I think its like the Terminator. Somewhere deep in the Nikon or Canon laboratories in Japan, in a secret room behind a 10,000 pound door, is a fully assembled Canon EF 500 f/4.5 lens that was found in an excavation site from 1936.

Also, we need to build a one-way highway along to equator. With massive amounts of cars constantly driving west, we can slow down the earths rotation, thereby slowing down the magma vortices under the earths crust and effectively bringing tectonic movement to a halt.

This would also be a massive economic booster for the construction and automotive sectors, along with the tourism industry for the equatorial countries providing pitstops and Haliburton who gets the contracts to excavate the latrines (beware of faulty wiring).

The only downside is that earth would lose its magnetic field, but political pundits could show that magnetism equals marxism (it's available for all! and both start with an "m"!), so that is easily solvable.

Big win for all.

Remember: God makes a kitten purr for every 40.000 km you drive on the Equatorial Highway!

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Cheers, mate.

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This rips on a toy dachshund that nods whenever you touch it, called the "Wackeldackel".

Needs a "Kackebagger" (poo excavator) though.

I like that we can see a little of what is going on for people from there, and I think people should help. And I think we have a lot of people in this country who would gladly go there if they knew they were going to have a place to stay, food to eat, and transportation to get to where the work needed to be done....and some assurances they won't develop cancer or some other illness and drop dead in 5-10 years because they went there to help.

But as with all things, unless you know someone there who has their finger on the pulse of the situation and has contacts in the government...you will go there and be told "The best thing you can do right now is go home." unless you're famous......then they'll put you in front of some cameras and try to keep you happy so you don't go on talk shows and tell people how horribly bad it is there.

We have a lot of people who were just recently cut off from unemployment benefits (up to 2+ months ago) who would love to have a chance to go down there to help and draw a pay check to keep their house and such that they are in the process of losing. Small sidenote: What's funny is that the unemployment benefits got cut off....and now our unemployment percentages went from ~17% to ~10%...amazing they all found jobs...or stopped bothering to report their unemployment state since they aren't getting benefits from it....news hasn't investigated it.

These documentaries show there are things that need to be done, there's a real problem that having solid, useful information could help in applying an overwhelming workforce to the problem to overcome it. They just have to make sure that this overwhelming workforce isn't setting themselves up for death in 10 years because they weren't told that handling this stuff or being near it would result in cancer/internal organ failure/etc. And letting that kind of information out would make BP look bad, because it's not just dirty oil that kills all the wildlife..but it's dirty oil that kills all the wildlife and will continue to kill anything in the area for years to come.

I know at least 3 people and probably another half dozen who'd love to take their machinery down there to help out, as long as any damage caused to the machinery is going to be reimbursed (oily/sandy grit is not a good combination for moving parts) and they draw a paycheck to cover expenses of being there and their homes.

I wondered why they didn't dig a ditches in the beach lines, line them with plastic and slope them toward a pit or some kind of area where a pump can suck up the stuff making it to land to be processed there. Separate out the oil to a tanker, have 2-3 tankers making rounds to keep up with the oil and pump the water back out into the ocean. Sure some of the oil and stuff would be absorbed, but at least you're mitigating the absorption to an area near where your ditches are. You'd need some people on-site to make sure the ditches aren't getting plugged with debris and aren't eroding to the point of being useless. And then you'd probably have to dig new ditches with the tide. I can't tell what that raking and putting stuff in trashbags is doing to help the clean up in any significant way.


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[ ] = pump pit Pump Pit
And the editor basically butchered my little sketch, so there'd be some spacing between the | ditch lines and the [ ] pit would be larger to allow for more pumps to work on the same pit.

Something like that, you'd have to redig the | lines when the tide washes in and fills them...maybe use metal channels that are plastic lined that can be lifted out and move off so the tide doesn't fill them making them hard to lift or wash them away. And redig them once it recedes and put the metal channels back in place. And probably need something strong enough to hold the weight of a mini-excavator or back-hoe to clear the mouth of the | channels as stuff builds up in the mouth of them...so you can drive across the | channels to get to the problem areas.

Not sure how they could approach the swamp/marshland type areas, maybe focus their boats and booms more heavily in them to catch anything that the beach pumps don't draw in.....then setup fleets in the heart of the oil masses to suck up as much as they can before it gets close to shorelines. If the beach ditches worked out well, and the pumps were more than able to keep up with the natural water flow...they could be spread out some because they would pull the majority of the water toward the ditches.

I'll take crawler excavator as a more apt description of it, at least you'd know it came on tracks. Not sure what you'd call that attachment on it, looks like it was special made since it has all the swirl marks on the contact side of it.

All I know is I wouldn't want to work on the crew that referred to everything that digs as an excavator, most of em have multiple on site. Rubber tires so they can get up on the street, tracked for when it doesn't matter if the terrain is tore up. And if you want to be really anal about it, anything that doesn't have a digging implement attached to it shouldn't be called an excavator and "backhoe" describes the direction the bucket travels to pickup dirt (toward the machine). A "shovel" bucket works just like a shovel...so away from the machine.

So technically what I called a "backhoe" in my first post should be rephrased to say "Backhoe loader". This machine in the video while listed as an excavator on the companies website, technically can not excavate anything with it's current attachments. So I guess we can refer to it as a crawler tractor with a boom since that describes it more accurately.

Being super anal is tiresome. It's definitely not a backhoe though, it's other descriptions aside from a Liebherr 312 are very debatable apparently.

Excavator.


A track hoe is wut you pick up after winning big on the horses.

It looks like a Liebherr 312, which they classify as Crawler Excavator. If you noted from the video it's a 1997 production. I didn't see a 312 in their lineup but there was it's obvious descendant a 313.

Switched out, thanks.

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Get rid of that stupid movie trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDvVZ02m9gQ

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This is apparently an r9800 liebherr excavator. This boasts a whopping 42m³ bucket capacity (http://www.liebherr.com/me/en/products_mc.asp?menuID=106220!11929-0) ie. if it was full it would have 42tonnes of weight as a cubic metre of water weighs a tonne. So there is say more than 35tonnes of water "washing" that car. Anyone want a shower?

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