Chimney be gone

I decided to borrow my neighbor's scaffolding since it's safer and also more fun.  I forgot to take a picture of it after the guard rails were up though.

I took down the satellite dishes first, and it was surprising how easily they bent when I threw them to the ground.  And of course there were wasps living in one of them.

I also took out the 2 plumbing roof vents that I didn't need anymore since I was up there.  The ladder going from the scaffolding to the roof really helped the scaffolding's stability (not that it was bad before that).

We had to move the scaffold, and my neighbor and I only saw three options.  Take the whole thing down and set it up again, extend it to get over to where we needed it, or push it with my truck, so obviously we pushed it.

And now on to the chimney... The cap was cement, and I'm guessing it's as old as the master bedroom addition from what I guess is the 40's, so there was a ton of erosion around the rocks in the concrete which was cool.

And this was the setup on the scaffold on the chimney

My friend came up from Chicago to film taking the chimney down, but it ended up being super uneventful since the bricks just came apart with almost no effort, so who knows if that's going to be able to be turned into a video at all.  It was pretty amazing how nearly impossible it was to stand on without just sliding down with all the sand from the mortar on the roof, so I ended up using my new air compressor to blow all of it down.  Here it is with the hole in the roof filled

And then the shingles

What the roof looks like now

I took the shingles from the back porch roof since it'll be coming down anyway