|
Image of the Day Images that will blow your mind - every day. [Blog] [RSS] [XML] |
|
Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes |
06-23-2004, 05:41 PM | #16 |
I can hear my ears
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
|
Boy, this thread brought out the lurkers.
__________________
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan |
06-23-2004, 05:41 PM | #17 |
whig
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 5,075
|
Why the hell would you weigh it??
How?? Some kind of pneumatic pressue system? (random guess)
__________________
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain |
06-23-2004, 05:46 PM | #18 |
I can hear my ears
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
|
they measure it's gravitational pull, and extrapolate it.
__________________
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan |
06-23-2004, 05:49 PM | #19 |
whig
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 5,075
|
Is it me or does the guy standing next to it look a bit like that photo of bruce?
Must be what he uses to help move the doodad collection around.
__________________
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain |
06-23-2004, 06:21 PM | #20 |
LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 7,661
|
Jag said Why the hell would you weigh it??
To know how much product their is in the truck , most bulk product ( rock, steel scrap , etc,,,,) is bought and sold by the ton . How?? Here is one way http://www.mt.com/mt/product_detail/...y=I3Mjg4NjM1MD I installed the first one of these ever and walked it thru the government testing on site . Have you ever seen 400,000 lbs of known and un known weight ?? I have pics if you would like . Some kind of pneumatic pressue system? (random guess) No with strain guage load cells . Pnuematics wouldn't work because air expands and contracts to much , no to mention the water that would accumulate in the system . How ever there are scales that use hydrostatic systems , great for explosive areas and for large weird applications out side were lighting resistance is a consideration .
__________________
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner |
06-23-2004, 09:05 PM | #21 |
As stable as a ring of PU-239
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites
Posts: 1,264
|
Okay, it's a good thing these things aren't road vehicles. I'd imagine they'd need a full runway to stop the bloody thing if it ever got up to its projected 40 mph.
__________________
"I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens |
06-23-2004, 10:47 PM | #22 |
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 3,338
|
They DO make transmissions and driveshafts that big...and bigger.
These items are installed on all current Navy ships. The shafts are on the order of two feet in diameter and the MRG's (Main Reduction Gears) handle the output of one or two LM2500 gas turbine engines putting out up to 20,000 bhp each. AR AR AR! Brian
__________________
Never be afraid to tell the world who you are. -- Anonymous |
06-23-2004, 11:50 PM | #23 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
This 109,000 Horsepower engine, also uses a single driveshaft, but only 102 RPM.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
06-24-2004, 06:52 AM | #24 |
.....short for Caz
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: The West Coast of England
Posts: 358
|
I live alongside miles of beach and dunes and would really like one of these just for one day, just for fooling around. Oh yes.
__________________
..down by the zea zippin' zider |
06-24-2004, 08:49 AM | #25 | |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
|
Quote:
__________________
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis |
|
06-24-2004, 09:06 AM | #26 |
The urban Jane Goodall
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Florida
Posts: 3,012
|
The 688 class submarine I was on has TWO 30,000 hp high pressure steam turbines attached to a transmission the size of a storage shed.
The transmission turns one shaft with a 17' seven bladed screw.
__________________
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle |
06-24-2004, 09:29 AM | #27 |
Professor
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 1,857
|
Big loads for big trucks have there share of problems
|
06-24-2004, 10:03 AM | #28 |
Superior Inhabitant
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 74
|
I think I must have passed a semi carrying tires for one of those trucks last month. They were sitting on a flatbed on their sides, and the tires took up a lane and a half. I wondered what they were for.
|
06-24-2004, 10:35 AM | #29 |
Rapscallion
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 5
|
I lived in Indiana where they do a lot of coal mining. These trucks have been known to kill. YellowBolt, you can't see where the driver sits and he can't see where you sit.
|
06-24-2004, 11:25 AM | #30 |
Disorderly Disciplinarian
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 21
|
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan made good use of this vehicle in Mr Nice Guy (American release title).
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|