Forwarder mit Betonmischer im Baustelleneinsatz auf dem Titlis 🇨🇭⛰️ 3020
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If you've ever been to a ski resort, you may have wondered how in the world did they manage to build these huge concrete structures way up on a mountain that no normal vehicle could climb. This is how.
Google translation of the YouTube blurb:
John Deere 1210G forwarder in use on a construction site on the Titlis glacier in Switzerland at 3020 m above sea level.
Traction winch and bogie lift by Haas Maschinenbau.
Motosacoche vintage motorcycle The aluminum cover on the side of the engine covers the drive for the generator. Electric lights, you know.
Another jigsaw puzzle, another vintage motorcycle. From looking at a bunch of similar bikes, I'm thinking this one is a 1925 model. When I first saw the tag on this puzzle I thought Motosacoche was just some ferrin gibberish for 'motorcycle'.
Turns out it is a Swiss company. It was started in 1899 and was a going concern up till the 1930s. Via Thema has a history of the company along with several pictures.
Someone has revived the name and are selling electric bicycles. They want 16K Euros for one, which I think is ridiculous, but then 20 odd years ago, when I was riding bicycles, I was running into people who were spending five and six thousand dollars for bicycle bicycles. I thought that was ridiculous too. Mind you they were ordinary working folks, not trust fund babies. Well, ordinary except for their obsession with bicycles.
Search for 'Motosacoche vintage motorcycle' and along with pictures of motorcycles and Google will also return a bunch of advertising posters. Joe Bridge was a prolific artist.
Historische Baustelle in Betrieb / Weiach Historik 2022
[Historic construction site in operation / Weiach History 2022]
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I like the thumpers. They look like something from one of Hayao Miyazaki's movies. Americans who are into old machinery for digging in the dirt seem to focus on tractors. Most of the machines in this video were new to me. Weiach is in Switzerland.
Came across this photo on Quora, but no explanation, so I looked it up and found the Sayano-Shushenskaya power plant catastrophe. As long as rotating machinery is operating smoothly, you don't think about it too much. When things get out of whack and it does start vibrating more than tolerable, the general solution is to turn it off. In a well run organization, the guy on the spot has the authority to turn the machine off if he sees trouble brewing. In Russia, with their long tradition of Communist stupidity [tm], that wasn't the case.
Finding the cause of a vibration and fixing it is something of a black art, meaning I don't really know how it's done. You need bearings with very minimal tolerance, which usually means you can't wiggle the shaft. That would be a little tough to do when the shaft weighs a zillion tons. You can do a static balance by grinding off bits on the heavy side, if you can find the heavy side. But this might not be enough on a machine with powerful forces, like megatons of high pressure water, acting on it.
Sayano-Shushenskaya sounds vaguely Japanese, but it's not, it's Russian. Hydroelectric plants are usually located next to a dam, and whenever I think of a Russian dam, I think of James Bond:
Goldeneye Intro
Empire has the story behind this stunt. When I first saw this I thought James was jumping on the upstream side of the dam. I don't know how I got that impression, except that why would you jump on the downstream side? You could just walk up to the downstream side, you wouldn't have to make this spectacular jump. Maybe that is why I am not in the movie business.
