Those FL mine waste ponds are pretty tiny compared to what I'm thinking of, so that means they are costing orders of magnitude more for the amount...
Interesting and sounds like pollution and lowest cost minimal construction is the issue, and why don't these lakes dry out after a few years, or...
I'm thinking of something about 20ft deep with about 5ft above waterline and 1-4 miles across but of course water volume and surface goes up...
And would they be worth savaging shortly after they are abandoned (not like after a week of being semi-swamped and bashed among rocks)? Are they...
"Boating" mag this month has story about "good bye to (ICE) motors on boats" will link or post later
I'm not a Earth Mover guy but IIRC its a lot easier to deposit extracted dirt into a depression than to pile it up higher and higher so if nothing...
why can't they get longer? Port handling? Some saying there is danger of toppling the boxes if yanked free. What sort of stability do these...
just add weight like radar etc to top of mast. A little weight at very top should equal much more weight throughout the length of the mast....
The same Frenchman that did the Suez was hired to start the Panama and famously failed because the Suez was all soft sand, no locks, where as the...
saw Bloomberg reports that ship had been moved to one bank of canal and scheduled to be towed, etc, but not seeing anything or other news. maybe...
I'm thinking it might be "progressive flooding" (like Titanic), and if grounded bow and stern but flooding starts adding a lot of weigh that will...
supposedly lost both engine and rudder during high wind, so it basically cashed out of control. I remember reading a current ship designer say...
Its maybe sprung leaks when its fairly weak "optimized" thin hull impacted and now its taken on lot of water and is now REALLY, really grounded...
I'm thinking the most common sailing angle where a Vee-hull would be nice to bust waves and smooth chop would be when the corner one up from the...
AutoCAD is drafting, which is what people tend to use once they are making changes on already sorted situation, like circuit boards or office...
but its cheap and easy to work with. figure a min of five 1.5" pvc pipes is gonna be pretty hard to break in half, even schedule 40. I'd go...
1)get FREE Student Edition of Autodesk Inventor (learning will take few hours but MANY videos and FREE online forums where experts try to show off...
Viking Long Ship seems rather complex shape and construction for quick project. Depending on tools, workspace and kids, you might do scaled down...
that, plus lots of rivers will have slow upriver currents along the banks. Lewis & Clark used that often. You can see it several spots on...
thats a big question. I've seen fairly recent tar coated telephone pole sized pilings sunk into water, and AFAIK hot tar is still in common use...
