HRBT boring machine finishes first new tunnel
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- čas přidán 16. 04. 2024
- Mary, the tunnel boring machine for the new Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion, completed the first new tunnel at the HRBT's North Island Wednesday morning, a major milestone for the project.
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Footage of the Fire Nation penetrating the wall of Ba Sing Se
Bro I came to find this comment lol
Start the countdown to victory!
Oh thank god someone said it, good to see some people have some culture
Lol I was going to make this comment if no one had yet
MY FIRST THOUGHT ON TBE THUMBNAIL
Ba Sing Se is shaking
😂😂❤
👩🏻🦯
All is fine in the earth kingdom
I was gonna say ba sing se has been breached 😂
I think it is interesting, not sure why everyone is calling it boring.
@@2k7u Jokes aren’t your strong suit it seems
If you're feeling bored imagine how that wall feels
Really? In my opinion, making holes in stuffs is boring... Joining two pieces of metal together though - that's just simply rivetting
@@lichbricks I have found my people
@@lichbricksvery clever
"Bless the Maker and Her boring. Bless the coming and going of Her engine."
“As was written.”
HE WHO CONTROLS THE TUNNEL CONTROLS VIRGINIA!
-DOT spokesman: Valamir Harkkonen
GIVE ME A WAY THRU THE WATER
@@TheBathrobeWizard these are awesome comments.
Usul has called a big one!
That was a little less dramatic than the Kool-aid man coming through the wall.
You had to be there.
Oh yeah
He died from diabetes
@@novajtv
RIP Kool Aid Man. 😔
Of course it wasn't dramatic or exciting. It's a boring machine.
Management might consider Doretta expendable, but not us! ROCK AND STONE!
We're rich!
Rock and Stone to the bone!
We gotta protect the drilldozer! For rock and stone!!
I wish I had a doretta 😢 rock and stone! ⛏️
Stone and rock! err.. wait a minute...
It amazes me the machinery that exists today for different projects
Yep men are amazing
Yeah but have you seen the megalithic works of ancient prehistory? It’ll really make you wonder where we actually stand!
@@dakotamiller9926 Doing a lot less physical labor than in the past and a lot safer, just look at how tall buildings were made in the 1920's, watch the video from Physical 100 of the Underdogs of the Boat challenge, it does not take anything but time and the will/need to get it done.
@@dakotamiller9926 No
@@dakotamiller9926 They’re only impressive because whatever was used to move and position them is lost to history. Humans back then could figure out ramps, levers, and rolling logs. They could mark the locations of the sunrise and sunset on the solstices with small rocks and build their structures around them. Humans today could do the same with ancient tools if they actually wanted to, but that would take a lot of time and probably a lot of people.
Good to see this I was one of the few that welded on this cutter head
Ballard marine?
@@germanCrowbar herrenknecht
@@AsianManZan i know, it's made in my area.
@@germanCrowbar I worked on this TBM. And several other herrenknechts. Good machines.
Thanks for your service! I look forward to driving thru the tunnel you helped build in a couple of yrs from now.
These are the real heroes of society. The ones doing hard thankless work that makes life liveable and convenient for the rest of us
They do get paid, you know. Rather well, actually.
@@codyking4848 what's your point?
@pjb4653 I think the point is "hero" is thrown around haphazardly. Most necessary professions are tedious, strenuous and thankless and well, it's a job, and when you do your job well you become valuable in your field because that's what you do to provide for yourself - let's not pretend they're doing it for the people as some act of self sacrifice, I think we should have appreciation for people who keep the gears running because thet uphold the standard, but lets not glamorous it and personify it as something it's not, it's not an act of charity or uncommon bravery.
@@Chef_Alpo id like to see you do it lol
@@pjb4653no u 🙄
Ba Sing Se has had its walls breached
I was looking for this comment
Same.
I like how he threw “honest work” in there to let us know there’s no fishy business going on lol
It's southern lingo that means hard work on behalf of a good cause. Most popular with farmers, but also tradesmen.
In slavic languages, "honest work" mean the same. Hard but good work.
Meanwhile, college students are building encampments to protest in favor of evil
Oh got ya. Thought it ment hiring your cousin, kickbacks, and going over budget.
Southern? Mid west here. We use it too. I sorta thought everyone did too. Haha
Classic... one guy doing all the work while everybody else stands around watching
😂😂😂
Soon it will be controlled by AI
@@RhumpleOriginal one AI supervising the machine with 12 others stand in a horshoe pattern and shitpost
@@Chef_Alpo yeah pretty much. Eventually the companies will shrink that down further and just supervise remotely.
Half of them are probably corporates or invited guests there for the breakthrough. The other half can’t do much until the giant slab finishes falling, and any decent company would let them be there for the big moment they’ve been working for.
Besides, if you know anything about construction, there’s a lot of waiting and rushing. The ground has to settle. Slow machines have to move. Permits and paperwork have to be taken care of. Other companies need to do their parts. Materials have to arrive but not all at once because there has to be a place to put them. If you get rid of everyone waiting, you’ll have no one when you need them.
This is Vault-Tec making the Vaults for us. Good luck everyone.
shit vualt if its only like 20 feet underground
As a Carolinian I'd like to congratulate Virginia on their achievement, and look forward to avoiding the speed traps on that highway
ROCK AND STONEEEE BROTHER!!!
For Karl!
For Rock and Stone!
"A reminder, that a tunnel fire could be worse".
LOL I was thinking like how that would be any better in the tunnel.
They’re talking about traffic congestion
In fairness, hazmat trucks are often banned from taking long tunnels.
@@isleschild That is correct. Often.
💀
I just love these giant level projects
Piece of awesome machinery at work! Congratulations! ❤❤
As soon as the second bore is done send Mary to Baltimore. They had a bridge that needs to be replaced with a tunnel.
Pretty sure the Key Bridge can't be replaced with a tunnel as it was used for road transportation of hazardous materials. Most tunnels don't allow hazmat
By the time Mary gets through, they’ll be done building the bridge.
We already have tunnels, other comments are right, the bridge was used for vehicles carrying things that couldn't go through the tunnels.
By the time it would take to bore a tunnel they could build about 3 bridges
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 That’s rather optimistic. This is Baltimore we’re talking about here. They may pay for three bridges and still get just one. But, for reasons of practicality, should there be a bridge at the mouth of a busy port?
Thank you for all your hard work gentlemen
Congratulations ALL 🎉
Come to Baltimore next ... we need you!
We already have two tunnels, we need a new Key Bridge.
@@sagittarius3363 Don't have to worry about ships crashing into tunnels. Maybe that's a better idea.
Baltimore needs to be crop dusted with birth control lol
@@SwapPartLLC Lets do trains instead
@@the_expidition427especially for long haul. Traffic is a joke whenever trucks are involved
4 billion for 1.5 miles a three branch tunnel (6.98miles)l in the Faroe Islands cost 1 billion Can we hire those guys??????
Yea I’m confused at 1.5 miles taking a year and costing 4 billion. There has to be a more efficient way
Only if they're willing to give the corrupt politicians of Virginia and Hampton Roads the Kickbacks they feel they deserve
Not in the USA.
A lot of favors, people on the take.
How big was their drill? This beast is 4 stories high!
What year did they do it? I feel like there’s a lot of inflation between now and then
Whoever is responsible for the change they made to 264 and 64 should be fired and put in jail
How do you spell spend $100 million dollars going from 4 to 3 lanes traffics even worse and there’s been bad accidents get rid of the express lane and open up four lanes like it used to be
Washington state was the first thing that came to mind when i saw it. I think it's disqusting. No more free HOV anywhere it seems. Virginians pay a lot in taxes already.
18 month behind schedule and over budget 😮
If you select the VDOT offices on Google Maps you can review them. It lets the public know how shameful they are because they don't have a public forum to be exposed in in the comment or complaint line they use is nearly unresponsive through VDOT
Google induced demand and understand why traffic gets worse when you add lanes
We need public transit, like a light rail system, not more road lanes.
That lady's got perfect news anchor energy 😂
Awesome. Big machines are really cool
Hard work ,honest work, don't hear that much anymore
The Tommy Lee of boring machines
Very impressive! ❤
Awsome tunnel guys!
Ive got one of those in my backyard. I can turn mine around in 3 months.
Hey I’m pretty sure the machine has fun in its own way
Tunnel is open! To the Technodrome!
Cowabunga?
I totally forgot about Shredders mutant module 😂 He’d bust through any wall or out of the ground anywhere at random 🤣 good times
God bless these workers and this project. Yeah, they're behind schedule but this is complex business. I only go over HRBT a couple times a month and I can clearly see progress each time.
I travel over the HRBT at least two round trips a day. This new tunnel expansion won't change the traffic unless people stop braking on curves or at the tunnel entrance and the engineers built acceleration and deceleration Lanes into the islands on the tunnel so the traffic doesn't have to stop or slow down to 25 every time a VDOT or HRBT worker has to enter or leave the islands
@@aureliusvaso you’re not happy that a new tunnel has the chance to make a difference?
@@Cje233 I will be happy if they engineer into the new projects solutions for the failures of the former projects
@@aureliusva how are they going to engineer into the projects how frequently people brake?
@@Cje233 the tunnel entrance is on a blind curve now. You can reduce braking at the tunnel entrance by not placing a blind curve right at the tunnel entrance.
hats off to the men who worked their ass off for this job... the machines are only good as its controller..
Happy to see Dan Aykroyd found his calling as an engineering foreman.
They have tunnel makers that melt rock like butter.
Ah I see the fire nation has finished their machine to attack the earth kingdom.
Had to come this far down to find an ATLA reference, smh.
Amazing
what does the crew do? seems like a lot of waiting for the drill to finish
How many bridge tunnels there gonna be in Hampton Roads?
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel to Cape Charles.
The Hampton Roads bridge tunnel.
The Monitor & Merrimack bridge tunnel.
This one. Wait, just Googled it, it's adding capacity to the original hrbt.
Chesapeake Bay never should have been built.
The James River but that's more of a bridge with no tunnel. Then you've got the downtown tunnel which is almost like a combination bridge tunnel when you add in the gilmerton. There is also the Midtown Tunnel which doesn't really have a bridge. And I don't think the real issue is the amount of bridges and tunnels, it's the amount of tolls that they place on those bridges and tunnels with those bridges and tunnels being necessary for any type of movement in Hampton roads. Not only that the tolls are contracted to an international company that's not even headquartered in Virginia and some of those toll contracts are longer than 70 years. VDOT recently did an expansion on Interstate 64 in Chesapeake Virginia and they spent years doing this so-called upgrade but gave the highway back exactly like it was before with the exact number of lanes only they took the far left lane and made it a toll Lane for something like $15. They did add a new high-rise bridge, but it only goes One Direction and even though it's wide enough for four lanes it only has two
@@aureliusvaFYI, the original scope of the I64 widening included demolition and replacement of the existing high rise. The cost was too high for VDOT with the HRBT project upcoming so the scope was reduced. The I-64 widening project added full size shoulders to both sides of each direction and the project was sized to allow VDOT to re-stripe and add a 2nd express lane as needed. Look forward to a directional flyover at 464-64 interchange In the next few years. The project addressed the primary traffic issues on I-64 through Chesapeake and with the new bridge there is no draw bridge for you to get stuck at when traveling on 64 wb.
@@zrunner800 that's a lot of words to say it's the exact same Highway as it was before only now instead of four lanes for everyone to use it has three lanes and one pay to play Lane. Traffic is far worse going through there now,
I was actually able to see and walk on one of those giant tunnel boring machines once. It is absolutely massive and so fucking cool
> literally called “boring machine”
> 263k views
We truly live in a society
I didn't realize exactly how big it was til I noticed the cherry picker down on the ground next to the wall
So like the truck fire, are hazardous loads and electric vehicles going to be allowed in the tunnel?
Yes
Hazardous loads are typically not allowed in long tunnels
Sure will
I always find it sort of funny that people harp on cars which use effectively the same batteries as phones, just scaled up.
@speedy01247 you saying that as if it matters within the context of this discussion has got the be the dumbest thing I've heard today. A water jet is a scaled-up super soaker, that doesn't mean they're both equally dangerous. Think critically before talking, or if that's too difficult just shut up.
I think it's actually quite an interesting machine
I didnt expect the ice worm from armored core 6 to be real this early
I like the subtitles to this video.
Not boring at all. It’s quite interesting!! 😮
I wondered what VDOT was up to after they got tired of rebuilding the stretch of 64 in NN, and replacing the Jefferson Ave overpass for the fourth time.
"That's not a simple 3 point U Turn."
Nope. Disassemble it and have a crane lift each section, spin it, put it back into place, reassemble...
We making out of ba sing se with this one💯💯🔥🔥🗣
I didn't think that was boring at all
Quite interesting in fact!
I hope that tunnel is taller than 13'6..... 4 billion dollars being spent!
The machine is four stories tall, so yes.
"Filling the air with a fishy smell".......hahahaha
BEHOLD... the miners of the underworld!!
OK, where does that freeway go at 1:38? I just see a freeway full of traffic that goes out into the water and ends.
Congrats to more induced demand. I'm so glad I was only stationed there for three years.
They've done some light rail projects, but not enough. Sea level rise is also projected to take nigh half the region one day.
@@FireRupee The sad thing is those tunnels will do nothing more but invite more traffic.
We’re glad you left.
@@Chet73 Yeah I left to see more of the world and learn how much better they do things than America...while you're stuck sitting in traffic.
@@TheRailwayDrone I don’t sit in traffic and enjoy living…wherever. 🤷🏻♂️
I find it quite interesting actually
WE BE BREACHING THE VAULT OF THE NEW YORK FEDERAL RESERVE WITH THIS ONE
YIPPEE KAI-YAY!
Boring machines have always been kinda interesting to me...
Oh yeah!
AvatarTLAB was ahead of its time
Every Mile takes a year.. definitely worth it
Whats the tunnel for
0:55 The most hyped guy in history
I thought this was the setup in gta online for the casino heist
Then along came Mary
The largest tunnel boring machine in the world is the Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok at ø57.7'. Bertha is second at ø57.25'.
0:10 Timberrrrrrrr!!!!!!
That thing went through the water? 😯
Tunnel boring machines look like something out of a steampunk series
13:03 what? Why are there no bored tunnels? Serious question.
is this tunnel for trains or for cars?
The sound of the wall hitting the ground comically sounds like a gun shot sound effect lol 😆
Pretty cool to see one come through a face like that
…doing the same in London under the Thames
guys will look at this giant metal earthworm and go "hell yeah"
doretta's great grandfather hard at work
HNTB... God I fckng hate the corporate weiners from those big government contract engineering companies.
What sort of engine powers that thing?
Tunnel boring machines are typically powered with electricity I believe. Electric motors run hydraulic pumps that move the machine.
Diesel
A big one
“Thanks to the truck fire we were late 🙄” lol
No I find that machine quite exciting.
It isn’t boring, it’s quite interesting 😂
Wait are they making the International Space Elevator
These machines will never cease terrifying me…
5 months to turn around is wild
Hard work… watching the machine…😂 they’re all super clean too. No scratches on those helmets or dust on any knees. Hard work, honest work… no need to sell it like that bro.
What city, state, and country is this in?
The news no longer answers dumb questions like who, what, why, when, where and how.
It is in the description, it is in Hampton, Virginia.
Well that was boring.
I'm sure this will fix traffic for good this time!
Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine
*insert Thomas the Tank Engine theme, off key with distortion and bass*
Imagine that truck fire taking g place under the sea.. 😓 I hope we thought through all the safety mechanisms and put them into place
these people in yellow vests keep the world functional
18 months behind schedule.
Last moments of this report : five workers behind the correspondent doing absolutely nothing 😂
Not entirely correct. Look again.
They don't work on weekends. Or at least they haven't for the first part of the project. I take at least two round trips a day across the HRBT and they have just recently started working Saturdays but nobody works on a Sunday there either good to know my tax dollars are being spent wisely. I guess I should start saving now for the toll they're going to put on the new tunnel
@@aureliusva so the guy we said we work 24/7 7 days a week was lying? Sounds about right
@@lordfrz9339 the only people working on that bridge on Sundays are motorists who can't figure out not to do the speed limit in the left lane trying to work on my last nerve
that thing reminds me of the tunneling thing on the matrix movie.
5 months to turn around? Why didn't they using one of the drills from the boring company?
It's NOT BORING AT ALL
Boring machine? Idk, looks pretty exciting to me.
overheard - OH YEAHHHHHHH!
A tiny Japanese/English girl I used to work with only dates black folks. I don’t know why i thought of her but she was a really nice person.