Did WA DOT get the only tunnel boring machine that can't dig through large rocks?

DeepPurple

I understand that large road projects bring jobs, and all of the private companies in the civil construction biz love these kinds of projects... but WTF is happening with the god damn tunnel through Seattle that the State DOT is running?

Who the fuck uses a tunnel boring machine that gets stuck when it encounters 42" diameter rocks or old pipes?

We must have one of the worst state DOTs in the fucking country.

They fucked up the 520 pontoon oversight as well.

Fire those fuckers and take away their pensions.

RaceBannon

Oddly enough in Kent WA is The Fluke Company, the world leader in that type of equipment. They supplied the borers for the Chunnel between England and France

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RaceBannon said:

Oddly enough in Kent WA is The Fluke Company, the world leader in that type of equipment. They supplied the borers for the Chunnel between England and France

If it works it's a Fluke

MikeDamone

the State DOT is running

There is your answer....

oregonblitzkrieg

Borrow that from Switzerland. It drilled a giant hole through mountains in the St. Gotthard pass.

unfrozencaveman

Bertha back up and running today - give her forward progress of about 2 feet

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/01/tunnel-machine-creeps-ahead-two-feet/

Swaye

When the Swiss can do something better than us, you know we are fucked. The sunset of a "super power."

oregonblitzkrieg

Swaye said:

When the Swiss can do something better than us, you know we are fucked. The sunset of a "super power."

They already had us with the chocolate and the cheese. Throw in the alphorns, the swiss misses and the giant drillbits and I have to give them the edge.

Swaye

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Swaye said:

When the Swiss can do something better than us, you know we are fucked. The sunset of a "super power."

They already had us with the chocolate and the cheese. Throw in the alphorns, the swiss misses and the giant drillbits and I have to give them the edge.

The end is nigh. Repent Mother Fuckers!