Fastest way to take down a dutch barn
- Thread starter Simmy
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Simmy
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Digger and telehandler on site. Thought about just pulling it over. Then dealing with it on the floor
Tbh if you can find a friendly scrappy with a grab/crane on their lorry on the floor is easier. They may even help you out with the gas axe if your not chasing the scrap money. Used to do a lot of petrol station canopy dismantling all done while up was a pig and time consuming always wished it was on the floor especially when the old man came home with my shiny transit covered in rust! He had been grinding the canopy and left it parked underneath ?
Simmy
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Thought about that but I'm getting a steel frame building for nothing and I told my mate he can have the scrap for helping
Work out your local yards £ per ton on scrap. The headache and extra work would probably make it worthwhile paying your mate some pound notes rather than give him the scrap it’s painful handing out money when there’s other options but now think how many discs your going to burn through getting through rsj and such. It’s not that clean cut but worth a thought
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Why scrap it, when you can sell them, !!
you’d be surprised what people buy and pay,
Where are you ?
regards
you’d be surprised what people buy and pay,
Where are you ?
regards
- Location
- Somerset
Did one 15 years ago on the farm. Cut the hook bolts off from below and pushed the roof off the end as one piece with the telehandler. Lots of the gutter bolts joining sheets pulled through when it hit the ground.
Didn't take long, not sure it's the safest though.
Didn't take long, not sure it's the safest though.
- Location
- Worcestershire
Work smarter not harder ?
- Location
- North West Wales
Notch all the stanchions up to the web at ground level and push/ pull it over!!!
Simmy
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At penrith cumbria pal. Needs to be down as scaffold is getting put up in 2 week around the barn
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Fill it with (insured) too damp / hot hay?
Having replaced a few roofs with the heavy snow 10 years back, I'd take it down the proper way. Dealing with twisted crows nest of metal takes just as long.
deleted user 837354
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Get a 360 and a demolition shear and chop it all into bits and put it in a big roll on-roll off metal skip from the scrapper? Be done in a morning surely and the operator could probably sort the materials as he goes. No hand work. No risk of accidents. Even a 13 tonner will have enough to reach to get a dutch barn chopped up and brought down in modest peices?
womble8350
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- Location
- York
It’s alright suggesting just pushing it over what about the roof material? Is it asbestos? I would not want to be picking up all the bits when it’s been pushed to the floor. Tin roof different story.
- Location
- Worcestershire
I’ve done a couple best is as above cut hook bolts off roof get it to the floor in big ish pieces. Frame cut the bolts gas axe take down pieces at a time. Tried ripping one down don’t do that it. There tougher than you think and you end up cutting it up any way but it gets twisted and spring loaded.
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Seen a video somewhere, where they took the side sheets off, notched all the legs at ground level, and pushed it over, roof was there tidy on the ground ready to work on.
- Location
- North West Wales
That’s how ours was pulled down, I just remember it on the ground like a giant pig ark!!!
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- asbestos operator telehandler