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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:https://www.carthrottle.com/post/famously-low-bridge-to-be-raised-youtube-devastated/ They're only increasing the clearance to 12'4", so it should still eat the occasional truck (a standard semi trailer is 13'6")
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Memento posted:On hearing about the raising of the 11'8" bridge, overpasses around the world have started stepping up to fill the void. It's Footscray, heathen. And the third time in two weeks.
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Ika posted:you would think at some point they would just cut off the burning section of roof - or is that what is meant by sacrificed? Too dangerous to work on the roof, so they’re letting it burn and then putting out what drops to the floor below - it’s an under construction convention centre so a large empty concrete and steel space.
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Whitlam posted:It's Footscray, heathen. And the third time in two weeks. That bridge has the bonus of flooding whenever it rains heavily and cars getting trapped trying to make it through
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Kesper North posted:As for the fire in downtown Auckland I'm a little shocked no one has posted the obvious. To give a little back story, the previous government wanted a new convention centre. The owner of Auckland’s casino wanted in, and offered to build it in exchange for extensions to their monopoly gambling licence, additional gambling floor space for tables and pokie machines, and exemption from reductions in liquor trading hours that affect every other venue in the country. (4am close max vs 24hours at the casino). Against all official advice and public objection, the pro-business government agreed to this sweetheart deal with one of NZ’s most hated companies, so yeah, there are plenty of Aucklander’s who are more than happy to let this motherfucker burn.
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Oct 23, 2019 07:01
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deoju posted:11 foot 8, I will remember you. The absurd number of truckfucklings was because Google used Maps to deliberately send trucks under that bridge to generate content for Youtube and thus more ad revenue 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjntrebxj8 The NTSB report on the Florida State bridge collapse came out.
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RandomPauI posted:thos Interestingly, that seems very close to the analysis Uncle Bumblefuck came up with in his shed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtiTm2dKLgU Though he suggested that it was a steel rod that failed while they say it was the concrete around one end of the rod that failed. Which is a pretty good guess from someone who never actually went to the bridge and saw stuff in person. Shut up Meg fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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Shut up Meg posted:Interestingly, that seems very close to the analysis Uncle Bumblefuck came up with in his shed: I mean certainly, the concrete failure and insufficient reinforcement was what put the rods into uh... (*checks bumblefuck video for terminology*) yield mode, and was the ultimate cause, but you're right... a drat good guess.
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Stanky Bean posted:yeah I think the spillways that really get people are more common on rivers and are called weirs. They generate nasty currents that will suck you down and keep you there I got caught in one of these while white water rafting on the Arkansas in Colorado. My buddy was a guide and told everyone in the boat to swim to the bottom then downstream if you came out of the raft. When you're already hyped up because you're going over a 6 foot drop in the river straight into a standing wave, you likely won't be thinking with anything other than the lizard brain when you find yourself in the water. I panicked and flailed around for what seemed like 30 seconds. When I finally washed out, the raft was probably 50 yards downstream already. Fortunately for my pride, all my friends saw was me popping up, swimming to my paddle, then swimming to the boat. They remarked on how calm I seemed when I came up, not realizing the pant making GBS threads terror and flailing around that had just happened.
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RandomPauI posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjntrebxj8 The real safety hazards are the chuds and MRAs in the comments on that video, Jesus Christ
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Lucid Nonsense posted:I got caught in one of these while white water rafting on the Arkansas in Colorado. My buddy was a guide and told everyone in the boat to swim to the bottom then downstream if you came out of the raft. When you're already hyped up because you're going over a 6 foot drop in the river straight into a standing wave, you likely won't be thinking with anything other than the lizard brain when you find yourself in the water. I panicked and flailed around for what seemed like 30 seconds. When I finally washed out, the raft was probably 50 yards downstream already. Fortunately for my pride, all my friends saw was me popping up, swimming to my paddle, then swimming to the boat. They remarked on how calm I seemed when I came up, not realizing the pant making GBS threads terror and flailing around that had just happened. It's hard to follow directions when panicking. I went kneeboarding once (surfing on your knees as you're pulled by a jetski). Was clearly told "if you fall off the board, just let go of the handle." Easy enough right? I fell off the board and held on to the handle for dear life as I was dragged with my face underwater for 10 seconds  Felt like an idiot when I finally lost my grip and bobbed safely to the surface.
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fisting by many posted:It's hard to follow directions when panicking. Same thing happened to me first time I went water skiing. Was surprised I didn't have a rooster tail of water coming out of my rear end.
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GotLag posted:The real safety hazards are the chuds and MRAs in the comments on that video, Jesus Christ The real safety hazard is reading youtube comments
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Memento posted:On hearing about the raising of the 11'8" bridge, overpasses around the world have started stepping up to fill the void. https://howmanydayssincebayswaterbridgehasbeenhit.com 8 Days  BONUS ROUND
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A crew that was performing soil sampling for geo-technical analysis accidentally drilled through the roof of a subway tunnel in Toronto. The crew had a permit to drill down to 50 metres but it's their responsibility to check for utilities and any buried objects. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-subway-shut-down-after-work-crew-breach-tunnel/
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haveblue posted:The real safety hazard is reading youtube comments This guy earnestly complaining in the comments about spoiler alerts for an NTSB report video is a real hoot though! 
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FCKGW posted:This guy earnestly complaining in the comments about spoiler alerts for an NTSB report video is a real hoot though! imagine this dude in history class "why would you give us this list of all the presidents?! you've spoiled who won each election for us! how are we supposed to appreciate the subject now?!"
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razorrozar posted:imagine this dude in history class Thanks for calling it World War I, you've spoiled the outcome!!!
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This chapter is called "The Great Depression" what the hell is that about? At the end of the last chapter, the stock market was doing great.
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RandomPauI posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjntrebxj8 What is wrong with the sound on this thing? It makes me want to die.
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Oh thanks a lot Nostrodamus, now I'm going to be distracted waiting for this Hister guy to show up
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Facebook Aunt posted:What is wrong with the sound on this thing? It makes me want to die. probably recorded with a shotgun mic pointed directly into her mouth so you get a lot more mouth noises and breathing than you would normally hear when boomed from above, plus its gained way up so the noise floor is pretty high. also they just cut up the recording and didnt fill gaps of silence with noise which is really annoying. basically sounds like an asmr NTSB video
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Looks like bulk liquefaction, which apparently causes container ships to capsize. Basically they're hauling a "solid" load of powder, but there's water in the powder. The water flows to the bottom of the load, and when the moisture content of the bottom reaches a certain critical threshold the "powder" turns into mud and starts flowing around. Because there are no baffles in the truck, any bouncing or movement causes huge waves in the material, which push the truck side-to-side. His load basically rocked the truck clean off the chassis. Edit: http://bulkcarrierguide.com/cargo-liquefaction.html
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Mr. Apollo posted:A crew that was performing soil sampling for geo-technical analysis accidentally drilled through the roof of a subway tunnel in Toronto. The crew had a permit to drill down to 50 metres but it's their responsibility to check for utilities and any buried objects. Came here to post this. The "permit to drill 50 metres" is part of the utility locates that would list any underground services buried in the area. When you fill out your "one call" request, it will ask you for the maximum depth, because if you are going less than (X depth) they may give you a clearance based on the fact that you say*** you're only going to (X depth). Sewer lines can sometimes be buried fairly deep for example, like 50+ feet, but if you specify that you're only drilling 20 feet deep they may clear you to go 20 feet without marking anything out. *** Boreholes go deeper than expected all the fuckin time.
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wesleywillis posted:Came here to post this. Do you know what the drilling was for? It said they were taking core samples so I'm guessing new condos.
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RandomPauI posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjntrebxj8 Looking at all the pictures they had of the poo poo cracking and falling apart just leaves me wondering how in the hell anybody decided it would be wise to stand on it, much less leave the road underneath open.  Shut up Meg posted:Interestingly, that seems very close to the analysis Uncle Bumblefuck came up with in his shed: This was a really good vejayo as well.
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As we all know, when your bridge has cracks big enough to stick your hand in before it's even placed you should just stay quiet and try to fix it without anyone noticing.
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Mr. Apollo posted:That makes sense. The purposely ask for a deep maximum depth to make sure they get the location of any buried utilities or infrastructure. It sounds like they had the position of the borehole wrong. I don't know for sure. The picture that I saw shows them off the road, but still on public property. Though, I don't know where the property line actually is, its not likely that close to the road. Drilling on city property usually requires some sort of permits and whatnot, especially, in this case, as they were obstructing the sidewalk. Best I can figure out is that they were here when it happened. When they say they were taking "core samples" that kind means different things to me vs others. To me "core samples" are rock cores, but thats probably me being kinda  about it. Bedrock isn't particularly shallow there, but its not really deep either. The setup from what I can see looks like they have a water pit so they might have been using rock coring equipment if they did have to get a few rock samples, but those subway tunnels aren't buried *that* far below ground, probably only 20 or 30 feet tops. With bedrock being deeper than 60 feet in that particular area. So they may have been drilling for condos, but not likely if they're on city property. Probably some kind of infrastructure thing. Further up Yonge st. (north of the 401) there is a bunch of deeper drilling going on from some water and sewer work (or so I'm told), what these guys were doing could be related to that. The TTC will provide locates for their lines in any area that they have stuff present, and my guess is that the sheet said something really vague like "don't drill closer than 3 metres from the edge of (some surface feature that may have been removed 10 years ago or something)". Or they may have been given a certain area of clearance and they were right on the edge of, or outside that area. Sometimes its hard to position a machine like that right on the exact spot and be clear of overhead wires, underground pipes, and also give pedestrians a clear/safe path to walk, and also not obstruct entrances/exits to businesses. E: changed the location. Also E: After finding the actual location, I can say that I've literally drilled on the other side of the building from where this happened...... Recently. And at least part or all of that building is getting torn down fro Condos. So maybe you were right (condo anything in Toronto is a likely scenario). Maybe it was for the engineering company that hired us to do the drilling around the back. When I tried to drill around back, it was really fuckin hard and I couldn't get as deep as they wanted. So it makes sense that they were using a different method to get to whatever depth they're trying to get to. wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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Cable Guy posted:After watching both of those, I'm inclined to agree with Bumblefuck that the final straw that broke was the tensioning rods snapping. I'd not seen a good quality version of the footage from the roadway dashcam before. I don't think the rods actually broke: I've been bored enough to read the full report: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2019-HWY18MH009-BMG.aspx Ave suggested that the rod snapping and pinging free was what caused the concrete to fail, when it was actually the failing concrete that let the rod shoot out. But it's a hell of a good guess when all he had to go on was a picture of a pile of broken concrete and some of the rod exposed. Zamujasa posted:Looking at all the pictures they had of the poo poo cracking and falling apart just leaves me wondering how in the hell anybody decided it would be wise to stand on it, much less leave the road underneath open. I'm used to these things being micro-fractures or hidden bubbles or wrong composition of materials: not some full of holes big enough to put your dick in. As you say, who the hell looked at that and thought 'bit of spackle and she'll be alright'?
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Shut up Meg posted:I don't think the rods actually broke: I've been bored enough to read the full report: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2019-HWY18MH009-BMG.aspx Pretty sure towards the end that report names EXACTLY who looked at that and thought 'a bit of spackle and she'll be alright' so nobody else accidentally hires them.
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Found this feller on Facebook. 
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Local railroad truckfuckling. https://twitter.com/SpokaneCity/status/1187115297079062528?s=19
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Zamujasa posted:When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious poo poo. Babies at 0 miles per hour also release serious poo poo.
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Zamujasa posted:Looking at all the pictures they had of the poo poo cracking and falling apart just leaves me wondering how in the hell anybody decided it would be wise to stand on it, much less leave the road underneath open. this is the guy that uses oval office hairs as a measurement right? I love this guy, a true fuckler. ponzicar posted:Babies at 0 miles per hour also release serious poo poo. can confirm
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