Flat As A Pancake [Archive]

Cricket

11-12-2007, 09:11 AM

Would make Bigfoot jealous. (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/destroy/australian-miners-wreck-it-321386.php?autoplay=true)

:) Cricket

tigstah

11-12-2007, 09:30 AM

that was crazy......

shadowpr

11-12-2007, 10:44 AM

I actually cheered. LOL

TwoRails

11-12-2007, 10:48 AM

Ouch!! I would've hated to be taking a nap in there at the time :eek: :)

The Village Idiot

11-12-2007, 10:51 AM

I've decided to take a career change in the direction mining. Unbelievably fun I imagine.

Strider

11-12-2007, 04:07 PM

I sure the owners of the mining company wouldn't look too favorably on that, specially I think those trucks cost $500,000 or more.

Lespaul20

11-12-2007, 05:30 PM

I sure the owners of the mining company wouldn't look too favorably on that, specially I think those trucks cost $500,000 or more.

I think more like double that.

TwoRails

11-12-2007, 06:17 PM

And heck... maybe it's the owner driving it!! :eek:

shadowpr

11-12-2007, 06:28 PM

"This is what happens when you fire someone before getting the keys back"

Cricket

11-13-2007, 10:28 AM

More construction site fun. (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fun/bored-construction-workers-turn-a-digger-into-a-dangerous-carnival-ride-322017.php)

Industrial robot fun. (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/crazy-industrial-robot-on-ebay-lets-gallagher-your-own-brain-239715.php)

:) Cricket

David M

11-13-2007, 11:09 AM

How do you say "speed bump" in Australian?

shadowpr

11-13-2007, 12:24 PM

TwoRails

11-13-2007, 10:09 PM

Wow... that crane ride looks fun, but ya, that robot ride looks a little rough! I kept envisioning getting my head smashed into the floor!

ghost2003

11-13-2007, 10:22 PM

I saw something like the second one on daily planet once. The guys that made it said they were making deals with amusement parks. They even had tv glasses to make virtual roller coasters.

liambl

11-14-2007, 04:41 AM

Just looking at how close that guys head came to the ground in the robot one. I might've gone on that if it didn't put my head 2cm from scraping on the ground.

Jaggannath

11-14-2007, 09:00 AM

I sure the owners of the mining company wouldn't look too favorably on that, specially I think those trucks cost $500,000 or more.

Considering the price of tyres on those babies, I think you're being a little conservative there :D

I don't think the owners would care, so long as they don't flip it. They tip one of those they just use another truck to shove it aside, it's not worth the cost of getting a crane up there to recover it.

Ahura

11-18-2007, 03:22 AM

Agreed, 500K is a bit small. I remember watching a show on large machine and this truck popped up. The tag is moar liek around 2-3mil a truck. A single tire alone was liek 200-300K, at the time of the airing. Modern Marvel btw.

TwoRails

11-18-2007, 07:34 AM

How 'bout $4M?

$4 million 797B is over 7.5m tall, 14.5m long and weighs 623 tonnes.

from

http://www.bmacoal.com/opencms/export/sites/bccom/newsandinformation/NewsStories/News_Archive/news050805CATtrucklaunch.html

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Also, check out this bad boy for "home" use! Make the Hummer look small:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6026041/