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Vehicle & Technical => Not Anything Listed Above.... => Topic started by: beast5680 on November 09, 2005, 19:00:43
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check out this story from another site i think the driver would need a change of underpants :lol:
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2005/10/10/89925/Drilling+Downunder.htm
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B'''''dy hell!
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i had to check me pants lookin at it :(bloodshot):
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Good job he had twin wheels on the back to make it wider than the hole. :!:
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Links at the bottom of the page to other farming catastrophes...
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Links at the bottom of the page to other farming catastrophes...
Just worked through them all, but I think the first is the worst.
Must have frightened him to death! :lol:
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:shock:
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Blimey!!
Bet that was scary!
Lucky to get out un-harmed.
:shock:
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So ... how deep are these sink holes then? 8-[
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looks :? deeeeeeep
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Go down at least to "Middle earth" :lol:
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So ... how deep are these sink holes then? 8-[
My best guess would be "deep enough". A quick search shows that there is nothing very deep on the North Island, all the deepest caves being on the South island, http://www.massey.ac.nz/~sglasgow/nzss/deepcave.htm , but I haven't been able to get to the Nelson Speleo Group website as it causes a fatal error in IE. There's some deep enough stuff over the other side of the North Island around Waitomo, the biggest pitch I did out there was a 100m free hang but it was all in daylight. For deep caves you need to look closer to home, they're mostly in europe, http://www.pipeline.com/~caverbob/wdeep.htm . The Berger was the first explored to over 1km depth but is now only the 25th deepest. Eeyore & I got down to about -600, but the condirtions were such that any further wouldn't have been sensible.
Must say I prefer big open horizontal stuff, and was lucky enough to be on the original exploration of Khe Rhy, http://www.croydoncavingclub.org.uk/Archive/Pelobates/073/S12.htm , which has now been extended to give the longest underground river in the world that can be traversed without diving.
Regards
Andy