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[Big] Bertha repair will take longer — there’s more damage
Seattle Times ^
| 5-18-15
| Mike Lindblom
Posted on 05/18/2015 10:01:33 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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Bad news for Bertha.
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To: smokingfrog
So the multi-billion dollar piece of equipment trashed itself to protect a $10 fuse?
Why did it have a chance to tear itself up so badly?
/johnny
To: smokingfrog
Stupid, ill-conceived plan from the get-go. I lived in Seattle area while this was being debated and clearly, the tunnel option was not only the most expensive but the least likely to succeed. So of course that’s the one they chose. Guaranteed to use more taxpayer money by a magnitude of 971,415,137,654.
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:11:31 PM PDT
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Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:12:24 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
To: JRandomFreeper
I’m not sure what “retrofitting” means. But my guess is that it doesn’t include a redesign of the thing.
It is the largest boring machine ever made.
The original bearing seals were damaged during the test back in Japan. They replaced them.
Those bearing seals were damaged/broke in Seattle. I think they need a major redesign-I don’t think it is engineered properly. If they just replace the same stuff that has already failed twice they are just asking for trouble. And next time the odds are it will be under a 20-story building in the middle of Seattle.
The machine constructs the tunnel as it goes - it can’t go backwards.
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:18:05 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: smokingfrog
[Big] Bertha repair will take longer
...than what? Forever?
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:19:42 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Boehner is the new Pelosi)
To: smokingfrog
Hmm, thought that you were talking about the golf club.
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:24:10 PM PDT
by
Deagle
(ui)
To: smokingfrog
'Now that stalled tunnel machine Berthas front end is disassembled, the damage looks worse than project experts thought'I said that about my first wife! HEE HEE HA HA HA HA HA.............
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:27:45 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(The Avatar is back by popular request.)
To: Veto!
I lived in Seattle for 45 years before moving to a small farm in central KY four years ago. I’ve been calling this “Big Dig West” since its conception became public.
These stories just crack me up. Seriously.
It’s almost as much fun as Seattle’s arrogantly ignorant punks protesting an oil drilling rig by beating on their kayaks made from oil.
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:34:46 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:42:49 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: JRandomFreeper
Supposedly it ran into some old steel pipe (well casing) that jammed it up and busted some gears.
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:44:52 PM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Ken H
They joined the circus...
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:50:15 PM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Hope they got the extended warranty.
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:52:35 PM PDT
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Dagnabitt
(Islamic Immigration is Treason)
To: smokingfrog
This system was only going to cost what 3.4 Billion now we are expected to pass the 40 billion dollar range shortly?
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posted on
05/18/2015 11:00:36 PM PDT
by
tallyhoe
To: Ken H
I don’t know whatever happened to Betty Butt, Bella Butt and Bathsheba Butt.
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posted on
05/18/2015 11:04:27 PM PDT
by
BBell
(Cult of the Sacred Drunken Wookiee)
To: smokingfrog; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...
The highway tunnel has lapsed two years behind schedule, and is now estimated to open in early 2017.Not any more.
DANG!
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posted on
05/18/2015 11:08:09 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Brian Moore was an exemplary cop. Let his conduct be the example for Baltimore police to follow.)
To: Veto!
Guaranteed to use more taxpayer money by a magnitude of 971,415,137,654.Not to mention all that overtime.
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05/18/2015 11:09:17 PM PDT
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Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Brian Moore was an exemplary cop. Let his conduct be the example for Baltimore police to follow.)
To: 21twelve
It sounds like they spent the last 16 months digging a huge hole to bring the cutter to the surface. Crazy way to dig a tunnel.
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05/18/2015 11:11:39 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: smokingfrog
That was just them trying to blame someone. The only wells there were 4-inch water monitoring wells. These machines crunch through heavy defunct oil well casing in California all the time. The bearing seal is a bad design.
I see that they will be adding some steel and stronger materials. I hope that works - but I’m doubtful.
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posted on
05/18/2015 11:13:30 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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