Every single geek on this planet would love to have one of these. Tunnel through basically anything. Needing to go around a mountain is no longer necessary. Dont like the Rockies? Dig through them.
It’s called the TBM, Tunnel Boring Machine. It’s something like the one we see in that movie ‘The Core’ where they use it to go to the center of the earth to restart the earth itself.
Except that his uses old tried and true method of scratching at the rock, but gets it done in such a way that even thinking about doing it any other way just seems silly. Oh and of course, it can’t be used in your journey to the center of the earth.
Catch the video below.
Damn, I need to get me one of those.
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Albannach
August 14th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
1That 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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