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Got started early, when I was twelve or so my Dad demo'd one ofthe last Liberty Ships down to 20 feet above water line and then sunk it off Navarre Beach Florida. I still have aporthole from the ship somewhere in storage.
Later in life I went to look at a blimp hanger that had burned outside of Elizabeth City NC. All that was left were four massive columns that you could see for a mile around the area. I didn't get that one though, I don't remember who did.
I nearly got bombed while working for the Dept of the Navy cleaning up targets. My pickup was the same color as the targets. A real D'oh moment.
Probably an old freighter that had been sunk for 17 years. It was full of asbestos and oils and chemicals so it was a real delight. We even had to dredge the mud around it and carry to a disposal sight. We used a 30 ton guillotine to chop it into pieces and a 400 ton sheerleg to lift the pieces to shore for abatement and scrapping.
I have a couple weird / difficult projects we have done:
1. weird... We loaded out 120 cy out of a 2 bedroom apartment. Seems the lady had an obsession with collecting free items. Just a mess. We walked in: one path to the bathroom, the rest of the apartment was floor to ceiling. Thank God it was just mainly clothes and no food products. Took the fridge, strapped it closed and dumped it.
2. Difficult... We do alot of hospital work. Had an emergency demo job in an operating room suite... Required to erect a tunnel from the operating room to a "dirty area" for load out...while we performed the demo the adjacent suite was completing an open heart surgery...we could view the surgery through a small gap in the tape at the viewing window... all demo had to be done by hand... no power tools etc., even crew communication had to be at a wisper...It was well worth it... as we continue to do work in this hospital today.
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AMC Demolition, Inc. www.amcdemo.com
Probably an old freighter that had been sunk for 17 years. It was full of asbestos and oils and chemicals so it was a real delight. We even had to dredge the mud around it and carry to a disposal sight. We used a 30 ton guillotine to chop it into pieces and a 400 ton sheerleg to lift the pieces to shore for abatement and scrapping.
It took 17 years for them to remove it? Loved to see more pictures of that project.
It took 17 years for them to remove it? Loved to see more pictures of that project.
It took seventeen years to get the .gov off their petards to fund removing the wreck. After we finally got the go-ahead, the project took about two weeks, including the abatement. I actually posted some pics from that project here somewhere, I think. Maybe I didn't but I will drop a few into my photo-album.
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