Re: Demolish Silo Hints?

Posted by B.C on July 25, 2000 at 06:03:28 from (131.167.75.193):

In Reply to: Demolish Silo Hints? posted by Diesel Dan on July 24, 2000 at 19:42:38:

Well how big a mess do you want and how much time and money is getting shut of the thing worth?

As a former silo professional, I recall that there were several ways to demolish empty cement stave silos. If it's got bands (rods) around it that would seem to be what you have.

a. The slow way...run a staging up the thing, disassemble the roof if it has one, then (carefully) remove the rods one round (tier) at a time, gently tap unrodded staves with a sledge and look out below. Sand around the bottom would help preserve the staves if they're worth saving and if you want to market them.

b. The quick way...making sure of where you want to drop the thing, take a sledge hammer to the bottom staves along the outside in the general direction of where you want the mess. This is like chopping down a tree. Progress along the periphery until you hear an ominous rumble, then split but quick. You may want to have an assistant videotaping the event from a safe vantage point. Major mess to clean up when the dust settles. Hopefully everyone in the vicinity will live through it, and no nearby structures will be squished. Not much resale there, except perhaps to modern artist.

c. Pretty quick way...Suffiently long cable hooked to the top of the tub down to suitable tow vehicle. Big dozer is the obvious, but a large tractor pulling a truck (truck acts as clump weight so tractor tires don't get unloaded) also works. Aftermath is equivalent to b. above. You will definitely want that cable to be sufficiently long.

All in all it would appear that option c. is perhaps the quickest and safest for what you have. The remaining stub could be cleaned up with perhaps a crawler mounted backhoe. I'm assuming that the silage goes up 15 or 20 feet from what you describe.

Be safe.

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