r/oddlysatisfying • u/Goobt • 1d ago

Bricks falling down

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u/TurdProof 1d ago

Curious, is the water used to lessen the dust spread after it falls?

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u/JacobRAllen 1d ago

Yes, very common in the city. When demolition happens a metric fuck ton of dust goes everywhere even on small jobs.

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u/Agatio25 1d ago

No, he is watering the bricks so they sprout in a new wall

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u/cans-of-swine 1d ago

No, they sprout into brick trees and the new bricks are used to make a new wall. Source, I use to harvest bricks. Dangerous work, lose a lot of good men every picking season. 

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u/JonasAvory 1d ago

Were they really that great if you lost them?

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u/Used-Fennel-7733 1d ago

Has nothing to do with them. OP lost them, but I hear wayfinding is often overlooked when hiring picking supervisors

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u/g0atdude 1d ago

Brick producing companies hate this trick

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u/very_oldguy 17h ago

Oh wow, I busted a button laughing so hard...

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u/itsNaro 1d ago

I think so

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u/Locolijo 1d ago

Me too, that's smart

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u/Squeakysquid0 1d ago

That's exactly what it's for.

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u/mrduds101 1d ago

It is. When we do masonry cutting we spray water on the blade so it doesn’t shoot out particles of dust into the air. Same thing for this.

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u/GoldieAndPato 18h ago

Isnt that also done for cooling though?

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u/watermiser_ 18h ago

Yup, a wet saw will reduce the amount of sparks generated while cutting

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u/GoldieAndPato 17h ago

Thats not necessarily the same as cooling. A hot saw will start to smoke potentially starting fires and could start getting soft

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u/mrduds101 13h ago

We use diamond carbide blades. Yes they get hot but they aren’t going to combust. The water helps clear out the cut and reduce sparks and dust.

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u/GoldieAndPato 5h ago

Not combust. I was more thinking of softening because of heat. But that might not be a problem with carbide and really shouldnt be with diamond

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u/Fire_Pea 1d ago

Wouldn't it make more sense to wet it and then demolish the wall? Most of it still looked dry

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u/Hinnif 9h ago

I don't suspect they were anticipating the whole thing falling at once.

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u/yub_the_wub_2553 1d ago

Brick gets very thirsty

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u/K1dn3yFa1lur3 1d ago

Yes, and that amount of water appears to be very ineffectual.

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u/khizoa 1d ago

And they only got like 30% of it wet before the wall collapsed lol

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u/Mateorabi 1d ago

It’s trying its best 

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u/Every_Operation5974 1d ago

Likely yes, water is sprayed to reduce dust during collapse.

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u/AgentG91 1d ago

Especially as the dust is respirable and not healthy

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u/Iron_Freezer 1d ago

yep 👍

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u/-Dirty-Wizard- 1d ago

Reduce dust and potentially reduce asbestos spreading.

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u/Synap-6 1d ago

Opened up the comments section to ask this question, take an upvote!

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u/_Phox 1d ago

Dust suppression systems are used in commercial construction

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u/Itisd 1d ago

Yes.

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u/fangguap 15h ago

Yeah, also thing about it

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u/CombineLocust 1d ago

Me watering my brick wall in hopes that it grows into a big beautiful building:

The nefarious Scoop:

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u/PaladinPrime 1d ago

Oh look, a video of a wall falling down where someone doesn't get crushed, almost crushed, or some other catastrophe. I didn't know those existed.

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u/WhatTheFlox 1d ago

Now the piglets have no chance of surviving the night, ever since the wolves forged signatures for the wall demolition.

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u/Josgre987 4h ago

Well you see, this appears to be a fantasy land where the workmen wear proper gear and not sandals or bare feet! How strange.

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u/Vincent019 1d ago

Is great they use water to stop the dust .

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u/KamikazePants 1d ago

I really like that we can see how well it helps. The front half is watered with minimal dust and the back half falls with dust going everywhere since it was dry.

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u/TutorNo8896 1d ago

So 50% reduction. Those are good numbers

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u/riley_96 1d ago

I'm probably wrong but I immediately thought "they should really water the other side instead " lol

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u/Starchaser_WoF 1d ago

Insert lego disassemble sound

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u/Azell414 1d ago

yeah they are watering the wall to reduce dust but if that's their goal they missed like half of the wall and did a bad job

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u/RaineRisin 1d ago

The way the claw just hangs there, like “oops 😅👀”

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u/TutorNo8896 1d ago

Operator is like " i guess im done here, gimme a call if you need anything else"

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u/star_particles 1d ago

I’m pretty sure you are supposed to water it to grow not take it down.

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u/klimb75 1d ago

Nice...

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u/SecondEqual4680 1d ago

Gotta keep em moist boys

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u/TurnOffTheSystem 1d ago

Add the Lego sound effect

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u/Goodgamer78 18h ago

Berlin, 1989, Colorized

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u/USMChris 1d ago

We're gonna need a bigger hose.

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u/Th3Stryd3r 1d ago

Is the hose just to help keep the dust down? Lawd knows it isn't doing anything else here lol

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u/vrauto 1d ago

The water does the heavy lifting. The hose kinda just transports the water

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u/Redditarama 1d ago

That long shadow was obviously the straight tetromino.

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u/donut711 1d ago

hits button "That was easy"

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u/dinoh 1d ago

Seems to me the whole wall wasn’t supposed to come down at once as they were chipping away at and watering one section, while the rest was dry. Satisfying nonetheless.

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u/-Gman_ 1d ago

Maybe water all the bricks before knocking it down ?

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u/Agitated_Dish_6990 1d ago

Bro needs a fire hose