#1: Fucking no. #2: Can you imagine how much noise it makes to dump those rail cars? #4: Emu Tipping? #8: Hard not to get tapping with that guy's beat...
#5 Not the first time I've seen that happen. Won't be the last. The question is what it will look like when one of the really big ones fails like that? I don't think I'd want to be anywhere within a couple of thousand yards of it when it lets go.
Went to Hawaii once. Went for a drive and saw hundreds of windmills. Tons of them were buggared. Absolute eyesore. I understand that in the whole life of the stupid things, they will never produce enough power to compensate for their own manufacture. Can't even recycle a lot of the bits.
Went to Hawaii once. Went for a drive and saw hundreds of windmills. Tons of them were buggared. Absolute eyesore. I understand that in the whole life of the stupid things, they will never produce enough power to compensate for their own manufacture. Can't even recycle a lot of the bits.
There's a fair amount of slack between each coal car that adds up to a lot at the ends of the train. Before they built the double dumper at Robert's Bank, I spent many nights with my foot on the deadman pedal, to keep the brakes released so the single dumper could push the train through. Occasionally the slack-action would bounce a wheel over the chocks and they'd have to pull you back, to get a car dumped. With nothing else to do but sit there, you could try to sleep, but it wasn't very rewarding. A clanking bounce forward would be followed with an equally abrupt stop about a minute later. Lots of breakdowns, and they shut down operations in the wind, I sat there for 12 hours many nights. tallow pot
#2. They bring in 100 coal car trains to these power plants every day, or every other day. At a nuclear power plant the entire fuel load is four flatbed semitrailer trucks stacked with boxes six feet high every two years.
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ReplyDeleteBrilliant. When the inevitable tendinitis kicks in he'll be lucky to be able to lift a coffee cup.
They make a brick tong that would be faster and way easier. Nice work shoes too.
Delete#1: Fucking no.
ReplyDelete#2: Can you imagine how much noise it makes to dump those rail cars?
#4: Emu Tipping?
#8: Hard not to get tapping with that guy's beat...
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#5 Not the first time I've seen that happen. Won't be the last. The question is what it will look like when one of the really big ones fails like that? I don't think I'd want to be anywhere within a couple of thousand yards of it when it lets go.
ReplyDeleteWent to Hawaii once. Went for a drive and saw hundreds of windmills. Tons of them were buggared. Absolute eyesore. I understand that in the whole life of the stupid things, they will never produce enough power to compensate for their own manufacture. Can't even recycle a lot of the bits.
DeleteWent to Hawaii once. Went for a drive and saw hundreds of windmills. Tons of them were buggared. Absolute eyesore. I understand that in the whole life of the stupid things, they will never produce enough power to compensate for their own manufacture. Can't even recycle a lot of the bits.
DeleteThere's a fair amount of slack between each coal car that adds up to a lot at the ends of the train. Before they built the double dumper at Robert's Bank, I spent many nights with my foot on the deadman pedal, to keep the brakes released so the single dumper could push the train through. Occasionally the slack-action would bounce a wheel over the chocks and they'd have to pull you back, to get a car dumped. With nothing else to do but sit there, you could try to sleep, but it wasn't very rewarding. A clanking bounce forward would be followed with an equally abrupt stop about a minute later. Lots of breakdowns, and they shut down operations in the wind, I sat there for 12 hours many nights.
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#5 - That should happen to every one of those eye sores.
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ReplyDeleteThey bring in 100 coal car trains to these power plants every day, or every other day. At a nuclear power plant the entire fuel load is four flatbed semitrailer trucks stacked with boxes six feet high every two years.
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Me too, in a New York minute.
DeleteI can lift 10 bricks at a time and still nobody likes me.
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