Great Story, Blast!

It's nice when the Kids want to go in the biz.

I have demolished many, many structures in every imaginable situation. I've blown down over a 1,000 structures, tripped some pretty hairy ones and dismantled them too! I always reminisce about how I was able to work on the job when I was 12 years old! How I accidentally burned down structures for my Dad and took houses down by hand. Starting my own company at 19 was pretty gutsy.

The thrills come from seeing your children reap the rewards of hard work passed down...that's right...hard work! We just tripped 5-150' stacks off of a 125'tall powerhouse. My 20 year old son said " dad, this was more fun than implosions ". He had a sincere look of being thrilled. Of course making 20k for the work was quite rewarding also, thank God.

I'm sure us seniors in the business could go on and on!

demobud said:
James, you remind me of when I was a kid and building Snaptite models of cars, then stuffing them with sterno gel and staging horriffic crashes. could be there's something in the genes?

Maybe there is something in the water??

wolf said:
What kind of equipment were they using? Did you talk to them and did they show you around the equipment and jobsite?

They were using a couple of dozers along with some cables to basicully pull down the building. I didn't get to walk around because there was a fence all they way around the property.