4 VW pick ups demolish a 67m tower

[TeddyThom]

This is nuts.

Although impressive, I still think that the tower had to have some structural work done to the bottom in order for them to pull it down, but who knows?

Decide for yourself.

VW Amorak x4 + Tower = Fall of tower (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DdDTU1NYWk&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_866563)

[loggyboy]

I would expect you could have got a rubgy squad to pull that down in much the same way. - Tug-o-way stylee

[MK999]

they said it pulled 4.7tonnes across the floor on the load test, times the force required to do that (will depend on the coefficient of friction but you can assume about a tonne, 2 tonnes of pure force) by 4, then by 67 since the ropes are attached to the top, and it doesn't take much to make 140 tonnes fall over itself

[mowgli]

once the ring of bolts were gassed off, it would have taken a couple of tonnes to pull that over... with a pulley rigged on the floor, a decent team of blokes could have pulled it over..
the ropes didn't even look like they were tight, which, when you consider that the trucks were pulling a rope at more than about 35 degrees, thus they rear ends wouuld have gone upwards with not much work, and the bloke said the ropes needed a ton of force just to take the slack, sounds about right....

ps. back in the 80's, they did an ad where they blew a brick chimney & raced a scirocco from the base of it.. now that was much better, but these days, ads can't show a car being driven fast in case it promotes dangerous driving.....

[joshy]

another decent video;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmQiSE1t698&playnext=1&list=PL298FADF8CEB73338

[TeddyThom]

once the ring of bolts were gassed off, it would have taken a couple of tonnes to pull that over... with a pulley rigged on the floor, a decent team of blokes could have pulled it over..
the ropes didn't even look like they were tight, which, when you consider that the trucks were pulling a rope at more than about 35 degrees, thus they rear ends wouuld have gone upwards with not much work, and the bloke said the ropes needed a ton of force just to take the slack, sounds about right....

ps. back in the 80's, they did an ad where they blew a brick chimney & raced a scirocco from the base of it.. now that was much better, but these days, ads can't show a car being driven fast in case it promotes dangerous driving.....

Reckon it is possible to find a copy of said advert?? That would be a good advert me thinks...

[Jack]

Why use four VWs when one Hilux could probably do the same thing? lol