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MrOnBicycle posted:
My old plan if I ever had to GTFO America was to move somewhere and open Yankee Cowboy's Burger Barn. I'd dress like Diedrich Bader in Napoleon Dynamite and drive that car. Less sure of that now that we're going fash. (the symbolism, not expat burgers) Memento posted:
Drive yes. Stop? Not so much.
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Jul 20, 2020 21:17
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Boys who love boys
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Memento posted:
Salt flats scare me after watching this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUSpD_waiEQ That mud is unreal.
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Jul 20, 2020 21:29
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monsterzero posted:My old plan if I ever had to GTFO America was to move somewhere and open Yankee Cowboy's Burger Barn. I'd dress like Diedrich Bader in Napoleon Dynamite and drive that car. Less sure of that now that we're going fash. (the symbolism, not expat burgers) Solid plan 
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Jul 20, 2020 21:49
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xzzy posted:Salt flats scare me after watching this video. This is how you get around on a salt flat https://i.imgur.com/XRi69XQ.mp4 That thing weighs a little bit under a hundred thousand pounds, you can see the momentum it has when the left hand track stops moving and starts skidding. Some places would even bog those things though.  This is an old shoreline in the salt lake that either you hit as hard as you can and plow through it, or you get caught in three feet of sticky, oily black mud. I went out to rescue these two after they got their Teryx bogged. https://i.imgur.com/2kwYsPL.mp4 This was my rescue vehicle, 8*8 tracked Argo. It's as uncomfortable as it looks.  And this is what the Teryx looked like before they washed it, after sitting in the sun on the back of a trailer for half an hour. 
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Jul 21, 2020 00:22
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Memento posted:This was my rescue vehicle, 8*8 tracked Argo. It's as uncomfortable as it looks. gently caress yes. You need start providing a lot more information here right now buddy. It's your own fault.
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Jul 21, 2020 00:44
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monsterzero posted:My old plan if I ever had to GTFO America was to move somewhere and open Yankee Cowboy's Burger Barn. I'd dress like Diedrich Bader in Napoleon Dynamite and drive that car. Less sure of that now that we're going fash. (the symbolism, not expat burgers) I wanted to move to Sweden and open a real dumpy dive bar that only had bud tallboys and shots of jack. Even their rock and metal themed bars are so clean and nice it’s weird.
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Jul 21, 2020 01:05
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Motronic posted:gently caress yes. You need start providing a lot more information here right now buddy. It's your own fault. Top speed about 25km/h, no seatbelts because we literally only take them on the flattest of the flat salt lakes, and we throw them out after 18 months because the salt fucks them in ways they're not designed for. They sometimes throw chains, they sometimes throw tracks, they often overheat. They are much less fun than they look. When I'm out on the lake with the drillers, I try to take the Teryx because it's got comfortable seats and a canopy, so you can sit somewhere nice and eat your lunch or log rock chips in the shade. The Teryx will also do 60km/h on the lake. There's places the Teryx won't go that the Argo will, though, and if we're in one of those places we bring the Argo. There's also places that it looks like the Teryx will go fine, and they do, until you drive into an old sump that hasn't been marked off properly.  This one was me. Those tires sticking out in the background are marking off an old sump, so I thought I'd drive near it, get a GPS reading for it to add it to my GIS map for future exploration, and I drove right into an unmarked one. There's about 15cm of water here, which is enough that you go slow but not enough to stop you, and the water moves around the lake over very hard salt. The Teryx only weighs around 700kg, and has super-wide tires, so it will drive over hard salt crust all day every day, until you hit something like that. While I was waiting for one of the other geologists to come out and fish me out with the Argo, I staked out the dimensions of what I had driven into, and it was a perfectly rectangular ditch, 4m by 10m that I had neatly managed to drive into the end of. There's a solid hierarchy of what you can use to fish things out with on the lake. The Teryx can be fished out by an Argo. If you get the Argo bogged, you need to call the drillers to come out with their Hagglund.  Swedish amphibious vehicle, based off the Bandvagn 206. They're incredibly uncomfortable (I'm sure you're seeing a pattern here), top speed around 40km/h, heaps of room on the back for a water tank and to load up samples. If you get the Hagglund bogged, you might get lucky pulling it with another Hagglund, or you can use one of the drill rigs I showed in the little video above.  Inside of the Hagglund. Not a fun place to be. These are all my photos and videos, by the way. The previous exploration company that was on what is now our land had different, cheaper and above all much worse ideas on how to get around the salt lake.  Holden Drover, which was based on the Suzuki Jimny, with welded-on aluminium hubs and drag racing tires. When I took that photo, it had been there for 18 months, and that was a year ago and it's still there. The previous company is responsible for cleaning up that (and the green bags in the background, which that area is covered in) and we told them we'll do it, but we'll also charge them $120/hour for the privilege.   I think I figured out the problem, lads.
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Jul 21, 2020 01:10
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what happens if the drill rig gets stuck
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Jul 21, 2020 01:42
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Sagebrush posted:what happens if the drill rig gets stuck Just leave it there for the archaeologists to chisel out.
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Jul 21, 2020 01:48
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Memento posted:
That was a great post, thank you! If I ever want to film a Mad Max fan film, I'll PM you.
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Jul 21, 2020 02:00
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Sagebrush posted:what happens if the drill rig gets stuck Two options. One, you try to haul it out with another rig, or two rigs working in parallel. The second is what they did at another mine on another salt lake in Western Australia - park it until a couple of months into the dry season and dig it out of the then-solid mud. It ended up only being there from September to December, and it needed some repairs when they finally got it out, but they figured that trying to get it out with something else was just going to end up with the something else bogged.
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Jul 21, 2020 02:08
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Memento posted:....All amazing stuff..... Thank you for effortpost, that was awesome. I was assuming Bonneville but all the metrique tells me its not. Maybe I missed i but where are we talking about?
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Jul 21, 2020 02:13
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Western Australia, gold exploration at a large mine situated on an ephemeral salt lake. Ephemeral is probably not quite the right word, it never fills up but there's always a small amount of water on it that gets pushed around by the winds. When you drill it, there's anywhere between 2 and 25 meters of thick, terracotta-coloured lake clay that represents the depth of it before its upstream source was diverted or otherwise dried up.
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Jul 21, 2020 02:36
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Memento posted:Western Australia, gold exploration at a large mine situated on an ephemeral salt lake. Ephemeral is probably not quite the right word, it never fills up but there's always a small amount of water on it that gets pushed around by the winds. When you drill it, there's anywhere between 2 and 25 meters of thick, terracotta-coloured lake clay that represents the depth of it before its upstream source was diverted or otherwise dried up. That sounds like a properly miserable place to work on.
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Jul 21, 2020 02:40
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Motronic posted:That sounds like a properly miserable place to work on. There's a hell of a lot of challenges. On February 29th this year, it was 49°C with winds gusting to 60km/h. Some mornings in July and August last year, it was 1-2°. The salt gets into and destroys everything. Driving the Teryx through the low standing water, you have to get out and flush out the radiator every few km otherwise the salt fills it up, dries on the hot grill, and you overheat. This is the Teryx engine compartment after one day on the lake, before I blasted it down with the steam cleaner.  This is a pretty good one to show the surface of the lake, up close you've got damp, pretty hard packed mud with an intermittent crust of salt, middle distance you've got a solid salt crust that you need a hammer to smash up so you can drive stakes into it for drillhole locations, and in the distance you can see that surface with water over the top. Click for big.  This is one of the little things that makes life a bit nicer though. This is from the top of the deck on a different drill rig, looking at the exhaust manifold. You wrap a frozen pie in aluminium foil and stick it under there, and in an hour or so you get a nice hot snack.  I'm not the best photographer around, but this is a panorama I took last June as some storms were rolling in. The rig had broken down so I decided to use what time I had to go and stake out the next set of holes before the lightning started. The work is pretty hard, but the pay is good, and we make sure you're only out on the rigs no more than two swings in a row (two sets of 8 days with a 6 day break in the middle).  The view can be pretty decent.
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Jul 21, 2020 02:58
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That engine compartment after one day photo is nuts. I thought drill rigs in Bakersfield had it bad just from the temperature, but your area is 10x worse. https://twitter.com/thejackbeyer/status/1285354729573249024?s=20
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Jul 21, 2020 06:16
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MomJeans420 posted:That engine compartment after one day photo is nuts. I thought drill rigs in Bakersfield had it bad just from the temperature, but your area is 10x worse. oh, that's the new hannah montana girl whose makeup line got recalled because it contained asbestos. (yes, this is the world you live in)
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Jul 21, 2020 06:55
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Sagebrush posted:oh, that's the new hannah montana girl whose makeup line got recalled because it contained asbestos. I am glad I'm a shutin car nerd and I was not aware of any of this.
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Jul 21, 2020 07:15
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Sagebrush posted:oh, that's the new hannah montana girl whose makeup line got recalled because it contained asbestos. Okay well now I’m not worried about not recognizing the face.
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Jul 21, 2020 07:18
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Sagebrush posted:oh, that's the new hannah montana girl whose makeup line got recalled because it contained asbestos. Still probably safer than a Tesla.
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Jul 21, 2020 07:37
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Memento posted:
You're Aussie too right? That looks like a loving blast of a job! Apart from the 49degrees bit. But hte money and hooning around in fun uncomfortable vehicles is my jam so sign me up!
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Jul 21, 2020 11:12
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Humphreys posted:You're Aussie too right? That looks like a loving blast of a job! Apart from the 49degrees bit. But hte money and hooning around in fun uncomfortable vehicles is my jam so sign me up! Yep, stuck in Melbourne right now with the 'rona but I'll be back out once the restrictions are down. Fingers crossed for a vaccine to be honest. You're in oil & gas, right? I've always wanted to spend a season or two on an offshore rig, just for the experience of it. I did the helicopter water escape training many many years ago in the Reserves, that was pretty crazy.
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Jul 21, 2020 11:51
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Memento posted:Yep, stuck in Melbourne right now with the 'rona but I'll be back out once the restrictions are down. Fingers crossed for a vaccine to be honest. I'm Gas and Power, up in COVID resistant QLD :P. I used to be in Coal/Oil with a touch of Uranium. Lol that tip over training was fun (A-Tech Army) similarily many many years (18) ago. Been itchy lately for a shitkicker FIFO job again where I don't have to worry about anything other than my flight home. Worlds different now though. Luck to have the job I have considering we did a new ownership rotation and I've had some interesting history with the now owner and her brother years ago.
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Jul 21, 2020 12:17
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Memento posted:This is one of the little things that makes life a bit nicer though. This is from the top of the deck on a different drill rig, looking at the exhaust manifold. You wrap a frozen pie in aluminium foil and stick it under there, and in an hour or so you get a nice hot snack. Might need to do some adaptation on time and location but: https://nuxx.net/pdf/ManifoldM.pdf
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Jul 21, 2020 15:46
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Jul 21, 2020 20:24
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haha that's coowait what in the gently caress
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Jul 21, 2020 20:33
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Someone saw a mini clubman with the barn doors on the back and thought they could improve on it.
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Jul 21, 2020 20:41
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So I'm thinking it's built on a heavy duty, long truck frame to support all that weight without the wheels in the middle right ... right? oh god and if it is one solid structure, imagining that turning
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Jul 21, 2020 20:53
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Memento posted:Swedish amphibious vehicle, based off the Bandvagn 206. They're incredibly uncomfortable (I'm sure you're seeing a pattern here), top speed around 40km/h, heaps of room on the back for a water tank and to load up samples. If you get the Hagglund bogged, you might get lucky pulling it with another Hagglund, or you can use one of the drill rigs I showed in the little video above. I was surprised by this comment, I found them pretty nice way to get around in the finnish army. Of course all may be relative, they're pretty nice compared to 30 guys sitting as a train at the back of truck.
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Jul 21, 2020 21:13
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gently caress.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:09
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Tag yourself. I'm the window shaker AC sitting in the window of the barn.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:11
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I'm the woefully undersized air deflector
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Jul 21, 2020 23:29
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im van-colored crawl-through going from the van's hatch to the shed
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Jul 22, 2020 00:02
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I'm the lovely V6 trying to pull around that monstrosity
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Jul 22, 2020 00:21
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I'm the lovely V6 trying to pull around that monstrosity I'm the 41TE transmission
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Jul 22, 2020 00:50
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I'm the transmission that'll grenade from all the extra weight it has to try and pull
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Jul 22, 2020 00:51
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I’m the front little protrusion that i think could possibly be a reverse wheelie bar - stoppie bar?
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I remember running through a row of corn when I was a kid at a bonfire. It was dark and I couldn't see so I got slapped in the nuts by an ear then got clocked in the face by another. Guys, corn is hard AF.
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