Well, I like this thread. Its for neat things that we encountered and wanted to share. I would like it to be just photos and not much banter. Ill start.

Who knew that a guy I work with held such a GEM in his garage. Its amazing what you dont know about people.

1970 Dodge SuperBee - 383 Magnun small block, makes about 400HP. He just had the car repainted, and the interior is about 90% put back together after new upholstery. The car is all original except the hood scoop is not factory. Sounds awesome and goes like mad for a car that weighs 4500 pounds. He says this is the same color that it was originally.



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heres the bucket from a giant drag line out in ohio.. kinda hard to tell how big it is til the last picture

 

wow!!!!!!

 

That's a big bucket! lol

 

what does that bucket actually do? what does it scoop and what controls it?!

 

Its a drag line. Its for strip mining. A massive chain drags it across the coal shale, and it fills up, then it gets lifted up and dumps out the backside of the bucket into those big dump trucks. The machine is kind of like a crane, except it has another winch line that drags the bucket across the ground toward the machine to fill it up. We have a very large one at Wabamun that I should have taken a photo of for you when I drove past yesterday, it takes a bucket like that too, it is said that you can park 3 transit busses inside the bucket and it can scoop over one million pounds of coal shale in a single scoop. The crane tractor that carries it walks on many strong legs instead of rolling on tracks. It does that because it moves so slow it is tough to keep tracks lubed that may take a month to rotate once. The machine may only do one 2km long pass at the shale field every year, so you can guess how slow it moves. The one here goes back and forth and is only near the highway every couple years as it goes north and south as it makes its way to the west in the long run, so you cant always get a photo of it, but you can always see the massive arm reaching up out in the coal pit. It digs a path that is about 50 meters deep and 2-300 meters wide as it moves along. They are amazing and powerful machines. It takes many men to operate aparently too, like a ship I imagine, a navigator, the engine room guy, the winch room guy, the driver, etc... I am curious if it runs on very fine coal dust? Now that would be cool.

Heres a roots style supercharger that I came across at work. Weight was about 980 pounds. Its dirty, so maybe it pumps fluid? the dirt inside was dry and very fine, almost satin to the touch like chalk when you rub it with your fingers. There was no guages on it or tags, so I couldnt get any other info or output pressure estimates. Only a freight label that lets me know it belongs to an oilfield company.


Looking in the hole in the top at the screws.


I imagine this thing your suck your face off.


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Heres another good one I found. I went camping with another few 4x4 owning friends, and 2 other friends came out to join us but all the own is really nice cars. That is a 2011 Mustang with that new "jap" sounding 5.0 DOHC engine, and yes that is a Caddy STS in the background sporting a $10,000 set of Lexani 22 inch wheels that have been driven down the trails through the much and rocks... Nuts I know. Man did they both ever have a hard time getting in and out...