Demolation

Started back on the school I was demolishing last year. Here's a few pictures before I got started and when I started today.

That poor brick building! What going to in it's place?

City owned it, the flat roof had gone bad and was cost prohibitive to fix. The one with the white on the left hand side is actually a nice building but to to make it in to like a community building and meet state and fed codes won't work. This is a small town of a 1000 people with no extra money, I cut them a real good deal just to help them out as this is the area I have lived my whole life. Went to school there and got my ars whipped a few times in that building. The dirt area is where the gym was I took down last year. Farmers in the area are paying my trucking for the brick and hammered up concrete which helps a lot. With dumpster fees and my bill minus the hauling of material I got the gym down and hauled away for under 25,000. Sometimes it's not about making a bunch of money but just trying to be a decent neighbor. There are no grants to fix these building but if they have a clean lot it looks like they could get grants to build a new community building. Government at it's best.

gwhammy said: City owned it, the flat roof had gone bad and was cost prohibitive to fix. The one with the white on the left hand side is actually a nice building but to to make it in to like a community building and meet state and fed codes won't work. This is a small town of a 1000 people with no extra money, I cut them a real good deal just to help them out as this is the area I have lived my whole life. Went to school there and got my ars whipped a few times in that building. The dirt area is where the gym was I took down last year. Farmers in the area are paying my trucking for the brick and hammered up concrete which helps a lot. With dumpster fees and my bill minus the hauling of material I got the gym down and hauled away for under 25,000. Sometimes it's not about making a bunch of money but just trying to be a decent neighbor. There are no grants to fix these building but if they have a clean lot it looks like they could get grants to build a new community building. Government at it's best. Click to expand... seeing this makes me wonder if the little 2 rm. school I started in 70 yrs ago us still standing

Lots of schools around here got sold and people turned them into shops and/offices or houses. Done of them turned out pretty cool houses. There's one by McCook NE that's really cool and nice. I know 2 oilfield companies that bought a school in a small town, way smaller than 1000. Building was smaller too.

They had a church that wanted it years ago to make into a low income housing. It would have been in the same shape or worse if that would have happened.I see schools around in small towns that are abandoned and getting in bad shape. They didn't want that to happen on main street in town. The flat roof was the main problem with way to high to fix. We have almost no industry around here, houses are mostly being bought up with people from St. Louis for a weekend or retirement. I'd say half are weekend or retirement places.

Good job GW! It's amazing you could do that for under $25K for cost much less O&P. Just a WAG but I would've charged $75-100K retail. Of course pricing is a local thing with many different variables to take into account. Good for you for helping the city out. We're you able to haul the hard core - brick, block, concrete, etc. somewhere other than the landfill? Or did it all go into roll-offs? Be honest did have a little grin on your face taking down the building your assed was beat in.

All concrete and bricks have gone to farmers so far. I haul and they pay trucking. All trucking is paid directly to the city. I'm actually a hourly worker for the town and they rent my equipment by the hour at one price for all. I charge my regular rate for excavator and get the same price for dump truck and work whatever hours I want. Good gig for a 62 year old man 2 miles from my house. This is a drone view of the three buildings being torn down and you can tell where I took the gym out last year.

Got it. That's a great deal for the city and a nice job for you close to home.

22 hours into this job down to the slab with brick and wood sorted along with concrete to break rebar out of and steel in a pile. Still have the smokestack to push over then the grind of jackhammering, loading and hauling.