Boom Blunder (Sioux Falls implosion fails) (KELO-TV)

[Up2Late]

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<http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail5440.cfm?Id=0,44377>

12/03/2005
Boom Blunder



What was supposed to be a simple implosion turned out to be a bit of a blunder. The Zip Feed Mill destruction is not over.

The building is still standing after a scheduled set of blasts on the east part of the structure failed to topple the structure. The building tilted to the east and dropped about thirty feet before stopping where it sits now.

Henry Carlson Project Manager Eric Schuler says. “The building sat down into the basement.”

Schuler says crews will attempt to finish the demolition Monday with more conventional methods. Wrecking balls will be used to finish the job.

Jeremy Moser

<http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail5440.cfm?Id=0,44377>
(see Video at link above)

[MADem]

1. Ooops, it's a Leaning Feed Tower of South Dakota!! n/t

[Up2Late]

2. Yep, they sure don' t build them like that any more.

:hide:

[tanyev]

3. Call it a tourist attraction and open some bed and breakfasts!

[Warpy]

4. Thanks for posting why those WTC conspiracy stories are so

silly. Controlled implosions aren't that easy in the best of circumstances and require weeks of planning, drilling, setting explosives, wiring, and timing the whole business.

To suggest that it could have been done in a matter of minutes in a burning and heavily damaged building is beyond silly.

To suggest that the explosions and fires wouldn't have detonated explosives placed there with astonishing prescience 30 years earlier is just as silly.

I feel sorry for the team that accomplished the leaning grain tower. That thing will now be extemely dangerous to redo because I imagine the interior was heavily damaged by the failed attempt.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Maybe they should have flown

a 767 into it? The building would have imploded on it's own footprint in less then an hour.

[Junkdrawer]

7. ...or they could have thrown some debris at it like WTC7...

and it would have fallen straight down too. :eyes:

[Up2Late]

11. Those conspiracy theories are created by scam artist, hoping to...

...sell books and video tapes to the 30% who will believe just about anything. Same people who will try to convince you that the Moon landings were faked.

The biggest problem is they have very little concept of how big those buildings actually were, each one sat on One Full acre of land, and each floor was an acre of concrete which is a lot of weight, which depended on the rigidity of it's unique and unconventional engineering.

But that's not the subject of this news item. That conversation best reserved for the 9/11 Group.

[oneighty]

13. Amen to that

180

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

6. Can't my home city do anything right?

:shrug:

[niallmac]

9. It can build pretty damn tough grain towers.n/t

[Up2Late]

12. They ran into the same type of trouble in my home town when...

...they went to tear down the old YMCA building back in the 1970's. When they finally busted through the exterior wall with the wrecking ball, they found the walls were almost 3 feet thick.

Just as well though, they never could have gotten rid of that stale B.O/Sweat smell that building had inside. It must have penetrated the masonry.:freak:

[Qanisqineq]

8. I think they should keep it

It looks kinda cute. And it doesn't seem to want to go anywhere. It would be more interesting to visit than a huge ball of twine. At least there's a story and a video.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Throw dynamite sticks into the windows

Torpedo it
Slice across it with a machine gun

[mike_c]

14. what is that strange white material all over the ground in the photo...?

:rofl:

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Why did this thread get buried in the SD forum?

What a bunch of crap.

[Broke Dad]

16. Like a lot of things in South Dakota - on the cheap

The Zip Feed Mill demolition is like a lot of things in South Dakota, done on the cheap and then has to be redone. The old Governor's mansion is just one example.

The closure and now demolition of the mill is another, if not final sign regarding the demise of the medium sized family farmer who fed a few cattle, raised some hogs and had a bunch of laying hens and feed them Zip Feed. We now have acreages with 4-H sized operations and mega-farms. Too bad for little South Dakota communities that are not along I-29 or I-90. Interior South Dakota towns, or Minnesota or Iowa for that matter look like ghost towns. Driving along Hwy 14 and back on 34 recently reinforced where all the new people in Sioux Falls are coming from. They are coming from farming communities like DeSmet and Howard.

Let Janklow ram the Zip Feed Mill with his car to knock it the rest of the way down.