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This one came across my desk just now. Underground gold mine in Western Australia had a stope failure earlier this month. This handy diagram from a similar thing last year shows what's going on. Normally, and in this recent case, the drill rig is positioned behind a mounded wall of compacted rock and dirt called a bund.  This time, the stope failed badly enough that the bund was breached, and a whole shitload of rock rilled out and started pushing the drill down the ore drive. The operator waited until the rig had stopped moving, then jumped out and legged it, in search of a fresh pair of trousers. Aftermath:  The mine has been closed down pending an investigation. No injuries from this one, but underground does carry a certain, unique risk profile.
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I kinda wanna get one of those wood splitters but at the same time I have a deeply rooted fear of car suspension springs.
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Nov 30, 2019 08:14
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I don't know if it's getting worse, or if I'm just noticing it more, but it seems like every single video of Big Clive's I've watched over the past several months contains at least one segment of him bitching about health and safety regulations. It feels like it's getting worse, with less humorous jabs, and more "those stuffed shirts don't know anything, and are needlessly burdening the working man." A fair amount of the time, he makes sure to work in that these are "EU regulations." He should be very much against Brexit, as it's really hurting Poundland. E: As far as I can tell, he and his brother Ralfy just really don't like politicians and bureaucracy in general. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Nov 30, 2019 |
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Nov 30, 2019 09:10
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Glad your relative's ok.
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Nov 30, 2019 09:25
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Memento posted:Did they forget to untie themselves from the dock? I can't say for sure what happened there. But I used to work for a Port and part of my job was to actually take the lines and wrap them on some wicked strong winches on caissons. Lines were dropped onto docking boats who would bring it over to us from the ship and we winch away. All covered by some very strong shielding. T'was a fun job and always wondered the stories behind any sort of dints in the shielding. Also one day a monkey escaped a ship and ran up the 1.5km conveyor and up into a stacking tower scaring a sparkie in the middle of the night.
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Nov 30, 2019 09:29
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Humphreys posted:I can't say for sure what happened there. But I used to work for a Port and part of my job was to actually take the lines and wrap them on some wicked strong winches on caissons. Is a 'monkey' a type of rope, or did this story take a massive twist?
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Nov 30, 2019 11:06
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Shut up Meg posted:Is a 'monkey' a type of rope, or did this story take a massive twist? Humphreys has told that story before and it was a flesh & blood simian.
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Nov 30, 2019 11:21
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Humphreys posted:Arc Flash stuff is no drat joke! Humphreys posted:A coal port I worked had a case of a loving monkey owned by a ship captain escaped, jumped up the shiploader and ran the 1km worth of tressles to shore, climbed up a stacking tower where an electrician was fixing a light and gave him a nice surprise grabbing onto his back. quote:Bio security Australia must have been thrilled. Did the captain ever get allowed back? quote:Much above my pay grade and on that specific day I was onshore about 10 beers in at the pub - I was hired by BMA to film and photograph a poo poo load of their work. Of course certain things would always be taken away and I've had a large number of meetings where footage I shot inadvertantly became evidence.
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Nov 30, 2019 11:26
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I don't know if it's getting worse, or if I'm just noticing it more, but it seems like every single video of Big Clive's I've watched over the past several months contains at least one segment of him bitching about health and safety regulations. It feels like it's getting worse, with less humorous jabs, and more "those stuffed shirts don't know anything, and are needlessly burdening the working man." A fair amount of the time, he makes sure to work in that these are "EU regulations." The man puts methylated spirit in his mouth for money. He's a moron. He's also a radicalising Brexit nutter, so escalation of aggression and idiocy is to be expected. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to learn that he has interesting opinions about brown people.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:The man puts methylated spirit in his mouth for money. He's a moron. Oh, tell me more about the spirits  I do feel like especially in this arena, what with the juxtaposition between the interests this thread enjoys compared to the overall userbase of the site, I'm not at all surprised that there's a bit of friction in "separating art from artist" here. It's a shame, but doesn't terribly surprise me much, unfortunately. I know back in my time in the shop, guys would come up and share . . . opinions . . . with me that I would EXPECT they wouldn't consider sharing with anyone unless they were ready to swear a blood pact with that person. But, no, if I got along with them for a couple days, I guess that was enough vetting to share their unfiltered opinion about the world.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:The man puts methylated spirit in his mouth for money. He's a moron. I think you're very mistaken, about a number of things. He's very much pro Scottish independence, that's about what I've seen/heard. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Nov 30, 2019 |
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Nov 30, 2019 14:17
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Memento posted:This one came across my desk just now. Underground gold mine in Western Australia had a stope failure earlier this month. gently caress everything about working underground. My dads almost been killed twice (that he's willing to talk about) and one of his cousins was killed instantly when a mining train jumped the tracks and pinned him against the drift wall. One of the times he almost got it was drilling. He and his partner were using jack leg drills on a drift. His partner stopped, told my dad to put his drill down because theyre going to the break room for a smoke (weird because normally for a cig you just stop and spark up) and when they came back their drift was about 100' shorter and their hoses were just sticking out from the bottom of the pile of rock at the end. His partner either got tipped off by a time traveller, had spider sense, or they just got really lucky.
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The moment you've all been waiting for, 11'8"+8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VokezIMLKE
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Wait, was it this video you were there for, Humphreys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5H98kA2tqw
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Nth Doctor posted:Wait, was it this video you were there for, Humphreys? Yes, the poo poo head saying "No it hasn't" is me, Im pretty sure. A few grumbly tired dudes. Allen is in the bushes closer with another angle. EDIT: I have a bad memory, but it was either that dragline or the one I fell asleep on the house when it was due to walk across a highway at Daunia that my ex-wifes dad actually built somewhere in Canada with Bectel. (I'm thinking Daunia cos Bectel/BMA/BHP circle jerk) Humphreys fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Nov 30, 2019 |
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Nov 30, 2019 17:08
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Boogalo posted:Right click>unmute Time to repost a classic that explains wtf just happened there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGH_GUbdTeQ
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shame on an IGA posted:Time to repost a classic that explains wtf just happened there I never saw that one in the navy, that's pretty amazing.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I don't know if it's getting worse, or if I'm just noticing it more, but it seems like every single video of Big Clive's I've watched over the past several months contains at least one segment of him bitching about health and safety regulations. It feels like it's getting worse, with less humorous jabs, and more "those stuffed shirts don't know anything, and are needlessly burdening the working man." A fair amount of the time, he makes sure to work in that these are "EU regulations." He's a mostly-retired boomer. Bitching about the regulations that allowed him to live to retirement age is pretty typical for those guys. MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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Nov 30, 2019 20:55
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Nth Doctor posted:Wait, was it this video you were there for, Humphreys? What the hell actually caused that and how hosed were the guys who had to fix it?
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czg posted:Arc furnaces in general terrify me. Why the gently caress would you build this? This is supposed to be normal operation? If you ever get the opportunity to tour a steel plant with an arc furnace (Or any steel mill in general) DO IT. I got to go through a Steel Dynamics plant here in Indiana and it was the coolest poo poo. They took us into the arc furnace hall to see it operating. We were only allowed to get probably within 200 feet of it, and even then the sound was purely indescribable. Your loving eyeball jelly vibrates with the frequency of the electricity while the light leaks out through cracks in the crucible like God's own rave. Not to mention getting to see the 4 inch slab of steel going through the mills and coming out the end as sheet metal moving about 40mph. Or the lathe the size of a building they use to resurface the mill rollers.
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Enos Shenk posted:Or the lathe the size of a building they use to resurface the mill rollers.  the appetite of that thing for human flesh would rival that of all deities of war put together.
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Icon Of Sin posted:
That lathe dislocates your soul from the tether anchoring you to this reality
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Icon Of Sin posted:
It's appetites are for anything smaller than a VW bug, which incidentally includes people, most horses, plant golf carts, and operator shacks. kazr posted:That lathe dislocates your soul from the tether anchoring you to this reality Mostly by bending you in all the straight places, but that ones big enough that the part can just smash you into a chunky paste on it's way through the nearby wall and out into the parking lot. Methylethylaldehyde fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Nov 30, 2019 |
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I never saw that one in the navy, that's pretty amazing. I was observing a safety review of a nylon strap failure and discussed it with out of my former navy colleagues and he said kevlar straps tend to not be nearly as bad when they fail, but I'm not sure how widely used they are.
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Humphreys posted:Yes, the poo poo head saying "No it hasn't" is me, Im pretty sure. A few grumbly tired dudes. Beautiful. The "Aww gently caress" is peak Aussie accent for me. I love it.
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Icon Of Sin posted:
Hi let's talk about marine diesel engines and their construction  http://imgur.com/gallery/dMxlC (im the eyepro in that gallery) E: As someone who has operated an antiquated Cincinnatti Shaper, fuuuuuuck this: 
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Big Machines: http://www.dkdworldwide.us/cnc-rolling-turning-lathes.php http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/11/building-and-testing-naval-guns.html Searching under "battleship gun lathe" produces some wonders of the past: https://www.google.com/search?q=bat...69hjSn9YNG3CpM: 
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Nov 30, 2019 23:03
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gently caress look up the early vertical piston monstrosities you see on the old pre-dreadnaught battleships. Basically just giant loving pistons mounted in cavernous engine rooms. All their attachments assumed that the ship would at no time exceed a certain list. A few of them sank and rolled at Jutland and it’s known that there were survivors in the mechanical spaces for a time. The really lucky ones were scalded alive as the engines ripped free or crushed by them rolling around.
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Cyrano4747 posted:gently caress look up the early vertical piston monstrosities you see on the old pre-dreadnaught battleships. Basically just giant loving pistons mounted in cavernous engine rooms. All their attachments assumed that the ship would at no time exceed a certain list. Hell, visit the USS Texas and you can see one in all its hugeness. quote:A few of them sank and rolled at Jutland and it’s known that there were survivors in the mechanical spaces for a time. This isn't actually known, just FYI. It's assumed to be true based on the experiences of engineers and stokers of HMS Warrior, which was shot full of holes and sank after the battle from progressive flooding. In fact it's very unlikely to be true since the big ships with vertical triple-expansion engines lost at Jutland besides Warrior were either sunk by magazine explosions (Defence and Pommern) or turned into a hellish floating inferno before sinking (Black Prince). In either case the engineers were probably killed instantly from the overpressure shock sent through the hull by the magazine explosions or suffocated by flame and smoke.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Hell, visit the USS Texas and you can see one in all its hugeness. Ah. My bad then, the couple of things I read that talked about it represented it as fact.
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shame on an IGA posted:Time to repost a classic that explains wtf just happened there Paraphrasing a guy in the video: "I heard a cannon shot, like one of our 5" guns, and found myself rolling across the deck. I looked up and saw both my legs spinning across the dock, one of them going off the edge into the water. " Sheesh!!!! That was a good video, and good advice for working with any rope under near-limit tension.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Big Machines: http://www.dkdworldwide.us/cnc-rolling-turning-lathes.php I worked as a night watchman in a factory that was located in a building that had made gun barrels for WWII battleships. The concrete lathe pads for the old machinery were still visible and loving enormous.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Ah. My bad then, the couple of things I read that talked about it represented it as fact. It almost certainly happened to some poor bastards, just not at Jutland.
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Is there a certain point where something like say a giant crankshaft that needs to be machined would just sit mounted on (whatever the gently caress rigid fixture) and the machine tool itself would move rather than the crank?
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This is supposedly the largest operating counterblow hammer in the world, and it's only a few miles from me. A buddy works at this place and they do defense work so zero chance of getting to see it in person. 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Hell, visit the USS Texas and you can see one in all its hugeness. I did 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:What the hell actually caused that and how hosed were the guys who had to fix it? Short answer: quote:The official report cited operator error, and rumor has it the operator was inexperienced and pulled the wrong lever and allowed the winch to go into free-fall. He tried to catch it on the drum brake but that overheated, exploded and caught fire as you can see. Can't find the actual official report, though, to substantiate.
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Nth Doctor posted:Wait, was it this video you were there for, Humphreys? Two questions about this: 1. What is the fragment that fucks off skyward on the right edge of the video frame at about the 0:20 mark? 2. How was this even supposed to work? The boom must have been going to strike the crane on the right no matter how slowly they lowered it.
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