house demolition

Behind the house that we rent here in Okinawa, there's a run-down empty house that apparently wasn't worth saving. I noticed the crews out there one day and tracked their progress over the next three days.





This tractor has like a pincher on it (looks a little like a wire stripper, I think) that grabs and "eats" the concrete.. Most homes are made of concrete or stone (maybe because of the high humidity), so you can't just burn a house down like they might do in the States..





you can really get a sense of how close they were working to the other houses in the neighborhood - as far as I could tell, there was no damage...



and viola! you'd never know there was a house there...