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6feetdown
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Apparently they issued a mayday managed to stop the traffic
V8Druid
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yeh heard that, but still traffic travelling on the bridge when it went down ... could see headlights in the vid.s
bet there's at least one of the Taklifts en route as we speak ... if they ain't all working somewhere .... not gonna be a lot in or out of Baltimore for a while
... can see a lot of tug work coming off in future -- every boat escorted in/out (probably in a lot of places with similar bridges across harbour mouths) ... apparently the same boat hit a dockside recently somewhere, so the media are reporting, but seems to have been catastrophic power failure .. hence the plumes of black smoke when the bridge demanded full astern NOW!!
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Brendan
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Looks like cargo is going to go up in price for a lot of people, the shipping companies all seem to be calling force majour, with the Baltimore ship dropping at the nearest dock and making the people with containers pay additional costs to move on
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Monkeybusiness
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They are definitely going to need a bigger crane - look at how tiny this thing is in the bottom video in the article. Gives a good impression of the scale of the job!
www.bbc.co.uk
Baltimore bridge: Massive US crane to haul wreckage after deadly collapse
The search for the bodies of four workers is on hold because of the dangers of diving among the debris.
www.bbc.co.uk
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DaveDCB
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Could just ram another cargo ship into it?
V8Druid
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might as well shake a stick at itThey are definitely going to need a bigger crane - look at how tiny this thing is in the bottom video in the article. Gives a good impression of the scale of the job!
Baltimore bridge: Massive US crane to haul wreckage after deadly collapse
The search for the bodies of four workers is on hold because of the dangers of diving among the debris.
the necessary kit is pictured above Dan
kabin man
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kabin man
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That didnt go well then for the bbc...
Bucket on wheels
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doesn't link Frank ... assume they're explosives mats ...... looking at the way they're up against the house, do i assume they blew the end out of the house ?
Do not understand
I clicked on the link in your reply and it went straight to the video
V8Druid
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Stroppymonkey
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Only a very minor oops.. but today I was chatting to one of the lads and went to pour a litre of wash N wax into the new karcher hot washer, and god knows why... lifted the fuel cap and poured it there instead. Stood back and looked at my error in horror. f**k knows what was in my head. Luckily it was in the workshop with all the kit we use for cleaning oil tanks, so 20 mins later it was all vacced out/washed/rinsed and refilled. I now have another 30 litres of bonfire fuel. I dare not tip it in my settling tank as I suspect it might not settle as its a dispersant? Anyway hopefully that's my stupid thing for the month all done.
Bucket on wheels
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His first reaction is to try lift it back up den runaway leaving the engine to self destruct 
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groundworker
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I was on a job once where one of the labourers filled the digger up with degreaser.
They had picked up a 20l drum of red fluid from the yard and assumed it was diesel despite the sticker on it saying degreaser.
Not sure exactly what happened but I think it killed the injection pump and they were planning to crane it out (3.5 tonner)...
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Stroppymonkey
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DaveDCB
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I filled the hydraulic tank on a 3cx with diesel on the first time I’d ever filled a 3cx up, luckily I didn’t turn it on! easy mistake
120L of new Hydraulic fluid later… on the later 3cx phydraulic tanks the filler caps were changed to a different type to the fuel caps
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Furniss
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Yeah easy done ...i know someone who did that too...think he got halfway to job.I filled the hydraulic tank on a 3cx with diesel on the first time I’d ever filled a 3cx up, luckily I didn’t turn it on! easy mistake
hydraulic tanks the filler caps were changed to a different type to the fuel caps
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AHPP
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I develop a fairly expressive personality when I hit potholes. The amount of money I pay for the roads to not be s**t, and yet they're s**t. Even better when hidden by puddles.
V8Druid
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and getting exponentially worse ....... roads everywhere are atrocious
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Monkeybusiness
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I used to work for a firm that did exhibitions etc for Honda. They launched a new outboard engine and set up a powerboat racing series with a set of identical hulls (designed for inboard engines but adapted for the new outboards) and flogged them across their dealer network - if you bought the boat you were eligible to race it at all of the rounds that year.
A couple of our lads were sent to Southampton dragging one of the boats to let some journalists have a good thrash around for the day - they were instructed to fill it with fuel en route. They’d managed to get 200l of super unleaded through the fuel cap before they smelt (and subsequently investigated) an overpowering petrol stench. It turns out that the inboard version of these boats had integral fuel tanks plumbed into the moulded-in fuel filler, but the outboard race series boats had separate plastic fuel tanks (removable from the boat for filling). This boat now had 200 plus litres of contaminated super unleaded (along with rancid old salt water and various other detritus) swilling around in the bilge (and still needed fuelling up!). It was an expensive mistake but sadly nothing went on fire…
A couple of our lads were sent to Southampton dragging one of the boats to let some journalists have a good thrash around for the day - they were instructed to fill it with fuel en route. They’d managed to get 200l of super unleaded through the fuel cap before they smelt (and subsequently investigated) an overpowering petrol stench. It turns out that the inboard version of these boats had integral fuel tanks plumbed into the moulded-in fuel filler, but the outboard race series boats had separate plastic fuel tanks (removable from the boat for filling). This boat now had 200 plus litres of contaminated super unleaded (along with rancid old salt water and various other detritus) swilling around in the bilge (and still needed fuelling up!). It was an expensive mistake but sadly nothing went on fire…
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Stroppymonkey
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Update. Spring snapped and ripped the ABS electrics out plus a flatty. Should have 2 new springs, and repairs and be back in yard by end of play tomorrow. Our local garage is brilliant,
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