Ogden grain elevator implosion (video)

The best implosion videos are always the ones that have been planned beforehand with multiple camera angles and using cameras good enough to make slow-motion feasible. This grain elevator implosion is one such example.

The elevator has been standing in Calgary for 98 years, but that was brought to an end at the weekend due to it being too expensive to maintain. Owner Cargill decided the only thing to do was raise it to the ground. The work was carried out by Rakowski Cartage and Wrecking Ltd.

With the fun bit over, the site clean up is expected to take until February next year to complete.

Source: CTV.ca, via DemolitionNews

Prairie Sentinel implosion

The video above shows the implosion of a grain elevator that stood in the town of Oyen, north of Medicine Hat near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.

Thought to have been erected in the 1930s, these elevators are better known as Prairie Sentinels. At the height of their use there were around 6,000 across the Prairies, but as with this one, most are now being demolished to make way for new construction.

Source: Global TVBC, via Demolition News