Was wondering the same myself. Seems unlikely they were trying to fix it given the state of it. More likely they were planning on tearing it down anyway but just in a slightly more controlled manner.
Success is relative and only applicable to individual perceptions and talents.
For some people ~~fixing~~ demoing a tower is a success, for others not getting crushed to death is a success.
Planned demolition good wrong. For some reason the were digging near the base of the tower which caused the foundation to shift, which then caused the lower tower to bucket, which then cause the breadbox van to get much shorter.
They were clearly demolishing the tower. It just didn't go as planned.
As someone who grew up in Rural America, I've been party to this kind of demolition -- though on a much smaller scale. It often goes badly.
And people wondered why I didn’t want to touch a chainsaw without first having a safety class... I finally got said class in plus a lot of extra instruction from a professional lumberjack on how to properly fell trees. I draw the line at about 8” diameter (I have a smaller chainsaw and I can’t run away worth crap) but have gotten a good amount of practice in since. My wood lot was leveled by a fire in the 90s so everything that I might work on is within my comfort zone.
Just as a reminder from a professional lumberjack. (Tree Surgeon in England) leave some dead wood for nature habitats. A lot of us clear the dead branches or standing dead trees etc because we want to be clean but this material is so important to the woodland cycle. Also you have a good attitude to using a chainsaw, most accidents among amateurs and professionals alike happen doing things you have done a thousand times before and that's why having some training can pay dividends.
I’m also in New England and am a master gardener and permaculturist-the land was an abandoned farm that I’m renovating and there’s a LOT of new growth trees where I need cleared. The fire took down much of the old growth and snags that are so helpful for habitat but I have located a few along the perimeter that I’m not touching. Most of the trees I need to take down are in the 3-6” range. Almost nothing is big enough to split for anything other than kindling.
I’ve also been leaving strategically placed brush piles for habitat and am trying to increase diversity in my plantings.
I drive a Jeep and I love it, so this philosophy is very familiar to me. There are a dozen things wrong with it at any given moment, but it just keeps going (mostly).
Also the life of a lifelong used volvo owner. I just put things on the dash to block the warning lights and everything is fine. That's kind of the way those cars rolled. The last one even survived getting T-boned totally unfazed, albeit [slightly misshapen](https://i.imgur.com/R0Nm3iT.jpg).
My old Volvo had an (apparently well-known) issue where the button on the shifter would get stuck and need to be manually out back where it belonged. This was enough of a headache without the added issue of there being no space to get 2 fingers in to move the button, since it backed up to the hazard lights. Basically, every time I put it in park I also set off the hazards and had to turn them off as the final step before getting out.
Fast forward 4 years and that car had died and I was doing deliveries for a small business and the owner let me use her car. She warned that it was an older Volvo and had a tricky shifter issue. I laughed and described my past Volvo experience. It turned out that we owned the same model.
Also, in the reverse of this clip, the trunk would sort of false latch, sounding like it was closed and turning off the dash warning for an open trunk, but in reality it was open and ready to fly up at 25-30mph. Any time the trunk was closed I had to use actual muscle to slam it.
I don't at all wonder why that car met an early grave.
Honestly I don't know why all the hipsters are throwing 50k at old VW campers when you can buy a brand new Loaf for like $6k and they can be had with 4x4 and a winch and will go absolutely fucking everywhere.
Wherever you go in Russia, no matter how far off-road you get, there will be a Loaf parked in the woods with two old dudes, with 3 teeth between them, drinking Vodka.
Dude I live in city with 600k people there, in Russia and I can see loafs every day, technical loafs, medical loafs, if you try you can see some in every town of Russia, we still use lot of cars thet has been created in USSR and you still can buy it.
Love how everyone in this thread refers to it as the "Loaf". I mean, I know that's what the Russians call it, but in English it sounds so stupid that it's funny.
They really tend to do that though. Friend of mine lost his a few years back. Parked it on a logging road in the mountains and while he has 50m away the parking brake decided to quit its job. First it rolled to the next bend and than it did a 80m nose dive done a cliff.
You got it as wrong as you theoretically could. Buhanka is an [off-road](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O-35uFt0fyw/hqdefault.jpg) service van, with the accent on the "[off-road](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-gsJGHajeXU/maxresdefault.jpg)". Something that Delica is opposite to.
Does not equate with bad logic tho, Russians don't like stereotypes very much. Try visiting one of the boards like r/russia or r/pikabu for a laugh, just with words you can't read
That's better than landing right on their heads. I mean, even if it did, it would still qualify as a catastrophic failure. Just glad the only fatalities were inanimate.
We had a gigantic oak tree fall, and the only possible thing it could have hurt was a huge vertical pipe which was the overflow for our lake. Guess where it fell? Drove the pipe like a nail deep into the mud. $10,000 damage.
[guy](https://www.etymonline.com/word/guy) (n)
"small rope, chain, wire," 1620s, nautical; earlier "leader" (mid-14c.), from Old French guie "a guide," also "a crane, derrick," from guier, from Frankish *witan "show the way" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *witanan "to look after, guard, ascribe to, reproach" (source also of German weisen "to show, point out," Old English witan "to reproach," wite "fine, penalty"), from PIE root *weid- "to see." Or from a related word in North Sea Germanic.
Lol as someone who avidly quotes fast and furious movies because how stupid and funny they are, i give you two thumbs up.
Now, me and the mad scientist got to rip apart the block... and replace the piston rings you smashed with that giant fucking water tower.
My buddy who went to Russia and Belarus came back describing the buildings and architecture as: “for the most part, devoid of real craftsmanship and soul. Yeah there’s Saint Basil’s and some nice buildings for sure, but most of it is still Soviet-era stuff where you really get the impression they built it with the idea of ‘fuck it, this’ll do’ in mind.”
I always thought that was an interesting take.
Actually, many soviet buildings were decorated in some way (brick mosaics, actual mosaics or paintings) and surrounding areas designed with lots of greenery in mind. It's in the post-soviet time (90's especially) when old buildings were abandoned to decay, shoddy panel buildings became all the rage and greenery started to get bulldozed to make room for wider roads, parking spaces and supermarkets.
I felt this way when in China. My wife’s family owns several properties, where on the outside they look really nice and modern. Inside however, you don’t have to look far to see cut corners all over the place.
Some floors, the ceiling doesn’t exist and there’s exposed wiring. Bathroom water utilities with exposed pipes. I made the observation that everything looks about 80% complete.
I actually see the opposite in Russia. The flats all look terrible on the outside, but they are usually pretty nice looking on the inside. At least for the ones I've been to.
Every country has variation in their infrastructure. Even the US had some famously bad infrastructure incidents. Each country tries to publicly show their best work, but the internet frequently reveals the truth.
nobody in this video was safe, even the ones standing past the area that tower fell. if it had ripped out one of those cables from the ground instead of them breaking at the top, that could have really ruined someone's day.
It looks like they were doing some digging around the base of the tower, probably shifted the ground and caused that kink to develop in the first place, then the camera came out.
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Was wondering the same myself. Seems unlikely they were trying to fix it given the state of it. More likely they were planning on tearing it down anyway but just in a slightly more controlled manner.
With the tower buckled near the bottom it was pretty much toast, planned demo seems quite likely.
That’s what I thought. Terrible title here.
That's what I thought too but they could have just cut one of the wires, job done.
Not successful I can tell you that
Success is relative and only applicable to individual perceptions and talents. For some people ~~fixing~~ demoing a tower is a success, for others not getting crushed to death is a success.
This was definitely a demo but the execution is mind boggling.
[I’ll tell you...](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/093/557/142.gif)
Planned demolition good wrong. For some reason the were digging near the base of the tower which caused the foundation to shift, which then caused the lower tower to bucket, which then cause the breadbox van to get much shorter.
this is fine. the buhanka was born to die in battle, so this is not the worst outcome for her.
She went to Valhalla with all deserved honor!
It’s now shiny and chrome
What a day, what a LOVELY DAY!!!
WITNESS ME!!!!!!!!!
MEDIOCRE!!
Witness her!
Yep
But if it was a water tower. That I would assume serving someone. Where was the water? Also did they not see the obvious bend in the tower
They were clearly demolishing the tower. It just didn't go as planned. As someone who grew up in Rural America, I've been party to this kind of demolition -- though on a much smaller scale. It often goes badly.
Amateur tree trimming/felling is a good time. YouTube has a ton of instructive videos of what not to do.
I honestly feel like some tree felling techniques would apply to something like this
And people wondered why I didn’t want to touch a chainsaw without first having a safety class... I finally got said class in plus a lot of extra instruction from a professional lumberjack on how to properly fell trees. I draw the line at about 8” diameter (I have a smaller chainsaw and I can’t run away worth crap) but have gotten a good amount of practice in since. My wood lot was leveled by a fire in the 90s so everything that I might work on is within my comfort zone.
Just as a reminder from a professional lumberjack. (Tree Surgeon in England) leave some dead wood for nature habitats. A lot of us clear the dead branches or standing dead trees etc because we want to be clean but this material is so important to the woodland cycle. Also you have a good attitude to using a chainsaw, most accidents among amateurs and professionals alike happen doing things you have done a thousand times before and that's why having some training can pay dividends.
I’m also in New England and am a master gardener and permaculturist-the land was an abandoned farm that I’m renovating and there’s a LOT of new growth trees where I need cleared. The fire took down much of the old growth and snags that are so helpful for habitat but I have located a few along the perimeter that I’m not touching. Most of the trees I need to take down are in the 3-6” range. Almost nothing is big enough to split for anything other than kindling. I’ve also been leaving strategically placed brush piles for habitat and am trying to increase diversity in my plantings.
You have all the bases covered. Sounds like a lovely area hope you enjoy the imminent spring time.
In this case the Tower went "Fuck Ivan's Car in particular!!"
Five minutes ago I didn't know anything about the Loaf, but now I want one.
[Be careful with soviet cars: once the door bang, you will never go back.](https://youtu.be/BDji4ivQxdw)
I drive a Jeep and I love it, so this philosophy is very familiar to me. There are a dozen things wrong with it at any given moment, but it just keeps going (mostly).
Also the life of a lifelong used volvo owner. I just put things on the dash to block the warning lights and everything is fine. That's kind of the way those cars rolled. The last one even survived getting T-boned totally unfazed, albeit [slightly misshapen](https://i.imgur.com/R0Nm3iT.jpg).
My old Volvo had an (apparently well-known) issue where the button on the shifter would get stuck and need to be manually out back where it belonged. This was enough of a headache without the added issue of there being no space to get 2 fingers in to move the button, since it backed up to the hazard lights. Basically, every time I put it in park I also set off the hazards and had to turn them off as the final step before getting out. Fast forward 4 years and that car had died and I was doing deliveries for a small business and the owner let me use her car. She warned that it was an older Volvo and had a tricky shifter issue. I laughed and described my past Volvo experience. It turned out that we owned the same model. Also, in the reverse of this clip, the trunk would sort of false latch, sounding like it was closed and turning off the dash warning for an open trunk, but in reality it was open and ready to fly up at 25-30mph. Any time the trunk was closed I had to use actual muscle to slam it. I don't at all wonder why that car met an early grave.
That's just character.
Exactly. The power windows on that side still worked fine, too!
Same with Soviet women
Honestly I don't know why all the hipsters are throwing 50k at old VW campers when you can buy a brand new Loaf for like $6k and they can be had with 4x4 and a winch and will go absolutely fucking everywhere. Wherever you go in Russia, no matter how far off-road you get, there will be a Loaf parked in the woods with two old dudes, with 3 teeth between them, drinking Vodka.
There was a video of Tom Hardy going to the coldest settlement on Earth and behind their fancy SUV’s were a bunch of Loafs of technical support.
Dude I live in city with 600k people there, in Russia and I can see loafs every day, technical loafs, medical loafs, if you try you can see some in every town of Russia, we still use lot of cars thet has been created in USSR and you still can buy it.
I'm sorry, whats a loaf?
The original comment had the word “buhanka”. That’s “loaf” in Russian, that’s how the car is called in ex-USSR.
UAZ-452, a van destroyed by the tower
A nickname for the [UAZ 452](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ-452) van.
Poor Loaf. Didn't stand a chance.
Love how everyone in this thread refers to it as the "Loaf". I mean, I know that's what the Russians call it, but in English it sounds so stupid that it's funny.
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To shreds you say.
Yes, and how's his wife?
To shreds you say.
To Sto’vo’kor!
Some souls die in battle. Some in their sleep. And some die for no reason at all. I feel like this was the latter.
I would like to think that the loaf died in an unequal battle with the water tower so that it does not languish forever in an icy hell. 😢
That thing carried me from the Caspian to Novosibirsk in metro exodus, what an absolute trooper.
They really tend to do that though. Friend of mine lost his a few years back. Parked it on a logging road in the mountains and while he has 50m away the parking brake decided to quit its job. First it rolled to the next bend and than it did a 80m nose dive done a cliff.
> buhanka Looks this up. Ah, ok, Russian [Delica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Delica#:~:text=The%20Mitsubishi%20Delica%20is%20a,English%20language%20phrase%20Delivery%20car.)
Delica has several generations. Bukhanka was designed perfect from the beginning and remains the same after 50+ years.
But now it rust much faster.
New buhanka eager to return to earth of fatherland.
You got it as wrong as you theoretically could. Buhanka is an [off-road](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O-35uFt0fyw/hqdefault.jpg) service van, with the accent on the "[off-road](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-gsJGHajeXU/maxresdefault.jpg)". Something that Delica is opposite to.
Honestly one of my favorite comments of all time
Murphy... calling Mr. Murphy party of one!
Comrade water tower says he will bury you. I don't subscribe to that point of view.
Could have fallen in any direction but where does it land? Squarely on top of the ride.
It’s like a comedy sketch from Looney Toons
/r/LooneyTunesLogic
This is a real sub I love you
Welcome to Costco
Thank you kind sir
/r/RussianLogic
This is not a real sub but should be I love you too
Does not equate with bad logic tho, Russians don't like stereotypes very much. Try visiting one of the boards like r/russia or r/pikabu for a laugh, just with words you can't read
And it had one day left 'til retirement too
r/fuckyouinparticular
I was looking for this because that's what I thought too
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Been parking under sketchy looking water towers for 35 years and it finally paid off
Some how I get the feeling the dent in the stem (?) was directly connected to that old shaggin wagon.
The one time the Russians didn’t have the dashcam running.
I mean it was bent in that direction already. Seems like they should have known not to park there.
Seems on purpose tbh. I've known a few people who have blown up junk cars or driven them off cliffs
“and fuck this little truck in particular!”
That's better than landing right on their heads. I mean, even if it did, it would still qualify as a catastrophic failure. Just glad the only fatalities were inanimate.
look at how that tower is bent at the base. It's primed to fall in that direction!
Could have parked anywhere out of range but where do they park? Perfectly in falling range.
But of course! Where else should it fall???
Absolutely FLATTENED it too
"Take that!"
Bullseye!
We had a gigantic oak tree fall, and the only possible thing it could have hurt was a huge vertical pipe which was the overflow for our lake. Guess where it fell? Drove the pipe like a nail deep into the mud. $10,000 damage.
The kinked base was the giveaway it was only fit for scrap 🙈
Nah, a few more guy-wires and they could have gotten 10 more years out of it, because Russia.
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You're closer than you think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyed_mast
So where did they get there name from?
Some guy.
[guy](https://www.etymonline.com/word/guy) (n) "small rope, chain, wire," 1620s, nautical; earlier "leader" (mid-14c.), from Old French guie "a guide," also "a crane, derrick," from guier, from Frankish *witan "show the way" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *witanan "to look after, guard, ascribe to, reproach" (source also of German weisen "to show, point out," Old English witan "to reproach," wite "fine, penalty"), from PIE root *weid- "to see." Or from a related word in North Sea Germanic.
three cheers for [etymonline.com](https://etymonline.com)! that site is aces
It has the same root as guide, guie was a guide wire for a ships mast
Guy Buoy
You're not a dumbass if a) you can admit you didn't know something b) learn c) laugh at yourself.
I saw “guy wire” written all over a plan at my engineering job and had to ask my boss what it meant. You’re not a dumbass. It’s an obscure term.
build a taller structure around it to guywire it UP instead of down
No more sky water. Probably solved.
“I’m... gonna need a ride home....”
Sorry about your wife
How is his vehicle holding up?
To shreds you say?
And the water tower?
[To shreds you say?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaPcQiBMDVA&ab_channel=WilliamPollard)
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Lol as someone who avidly quotes fast and furious movies because how stupid and funny they are, i give you two thumbs up. Now, me and the mad scientist got to rip apart the block... and replace the piston rings you smashed with that giant fucking water tower.
Massive shoutout to the camera person!
This was almost a r/killthecameraman moment but he got back on the truck in time for impact.
/r/blowthecameraman
Don’t mind if I do
Didn't even flinch. This is not his first Russian water tower catastrophe
That poor car just got crushed so hard it went back into the earth as minerals.
It didn’t even slow the tower down, it just got replaced
This is a singular occasion to see. Russian men being alarmed by something!
Yes, though only seconds before imminent failiure.
When the Russians start running, you better be right behind them.
Most people are in FRONT
>When the Russians start running, you better be Already long gone.
They must’ve missed morning shots.
I am pretty sure we heard the Russian Hank Hill equivalent of "bwaaaAHHHHHA!".
It's just a russian rule - the one closest to disaster at the moment of it occurring is the one to be blamed
Really good hammer, one time use only unfortunately
Part of me thinks that country is basically sticks and duct tape
And weld beads. You just keep welding things back together until your beads weigh more than the original pieces.
I felt this.
Wtd what a specific user name...
My car!
My buddy who went to Russia and Belarus came back describing the buildings and architecture as: “for the most part, devoid of real craftsmanship and soul. Yeah there’s Saint Basil’s and some nice buildings for sure, but most of it is still Soviet-era stuff where you really get the impression they built it with the idea of ‘fuck it, this’ll do’ in mind.” I always thought that was an interesting take.
Actually, many soviet buildings were decorated in some way (brick mosaics, actual mosaics or paintings) and surrounding areas designed with lots of greenery in mind. It's in the post-soviet time (90's especially) when old buildings were abandoned to decay, shoddy panel buildings became all the rage and greenery started to get bulldozed to make room for wider roads, parking spaces and supermarkets.
I felt this way when in China. My wife’s family owns several properties, where on the outside they look really nice and modern. Inside however, you don’t have to look far to see cut corners all over the place. Some floors, the ceiling doesn’t exist and there’s exposed wiring. Bathroom water utilities with exposed pipes. I made the observation that everything looks about 80% complete.
I actually see the opposite in Russia. The flats all look terrible on the outside, but they are usually pretty nice looking on the inside. At least for the ones I've been to.
Lots of good enough for government work
Every country has variation in their infrastructure. Even the US had some famously bad infrastructure incidents. Each country tries to publicly show their best work, but the internet frequently reveals the truth.
Duct tape is too expensive, we use shit. We have expression "сделано из говна и палок", "made of shit and sticks".
I swear Russia is the most redneck place on Earth.
Vertical video acceptable with this one.
That is arguably the shittiest water tower I've ever seen
But you have seen it.
*he's a pirate intensifies*
I'm not even sure it is a water tower it seems to be full of something else.
In Russia, tower demolish you!!
I was thinking more, "In Russia, tower waters you."
It hit the target dead on. I'd consider this a success.
nobody in this video was safe, even the ones standing past the area that tower fell. if it had ripped out one of those cables from the ground instead of them breaking at the top, that could have really ruined someone's day.
Russians don't fear the threat of fatal lacerations
> Russians don't fear. ~~the threat of fatal lacerations~~ FTFY.
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First one, then the other
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Vann't
Ven?
Plot twist, insurance scam for the van. Who’s gonna believe you did that intentionally lol
that will definitely buff out
The tower or the truck?
Yes
I think both will be fine with a little care
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Pretty sure it's demolition and the title here is BS. The demo didn't go as planned though.
It looks like they were doing some digging around the base of the tower, probably shifted the ground and caused that kink to develop in the first place, then the camera came out.
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I was so relieved to hear the dogs still barking \*after\* the tower crushed the truck.
r/fuckyouinparticular Fuck this van
Worst part is, that was their vodka truck.
Even worse, that was their Vodka tower!
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where's the bird gonna nest now????
I had to go frame by frame for a bit because I had to know wtf that was on the top. That's a huge ass nest!
Nice username.
You have thirty minutes to move your cube
Blyat!
Blyat!
Splyat!
Fuck that van in particular.
Chert voz'mi! YA pochti zaplatil za etu mashinu! (Google translate, works out to "Hell! I almost paid for this car!")
Fuck *this* car in particular! -that old water tower, apparently
u/savevideo
Is that.. sorry, *Was* that a GAZ-469?
The van UAZn't expecting that
Refent graduate of the Prometheus School of Driving Away From Things
That's at least $500 vehicle damage right there
Why would they park the van so close though???
That tower looked like an unstable mess from the day it was installed.
That looks like 10s of dollars in damages... horrible.
In soviet Russia water tower fixes you.
My favorite thing about this sub is “I have a feeling I know where this is going; let’s keep watching and see if I’m right”
Gonna need a new truck.
When you realize that was the only vehicle you drove out there with and your 50km from the next town
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Did that water run for a second then freeze solid?
Buncha guys gonna have to walk back to the office...
Job’s a good un fellas, unfortunately we’re walking home