There goes the profit on that job...

[Ed Pawlowski]

"aemeijers" wrote

Same way you ties off anything. A big assed cable around it secured to the ground, a tank, another building.

Even if you only have

It may not make it fall in the intended direction, but it can help keep it away from unintended consequences, like the power lines. They could have gotten it inside of a 220 degree (or so) arc and had a miss.

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Did the guys climb up those narrow wood ladders tied together? That is how they did some work on the stack in our building, about 120 feet or so. Took down the top courses and re-built it. Scary just to watch them climb.

[hallerb]

how about inserting a long steel pipe into the smokestack and using the crane to keep tension on the stack from far away?

[krw]

And lose a crane, too.

[DanG]

Have any of you idiots read that this stack is 300 feet??? You would be pretty hard pressed to get a rope, chain, or cable that long. You'd play billy hell getting up on that stack. What on earth would you pull it with that would have a chance of outrunning it?

[Oren]

Sure I did.

I keep asking myself if a micro-burst of wind had any bearing on this stack falling in the wrong direction?

Can always blame shift on the weather.

[Oren]

You are serious!

300 feet of pipe. Right? How big is this pipe? How long is your intended cable?

Good luck with that program.

[Kurt Ullman]

The chains, etc for the most part aren't to anything outside. They are usually from the part that is going to be blown up to the part that isn't so the part that isn't is pulled down by the falling the part that is.

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