Beyond the Black Stump Pt 2
Ok, here's a follow up to my post yesterday morning. I didn't take any of the photos here, although I do have photos I took of the place that I might upload later for anyone interested in taking a look. The photos are perhaps a bit large, but anyone on dialup these days needs to get with it!
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The last two-three years I've been working in mine infrastructure design, although in the secret squirrel world of coal rather than gold. I always find it interesting to see what my drawings end up looking like in the field. With the projects being so far from the office giving site visits to design drafters is low on the list of priorities.
That having been said the vehicles look different to what I work with. Then again, imagining an underground mine with a CAT 797B in it...
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I'm not entirely sure they'd be able to even get one of those things to the mine site, let alone use it there. The mine isn't that big ;) Don't think they pull enough rock from the ground to make it useful either
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Designing workshop facilities for them is an interesting exrcise in 'just-how-big-can-we-make-things'. That and I have a dinky little software package used for traffic modelling which we customised so we can drive various mine vehicles (and even full wingspan aircraft) around the site so we can see how small we can make a facility without making them perform 37-point turns. It's kinda fun driving a C-130 Hercules through a suburban subdivision and calculating how many homes are ripped up by it's indestructable wings...
Flipside - reversing in a B-Double is just as much a pain as the real thing...
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