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Digdug · #1 (**permalink**) 10-26-2006, 06:45 PM

Hello everyone- This forum sounds like a great idea to exchange information about different methods or ideas . I am a small excavation and demolition contractor in Maine . A majority of our demo jobs are houses, barns, mobile homes, and concrete removal. Heres a pic of a house we tore down last winter all by hand becuase the general contractor wanted to save the junk foundation . Only when it was all down did he decide for us to take it out and install a new one.

Digdug · #2 (**permalink**) 10-26-2006, 06:47 PM

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**James** · #3 (**permalink**) 10-27-2006, 07:38 AM

Welcome to Demolition Forum!

We're glad your are here.

James

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all by hand becuase the general contractor wanted to save the junk foundation . Only when it was all down did he decide for us to take it out and install a new one

Isn't that how it always goes?

Digdug · #4 (**permalink**) 10-27-2006, 01:31 PM

Hi James.

Yes , it was another brief case contractor that knows more about my job than me.

doug

demobud · #5 (**permalink**) 10-27-2006, 01:59 PM

Howdy, Doug! Welcome to the forum!

I guess we already met in another post...

Digdug · #6 (**permalink**) 10-27-2006, 07:05 PM

Hi demobud. What part of the world are u in ?

blast1 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 07:18 PM

Welcome Digdug! I actually enjoy the forum because it is appropriately moderated.
You'll find a great array of professionals who will help you but not give trade secrets.

demobud · #8 (**permalink**) 10-29-2006, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Digdug

Hi demobud. What part of the world are u in ?

Birmingham, Alabamy; but I dig your part of the world, especially over near Castine.

blast1 · #9 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 07:29 PM

demobud,
I shot the Days Inn where you are. Enron was just finished across the street. There was a historic hotel across the street and the Public Library on the other side. I did it for ol' Harold Hudgins. Great area. I have a good friend at Birmingham Powder, Steve Winsor.

demobud · #10 (**permalink**) 11-08-2006, 07:00 AM

I remember Harold, one of my ex-coworkers at DH Griffin worked for Hudgins for many years. I wasn't able to make it to Harold's funeral though, I'll always regret that.
I watched that shot in Bham. That was the old Essex House right across the street from the Tutwiler Hotel. I was working with Steve Pettigrew at the time and we had bid on that job with Levy Wrecking from out of Nashville. I watched the shot from a lawyer friends office. We had a great view from above the top of the episcopal church. It was nicely done shot. I do remember you had to cover the new facade of the Library; man that must have been a cause for concern!