English vs Greek, tell me

[oldestguy]

Hi you engineers.
In viewing thread 260-248719 I'm wondering if someone can tell if that is Greek or some other language being used, but the words seem to be English for some reason.

Darn if I can follow it.

 

[BigH]

My friend, Happy 4th of July!! Why waste your time on that one!?? when you could be enjoying a beer around the barbee. ishaaag, if I am not mistaken, is from Spain - which makes it Latin . . . I think he was getting too carried away with Newtonian physics . . . He really should be talking with agricultural engineers who design tractors and combines, etc. This traction stuff is really important to them!

 

[GeoPaveTraffic]

I'm with you two on that one. Why oh why did he post in the slope stability form?

 

[Ron]

Yeah, at the least that's a general Civil question...there's a mandatory course in Civil that's usually called Construction Planning, Equipment and Methods or something similar (we called it advanced trucks and tractors!), that goes through all that stuff.

 

[BigH]

Never had it Ron - we learned about scrapers, dozers and excavators in the field . . . I worked at the Syncrude Mine during its initial start-up phase (2 East cuts and 3 West cuts in the original mine. They had these huge draglines for digging up the tar-sand - 2 Marion and 2 Bicyrus Erie - each snapping up some 80 to 90 m3 per scoop (if my memory serves me right). Put into big windrows - then the bucket wheel excavators got going and put the tar sand on these long conveyors leading to the plant - huge bloody equipment!

 

[oldestguy]

I was wondering if was really a contribution or just having fun trying to snow someone.

I have a neighbor who speaks that way, but finally figured out he was full of hot air.

 

[Ron]

BigH...those draglines are similar to the ones used here for the phosphate mines. The bucket is as large as a small house! The cab of the dragline is like a small three-story building.

 

[BigH]

and, in 1977, they cost USD 45m for the Marion and USD 35m for the Bicyrus Erie. Huge things . . . - they are also in the coal fields in Ohio - I remember seeing that they had to put 15 ft of fill over an interstate to move one across. They move slow - we were monitoring the highwall for cracks - once we found a few starting so the dragline was pulled back - took 30 minutes!!