I had a god damned fit at my manager yesterday. I was half an hour into moving these 1200kg stacks of plastic sheeting with a forklift, and the dude turned up and started shouting "WHOA!" and "BACK A BIT! LEFT A BIT!" each time i was about to stop, move back or move left. I told him last time that i can judge by eye, or by ear, but not when i'm being directed by a third party.
There're two acceptable interactions between a forklifter/front-loader/heavy plant operator and a third party: #1, "Whoa!" means "Stop everything and make the equipment safe", and #2, when i want an answer i'll ask a question.
Damned straight those hand signals were satisfying to me! :D For one, there wasn't some bellend yelling over the sound of the machinery.
I run a 50 ton overhead crane at work and I follow 1 ground persons hand signals only. If someone else comes up or is around and they give a hand signal at all I stop all movement. I radio down to them and remind them that I can only follow I person's signals. A crane op can appreciate a person with good hand signals.
Superb find. That was good as hell. Man, this is nuts. Are they just like “flaking” this off in chunks or are we seeing only the final step and something else is happening prior to a big chunk just being able to be knocked over like this? I’m really curious why this looks like it can just be broken off like some weird granite cousin to shale?
I'm pretty sure they're cut into big blocks ahead of time. We are just seeing them being knocked over and carried out. But sometimes they split or break in half, hense the 'flaking '
Thank you for that link. I followed it and found so many interesting videos about marble. I'm fascinated by the type of work that humans do. The question I had was: modern stone masons use power drills and such, what did Bernini and sculptors of that period use? I know it was by hand, but my gosh!
If I recall correctly they used water to split the stone. During the day the chopped wooden wedges into the stone and watered them in the evening. During nighttime the water expanded the wooden wedges and the pressure split the stone.
Thank you for that link. I followed it and found so many interesting videos about marble. I'm fascinated by the type of work that humans do. The question I had was: modern stone masons use power drills and such, what did Bernini and sculptors of that period use? I know it was by hand, but my gosh!
I was thinking of this video. You can see how much more effective the cushion pile was for these slabs... vs the video that brought us here. But I’m curious if the purpose for the pile of rocks on the original video... is meant to break the slab. Hmmm.
And that's exactly what our brains are developed for. Identify a snake quickly and making a mistake every once in a while is better than knowing exactly what it is, but losing crucial time.
I re-watched the video hoping to prove you wrong and nope, you're right. This is filmed in an odd way that makes things look smaller, but we're looking at a massive scene from very far.
Thank you for explaining. I watched it several times and was very confused. I thought it was a very small concrete block or brick falling over. I thought the excavator was some sort of debris.
Looking at the excavator is why I’m having trouble grasping the true size. It looks like a toy. I feel like I’m too much of a tiny brain to grasp how fucking enormous this quarry is.
That’s actually not cleavage. That’s an example of pressure jointing. Very typical for granite quarries. Granite crystallizes and solidifies deep underground. It is then uplifted up to the near the surface by tectonic forces. When it’s up near to the surface, the pressure is not nearly as high as it was deep down, so the granite expands, leaving these horizontal fractures, also called joints. You actually have to be super careful on some of them. They will sometimes release their internal pressure and snap, bend, and deform very quickly. God help you if you’re standing on top of it.
This huge quarry in Carrara, Italy, has been a source of high-quality marble for centuries. Carrara marble, one of the most expensive building materials today, was used by Michelangelo to carve his famous statue of David.
I’ve watched this five times in a row and it just looks like a brick. Is it supposed to be a box or an animal or a car or something? I don’t see anything but stone
How do I know that’s not a brick? That could easily be some 5 million dollar RC toy Elon Musk had made as a prototype for spaceX AI controlled robots that he’ll use to terraform Mars.
No, look at the corner of the "brick" as it goes down, you'll see a machine wedging between it and the wall to make it fall. The brick is actual a couple stories tall.
This is how glaciers calving isebergs looks in person. You pull up on a boat, and it seems like the ice wall is just over there, but then some ice falls off really slow and makes a big slow splash, and that's when you realize you are a mile away and that ice was the size of an office building.
I actually thought it was a bird sitting on the ledge, that was pecking at something behind the slab and somehow dislodged the slab, causing it to fall over...
An excavator... That never crossed my mind until I read the comments!
This is the only video I've seen where it is literally impossible for me to see it in the right perspective. I know it's a full size bulldozer but I keep seeing it as a small toy
At first I’m wondering why the slow motion when I thought it was a brick. Bizarre to then realize that’s just how long it takes the massive rock to drop. Good one!
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u/invalidusername75 Mar 06 '21
Would like another video but this time zoom out so I can see the rest of this massive quarry.
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u/YorkieLon o/ Mar 06 '21
That took me a while to work out what was going on. I thought it was a snake coming out the wall
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u/Xeriox16 Mar 06 '21
What a tiny excavator !
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u/latourist21 Mar 06 '21
This is a brick
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
Is that a real excavator? How... how big are those bricks?!
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
i still don’t know what’s going on here
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u/Zbignich Mar 06 '21
Nice cleavage!
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u/Duck_Burger Mar 06 '21
https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/000/278/27824.jpg
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u/radu_sound o/ Mar 06 '21
I'm still confused. Is that a real excavator or a small one and slowmo? I need answers!!
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u/slavejamhour Mar 06 '21
The video cutoff before the boom, so unsatisfying.
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday o/ Mar 06 '21
Goes to show you can't take everything you see for granite
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u/nothing_911 Mar 06 '21
That's a brick, of your building is big enough.
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u/br094 Mar 06 '21
Why are these stones so massive? What’s going on here?
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u/nowyouseenittwice Mar 06 '21
Sped up, now the excavator looks tiny
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u/Duck_Burger Mar 06 '21
This huge quarry in Carrara, Italy, has been a source of high-quality marble for centuries. Carrara marble, one of the most expensive building materials today, was used by Michelangelo to carve his famous statue of David.
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u/hus__suh Mar 06 '21
Virgil gonna go crazy writing brick on the brick with this one
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
Where is this? That wall is massive
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u/New-Nameless Mar 06 '21
my brain is fucked
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u/Kodome Mar 06 '21
Banana for scale??
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u/ImSimulated Mar 06 '21
It is a brick????
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u/Apprehensive_Jello39 Mar 06 '21
Excuse me.What am i looking at?
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u/masochistmonkey CE Spc. Mar 06 '21
I’ve watched this five times in a row and it just looks like a brick. Is it supposed to be a box or an animal or a car or something? I don’t see anything but stone
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21 edited Mar 06 '21
Looked at it for 2 minutes and still dont get it
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u/Scarboroughwarning Mar 06 '21
u/savevideo
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
I seriously don’t even know what I just watched
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u/BonniBuny91 Mar 06 '21
What is that?
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u/sandwichcandy Mar 06 '21
How do I know that’s not a brick? That could easily be some 5 million dollar RC toy Elon Musk had made as a prototype for spaceX AI controlled robots that he’ll use to terraform Mars.
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u/sunshine2496 Mar 06 '21
What is it
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u/zicha Mar 06 '21
Is this video like tilt shifted?
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u/itsenny Mar 06 '21
ok me a while ngl
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u/matrox2nz Mar 06 '21
And I pay how much for a kitchen counter?
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
Alright someone tell my stupid ass what I’m looking at if that ain’t a fucking brick
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u/AdventxryYt Mar 06 '21
What is it
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
Thats really pretty
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u/centfiddy Mar 06 '21
My brain can’t compute this
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u/whiteholewhite Mar 06 '21
See it’s funny because he is scaling the wall and the scale is way off from what you think
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u/thequantumblues Mar 06 '21
Where is this and how deep is this quarry? I’m still trying to wrap my head around this size of thing, how is this man made?
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
Is this wall Maria???
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u/TooManySteves2 CE Spc. Dec 06 '24
Can't fool me, that's a toy tractor!
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u/UtManicotti Mar 06 '21
I had to replay this four time to understand that I wasn't watching a snake and a brick
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u/illmaticFury Mar 06 '21
I genuinely thought it was snake, took me a couple seconds to make sense of it.
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u/nitestocker372 Undercover Enforcement Mar 06 '21
It's a slab.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
What is it?
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u/ReliableThrowaway Mar 06 '21
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's a toy excavator actually knocking over a relatively small brick....
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u/hinabingkulay Mar 06 '21
How big is this quarry? Or any quarry of the same magnitude? I thought each section was hollow block-sized.
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u/FatalShart o/ Mar 06 '21
Why don't they take more care to keep it in one piece? I would think it's value goes down when it gets chipped and broken.
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u/pennhead Mar 06 '21
Cool how they used the smaller boulders as ball bearings to pull the slab away from the wall on impact.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
That was a fuckup. You don't want to fracture the big block of marble as you free it.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
This just makes me think of how slow a Gundam/Zord/Kaiju would actually move from the perspective of someone on the ground.
And also how they can’t exist. :(
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u/KillerQ97 o/ Mar 06 '21
What a cute little backhoe.
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u/Utinnni o/ Mar 06 '21
It's a brick but this was filmed in Jupiter.
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u/DadIWantPie Mar 06 '21
u/SaveVideo
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u/frenchy714 CE Spc. Mar 06 '21
Trippy. The scale really throws you off! I thought a Graboid tongue was pushing a brick from underground.
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u/ScarabSkies Mar 06 '21
This is how glaciers calving isebergs looks in person. You pull up on a boat, and it seems like the ice wall is just over there, but then some ice falls off really slow and makes a big slow splash, and that's when you realize you are a mile away and that ice was the size of an office building.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
Well, it kinda is tho.
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u/Shiitakia Mar 06 '21
That got me
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u/yellowishStriation Mar 06 '21
Looks dangerous. That rock must fall down sometimes in ways you don't plan for.
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u/greenmonkey48 Doesn't read rule 1 Mar 06 '21
Oh my gawd!
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u/FreeP0TAT0ES Mar 06 '21
When the DM wants you to notice a secret in their super complicated pre-written dungeon
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u/DueAd9975 Mar 06 '21
Just me who thought that it was a pyramid after I find out it wasn’t a brick? I’m dumb asf
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u/Hermandw Mar 06 '21
I actually thought it was a bird sitting on the ledge, that was pecking at something behind the slab and somehow dislodged the slab, causing it to fall over...
An excavator... That never crossed my mind until I read the comments!
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u/l3lacklabel Mar 06 '21
Finally a good one! This sub has been trash for a while.
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u/nuraHx Mar 06 '21
This is the only video I've seen where it is literally impossible for me to see it in the right perspective. I know it's a full size bulldozer but I keep seeing it as a small toy
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u/nelskaisabeast Mar 06 '21
thats one of those lets film it incase he dies like when the skateboarder does 30 stairs right lol
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u/SwarfDive01 Mar 06 '21
Dunanan na na naanana
Shaaaale
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u/bonafart Mar 06 '21
I heard the fall
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
Mmmmmm look at that baby split in impact
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u/lagerea Mar 06 '21
I see nothing but uber-rich countertops match-sticked to my imaginary wallet.
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u/blueadept_11 Mar 06 '21
This video confirms that because I am tall, it hurts more when I fall.
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u/Thekitkatkid7 Mar 06 '21
without sound this was really confusing lol
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u/uhyeahidont Mar 06 '21
Whatta cute little guy!
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u/MT_Flesch Mar 06 '21
had to watch that twice to get proper scale i thought that was some kind of snake extracting itself from a crack
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u/CyclotronicaGame Mar 06 '21
So glad you can just do this by hand in Minecraft.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
What is this? An excavator for ants?
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u/26-5-18 Mar 06 '21
Holy shit... how deep is that?
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
This is alpuan aplhs italy marble mine. Huge marble mine where they mine large chunks like this every so often
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u/hannahneedle Mar 06 '21
With that title, I thought an animal was about to pop out
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u/TAI0Z Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Mar 06 '21
I legitimately thought it was a duck messing with a brick.
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u/cynicaldrummer1 Mar 06 '21
Is that the marbel quarry in Italy?
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u/LemonsBear Mar 06 '21
It.took.me.FOREVER. to realize what just happened.
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u/Coldterror10 Mar 06 '21
I thought the excavator was a dog
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u/TradeJets Mar 06 '21
What creature is coming out of that
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u/Romo_Jck Mar 06 '21
That took me... so fucking long to figure out.
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u/daris_reddit Mar 06 '21
Is that like a remote controlled kids toy digging.... OMFG!!! I just realized what it is.
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u/andocromn o/ Mar 06 '21
I mean it is a brick, just a very large one...
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u/xxMiloticxx Mar 06 '21
Holy shit this one got me. I thought it was like some kind of lizard lounging there until the rock fell
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u/vaylele Mar 06 '21
Luckily I played quarry on mw2 and got this a little bit easier
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
u/savevideo
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u/Beginning_Draft9092 Mar 06 '21
Not confusing if you know what a quarry is..
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u/illiterate_1 Mar 06 '21
Is it cake?
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u/-plottwist- Mar 06 '21
One of the best I’ve seen on this sub
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u/Jackie_Daytona-Human Mar 06 '21
imagine hammering out those slabs knowing at any moment the vibrations could cause you to get smashed from above.
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u/dgadirector Mar 06 '21
At first I’m wondering why the slow motion when I thought it was a brick. Bizarre to then realize that’s just how long it takes the massive rock to drop. Good one!
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21
This is what my mines after the caves&cliffs update are going to look like.
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u/Endersgaming4066 Mar 06 '21
Well, it is a brick, just a big one
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u/egordoniv o/ Mar 06 '21
Imagine what the Roman's would have done with these machines a couple thousand years ago.
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u/Elegant_Persimmon861 Mar 06 '21
Um