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I don't think those are the kind of trucks that go from one job site to another. They get them to the mine somehow, and they just stay there until the mine closes or they're scrapped. Fun fact: I hear one tire costs about $70,000.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Kids: "Are we lost?" That's obviously the Magic School Bus and the kids are on an adventure.
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Sagebrush posted:I don't think those are the kind of trucks that go from one job site to another. They get them to the mine somehow, and they just stay there until the mine closes or they're scrapped. A Caterpillar engineer I was chatting with once explained that a lot of those rigs are custom designed specific to the job site, and yeah, they're shipped in parts. Still really loving big parts, but a little bit more manageable. When an order is in discussions, they'll send the engineers to the work site to get requirements and survey the area to make sure they can deliver the proper machinery.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:46
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There's a time lapse gif of a group assembling one of those at a mine that's been posted before. I'm phone posting so I can't look for it easily though.
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Yeah those giant mining trucks are pretty much built in situ. Edit: Using construction cranes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAVYizVoLww Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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there ought to be a law and government subsidies so they can drive from the factory to their destination and maybe crush some junkyard cars as a sort of rolling monster truck show
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mining mayhem on facebook is a great place to see a bunch of crazy heavy equipment in percuriouse situations.
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Sagebrush posted:I don't think those are the kind of trucks that go from one job site to another. They get them to the mine somehow, and they just stay there until the mine closes or they're scrapped. Yeah. Those Komatsu trucks at least leave the plant as a mostly complete frame via rail car or an oversized load tractor trailer*. Most of the stuff that is inside the frame will be installed, including the diesel engine, along with a few bits that don't stick out too far. Everything else is shipped separately to the final destination where it all gets assembled. *I think those ones get put on a barge a short distance away Here's a timelapse of the 930e getting assembled. At 0:29 you can see the frame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Zvq-bboaQ xzzy posted:A Caterpillar engineer I was chatting with once explained that a lot of those rigs are custom designed specific to the job site, and yeah, they're shipped in parts. Still really loving big parts, but a little bit more manageable. A lot of the equipment isn't all that much different from a car when it comes to the purchase. You pick the general type of thing you want and then choose the options. The bigger stuff is somewhat low volume and costs millions of dollars though so the dealers are usually pretty happy to make sure the customer is happy and gets what they need. I don't know that every single truck is unique but the design is usually being constantly refined so it might be close. Cat actually has a UAV group now to survey mine sites and such and help the mine owners increase efficiency. Galler fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Galler posted:Here's a timelapse of the 930e getting assembled. At 0:29 you can see the frame. Good Lord, look at the size of those axles  At first I saw them and thought "drat, is this thing powered by two gas turbines? That's awesome." Then I realized the engine was already in the frame, and thought "wow, those must just be a pair of gigantic gearboxes or differentials." Then they put one of them on each side of the frame
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Sagebrush posted:Good Lord, look at the size of those axles My guess from the size and shape is that those are electric drive motors and these things work like diesel/electric locomotives, but without rails.
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Holy poo poo, I didn't even see the school bus until the comments below.  I knew those things were big but goddamn.
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This is what (used to) dig out the coal those trucks haul. A bit big to actually load the coal into them though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZUAuHmiCE
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The Locator posted:My guess from the size and shape is that those are electric drive motors and these things work like diesel/electric locomotives, but without rails. Yup. Komatsu's big haul trucks are diesel/electric. They also have some 'small'er diesel only (usually referred to as mechanical drive) trucks. Cat still has a lot of mechanical drive trucks, including their biggest truck IIRC, but has been making progress on electric drive trucks and have a number of electric drive versions.
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New TaxTheRich video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF1VPIV9CsY It's loving hot. Prepare yourself.
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A rolling piece of art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVFvOQo9h5Y
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freelop posted:
Or scenes from the next Mad Max?!
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freelop posted:
Is there an actual story behind this? Are they trying to put out a coal fire by simply.. removing it?
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The Locator posted:Is there an actual story behind this? Are they trying to put out a coal fire by simply.. removing it? Yep. I think the idea is to get it away from the coal that isn't burning yet, then put it somewhere it can burn out safely.
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uh guys I'm pretty sure that's the quarry Guy Fieri gets his shorts from
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Yep. I think the idea is to get it away from the coal that isn't burning yet, then put it somewhere it can burn out safely.
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http://i.imgur.com/IeBxJ2c.gifv
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Does the team get a weight concession from tech to compensate for the driver's giant balls?
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I could do that. 
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Daigo needs to up his game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzd6eKvC9mk
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El Scotch posted:I could do that. 
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"hm a racing series that turns right instead of left... they're all cooking the corner into that guardrail, though" :brain remembers drifting: "oh holy hell this is awesome!"
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Choo choo motherfuckerrrrrrrrrrrr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWEW47Rczqs
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NoWake posted:"hm a racing series that turns right instead of left... they're all cooking the corner into that guardrail, though" Big Block Modifieds! Basically they only race these cars in New York State, and a few scattered places outside. Best kept secret in racing. Highlights from a race last year Tribute to the historic mile track we just lost in Syracuse My local track is the oldest continuously operating dirt oval in the world, and when they wreck, they wreck hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnSy8sHY9U aftermath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM7E3t112i8 Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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VikingSkull posted:Big Block Modifieds! It seems like NY has a huge oval/dirt track racing scene. Something in New York always comes up in the mention of cars like this.
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That's usually because I'm an autist and post modifieds whenever I get the excuse lol Yeah, though, you'd figure oval racing is this southern thing but when racing started at the turn of the 20th century, some of the first places Americans went to race cars was horse tracks. That's a big reason why Americans are so oval heavy today, whereas Europe started racing on public streets. Every county up here just about had a horse track at its fairgrounds, like my local track was constructed in 1857 and has held races every year since 1919. Our unique love of horse racing and county fairs came together to create the basis of our auto racing community. Another cool thing is if you look at track sizing, the northeast dirt tracks average a half mile or larger because those were traditional horse racing lengths. Down south, their racing started after WWII mainly, and tracks started in unused farmers fields. Since that's not conducive to large tracks, you see tracks of 1/4 to 3/8 of a mile. However, since these aren't existing tracks that animals used, this is where you start seeing banking applied to dirt tracks. I guess it's fun to tool on oval racing because yawn they only turn left, but if you dive into the US and our fascination with that kind of racing, the stories you draw out of it are amazing.
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A quarter-mile oval is brutal. For those of you not into oval-track racing, imagine the running track around a high school football field. Some of them literally are the track around a football/baseball field -- NASCAR's top series had an event at such a track until 1971, and some of the minor-league series still run there: I really should get out to the local dirt track more. Especially since my partner grew up working on his uncle's pit crew at Lebanon Valley. (New Yorkers will know where he's from when I say he got all the snow days you didn't in school). I've been once, these are the regular Saturday night   Not sure I want to take my personal camera to the track, though -- the dust gets everywhere. (The above two photos were taken with clapped-out newspaper gear.) I was there for the World of Outlaws race after the regular races; rather disappointingly, there weren't any wrecks. I was kinda hoping for them to do the thing Outlaws are famous for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV8ML8T3-Sc Edit again: NoWake posted:"hm a racing series that turns right instead of left... they're all cooking the corner into that guardrail, though"  being the aforementioned former dirt-track mechanic:Me: [link to photo, copypaste of quoted post] : lol: wait what is he 'turns right instead of left': how did he get that out of Me: if you don't know dirt tracks it looks like the photo is taken from the outside of a right turn by the steering : oh: okFriar Zucchini posted:Or how they dealt with the burning oil wells after Saddam had them lit up. That was actually well-established technology. Edit yet again becuase poo poo keeps getting more hilarious: Wikipedia's page on oil well fires, re: Red Adair's method, states "(This is a similar principle to blowing out a candle.)" True, but it's a bit of an understatement, innit? Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jan 25, 2016 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Flat trike bikes are a lot of fun too, it's basically 100% powerslide. The one they use at the fair grounds in Indianapolis has infield access, and if you have a truck you can back up to the fence and sit in the bed all night watching bikes rumble by 15 feet away. Kind of a bad place to be if you don't have a truck though, hard to get an angle on the sliding parts. 
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xzzy posted:Flat trike bikes are a lot of fun too, it's basically 100% powerslide. The one they use at the fair grounds in Indianapolis has infield access, and if you have a truck you can back up to the fence and sit in the bed all night watching bikes rumble by 15 feet away. Kind of a bad place to be if you don't have a truck though, hard to get an angle on the sliding parts. My dad used to do flat track. Wrecked hard when he was young, but I got to watch him race a couple decades later. It was definitely nuts to watch.
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Delivery McGee posted:oval stuff gently caress yeah, the Valley rules. I'm an OCFS guy, so Howie Commander promotes for us and the Valley. The Outlaws there are loving crazy. For those that have never been and think New York racing would be metropolitan somehow, just lol And if we're gonna post sprint crashes.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSiOskJGFA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I021IstGSQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0LdZNURBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1vh60pY-4 <---- this one is scary as gently caress As for AMA flat trackers, they ran at OCFS when I was a kid. Had to red flag racing during the event because the track ran out of ambulances. e- also since it's the picture thread, have one of the prettiest modifieds from back in the day 
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My wife forwards "For the AI goons", from http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/01/paper-v8-engine/?src=footer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf3jnP6AbM0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnwndab2ztk
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88h88 posted:Daigo needs to up his game Ridge Racer IRL
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Well, this pushes several of my buttons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB72S_IrQvA Throw some beefier tread in the back, and I'd drive that on the street every day. I bet it would be pretty quick on the grip track with the proper setup, too.
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