Video Bonanza: Here’s The Right Way To Take Down Smoke Stacks


Video Bonanza: Here’s The Right Way To Take Down Smoke Stacks

The science of destroying things is something that has fascinated people for hundreds of years. In an illustration of the true Yin and Yang of life, for every construction contractor there needs to be someone in the destruction business to undo that work and clear it out for the next project.

Demolition work is big business in the USA and there are some huge and well known contractors that handle the work. On the one hand it is sad that we are taking down the reminders of a nation that once lead the world in the industrial sense, but in another way it is cool that we are reinventing ourselves. When smoke stacks come down it means that there was a factory of some sort in that location or perhaps a power generation station. There are lots of reasons and styles of stacks but there’s one inevitable truth, they all have a lifespan.

These videos below show a multitude of ways to take a smoke stack down. From dynamite to a jackhammer and a 2×8 board we see these huge concrete and brick towers come down.

Watch the videos below and stay low!

 Watch the videos below to see what a smoke stack take down is supposed to look like


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One thought on “Video Bonanza: Here’s The Right Way To Take Down Smoke Stacks

  1. Chaun Benfield

    This Reminds me of the movie Hooper that we must have watched a hundred times over the years along with many others with our friends,

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