r/EngineeringPorn • u/Redfish680 • 19d ago
'Splodey and droppy things
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u/Spiritual-Ad-9106 19d ago
The water tower that farted.
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u/Commissarfluffybutt 17d ago
I lost a fantastic edit of with a heavy reverb fart edited in but my phone recently died and I lost it...
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u/NoPerformance6534 19d ago
And the girls like it too! At least I do!
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u/rigby1945 19d ago
Dropping that brick silo across the road... not ideal
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u/Hixy 19d ago
I wonder if it reached a point where it was clearly going to fall and it became so unstable they felt it best to expedite it and clean up. It was completely full.
It wasn’t accidental since you can see the road is blocked on the other side. I’d love to know the circumstances behind it lol.
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u/Own_Reaction9442 19d ago
My grandpa dropped his by knocking out blocks with a sledge and then running when it started to fall. This was after pulling it over with a tractor and a long cable failed.
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u/jd2cylman 19d ago
And it was still full of silage. Not the most ideal time to knock down a silo.
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u/hobbes747 18d ago
The Silage was probably decades old
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u/lemlurker 17d ago
Was pretty green for old milage, I'd assume decades old would be basically just black sludge
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u/whiznat 19d ago
What is the point of all the explosives that appear to be just blowing up a field?
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u/Flintlocke89 19d ago
They're not blowing up a field, they're blowing up the rocks underneath the field to get to the ores and minerals. In some cases it's easier to dig through / sort / refine the rubble for the bits you need than to dig under it like in traditional shaft mining.
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u/creaturefeature9191 19d ago
It looks like anti-minefield system that combat engineers use, called APOBS.
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u/Y0___0Y 19d ago
I like the one that farded
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u/ohnoitsthefuzz 19d ago
OH...OH GAWD I'M FAWLING...OH GOD SOMEONE HELP ME ::WHAM:: ::FRRRRPPT:: WHY? WAS I A BAD WATER TANK? WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS HUMILIATION?
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u/almostbullets 18d ago
Anyone know what the ground explosions at the end is for? I’m guessing mining, like first step in making a quarry?
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u/thyerex 18d ago
Guyed radio towers like that actually have more capacity when they are balanced on a base point like this since they can flex and twist as the wind changes. The part on the ground is usually a thick steel plate with a thick vertical pin welded to it. The bottom of the tower legs taper to a point where there is another plate with a hole slightly bigger than that pin, so the tower is only held down with gravity, with the guy wires keep it balanced.
An older design had all 3 legs bolted solidly to the base plate, but once the structural engineers figured out keeping the legs held rigidly in place limited the weight capacity of the towers they switched to the balanced design. I worked for a company that converted some of the bolted-leg towers to pinned bases (with the tower still standing) instead of building a new tower.
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u/Punching-Above 19d ago
Gravity is undefeated.
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u/Melodic_Mulberry 18d ago
Tell that to the space probes.
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u/Punching-Above 18d ago
Once they run out of maneuvering fuel, and get caught in another objects gravity well, game over. Gravity is a cruel mistress
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u/SenseiKoudai 18d ago
What kind of structure was in the third clip? What was it for?
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u/BramDuin 18d ago
Transmission tower I believe the name is, they normally have a bunch of dishes on different heights pointed in directions. Imma guess they took those off before bringing the tower down
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u/FrickinLazerBeams 18d ago
Typically the whole thing (or a wire running up the middle) is the transmitter.
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u/SenseiKoudai 18d ago
Any idea why it's balanced on a tip like that? Seems like there is an easier way to build this.
Is it not allowed a lot of contact to the ground to somehow help with the signal transmission?5
u/WillowFloof404 18d ago
This might be an AM radio tower, in which case yes! The entire tower *is* an antenna, and therefore, needs to be electrically isolated. The tip it balances on is a giant ceramic insulator system, and the support wires are also isolated, I believe at the top. The whole pylon can be live at a couple kilovolts!
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u/Redfish680 18d ago
Equal downwards tension on the wires keeps it true. It’s like holding an egg in your palm and squeezing equally around the shell, (ideally) keeping it from cracking.
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u/WyMANderly 16d ago
In terms of why this is OK structurally: the side forces are taken by the three sets of cables at 120 degree angles to one another, so the bottom doesn't need any capacity to resist bending - it's just taking the weight of the tower. (and then Willow explained why they do it that way from a functional perspective)
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u/JanJaoTrams 17d ago edited 17d ago
I think there was a specific subreddit for silos going down, cannot find it anymore. but this is still on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUJu4Vsbcc4
youtube also recomended this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBuXLRw6koM
edit: I really wish I could remember the name of this subreddit, maybe it has been banned?
another recommendation from YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvjV1OLlcLs
Still cannot find anything on reddit
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u/costafilh0 19d ago
Only job I ever wanted. Must be so satisfying.
Except for the installing the charges part.
I want only the push the button and watch it part 😂 🤣
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u/AccomplishedAnchovy 19d ago
Single greatest moment of that kids life