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V8Druid

V8Druid

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Apollo laser takes down 200 drones unplugged​

 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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think this is the auction that got mentioned elsewhere recently ...... look at the prices :oops::oops::oops:

Florida hosts the biggest car auction in history ... and points the way to future​


Mecum's 2026 Kissimmee Auction kicked off what is promising to be a bumper year for car collectors with the biggest car auction in history, no matter which way you measure it

Mecum's 2026 Kissimmee Auction kicked off what is promising to be a bumper year for car collectors with the biggest car auction in history, no matter which way you measure it

 
Bucket on wheels

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I've already placed a bit on the one top left 😵‍💫🤣
 

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V8Druid

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For when someone has really misread the dimensions on the building section drawing.
I have actually done this (on a smaller scale, with an Acrow forest) ..... architect dimensioned the drawings wrongly for the new MRI & CT suite I did the steelwork for at the local hospital on the roof of the A&E dept.
main contractor's contracts manager rang me a couple of days 'fore crimbo, many years ago to say the building was too low -- after it'd al been erected and signed off AND clad, several weeks before.
When I went back to site the agent confided that he'd wondered WTF they had 8 pallets of bricks left over :ROFLMAO: .. site meeting with all concerned, including my structural eng. who'd done all the fab drawings from their supplied detail drgs ... yep - architect f*** up - 600mil too low.
made a dose of stub columns, got a truck load of Acrows delivered, detached all the fixings to the main bldg, cross braced/tethered the whole thing to the planet and we jacked it up two feet 'tween Christmas and New year and was ready for the 'extra bricks', when they started back in January
got paper pix of it all somewhere.

I've been in the MRI and CT scanners a few times since they got installed in '98/99, which I have paper pix of in the attic

some pix of the new scanner going in through the roof hatch in 2009 ... couldn't get it in from the other side/original position, as they'd built a building in the area we'd had the 250 tonner stood in 98/99 :rolleyes: ...my 45t in the original stand position

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and a 500t Lieb doing 6.5t at IIRC 62m - old one coming out
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new scanner sat in the foreground ...................................................................................................... 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆
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long ol' reach that
 
Bucket on wheels

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Kummakivi is a stone weighing about 500,000 kilograms in Finland that has been balanced on top of another stone for 11,000 years. The seven-meter-long boulder rests on a convex bedrock surface with a very small point of contact, yet is so stable that it cannot be moved by human force.
The stone has been in its current location for about 11,000 years, since the ice retreated after the Ice Age. It is located in the Ruokolahti area of Finland.

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“We cut or vibrate up to 1,000 tons of concrete per day from the old quay wall,” says Willem van de Nagel, the operator in the cab. “After we remove about six metres of height from each caisson, another pontoon-mounted crane clears the debris. Three hours of demolition gives them a full day of clean up.” :oops:
 
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Near me. That’s a BIG fine 😳
not really considering what they'll have made over 25 years ..... the remediation'll be a lot more at a guess ..... they'll go bust next and the costs'll have to be met by us taxpayers
they were only licensed as waste carriers only .... " Though R & A Cleansing Services are registered waste carriers, there are, however, no permits or waste exemptions which would allow waste to be stored or treated or disposed of on site "
TBH they deserve everything that comes their way - bloody cowboys, creaming it
 
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