So today I finally dove in.

 

So after you busted all that up, what did you do with the crumbs?

 

The sharp jagged pieces of concrete are going to tumble around inside the barrel for awhile to knock down the heavy scale and rust to clean it up, then dump through the discharge chute.

 

Oh boy! I hope you used ear protection!! That sounded pretty loud!

 

Ooph, I can see why you were putting that off. Not a pleasant job
Please wear some good ear protection and good luck with it

Bobby

 

Wow.... that doesn't look like fun. Keep us up on your progress!

 

Oh yeah. I had ear & eye protection, and a respirator. It was still loud, hot, and dusty. Took about half an hour total.

 

Was that you that was in the drum or or buddy?

 

wow, i'd say that's a job to put off... nice video

 

It was me, reliving my youth.

 

Good for you! Your buddy was there to pull you out if something went wrong!

 

Exactly! That would be a terrible place to have a heart attack.

 

Boy do I feel for ya! I've been there myself. Worked in a truck salvage yard I'm my 20s and the owners bought several concrete trucks to rebuild. Some we cleaned out with jackhammers, but two had full loads when they went down. We had to resort to explosives to break those up.

 

Wow. I thought I had it bad when I worked at a lumber and coal delivery place in my late teens and early twenties. Sometimes I had to go with the old man than delivered coal and use a rake to pull coal away from the chute while standing in the bin. He told me to holler if the coal came too fast or backed up. Of course with him being hard of hearing and coal hurtling down the metal chute he couldn't hear me. And I would end up waist deep in pea coal! And then after work in the shower I would blow black junk out of my nose!

 

Looks like you could have used a dust collector too..