8 Story Building Moved 90° - No Gore, Just Cool AF (1 Viewer)

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Stumbled across this and thought it was pretty cool.

 

[Theseus]

Ok that’s pretty impressive 😂

 

[Flapper]

Now... if we can move it just a wee bit too fit that new McDonald's...

 

[DokraOwl]

People in the Industrial Age be like

 

[drdoom93]

Damn…that’s cool!

 

[McM]

I'm just reading a book about Moscow in the 1930s and they did the same back then. To get houses out of way when they enlarged Red Square, Kremlin, etc.
But I don't know any details or if everything went well, the book has a different topic.

 

[yotgguitar]

That was a different time for sure..... people were still working inside during the move..... today everything is so over regulated and permitted this couldn't be done..... it's a prime example how Americans and America have been infiltrated by evil animals who purposely limit mankind's abilities....
Had these evil forces been banished from this country there's really no telling how advanced we would be by now..... self limiting laws and regulations have destroyed this country and it's people...

 

[Unhinged & mildly racist]

I’m currently in the middle of restoring a building built in 1906 I love my job

 

[Collins]

Stumbled across this and thought it was pretty cool.

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11000tons, and they moved it without a scratch 👍👍👍 now we know for sure that’s how they built the pyramids, inch by inch 🤣

 

[Unhinged & mildly racist]

11000tons, and they moved it without a scratch 👍👍👍 now we know for sure that’s how they built the pyramids, inch by inch 🤣

What if they built the pyramids underground and over thousands of years the movement of the sand dunes has unearthed them.

 

[-ToGGaF-]

Thats really cool, I wouldn't mind more ungory posts like this

 

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Aside from the amazing engineering to move the building its also all the infrastructure. Its impressive to think about the power, nat gas, water & sewer but also all the connectivity given this was an major telephone exchange. Every subscriber/customer's line was a pair of copper wires. So 10,000 customers, 10,000 pairs of wires....plus all the additional lines required to connect this exchange to other exchanges to provide access to local and long distance markets.

 

[Mark328]

Would of been a great smear if someone was stuck underneath

 

[McM]

Aside from the amazing engineering to move the building its also all the infrastructure. Its impressive to think about the power, nat gas, water & sewer but also all the connectivity given this was an major telephone exchange. Every subscriber/customer's line was a pair of copper wires. So 10,000 customers, 10,000 pairs of wires....plus all the additional lines required to connect this exchange to other exchanges to provide access to local and long distance markets.

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And the wires led to hundreds of these mechanical/electric dialers.. we renewed the air condition for the Telekom in the '90s in Munich once; was a big hall full of these turning, clicking, and buzzing devices. Quite loud.. and warm, because the stuff was partly made of silver and needed constantly 26°C and a certain atmosphere/climate, one of the Telekom guys told me.

 

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Kind of related, the raising of Chicago. As an aside this Qxir guy is pretty funny & produces some good shit.