How NOT to demolish a chimney

Here at C&D we have been involved in a number of chimney demolitions over the years (and some that did not go exactly to plan) and we always have a plan B just in case.

As this film shows, explosives do not always do the job. So often an excavator is part of that plan B, but the excavator needs to be tall enough to reach the top of the chimney, have a competent trained driver and a demolition engineer must write the method statement, none of which actually happened.

This driver is very stupid and very, very lucky.

Life is too short as it is without dropping a brick chimney on your head. Think before you Act.

You can watch another video complete with a full explanation of what happened over on Facebook.