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

DeepPurple · January 2014

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 · January 2014

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

[Deleted User] · January 2014

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 · January 2014

the State DOT is running

There is your answer....

oregonblitzkrieg · January 2014

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

unfrozencaveman · January 2014

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 · January 2014

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

oregonblitzkrieg · January 2014

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 · January 2014

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!

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

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