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It’s generally the only way of moving large amounts of stuff through the dessert. Once you get out of the eastern states of Australia there’s one east west track that’s super far south and and northe south line that runs up the middle. There’s a loving huge amount of space outside of those so having one truck that can hit multiple places is a bonus
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Edit: the real fun way to transport them is to just attach the base of the blade to the truck and have the rest of it just hanging out there Jesus poo poo wouldn't you be proper hosed if a slight breeze comes along, on that mountain where you're building a wind farm? That's sumo wind surfing. Through power lines. Along the gorges 
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:moving large amounts of stuff through the dessert 
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That was probably a publicity stunt. Most road trains are only 3 or 4 trailers long.
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SelenicMartian posted:Australia sounds delicious I’m just making up for all the times I’ve come across the desert menu
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Apr 3, 2018 12:20
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:I’m just making up for all the times I’ve come across the desert menu I get pretty excited at the sweet trolley, but never to that extent.
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Apr 3, 2018 12:24
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OSHA Roads: been playing Ghost Recon Wildlands (set in a semi-fictionalised Bolivia) and discovered the Death Road, which in-game is a two lane blacktop road that winds some nasty switchbacks over a sheer drop to one side, no guard rails. I was intrigued enough to look to see if it was real IRL, and lol there’s some bumhole-nipping photos of a single-lane mud road that has around 300 deaths a year. Phone posting, so no pics but do google it 
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My sister used to live in the Northern Territory where road trains are very much a thing. They tend to move slower than everyone else so they’re pretty good at letting you know when you can go around. The grey nomads aren’t so great because they don’t have the view to be able to say for sure if it’s safe but attempt the same thing. Until a few years ago the highways where unrestricted but they’ve put a 130km/h limit on things which is still faster than anywhere else in the country
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NoneMoreNegative posted:OSHA Roads: been playing Ghost Recon Wildlands (set in a semi-fictionalised Bolivia) and discovered the Death Road, which in-game is a two lane blacktop road that winds some nasty switchbacks over a sheer drop to one side, no guard rails. I was intrigued enough to look to see if it was real IRL, and lol there’s some bumhole-nipping photos of a single-lane mud road that has around 300 deaths a year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXLxszv9eCM
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Automatic Retard posted:That was probably a publicity stunt. Most road trains are only 3 or 4 trailers long. Yea they sometimes do ridiculously long road trains for world record attempts. The current record is 113 trailers pulled by a single prime mover, the entire road train was 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) long and it moved 150 m (490 ft). http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-road-train I think this might be it: 
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Apr 3, 2018 14:13
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yea they sometimes do ridiculously long road trains for world record attempts. The current record is 113 trailers pulled by a single prime mover, the entire road train was 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) long and it moved 150 m (490 ft). When you wanna recreate scenes from the movie Convoy but none of your friends are online. 
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Apr 3, 2018 14:40
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yea they sometimes do ridiculously long road trains for world record attempts. The current record is 113 trailers pulled by a single prime mover, the entire road train was 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) long and it moved 150 m (490 ft). Ah, come on Guinness... if they only move 10% of the length of the train how can that be considered a success.
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:Improbable unless he somehow took out several geographically distinct cables simultaneously: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ From a few pages back, but I live about half an hour from where the Southern Cross Cable Network comes on shore. Well, at least the California part of it: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/southern-cross-cable-network-sccn I have a pic of it somewhere, but the actual cable(about as big around as a utility pole) is uncovered about 300 feet up the beach. I've literally tripped over it while walking my dog at the ocean. You could probably setup a portable band saw and really gently caress that thing up, since it's just sitting there. That, or some redneck with some tannerite and a penchant for felonies. By the looks of it, I could really gently caress up the PUBG lobbies in Australia if I managed to damage that cable.
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"Here now - you left Coober Pedy with a dozen trailers, but now here in Glendambo you only have eleven? What sort of drongo do you take me for?" "Er... a dingo ate it?"
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yea they sometimes do ridiculously long road trains for world record attempts. The current record is 113 trailers pulled by a single prime mover, the entire road train was 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) long and it moved 150 m (490 ft). Why the hell was a road train robbery not in any of the mad max movies?
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Budgie posted:Ah, come on Guinness... if they only move 10% of the length of the train how can that be considered a success. If it doesn't actually have to go anywhere useful, then given enough gearing the only real limiting factors are drawbar strength and traction available at the tractor.
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Apr 3, 2018 15:44
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It should at the very least travel it's own length, 150m is complete bullshit.
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What is a MAN? A miserable pile of debris.
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How does a road train refuel/carry fuel?
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VanSandman posted:How does a road train refuel/carry fuel? They usually have as many tanks as they can fit on the frame, usually around 2000 liters. They don't actually use a whole lot of fuel on flat ground. maybe 1-1.5km per liter. Along routes where the trucks are allowed, there are fuel stations that can accommodate them.  There are parts of canada now allowing crazy combinations like triple 53s and queen city triples. on roads built for single 53' trailers.  
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impressive, i don't think i could've made a pile of sticks blow up like that even if i tried
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Prav posted:impressive, i don't think i could've made a pile of sticks blow up like that even if i tried That's what they thought. Gasoline vapors give no fucks.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:a couple of years ago while visiting DC I rented a car to go to Gettysburg and ended up getting back to DC around 5pm DC is bad, but DC is kindergarten to Atlanta's PhD program. I swear to christ I saw Tom Hardy strapped to the front of someone's Accord going down 75/85. This is one of the reasons I love my wife; on a long road trip I hate hate hate poo poo like DC, but she loving thrives on it. To the point where, driving from MA to NC, she decided to detour through Manhattan just to say she had. All fighting cabbies and winning down 42nd street. Later in the same drive, driving through the district and the 395 spaghetti-bowl craziness during rush hour because "The beltway is boring" during our 14 hour marathon slog. Bless that woman.
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That's why you always
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My favorite part of driving through the Australian outback is the sheer volume of roadkilled kangaroo gore coating the road.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:DC is bad, but DC is kindergarten to Atlanta's PhD program. I swear to christ I saw Tom Hardy strapped to the front of someone's Accord going down 75/85. It’s entirely possible to cruise through Atlanta so long as you fastidiously avoid the seven-hour rush hours every day. 6:30-10 AM, 3:30-7 PM.
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AFAIK, the thing about Guinness World Records is that you have to be the first to do something, not that it is useful or necessarily impressive. When a WR is impressive is because people have been trying and breaking that particular record for a long time, and then naturally raising the bar to something impressive. I don't know if the 1Km road train would have blown out its engine trying to move another Km, but it likely didn't need to if they were setting the WR for the first time.
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I love headlines like these https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.15581a793122 Good thing for regulation-light states like Kansas
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wolrah posted:Yeah that's always annoyed me about that record. It's a record about a practical thing, I want to see the longest one that can actually be used. It doesn't have to be a regular trip, it can still definitely be a publicity stunt, but it should at least be able to travel between two places a normal road train would actually stop. HardDiskD posted:AFAIK, the thing about Guinness World Records is that you have to be the first to do something, not that it is useful or necessarily impressive. When a WR is impressive is because people have been trying and breaking that particular record for a long time, and then naturally raising the bar to something impressive. 
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hailthefish posted:It was a "witch window" joke because I forgot this was the OSHA thread and not the Crappy Construction(?) thread. Aww I was hoping you had sorcerous tips and tricks for bricks
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Train Truck Hybrid thing from Sierra Nevada's California railspur last month. Can haul like 9 cars fully loaded with grain. The wheels drop down and the locomotive engine powers them, thought it was kinda cool.
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Apr 3, 2018 19:52
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I’d say this is pretty OSHA https://twitter.com/Lavrusik/status/981259304408788993
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Proteus Jones posted:I’d say this is pretty OSHA PewPewdipie
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revolther posted:Train Truck Hybrid thing from Sierra Nevada's California railspur last month. Can haul like 9 cars fully loaded with grain. The wheels drop down and the locomotive engine powers them, thought it was kinda cool. That is. http://www.railking.net/
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tactlessbastard posted:PewPewdipie God drat it, I just texted a friend that exact thing saying he wanted his channel back. He replied, “why the gently caress isn’t there a live YouTube stream?”
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