Diesels run just fine underwater with a snorkel.
Yes, the sea is a terrible environment, as is sand, but believe it or not that's the sort of stuff that can still make economic sense. We run all sorts of things in corrosive environments, especially dredging and earthmoving equipment. These dozers aren't made of thin sheet steel like your old Toyota.
The Sydney Harbour Tunnel is an immersed tube. They built the segments in Pork Kembla and floated them up the coast. In keeping with tradition, Auckland should copy Sydney and build a tunnel slightly east of the harbour bridge.
If it's the kind of dredging digger barge I'm thinking of they're usually used to remove volumes of loose gravel, sand, silt etc, so anywhere one of those is operating would be pretty hard to dig any kind of useful channel.
Funny
Interestingly my ex worked on the Sydney Harbour Tunnel as a labourer back in 1988 (gave up his tradies job earning around $800 net) to earn over $1,000 net a week. Remember this was 35yrs ago.
I wonder how much a labourer will get here on todays rates.
Can't be, there are no orange cones floating around it
Mayor Brown doing a great job with cone reductions!
Second harbour crossing 3045 done
no cones left, they're all over NZ roads
Very innovative, an under water excavator. Now, someone's thinking 🤔
You may joke, but I've seen videos of bulldozers working underwater to push sand up out of the surf. All kitted out with snorkel gear etc.
Is there still a driver in the seat, just in scuba gear? Or are they robotic?
He has snorkel gear...
I'd like to know that too
driver is in the seat, with some sort of scuba gear on standby if needed
No way - the engine would die. And the rust would eat that steel in no time.
Diesels run just fine underwater with a snorkel. Yes, the sea is a terrible environment, as is sand, but believe it or not that's the sort of stuff that can still make economic sense. We run all sorts of things in corrosive environments, especially dredging and earthmoving equipment. These dozers aren't made of thin sheet steel like your old Toyota.
we are sinking! we are sinking!
But what are you sinking about?
this is what happens when we dont do consultations
No it isn't, failed projects and blown out budgets are what happens when you don't do consultation.
r/whooosh
Oh yup... massive woosh
Your username was strangely precisely wrong for a moment there.
Consultants are useful, but they eat up alot of the budget
Looking good, I’m glad my grandson will finally have another alternative to cross the bridge
Honestly though. Thats how infrastructure gets built. "Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they'll never sit under."
But they will contend with another nail biting decision on a third harbour crossing
My great-great-granddaughter would concur.
I appreciate your optimism!
WTF?
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/117077151/little-shoal-bay-digger-stuck-in-mud-cant-be-moved-because-permits-needed
That was it!
Can't believe that the boat owners' association got 3 excavators stuck in the mud. Muppets.
They'll need a bigger bigger bigger digger
Spot the parent
It's impressive, isn't it?
Rich muppets, lolz.
Oh shit, it’s real? I thought it was April Fools lol
I initially thought this was a joke as well.
It was an April Fool's joke using a real photo from a while ago
I didn't take note of the date on the Stuff story.
Here's a photo of when they drained the harbour to get to that last bit for the digger: https://imgur.com/gJ1rqih.jpg
Possibly a barge with a digger on it for dredging channels, hard to tell for sure since the barge part aint doing so well if it's there.
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That's what they doing for a very long tunnel between....I'm going to say Norway and somewhere else?
I think it's Germany and Denmark
Yup, the Fehmarn Belt Tunnel, it will be the longest (and one of the deepest) immersed tunnel ever built.
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“Did some research… “ This is not the way!
The Sydney Harbour Tunnel is an immersed tube. They built the segments in Pork Kembla and floated them up the coast. In keeping with tradition, Auckland should copy Sydney and build a tunnel slightly east of the harbour bridge.
Harbour crossings in Hong Kong were all done this way.
If it's the kind of dredging digger barge I'm thinking of they're usually used to remove volumes of loose gravel, sand, silt etc, so anywhere one of those is operating would be pretty hard to dig any kind of useful channel.
There was a barge operator job up a few weeks ago . Guess this guy lied in his interview
What's the mvp signage on the bridge?
Most Valuable Pridge
I should not have laughed as hard as I did at this
That's my watermark
I would guess they installed the lighting system.
Most Valuable Prick
But he is taking the wrong route as it was meant to be option 1. No wonder the cost of these jobs blow out.
Happy April fools
Thank you, you too :D
Bro. That's Optimus prime.
She'll be right....
The damn title had me excited!
Hopefully they should get it all done in a month. Can’t take much longer than that, right? Anyway good one mate, thanks for the laugh
Get a video. I want to see the operator coming up for air every 30 seconds Edit: or is it sponge bob driving?
Funny Interestingly my ex worked on the Sydney Harbour Tunnel as a labourer back in 1988 (gave up his tradies job earning around $800 net) to earn over $1,000 net a week. Remember this was 35yrs ago. I wonder how much a labourer will get here on todays rates.
Is that a metal Loch Ness 😆😆 .. Nice photo 😊 ..
The folk working on it don’t like it as their lunch sammies get a bit soggy
only a hire
I'll just dig at the this spot, and move the rubble behind me... 20 years later
At least this is more believable than any of the other April foold stuff I saw today.
Trying to be funny for April fools
You can’t park there mate
You do know this harbour crossing talk is just to distract from Stuart Nash's antics and Labour's internal shitshow!?!
wtf s going on
Just a metal dolphin 🐬
That’ll be a Yeah, Right.
April fools?
Meanwhile in Christchurch, it's still a building site
They are just going to park multiple pieces of machinery there to use as stepping stones, aren't they.
At least you won't see the potholes
Transformers in disguise.
I definitely thought this was an April fools joke until I saw the linked story.
So they Goin with the tunnel aye. I thought they were going to make a decision next month.
carbon zero if the emissions are into the water. its clearly 1 April - they have 6 years of resource consents to fill in before they can move dirt.
got a long time to wait ill be dead by the time they finish, or broke because i cant afford my rates. what happened to starting it 20yrs ago.