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Cop posted:Random guy calling it Photoshop TinEye turned up jack poo poo. I'm not so sure about it being a Photoshop though. It seems too well done to me if it is.
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# ? May 8, 2010 00:31 |
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Why would you bother, though? Mining accidents can be described as either of two things - frequent or bizarre. I was going to do a big post of weird mining accidents I found on GIS and lo and behold, I found a site where my mate probably found the images in the first place
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# ? May 8, 2010 04:02 |
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Mining accidents own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5H98kA2tqw (bad language, but it's a goddamn mine what do you expect)
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# ? May 8, 2010 04:37 |
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Nam Taf posted:Mining accidents own: OH gently caress indeed
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# ? May 8, 2010 04:40 |
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teh jhey posted:
Just curious but which GXP? G6? Solstice? G8?
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# ? May 8, 2010 05:23 |
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D. melanogaster posted:Just curious but which GXP? G6? Solstice? G8? I'm going to guess Grand Prix, otherwise has to be G8 ... that's an LS oil pan
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# ? May 8, 2010 06:09 |
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Nam Taf posted:Mining accidents own: Watch the crane on the right, about 20 seconds in, something leaves it at a high velocity, right before it catches fire. Makes the locomotive engine on page 27 seem mild in comparison.
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# ? May 8, 2010 14:17 |
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nubie7357 posted:Watch the crane on the right, about 20 seconds in, something leaves it at a high velocity, right before it catches fire. Makes the locomotive engine on page 27 seem mild in comparison. http://news.smh.com.au/business/worker-injured-at-curragh-coal-mine-20081208-6tpl.html quote:A crane operator has been injured after a winch failed at Wesfarmers Ltd's Curragh coal mine in central Queensland.
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# ? May 8, 2010 15:58 |
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scapulataf posted:Ahh, now I think I've figured it out, the engine is a mechanical failure because of the tendency for the engines to blow. Well, wrong by technicality, the G60's 1.8l engine is a really, really great engine, and practically bulletproof. The G60, aka the supercharger itself? Not so much. Most G60 rebuilders recommend 40-60k rebuilds, at about $6-700 each, so...yeah. And as you can see, I've already posted 2 superchargers that I own, and both of them have blown.
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# ? May 8, 2010 17:08 |
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Nam Taf posted:Mining accidents own: Read about it and no one was even seriously injured.
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# ? May 8, 2010 18:23 |
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Jack the Smack posted:Read about it and no one was even seriously injured. Mines are somehow pretty safe for humans, but death for machines.
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# ? May 8, 2010 19:15 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:Mines are somehow pretty safe for humans, but death for machines. grover fucked around with this message at 20:32 on May 8, 2010 |
# ? May 8, 2010 20:30 |
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grover posted:Well, at least in America. China still manages to kill about 20,000 mine workers every year. China is like early 20th century america right now when it comes to workplace safety
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# ? May 8, 2010 20:55 |
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One would say China has a focus on personal responsibility. For example, if you're just walking on an ordinary sidewalk at dusk and get hit on the head with a brick, you should have known that the completely unmarked bit of sidewalk you were walking on is a construction zone, and that workers inside the building are dismantling the interior and just throwing the bricks out the door. That particular example (which I've seen myself) was in the downtown area of Shanghai, not in some small town. Workers are also responsible for their own safety gear. They get paid squat and pro equipment is expensive, so they have to show some ingenuity.
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# ? May 8, 2010 21:38 |
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Ouch! My eyes burn just looking at that.
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# ? May 8, 2010 23:06 |
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el topo posted:
Oh come on, that hard hat clearly has a six point suspension. Even mine only has a four point.
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# ? May 9, 2010 00:07 |
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el topo posted:Workers are also responsible for their own safety gear. They get paid squat and pro equipment is expensive, so they have to show some ingenuity. He's going to get a wicked forehead sunburn.
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# ? May 9, 2010 00:30 |
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nubie7357 posted:Watch the crane on the right, about 20 seconds in, something leaves it at a high velocity, right before it catches fire. Makes the locomotive engine on page 27 seem mild in comparison. Actually. If you look even closer, the debris comes off the vertical blue boom, due to the scraping action of the now falling white boom and its capstan wheels. The debris falls and presumably hits the spinning cable spools/winch and is bounced out... I also like how one of the small giraffe cranes on the left just goes tits up/faceplants.
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# ? May 9, 2010 00:31 |
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Hm, it almost looks like its trying to have sex with it.
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# ? May 9, 2010 01:43 |
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hatefulsquid posted:I agree with everything you said, just wanted to point out that "reasonably profitable" is a laughable term when applied to the oil industry. I know you're being facetious but... There is an enormous amount of known oil on Earth that is not feasible, with current technology, to drill. "Not feasible" means profitable of course. "Peak Oil" fanatics will point to the 'known reserves' statistics, and compare them to oil consumption statistics, and the math easily shows how we will completely run out in x years. What this analysis fails to take into account, however, is that 'known reserves' refers to economically viable reserves; as the price of oil incrementally increases, more reserves become profitable, and thus 'known reserves' increase. Moreover, as technology improves, the costs of extracting drop, which also brings more oil into the 'known reserves' category. So, in a nutshell, the modern oil business is an exercise in correctly calculating the cost of extracting a given amount of oil from a given field. The big boys are very good at making these calculations, and part of the reason why, is because they understand how not to overspend... and how not to make billion-dollar mistakes. "Reasonably profitable" is by definition the threshold between an economically non-viable find, and something worth drilling.
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# ? May 9, 2010 02:09 |
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Speaking of mining accidents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5v7PEoVbfM honestly if you're going to park there* I think you deserve what happens. * it's probably fake
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# ? May 9, 2010 02:55 |
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Blocko posted:Speaking of mining accidents: Look at the video closely. It looks like the mining truck thought the thing was there temporarily and it tried to stop. It was slowing down but it wasnt able to slow down enough, fast enough.
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# ? May 9, 2010 03:36 |
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Blocko posted:* it's probably fake
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# ? May 9, 2010 03:53 |
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Nothing a panel beater and some bondo can't fix.
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# ? May 9, 2010 03:56 |
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grover posted:As flat as it was smashed, it clearly had no engine in it. So yeah, it was staged. The wheels also seemed to come off too easy, and too flat... I'm calling Potemkin Pickup on that.
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# ? May 9, 2010 04:14 |
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Coasterphreak posted:Nothing a panel beater and some bondo can't fix. The ultimate beater daily driver.
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# ? May 9, 2010 08:16 |
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D. melanogaster posted:Just curious but which GXP? G6? Solstice? G8? G8.
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# ? May 9, 2010 17:08 |
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Leperflesh posted:I know you're being facetious but... What "Peak Oil fanatics" tend to point out is that the problem is not us running out of oil, the problem is when supply cannot reach demand. Oil will still be in the ground long after we've finished fighting over it because we will eventually reach a point where extracting that oil grants a zero percent net energy return. Scarcity of oil alone is a terrifying prospect for our civilization considering our fuel, electrical energy, and plastics all come from oil and even our mutant agricrops need a petroleum based product to even survive the next season. "The Big Boys" have been playing a shell game with their oil reserves since the seventies hiding, inflating, and on several occasions doubling reported reserves overnight. And the argument that the problem solves itself because of slow inflation in the oil market is absurd. World demand for oil is increasing exponentially as decades go by and meanwhile we've found little to no oil in the past fifty years. Even if supply falls slightly in relationship to demand it will cause a cascade effect shooting the price up as people hoard. Ask someone who was alive in the seventies if this sounds familiar.
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# ? May 9, 2010 19:21 |
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James Woods posted:Oil will still be in the ground long after we've finished fighting over it because we will eventually reach a point where extracting that oil grants a zero percent net energy return. My dream is a solar powered oil derrick.
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# ? May 9, 2010 19:55 |
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Clearly there needs to be a resurgence of woodgas technology.
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# ? May 10, 2010 05:13 |
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Blocko posted:Clearly there needs to be a resurgence of woodgas technology. Holy poo poo. Needs a door so you can smoke moose in it.
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# ? May 10, 2010 05:55 |
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Blocko posted:Clearly there needs to be a resurgence of woodgas technology. I assume that's a gassifier? I wonder if he's using the gas in pressurized form to run a diesel engine? I've seen it done to power diesel generators and it would explain the choice in car. That would be kinda neat. Just chuck firewood in the back and you're good to go.
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# ? May 10, 2010 08:45 |
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Blocko posted:Clearly there needs to be a resurgence of woodgas technology. Wasn't the last kick at it during the Carter years? (For the obvious reasons)
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# ? May 10, 2010 08:54 |
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Sponge! posted:The wheels also seemed to come off too easy, and too flat... Landcruiser 75/79 series ute, probably so drat rusty it couldnt leave site. You wouldnt see the engine either- that would be pressed down into the surface of the pit road- those things have HUGE ground pressure on those tyres because of their weight.
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# ? May 10, 2010 13:28 |
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*video of mine dump truck crushing standard truck* If memory serves there is another thread somewhere where this is explained as a safety training video. My late grandfather used to auction this sort of equipment off and would talk about the cranes brought in to take them away in parts. One mine site used some sort of crane helicopter to take the bucket a few miles away to another mine/quarry site - it was cheaper and easier on the roads.
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# ? May 10, 2010 16:03 |
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ab0z posted:As expensive as those things are, you'd think that they would be more careful with them. I know there was a recovery a few years back at Voiseys Bay (One of the worlds largest mineral finds lately) Labrador of a Cat D11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D11 The operator decided to cross a frozen pond or lake with one as a short cut and drowned as the dozer crashed through the ice about 1/3 of the way across. It wasn't until spring that Inco was able to recover the tractor and the operator. Given the cost of the massive scale mining equipment, it would be cheaper to recover and rebuild then have insurance buy a new multi-million dollar piece of equipment.
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James Woods posted:What "Peak Oil fanatics" tend to point out is that the problem is not us running out of oil, the problem is when supply cannot reach demand. Oil will still be in the ground long after we've finished fighting over it because we will eventually reach a point where extracting that oil grants a zero percent net energy return. Scarcity of oil alone is a terrifying prospect for our civilization considering our fuel, electrical energy, and plastics all come from oil and even our mutant agricrops need a petroleum based product to even survive the next season. I work in the exploration industry. You're full of poo poo where bolded.
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# ? May 10, 2010 18:23 |
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James Woods posted:World demand for oil is increasing exponentially as decades go by and meanwhile we've found little to no oil in the past fifty years. Billions of barrels were found in 2009 alone, take your stupid peak oil poo poo to LF. efb MomJeans420 fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 10, 2010 |
# ? May 10, 2010 18:33 |
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The 300 meters of berm on your left as you were going up that hill was to let you know it was going to turn to the right once you got to the top. Click here for the full 1600x1200 image.
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# ? May 10, 2010 20:09 |
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My Dad changed the oil in our lawnmower for the first time in 20 years. He said it came out in lumps and had to wait forever for it to drain. Runs like a champ now. He was so impressed with it he cut the neighbor's lawn.
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