When I bought my land I found an old barn in the trees. They had grown up around it over the years and there's no telling how old it was or what it was used for.
It was 100 ft long by 40 feet wide with 14 ft walls. To say it was pretty big is an understatement. At first I thought I'd try and rebuild it, but one day a large oak branch fell through the roof and caved just about the entire roof in. That's when I decided it was too dangerous to mess with.
I first tried to push it down with my FEL, but it wouldn't budge. I have a full size 555E backhoe, so I switched directions and tried with the hoe stick.
I had to hit the walls near the top to get any results. Allot of those poles were still solid and ended up snapping way up high. A few times I had splinters of wood fly by my head close enough to scare me pretty good.
Wear a hard hat and saftey goggles!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another pucker factor would occur when I'd get a hold of a section of wall. I'd be pusing on it and it would be falling apart, only to hit a solid part. Then my hoe stick would lift the backend of my tractor up into the air. This is particular scarry when I was at an angle to the wall.
Then there was the few times I used my FEL to try pushing over sections of the wall. I was relying on brute force and probably was going about it all wrong, but I'd drive up to a section with the FEL up fairly high with the intention of pushing it down. Same thing would happen. It would start to collapse, then catch on a strong timber or something. This would lift me in the air and if I was at a bad angle, it would scare me fairly good.
Of course, that barn was on the side of a hill and sourounded by large oaks making access tricky.
Whatever you do, go at it real slow and just nibble away at it. I was too aggressive and put myself in too many situations that caution and intellegence should have avoided.
Good luck and be careful,
Eddie
