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You can use that in the next Star Wars movie.
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
Luka posted a pic of that thing.
But theres more in there .
Pretty cool.
Tim
It's not the machine that impressed me so much- I've seen documentaries on that thing on Mega Machines or one of those shows. It's the fact that it scooped up and pretty much trashed a $600k D-8 like it was a piece of bubblegum on the sole of your shoe.....lol
Bob
hah, hah, hah.... that's amazing !Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Probably also quite impressive is the reaming received by whoever took the fall for that eff-up.....
-- J.S.
OK, Now that I have it downloaded, what program opens it?
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MS power point.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=enLong link to the .ppt viewer if you don't have power point."No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree." - W.C. Fields
I wonder how they got it out, put it in reverse.
That doesn't seem to run on my Linux box.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. --T.S. Eliot
Does Open Office do PPT?.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
PPT is microsoft power point, if you havent seen this, you need too. look for the yellow
This box is too dated to run Open Office.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. --T.S. Eliot
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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Looks like it couldn't handle all of the Breaktimers at once!;)
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I'd still bet on Mike Mulligan!!! Actually Mary Anne was the steam shovel( I had to look that up)<G>
1st time here thought I'd start with an absurdity!
BTW I was just remembering a TV movie called Killdozer back the early 70's. Anyone else remember that? This would be good for the remake!
Thanks!Bro.Luke
Edited 1/8/2007 10:37 pm by BroLuke
Killer Dozer! I thought I was the only person who ever saw that - may have even thought in my old age that I had made it up. I was real bad, I could tell that even as a kid, but I still remember it.
Staple of low budget tv saturday afternoon movies in the 70's.
That is amazing.
Chuck S.
So how do I take one of the pics from the slideshow and make it a wallpaper, or make the whole slideshow my screensaver?
Any tips or tricks for that?Friends help you move.
Real friends help you move bodies!
Assuming you are using a M/S Windows based computer, open the .ppt slide show. Right click on a pic and select copy slide. Then you can paste it into another document, a directory, or whatever. The paste function is a <ctrl>v or you can use the edit pull-down menu.
If you want to retrieve the whole slide show open the .ppt slide show, and go up to the file pull-down menu in the upper left of the window. Select "save as" and select .jpg. It will then ask you save this slide or the whole slide show. It's pretty self explanatory.
I can't do any of that, but I can view the slideshow. I have no "copy slide" when I pull down the menu via right click. oooh well, screw it, just the kind of crappy day I am having!Friends help you move.
Real friends help you move bodies!
Did you get a answer? If not here's a quick and dirty.
Save picture to ? file where you can find it.
go to Start/control panel/display/desktop/on right side of small display properties window is a browse to find the picture you saved and that's the one you want/click on it/stretch for full screen cover/OK.
This is for win xp.
A little more if that doesn't do you. If you need more to resize the photo and such holler back.
The only thing I can do with the slideshow is advance one, go back one, print, help.......help is no help at all.
dang newfangaled gadgets, I could of done this had I not got a new puter like a dern moron. I will find a pic of it somewhere.
Any chance you could save slide 4 and send as pic for me?
I can't even end the slideshow until it's over.Friends help you move.
Real friends help you move bodies!
I'm working on it right now, I got the computer hung on the first try. Kinda like when your stretching to rip the plywood and your standing on the cord with it about a foot to go.
thank youFriends help you move.
Real friends help you move bodies!
Let's see if this is a little better.
Yea I hear that! I just keep finding more and more stuff inside this box.
Ok hears a couple of things, when it starts the show/rt click and see some directions. This will let you do a couple of things to control the show.
What I did was opened the show/rt clk/go to slide-it then displays all slides/go to 4 looks good and then check out you keyboard find alt key and print screen key. press alt print screen.
Then close that program or rt clk and then shut down. Then open paint program/go to edit clk/paste. Go to file clk/ save as and make a title and place you can find it like my documents/Pictures.Clk save. done.
Now you have the picture to do what I first told you but here comes #4 from my paint save.
I'll send this one but it's still a little big, I'll play around for a little while and see if I can get it smaller.
Missing cat:
Beer was created so carpenters wouldn't rule the world.
I have not downloaded it, but can tell by the gist of things that we are talking about a strip mine machine, either a shovel or a dragline.
My dad worked for Bethlehem Steel all his life, the last 25 years of his career in wire rope sales, and traveled to southern Ohio and West Virginia to service the mining accounts operating these big rigs.
In the early 60s, when I was still in high school, he took me with him on a couple business trips, so I could experience some of what was happening in both strip mining and oil and gas drilling.
We went to a mine site one day where a big shovel was operating. It was sitting way down in a pit, repetitively digging from the cut bank, and rotating to deposit 100 cubic yard shovel loads on the spoil bank.
Except for the crash of the unloading, and the ripping sound from the cut bank side when digging, the machine was relatively silent.
It got to a place on the cut bank where an old farmhouse remained, but had been abandoned. The shovel simply cut under it and the whole house crumbled into the bucket.
The machine crawled on a set of four track units, each of them larger than the large dozer units, probably the largest CATs of the day, that did little cleanup chores down at its feet.
We went up into the operator cab that day to see what things looked like from there. The largest part of the climb up was via an elevator inside.
What we saw that day was a slightly smaller version of the Silver Spade, shown here.
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Edited 1/14/2007 3:02 pm ET by Gene_Davis
You need to look at the .ppt slide show. If you just can't do it check out this pic. The slide show says it can move the equivelent of 100,000 40 yard dump trucks per day. BTW - a regular tandem dump truck is 15 to 18 yards.
Sweeeet Mother of Godzilla!
I can't download that big a file, but thanks for that.
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The secret to a long life is knowing when its time to go. M. Shocked
Here are the rest of the specs from the PP slide show:
Dunno if you were able to look at the picture yet, but this unit is a giant milling machine. It has a bucket wheel rather than a shovel. Probably 30 or so buckets on the wheel, each bucket close to the size of your one shovel.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. --T.S. Eliot
That is the funiest thing I have ever seen. Even wife said " Good God!"
How much and give it to me. I'll justify the purchase somehow!
When you get it, can I borrow it? I only have about 100,000 yards of dirt to move so I should only need it for about an hour...
Morally, I would simply let you borrow it. But I will have to charge you something for as a rental fee to further justify the purchase to my blushing bride..."See honey? I told you I could make money with it."
P.S. - I hope you live near me, as trucking may be a problem.
Can't you just swing the arm over in his direction and do the job, without even having to move it?
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. --T.S. Eliot
That might require an FAA clearance.
Hey Bob! That's really cool, but do you have any idea why they did that to the dozer? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Cheers,
Ken
"They don't build 'em like they used to" And as my Dad always added... "Thank God!"
My guess is that he got sent out for coffee and missed the pass at the top of the wheel.
Dozer, hell - what happened to the OPERATOR???
Jeff
I would guess there are three possibilities: Death, serious injury, or serious a** reaming. ;-)
-- J.S.
Yeah, dead or wishing he was.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. --T.S. Eliot
But think of the opportunities with the thing for "urban renewal" activities. Cars, buildings, whatever -- cleared out in nothing flat!
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. --T.S. Eliot
that gives me an idea...
let's set one up in Washington DC and clean house...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
>>>>let's set one up in Washington DC and clean house...
and the senate...._______________________________________________________________
Compassion is the radicalism of our time. - Dalai Lama
A few embassies while we're there????Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
It is huge, and as I expected built by Krupp.
That company built the WW1 cannon named "The Paris Gun", first man made projectile to leave the atmosphere. The also built all the huge cannons that the Germans employed during WW2.
They were famous for their marketing techniques. First develop an armour piercing shell , sell it to country "A" , then develop an armour that would resist the shell , sell that to country "B". Go back to country "A" and tell them the shell they bought was outdated...sell them a new "Improved shell" then back to coumtry "B" and sell a "new improved armour"
If you like history find the book "The Arms Of Krupp"
Krupp also make food processors.
Here's a link to some more of those monsters (not sure if they are all as big as the one at the top of this thread):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tagebau_Garzweiler_Panorama_2005.jpgDialupper's beware, don't click on the image, unless you want to wait a good long time. The entire image is 3.6 MBytes (12000x1464)I count at least 7 of these things in the picture.Attached is a lower res crop of two of them...
If you look down in the lower right corner of that low-res picture, just under the "bridge", you can see some sort of dozer or loader, just to get a sense of scale.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
Even That thing couldn't shovel all the $hit they put out in DC
Peace
Where I used to work, TITAN-Roanoke cement they have a machine
that is about a 1/4 that size it advances about a 1/2 ", when the
limits are reached by by the slewing bucket wheel at the 9;30 & the
2:30 position. this machine runs on two small guage r.r. tracks it is
called a reclaimer,for it digs into a rock pile that is built by anouther
machine called a stacker all this takes place in a humongus building
1/2 mile long X 300 yds wide X 150' High. There are two piles of rock
consisting of differant types of limestone and shale approx. 100,000
tons apeice with additives of red clay and other things for the chemical
composition of that pile.the piles are approx.125yds.wide X 50to 75'highX
400yds long built by the stacker into the rough reclaimable form
of a trapazoid.while one pile is being builtby the quarry stacker,
the reclaimer reclaims or eats the other pile sending it to the roller
mills.this goes on 24/7 with the machines switching back and forth
between the two piles as one is built and the outher reclaimed every 5
to 6 days all this is automated execpt for cleaning of the machines
andthe switching of the two machines betwwen the piles then its a
4 man operation. the stacker and reclaimer pass each outher on
an east west axis with anout 4 " to spare so it gets quite scary
running these things in manual, you havnt lived until you collide
these two machines with each other,pick up a skid steer in the bucket
or fall asleep at 4;30 in the morning when you are just finished
setting the limit switches and you are running the machine
manually and you eat your maintanance truck . I know first
hand what type of reaming you get.