London property bubble entombs a thousand digger-machines
@robertmckenna wrote: "The headline was "thousands" of diggers, I explicitly sad that it may have happened on rare occasions, but "thousands" of diggers ?"That would have been a reasonable point, had...
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@Prentiz wrote: You know by playing the man and not the ball you just make his argument for him... In an any event, as the digger decays, wouldn't it create an unstable void in the foundations of the...
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@Gregoire_T wrote: Corrections : About the boring machines that excavated the Channel Tunnel, only the british machines were buried below the tunnel, not the french ones. Why ? because unlike the...
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@robertmckenna wrote: His argument was already an ad hominem, by responding to his pathetic little whine about the poor little rich people and how they get such a terrible bad press I was merely...
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@GilbertWham wrote: dominic_connor1: Would this story have been on BB if it had said "Union labour buries equipment" ?No it would not. Sez you. I'm doubtful of the veracity of the story myself, for...
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@jandrese wrote: The part that really set of my BS alarm is the one where it said you would need a crane to get the digger out. They're talking about the small man-sized units here. You can...
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@MicroblogC wrote: European regulation says automobile equipment out of use is toxic waste. Toxic waste has to be disposed properly. You can't dispose it by simply burying -- you have to follow best...
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@halloween_jack_ wrote: Smells like urban legend. I figure that you had maybe one builder that was using a machine that broke and, instead of hauling it out for disposal or repair, brought another...
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@dacree wrote: I just can't get past the idea that you need a crane to remove a digger. Whoever said that needs a better digger operator. http://www.snotr.com/video/4296/Unbelievable_excavator_stunt...
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@GirlBuild wrote: I came here to say this! Nice to know someone else had the same idea. Read full topic
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@GirlBuild wrote: If you're digging straight down in an urban area, without room to build an exit ramp (which you probably don't have, since you're trying to maximize building size on a relatively...
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@dacree wrote: You simply don't need a crane for those cheap mini diggers (the diggers that cost £5-6k used). Assuming you dug a shaft with no actual way out and assuming your bucket hydraulic system...
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@Skeptic wrote: Any of us can fall for an urban legend. But why would someone as media savvy as Cory Doctorow fall for one? Hard to know for certain, however, people are more likely to fall for urban...
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@tachin1 wrote: And HuffPo definitely screams credibility! Read full topic
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@catgrin wrote: Hey! Don't be snarky!I take serious umbrage as the one of the first people to come on here and debunk it (and the person who provided the math to do so) who also happens to be both an...
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@GirlBuild wrote: Huh. I hadn't thought of that (never seen it done that way: we've always had a crane on-hand for other things, so that's been the tool of choice). Good idea, though! Read full topic
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@anon34812172 wrote: Block and tackle and/or a heavy-duty come-along. I have done amazing things with this single, strong vector! Read full topic
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@chgoliz wrote: I still haven't seen one basic aspect of diggers referenced here, so I guess I'll do it.... Diggers dig dirt. The dirt has to go somewhere. If there's a tiny £3,000 digger at the...
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@WearySky wrote: Unless they're hauling the dirt out by hand Read full topic
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@catgrin wrote: All three sub-basements!!! Read full topic
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@Matthew_Scott wrote: "Werner Herzog"'s twisted take on Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1R5vDG2Tg Read full topic
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@catgrin wrote: That brought me such twisted joy. You WIN, sir! Read full topic
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@Tzctboin wrote: That is baloney, what the media want us to believe. The property market is mostly properties of accidental landlords (people that for whatever reason had to move out of their home and...
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@Tzctboin wrote: I don't get how the bullshitometer didn't kick in straight away. Anybody living in Europe knows that industrial waste of any kind has to be disposed of properly. Many people would be...
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