Comments on: Amazing and incredibly huge tunneling machine http://www.stopgeek.com/amazing-and-incredibly-huge-tunneling-machine.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Albannach http://www.stopgeek.com/amazing-and-incredibly-huge-tunneling-machine.html#comment-17813 Albannach Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:56:43 +0000 http://stopgeek.com/amazing-and-incredibly-huge-tunneling-machine.html#comment-17813 That TBM is pretty nice, but just in case you aren't aware, this is by no means a new idea, and TBMs are used all over the place for tunnels of many kinds, and have been for decades. Just check out the UK-France tunnel ("the chunnel"), or pretty much any subway project currently underway. If you want one, you can probably get a deal on a used one ;-) http://www.tunneltrade.com/eng_2_3518_Lovat_TBM_Tunnel_Machine.htm cheers! That TBM is pretty nice, but just in case you aren’t aware, this is by no means a new idea, and TBMs are used all over the place for tunnels of many kinds, and have been for decades. Just check out the UK-France tunnel (”the chunnel”), or pretty much any subway project currently underway.

If you want one, you can probably get a deal on a used one ;-)
http://www.tunneltrade.com/eng_2_3518_Lovat_TBM_Tunnel_Machine.htm

cheers!

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