http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/data/4/2/340742-570104.JPG
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 09:59 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.enerpac.com/files/imagecache/projects_lightbox_landscape/projectimages/dragline.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:00 (fourteen years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5UTuShDnfSE/TaG1bxN70WI/AAAAAAAAAhk/XnVZJ4LJtww/s1600/the_largest_container_ship_6.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:01 (fourteen years ago)
http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/2011/05/cycloid1.gif
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:04 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.l6666.cn/Article/UploadFiles/200904/20090403142658531.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:06 (fourteen years ago)
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r293/VIEWLINER/PTA/SG.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:08 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.goodnewsshutup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bagger288.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:13 (fourteen years ago)
http://withfriendship.com/images/i/44255/Bagger-288-pic.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/STS-114_rollout.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:14 (fourteen years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/2261905391_9e622d172d.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:15 (fourteen years ago)
wtf is that gigantic rotavator that folds up into a multipurpose robot thing?
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:17 (fourteen years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HHNk27nAIUg/S9GNIOZtI8I/AAAAAAAAAB4/etgMaU3HPOg/s1600/Jahre_Viking%5B1%5D.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:18 (fourteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 xp
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:19 (fourteen years ago)
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/lhc_08_01/lhc1.jpg
Large Hadron Collider (@The Boston Globe's Big Picture)
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:20 (fourteen years ago)
I tihnk the second pic is a 'shop though
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:21 (fourteen years ago)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5207/5340217959_17c7b26a61.jpg
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:22 (fourteen years ago)
scoops up bulldozers by mistakehttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T2buuNUUNTA/TO_oJ9PlZlI/AAAAAAAAD0I/XhMnsX3Jxv0/s1600/World%2527s_Largest_Digging_Machine12.jpg
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:31 (fourteen years ago)
http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/06/my_10_favorite_mechanical_animation/02_animation.gif
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:31 (fourteen years ago)
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/11/10/1257858784566/A-cooling-tower-and-elect-003.jpg
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 10:32 (fourteen years ago)
http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/06/my_10_favorite_mechanical_animation/04_animation.gif
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:23 (fourteen years ago)
http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/06/my_10_favorite_mechanical_animation/06_animation.gif
fuckin love wankel roatary engines i do
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:24 (fourteen years ago)
rotary ones too
rx-7 was my dream car as a young lad
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:28 (fourteen years ago)
a friend has one, always seems to be in the garage. costs a bomb to run. nice idea in theory though, the engine is tiny.
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:30 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.churchmusicdublin.org/files/inside/organ.png
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 13:01 (fourteen years ago)
http://blogs.princeton.edu/great-immensity/images/ulstein-x-bow-container-ship.png
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:47 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/6F6rj.jpg
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:48 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/9pKnh.jpg
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:50 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/GA2zn.jpg
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:51 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/InWMk.jpg
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/bn5cm.jpg
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:54 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/cnJgs.jpg
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:55 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/fa2Bd.jpg
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:56 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/Mq65P.jpg
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:57 (fourteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3394645652_3d3044ec40_b.jpg
107" telescope, mcdonald obs., tx. best.
― caek, Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.psm-sensors.co.uk/images/atlantic_dawn.jpg
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)
http://tractorspares.ie/images/MF135.jpg
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:40 (fourteen years ago)
^ i was in either one or t'other iirc
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)
made you a video of me walking round the 107" telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTt9_fg2wQ
― caek, Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:59 (fourteen years ago)
awes
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 October 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)
http://youtu.be/_uHZKyEiy-w
25 gears with a ratio of 120/14. the first gear moves at 79.2 RPM. The last wheel will make one revolution in five hundred and ninety-four billion years. So it doesn't matter that it's embedded in concrete
Do a search for 'Arthur Ganson' for more cool machine art things.
― Franz Kappa (S-), Saturday, 8 October 2011 19:10 (fourteen years ago)
does that have a purpose? aside from being a+ cool, obv
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 October 2011 19:13 (fourteen years ago)
That was my first zero views video, caek.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 8 October 2011 19:14 (fourteen years ago)
uploaded 4 u
― caek, Saturday, 8 October 2011 19:50 (fourteen years ago)
This thread is fucking fantastic.
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 8 October 2011 20:02 (fourteen years ago)
so jealous of caek!! what am I doing that that is not a part of my life. it looks like you're in a jame bond movie.
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/QX5wa.gif
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Saturday, 8 October 2011 21:17 (fourteen years ago)
Britney can i get your sister jame bond Email
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)
i had no idea http://vimeo.com/9388444
― caek, Sunday, 30 October 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)
ship carry ships
http://i.imgur.com/ZuuW0.jpg
― caek, Friday, 30 March 2012 08:41 (thirteen years ago)
what the ship
― ledge, Friday, 30 March 2012 09:12 (thirteen years ago)
yo dawg i heard you like ships so we put some ships on your ship
― ledge, Friday, 30 March 2012 09:13 (thirteen years ago)
etc
more for fans of ship recursion here fwiw
http://www.fotovlieger.nl/project/201203_blue_marlin
europe's atv docking with the iss:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wpULQDuD0Oc/T3R52PK2YFI/AAAAAAAAAkA/akWUlpop3Vc/s903/ATV-1.jpg
― ledge, Friday, 30 March 2012 09:25 (thirteen years ago)
via https://plus.google.com/116214152295449083654/posts/BQCqA3ceVnb
― ledge, Friday, 30 March 2012 09:26 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/iron-giant/8886/
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 15:42 (thirteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/ZUwbkZ9.jpg
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:07 (twelve years ago)
I went to a steam rally yesterday...obviously nothing was on the scale of some of the stuff in this thread but it was awesome...both my grandad and my uncle are engineers/inventors so it was great having the mechanisms of stuff explained to me (I didn't inherit any of their technical/practical abilities sadly).
Very sick thread though, awesome stuff.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:12 (twelve years ago)
woah two awesome's, sorry.
magnificent!
xxp
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:13 (twelve years ago)
http://youtu.be/q_0xifuTqVA
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:29 (twelve years ago)
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q_0xifuTqVA"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
whatevs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TczQZUboe0
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:35 (twelve years ago)
can I not get the YT image to show on the page anymore?
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:36 (twelve years ago)
First vid = huge engineSecond vid = speed plowing with old Ford, and masses of black smoke
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:37 (twelve years ago)
http://pctrs.network.hu/clubpicture/1/8/_/bmwm5motor_108667_68739.jpg
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 12:16 (twelve years ago)
http://people.bath.ac.uk/mtl21/images/F-1%20Rocket%20engine.JPG
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 12:21 (twelve years ago)
http://www.wallpapershell.com/wallpaper/transport/steam-train/train-steam-wallpaper-003-1024.jpg
― Ste, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:12 (twelve years ago)
http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bX6zC.jpg
― Ste, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:18 (twelve years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qh4L0YZE9Vw/Te_jb8ewE_I/AAAAAAAAS1o/lilF7yFiNFc/s1600/07_SWAirships_V26N2_1267828237_2229.jpg
― Ste, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:49 (twelve years ago)
Does my blimp look big in this?
― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:33 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663VWLgT8Lc
― caek, Friday, 21 June 2013 09:26 (twelve years ago)
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/08/qq_containership/all/1
― caek, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 04:20 (twelve years ago)
just about everything in this terrific fan-made video, but especially whatever that is at 0:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDUFaRiUwsk
― Lee626, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:02 (twelve years ago)
http://helenography.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/dscf6602.jpg
― there'll be no more polls in heaven (bends), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:07 (twelve years ago)
http://www.fototime.com/1BFC00CECA8AEBC/orig.jpg
― there'll be no more polls in heaven (bends), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:13 (twelve years ago)
That blimp is ridiculous! Whose idea would it be to take a massive slow moving object full of men and vehicles to war?
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:30 (twelve years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/lgCDCa0.gif
― caek, Monday, 21 October 2013 02:11 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9_Kn2y2VA#t=109
― caek, Saturday, 25 October 2014 16:36 (eleven years ago)
good account https://twitter.com/MachinePix
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:05 (ten years ago)
cool
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 23:35 (ten years ago)
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-bertha/
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 12:15 (ten years ago)
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--3SkYaW6P--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1285811036231333733.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 7 June 2015 15:37 (ten years ago)
https://twitter.com/nbashaw/status/615021067338403840
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 June 2015 14:46 (ten years ago)
good account caek
http://i.imgur.com/mTLFVur.png
― 龜, Monday, 6 July 2015 20:36 (ten years ago)
lol, literally just coming here to post that too
so cool
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 6 July 2015 20:38 (ten years ago)
i like that it's called 'troll a'
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:26 (ten years ago)
Those stilts are straight from a Chris Foss piece
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 23:29 (ten years ago)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, July 7, 2015 6:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
good place to set up a colony of noize dudes
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 00:41 (ten years ago)
http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-sad-remains-of-the-soviet-space-shuttle-p-1710827956
http://i.imgur.com/MHtvdSk.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 26 July 2015 19:39 (ten years ago)
crane lifting a crane lifting a crane lifting a crane
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--IHGBEqWq--/1375638805181310248.gif
― ledge, Sunday, 9 August 2015 21:07 (ten years ago)
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/a-giant-crane-lifting-a-huge-crane-lifting-a-big-crane-1722806551
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--j9HnbX26--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1371242170630926116.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 10 August 2015 18:59 (ten years ago)
Does this go here? "High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility":
https://img.rt.com/files/news/29/ad/00/00/tesla-coil-marx-generator.jpg
http://www.rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/http://www.rt.com/news/181748-tesla-marx-generator-lightning/
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)
xp ha, I did think of that shortly after. Could do without the extra shopped panels though.
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:20 (ten years ago)
oh I only just noticed that, bah
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 09:28 (ten years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/UOXMc6X.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:04 (ten years ago)
https://giant.gfycat.com/BaggyCostlyDrongo.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:56 (nine years ago)
https://giant.gfycat.com/AdmirableHideousChafer.gif
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:05 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-XlbUDPt7A
― 龜, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 13:02 (nine years ago)
reminds me of bucket's observation in Murphy that the rocking chair is the only thing that gets faster and faster and faster and then stops. tho more terrifying. something essential about it made me think 'oh god, life'.
― Fizzles, Monday, 23 May 2016 10:36 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/hkPZ5a1.gif
― 龜, Thursday, 16 June 2016 03:37 (nine years ago)
http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/loczr2lukuqnouxaxq0w.gif
(look carefully and you'll notice that some of these gears are turning in the same direction as their neighbours...)
― koogs, Thursday, 16 June 2016 09:13 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/4MUVq4y.gif
― 龜, Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:11 (nine years ago)
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--AzVwHsci--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/bhn9yxqvs1aeybjhtzie.png
http://gizmodo.com/a-17-000-ton-oil-rig-ran-aground-on-a-beach-1785029783
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:11 (nine years ago)
*thumbs up*
― 龜, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:40 (nine years ago)
that picture is amazing
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:51 (nine years ago)
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/08/20/atomic-light-akademgorodok-laboratories-scientists/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 August 2016 21:51 (nine years ago)
https://www.facebook.com/Machine1806/videos/398237297186905/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 January 2017 16:24 (eight years ago)
Brutal. Why didn't they just cast it to that shape in the first place though?
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Sunday, 15 January 2017 17:16 (eight years ago)
"Chinese steelworkers hate this one neat trick!"
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Sunday, 15 January 2017 18:04 (eight years ago)
yeah, like the anchor chain upthread it's a striking combination of sublime machinery and a surprising dependence on manual labour
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 15 January 2017 18:29 (eight years ago)
Why didn't they just cast it to that shape in the first place though?
Two thoughts. China spent decades as a low-capitalized nation with massive amounts of manpower and a full employment policy, and there are probably still many remnants of that economy left in the hinterlands. It is also possible that the tensile strength of the metal (steel?) may be much higher when it is beaten into shape rather than cast. But I am not a metallurgist.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 15 January 2017 19:09 (eight years ago)
...
― 龜, Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:18 (eight years ago)
ime forgings normally have less surface porosity, finer grain structure, higher tensile strength, better fatigue life/strength, and greater ductility than castings
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:30 (eight years ago)
yup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_hardening
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:24 (eight years ago)
y'all need to watch more Science Channel
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:27 (eight years ago)
What is it a wheel for?
Typical train wheels are cast as one piece but the load bearing bit, the tyre, is a band that is added later. I remember them showing a short piece about this on Blue Peter about 100 years ago. They heat it up to get it on and it contacts as it cools. Pic here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_wheel
That goes on to say that they sometimes don't use tyres any more. And one of those pictures suggests that the flange is part of the tyre.
― koogs, Monday, 16 January 2017 06:48 (eight years ago)
garu g to thread
― the late great, Monday, 16 January 2017 07:51 (eight years ago)
It's so funny that you posted that bc my dad at Christmas spent about 45 mins telling me about being in an open-face forging operation in the mid-80s before it went out of business, and how the steam power hammers were 3 stories tall -- one story underground and two above. And the shop had 6 of them. He remembered a lot of details and they made flanges much like the one in that video, by his description. Only without forklifts.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 16 January 2017 23:54 (eight years ago)
I thought blacksmiths shops were supposed to be dark so you could tell how hot the metal was by the color it glowed. (This was confirmed for me by an actual blacksmith last week.) But I suppose needs must.
The one detail that wasn't in the Chinese video is that my dad says the scale--the oxidized impurities that flake off after each hammer blow--has to be swept away or else it gets stamped back into the metal. So a guy with a broom would sweep the surface in a synchronized pattern between hammer blows but every time the hot metal would make his broom catch on fire, so he'd throw it into a bucket of water. And then again. And again. Etc.
It sounded very exciting, albeit noisy.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 16 January 2017 23:56 (eight years ago)
ha! wow
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:44 (eight years ago)
I correct myself, it's called open-die forging according to the internet, because there's no recessed shape that you're forcing it into. Instead the metal is taking whatever shape it will under the force of the hammer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forging#Open-die_drop_forging
Anyway he said it stopped being desirable when the Japanese (I think) invented a kind of steel that could be stamped out and have the same strength and grain characteristics that had been achieved by forging without all the mess and labor and, well, actual forging. So the operation was shuttered before the end of the '80s and all those men who had made their lifetimes' craft of that work were unemployable. And it will never come back.
Dinner conversation at my house is just riveting obv.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:54 (eight years ago)
I see what you did there, dad.
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:59 (eight years ago)
this is extremely messed up and should be illegal
https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/833764654308405248
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 February 2017 20:00 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/Mp40luu.gif
― 龜, Friday, 14 April 2017 15:02 (eight years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMQRhWGflg
― 龜, Sunday, 4 June 2017 17:43 (eight years ago)
I used to get queasy working at 50 ft type heights, jeez imagine being an ant on that site. I could just imagine you have broke much sweat completing some work at absolutely terrifying heights, and then you take a week off sick before the clerk of works can hand you a snag sheet!
― calzino, Sunday, 4 June 2017 21:39 (eight years ago)
thred:
An excavator mulcher can quickly clear land. pic.twitter.com/hf1lbvJaBC— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) February 19, 2016
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 22:28 (eight years ago)
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvYXNzZXRzL2QyODNjZGFlZWNiOTA3OTA0MF8xMDg1NTYzNzkyNF82NjFkYTQ0MzIwX28uanBnIl0sWyJwIiwiY29udmVydCIsIi1xdWFsaXR5IDgxIC1hdXRvLW9yaWVudCJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiMTI4MHg-Il1d/10855637924_661da44320_o.jpg
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flip-ocean-research-platform-scripps?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=atlas-page
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:02 (eight years ago)
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/44638/image.jpg
“Very quickly, it became clear that nobody wanted to go back at night because FLIP was not only more comfortable, but it provided a good platform for working 24 hours a day,” says Pinkel. “When things were working, you didn’t want to leave your experiment to go back to a mothership.”
I'm picturing the shuttle ship showing up at the end of the day when they first started the project and one of the scientists sadly mumbling "but I like it here!"
― mh, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:23 (eight years ago)
love that this account has got v salty since the election
Automated polymer binding foam agent sprayers reduce coal dust coming off of coal transport trains. Luckily, coal will soon be replaced by cleaner, more modern, and more efficient sources of energy that create more jobs. pic.twitter.com/P9t6biEDD6— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) November 20, 2017
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 November 2017 19:59 (seven years ago)
haha literally just seen that, there was a retweeted response too
― Ste, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:07 (seven years ago)
lol kbye https://t.co/S6XeRDUwLi— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) November 20, 2017
― Ste, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:16 (seven years ago)
bah doesn't show the reply tweet. Here it is
This guy is in total meltdown. WAS an interesting account. Going off on politics? Who cares? Bye guy.https://t.co/HxClhwbx0y— Mike Chillit (@MikeChillit) November 20, 2017
― Ste, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:18 (seven years ago)
mike failing to live up to his name
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:19 (seven years ago)
^^ Dude has made half a dozen tweets about missing Malaysian Air flight in the past hour.
― pplains, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:21 (seven years ago)
Mr. Chillit, not Mr. Spiralli.
i have also narrowed down possible location of the wreckage to somewhere in the pacific, i just don't like to brag about it on the timeline
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:29 (seven years ago)
Just awesome pic.twitter.com/WFD6xlxX9d— The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) March 5, 2018
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 06:54 (seven years ago)
isambard kingdom brunel fever dream
― imago, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 07:24 (seven years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/PUOMoKk.gif
― 龜, Saturday, 14 April 2018 11:52 (seven years ago)
Decades worth of layered paint was peeled, chiseled, and sawed off of Tufts' iconic cannon, which students have used as a kind of billboard since 1977, via @BostonGlobe https://t.co/jG5hlz7Iln pic.twitter.com/E5yF873XaJ— Tufts University (@TuftsUniversity) September 8, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:55 (seven years ago)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm3nzIAhxeM/?taken-by=otbp_cookiecutters
― koogs, Thursday, 13 September 2018 11:22 (seven years ago)
Love that. "Damn that sound is so satisfying" otm
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 September 2018 11:33 (seven years ago)
a couple more here - https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/09/cookie-cutters/
― koogs, Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:04 (seven years ago)
50Hzと60Hzの違い． pic.twitter.com/9HkISxT7CZ— デッドセクション (@ACDCSection) October 3, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 October 2018 17:16 (seven years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqJMpq6W4AAB9BH.jpg
― calzino, Monday, 22 October 2018 22:16 (seven years ago)
https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Bucket-Excavator-Construction/dp/B01CU9X8AC/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 4 November 2018 16:45 (seven years ago)
wau
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 4 November 2018 17:04 (seven years ago)
It’s this mechanical scale model of a three-ring circus, currently on display at Rosebery’s auction house in West Norwood. @roseberysltd pic.twitter.com/HsW47M1YSZ— Lev Parikian (@LevParikian) November 17, 2018
to continue on a (lol) micro scale, this model of a circus is quite mesmerising tbh!
― calzino, Saturday, 17 November 2018 15:38 (six years ago)
Breaking up is hard to do. Manitoba uses these 20,000 kg Amphibex machines to break up channels in the frozen river and speed up spring thaw. pic.twitter.com/eZhorWMFlL— CBC Manitoba (@CBCManitoba) March 12, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 22 March 2019 03:24 (six years ago)
I don’t want to overexcite you too much... but here’s an exclusive shot I just took of the settings available on the back of a traffic light. pic.twitter.com/M1bdGxgDIv— Will Freeman (@spadgy_OTA) April 12, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 April 2019 19:25 (six years ago)
will this work?
Interesting lock pic.twitter.com/TzfDUfOqcN— Universal Curiosity (@UniverCurious) December 27, 2019
― koogs, Sunday, 29 December 2019 04:15 (five years ago)
don't see why not, just an overly complicated latch isn't it?
I would think thought that excessive force would damage the ring?
― Ste, Monday, 30 December 2019 09:23 (five years ago)
(I meant the magical auto linking of the tweet)
― koogs, Monday, 30 December 2019 09:43 (five years ago)
lol
― Ste, Monday, 30 December 2019 09:47 (five years ago)
Symphonie mécanique (1955) by Jean Mitry, with soundtrack by Pierre Boulez:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWMF-YA5Mc
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 30 March 2020 23:04 (five years ago)
PENETRATION pic.twitter.com/22gWE5sU85— kissmemore (@snoomr) May 21, 2021
― koogs, Saturday, 22 May 2021 16:31 (four years ago)
Marbles are made on a marble run?! https://t.co/oBySHoNRky pic.twitter.com/jYIRzhUmNm— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) March 14, 2022
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:05 (three years ago)
I bet half of those steps aren't even necessary... it just looks cool.
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:56 (three years ago)
"Restless", a mechanical sculpture by Tobias Bradford. pic.twitter.com/sDkJVwbaL1— MachinePix (@MachinePix) January 17, 2024
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 19:11 (one year ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9Eo73o9-k
― just like Christopher Wray said (brownie), Monday, 13 May 2024 16:42 (one year ago)
Cat 798AC truck and Cat 995 wheel loader in Las Vegas for MINExpo. pic.twitter.com/8x8DbQRQrm— MachinePix (@MachinePix) January 2, 2025
― 龜, Thursday, 2 January 2025 18:40 (ten months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOTpQOQvdVE
some of these combine harvester grain cart videos are kinda soothing
― brimstead, Friday, 17 October 2025 23:34 (three weeks ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvl7ElAj_Rg
― 龜, Thursday, 30 October 2025 18:52 (one week ago)