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I met up with a girl from the internet once.

I married her three months ago…

Majsan - 28 August 2012 11:45 AM

They are building a new house near where I live. Right now they are driving down stakes. (Don’t know if that is the right word, but I am sure you understand what I mean.) A machine is hitting them into the ground, and it’s driving me CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY!!!!
They start at 07:30 in the morning and keep going until 18:00 in the evening, CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It sounds like you are talking about pile driving. Where the top layer of earth is not strong enough to hold up a building on its own, you drive poles, known as piles, deep into the ground to give the foundations something solid to attach to. (See Pile Driver on Wikipedia). The alternative is to drill a hole (a few feet across) with a large drill and then fill it up with concrete. I know a funny story about that method.

Since a pile driver is essentially an enormous hammer, I can understand why it might drive you CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. You have my sympathies.

Giligan - 28 August 2012 03:02 PM

Thank you!

I am a senior in college these days. It keeps me busy.

I bet it does. What are you studying?

TimovieMan - 28 August 2012 02:44 PM

I met up with a girl from the internet once.

I married her three months ago…

Bravo and congratulations!

I met up with some people from the internet once and one of the girls had just got married.

Cool story bro?

Majsan - 28 August 2012 04:05 PM

(and please do tell that funny story…)

A piling drill is approximately 2 to 3 ft across and about 50 to 60 ft tall. It has a hollow tube down the center of the drill, down which the concrete is pumped. Because you still need to pump concrete down the center when the drill is pulled all the way out of the hole it has drilled, you need it to be pumped at a pressure that will push it 50 to 60 ft up (the height of the drill when fully extracted from a hole). As concrete is quite solid stuff (a mixture of cement and small pebbles known as aggregate) this is quite a bit of pressure.

Prior to getting into accountancy, I was working on a building site using just such a drill. The connection at the pump end suddenly experienced a failure, with the result that the pump spewed out concrete from the side of the pipe for a few seconds. (the reaction time of the operator). The key facts are as follows.

- The position of the failure resulted in most of the concrete going towards the site gates)
- Said gates were open at the time for access.
- Despite numerous signs telling people not to do so, someone had parked right outside the gates.
- The car they had parked outside the gates was a posh convertible with leather upholstery.
- It was the height of summer, they’d left the roof down.

Needless to say they were less than amused to come back to find construction workers attempting to extract cement and pebbles from their upholstery. 

stepurhan - 29 August 2012 02:53 PM

Needless to say they were less than amused to come back to find construction workers attempting to extract cement and pebbles from their upholstery. 

Why did the workers bother? Just put a paper there that says “you were warned”.