastern Ia that shares borders with unoficially protected farmland.
Paul, was the video done with your Panasonic Lumix FH-25K (as seen in the REO speedo) or with an entirely different new camera? If it was the Lumix, I can’t wait to get mine then! I just ordered one. 🙂
It’s a Lumix FH-27. Have had it for a couple of weeks, but hadn’t even thought about shooting video. Then these guys show up at seven on Saturday morning. I’m still struggling with the touch screen…I’m getting old, but I refuse to try to learn new tech.
I loved my Lumix FS5; shot over 2000 cars with it. But I carry it in my pants pocket, and dirt ad dust kept getting in. I took it apart as couple of time to blow out the debris from the sensor (brain surgery); helped the first couple of times, but now it just won’t clear up. And the whole picture was getting a bit hazy.
The FH-27 has a bigger 8x optical zoom, which is nice, but it also means the camera is just a bit thicker and heavier than the old one, which I regret a bit.