Seattle's Big Bertha tunnel drill blocked by mystery object
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2013
- Something is blocking a massive drill from carving out a new future for Seattle's commuters. John Blackstone reports on a mysterious problem encountered by the Emerald City's version of the "big dig."
From NBC News: 2014 Jan 4 - The Washington State Department of Transportation said Friday that the steel pipe that stopped Bertha, as the borer is nicknamed, on Dec. 6 is a 119-foot-long well casing installed in 2002 to study groundwater movement under downtown Seattle.
And nobody checked it on the city plans? What a bunch of dope heads.
So when people hear and feel vibration and weird sounds, it's this 5 story gopher digging under them
Giant underground tunnel near the Cascadia subduction zone, what could go wrong?
Idiots. Tunnels are never needed. They claim to save money meanwhile dozens of gravel yards have excess materiel for sale that could build alternative routes. They approve building permits that are unwise and proven to cause traffic jams, apartments and small residential lots (sardine can theory) usually the culprit.
The media could care less, never studying or talking about it on their own.
Not a thing, ...all by design...
It was the MOST expensive option of all those. As an added idiocy the tunnel has one LESS lane than the viaduct it is replacing.
Higher price, Less capacity, Go Seattle!
They have eq repelent spray.
Elon Musk says tunnels are safe during earthquakes, I’m not sure how that work
Solved - 60 ft steel pipe left during pre-lim work. Can we just take this off now?
Bob Gwin they’re so stupid
Nice
Had to scroll to find the answer
Yours should be moved to the FIRST comment
Of course I’m just going to take your word for it because I’m bored and there are people falling down on UA-cam I need to see
9
You just saved 2 minutes of my life.
There was a previous 8 inch steel well casting that damaged the blades for 4 years the drill finally finished the path in 2017 thanks for the 8 year old news youtube giving me "great" recommendations
Thanks
ua-cam.com/video/Cnwl_RuKrAM/v-deo.html
I had no Idea they were doing this and it's 2020 now!!! What the heck happened to all those years!!!???
It got stuck again with no one wanting to pay the repair bill, it's 3 years behind schedule.
Still not completed?
If they wait much longer there won’t be any need for it… well, unless it just fills up with homeless people from Portland …
It’s been done for like 10 years. I drive through it everyday.
@@thatfeeble-mindedboy plenty people from Seattles homeless community to fill the first half
*It probably said something offensive and hit a Facebook block*
I take offense to that comment, reporting u now
Indeed!
Facebook can dish it out but they can't take it
Hatespeech...😵
Made my day thanks🤗
It was an 8in diameter 119 ft long steel pipe.
How do you know
I think it's a big block of common sense and they don't know what it is.
Lol! Nice!
Shannon Pace Gotta be the best thread comment I’ve ever read on UA-cam! -We’ve got the same in the Uk
Common sense is the bias you have before you turn 18. It took more than a bunch of 16 yr olds to build the tunnel. It took experts with experience.
ba dum tss
funny coming from someone with a picture of an angry elf looking mfr
My dad retired from that job,that machine is insane,specially made for this job.
@Steven Strain Yes, in Germany!
Any crazy stories? I mean no children in those D.um.b.s? Or what
This is how they connected all the underground military bases the last 30 years
Yuup some people have no clue thanks for being woke
Need on Mars. Yesterday.
Nope a nuclear rock cutter heats the rock and melts it back to the walls way stronger faster and probley dont exist;)
Mexico said they wanted to borrow that machine
Lol what. Do you know how slow these things are. It would take hundreds of years to do that.
Wow someone improving infrastructure. I didn’t think this was allowed.
They may have hit one of those massive meteorites that impacted the eastern pacific.
In the 70's the Robbins Co. and Lawrence Mfg were the leaders in tunnel boring. I helped in the bearings for the cutters.
Iguana
That machines cool!
Id like to see a machine like this cut above ground shallow walls through just the edges of plateaus so windows can be cut through the thin wall and then build habitat in .
Wtf,,,,this is from 4 yrs ago,,get a clue UA-cam
6 years and it's recommended to me?
Oh, they are, they are.... Intelligence is hate speech!
Chris Camgemi Just seen it... what was it?😂😂😂
Oh ffs! There’s a sequel? Can’t be arsed😂
Did the tunnel work or was it a flop.?
The real mystery is how a 60ft pipe got in the way?
The mystery object could be a politician blocking its way.
Well it’s Seattle so probably a bunch of liberal Democrat
Jimmy Hoffa
Yawn. You people are commenting on something that happened 5 years ago! And now I am... Damnit...
Jimmy Hoffa in concrete casket?
It could be just simply morals and logic....😒
The posting of this old video is further confirmation that You Tube is dead. Way past time to go to other platforms.
arnold lee what other platforms?
So you saying it's UA-cam fault of what other post on here smh 😣
OH DEAR WHAT HAPPENED???!!!??
5 years ago 😐
UA-cam has de-platformed so much content that THIS is “news” now.
Yup. I've noticed that too.
Its annoying
They are killing off the platforms that most people want to see. They have a strange way of maintaining a revenue stream. But that could mean they will demonotize them selves!😳
Thank you for the laugh... Needed that!
And we got a bunch of more commercials. Any three minute video you get to watch 4 commercials
I thought it was funny that the engineer commented how hazardous the above ground freeways are due to the ground shaking (earthquakes) and how much more catastrophic it would be to get caught UNDERGROUND in an earthquake. They're just making money, and playing with toys. 🙄
Nah, tunnels are the safest place to be during an earthquake. The shock ripples on the surface leaving tunnels nearly untouched, like a submarine below a hurricane. And Aboveground Highways are dangerous, during the San Francisco Earthquake in the 80's a highway viaduct collapsed, killing many.
Poles will flip2012 is coming
An expensive crypt for motorists during the "big one".
They tried drilling into the Chinese district from the back. Wong Ho complained loudly.
Wong Ho Fu
Seattle is blocked by large object, Rosie O'Donnel!
By your self indulgent ego!
Trumpeteer Denfender that’s funny
Rosie O’Donnell walks into a bar holding a duck. Bartender says “Get that pig out of here!” Rosie says “It’s not a pig, it’s a duck.” Bartender replies “I know, I was talking to the duck.” 😂😂😂
Who?
😲😲😲😅🤣😂😂😂
Did they ever tell us what happened?
"Every city should have an underground tunnel beneath it"
Why ??????
So "they" can pop up anywhere anytime
More work for him
I really need to start checking the date of these vids. So, what was in the way???
UA-cam, why did you show me this 4 years later? So, can anyone tell me if they ever finished this tunnel?
i feel left out by the fact of not knowing they were building these machines its like they just appeared on the seen. but theres alot i dont know.
the only mystery is why they hired this contractor
lowest bidder
Not the contractors fault. It is a client’s risk.
Someone working on this project has come out and said that on the other side it was a whole city. Interesting.
hmmm... got a url bro?
people in Seattle need to keep all eye's on this 1
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Thanks UA-cam for recommending this breaking news..... 6 years late.
I rather be on a highway that might fall due to age and have a chance of surving than being buried alive and not survive
Big Lou
Preach!
Tunnels are safer than bridges. Do some research
Jorge Rodriguez yes
1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake!... I remember going to Oakland A's Games prior to the quake, and driving under the Cypress Structure thinking, "What would happen if We(S.F. Bay Area) had the "Big One?"....... Google it?
Hey, they saved you from funeral cost, and burial.
I thought they found one of Mars's hidden space ships waiting to emerge and attack....
why do i feel like thats a war of the worlds refrence
Imagine if it as a small city with tiny people and we scared them with our big machine? What would we then do with these tiny people?
was it Jimmy Hoffa
Aren’t there geological surveys done prior to drilling? I guess not!
Kind of like an X-ray, read by radiologists. It’s not like a photograph.
And it’ll set them back what? a couple of weeks?
Hey, this is government contracted. Get serious!
What was the problem what stopped it
Double decker highway under ground on the east coast, what could go wrong.
Da C. That would be the West coast
$3b, seems pretty cheap actually - and a positive way of spending cash.
Meanwhile over here in the UK we're throwing away over $5b on trying to restore the houses of parliament building...
James McKay that’s what parliament is doing with the money .....
Well it looks like big Bertha isn’t cutting the mustard
It turned out to be an ancient ufo buried for thousands of years. Amazing.
Bob Woodward ok nerd. May the force be with u.
@@spezkay81 He shouldn't forget to put his tinfoil hat too
@@xila-man8249 um yeah about that congress just made disclosure take your tinfoil hat insult and choke on it.
@@xila-man8249 the man was being sarcastic
shit always happened when a spanish company build a tunnel
They do not understand what they have hit because they don't know what Seattle is composed from.
This would blow the average person's mind !
What you mean? There ground is more compact ??
@@andyramirez5439
No , what the ground is and what you are living on top of you entire life and don't know it !
They teach you and tell you it is ground but it is actually something that will not blow your mind !
@@NOTTHASAME what are you talking about?
@@micahwest2793
This is about the composition of the ground in Seattle and all other land masses above oceanic waters.
Basically biological science
@@micahwest2793
Are you in Seattle ??
Wouldn't it be logical and rational if the Earth moves from an earthquake or any sort of seismic activity that tunnels underground would also collapse?
Most tunnels don’t collapse after an earthquake if constructed competently.
Happened 6 year s ago...any update ??
Yes.
UA-cam has removed so many videos and de-platformed so many creators content that this is current news.
It’s An ancient spaceship that Aniki flew in to get to Earth🤣😂😂😅🤣
I cant believe the stupidity of todays folk . They believe in everything and anything he storytellers conger up.
Would that be near Adam schiff's bunker?
How is a tunnel any safer than a raised highway? If there's an earthquake, it could collapse, or if there's water around it, it could flood. Doesn't seem like driving miles underground would be the safest way to travel.
It can withstand a .9 earthquake
The previous structure was similar to the ones that collapsed in CA earthquake years ago.
They dig a tunnel but a boulder stops them!?
Did they ever finish this project is it operable now?
Yes
When California goes down seattle will follow, what a big mistake , they should making highways out of the city for when the earthquake hits. Theres another city below seattle, a city that existed for a long time.
And how exactly will California go down? Sink? Lol
I know plate tetctonics take a long time but is this the best idea ? How long will something like this last skyscrappers shelf life is like 200 years
we have a tunnel under the east side of Providence Rhode Island which has been blocked off for decades....
So what was the object? Any updates?
A billion dollar project and yet no geological surveys.. 🤔
To not be aware of an obstruction blocking the path of this project is pitiful.1-800 MISS DIG
(edit: spelling correction)
I don't believe geological surveys reveal 8-inch diameter steel pipes...
Above comment...
Named after the 1st Seattle woman mayor
1st mayor of Seattle was Henry A Atkins.
What a wonderful multi-billion dollar lava tube for Mt. Rainier.
Close friend of mind was the “senior HSE Manager” for Dragados Corp. they are well they where the General Contractor on the job.
I wouldn't wanna be in that tunnel if a 7.0 or 9.0 earthquake hit. 😨
True. Every city needs a giant tunnel under it, preferably a complex system of very stable and reinforced tunnels.
I've seen that plane twice. Both times, very fast and noiseless. One time at least 3 times the speed of an airliner and a lot higher, over Portland, Oregon. One time south of Salem, Oregon.
What plane?
@@bryanpowers3459 thee plane thee plane
@@conniestevenson226 lmao
Wonderful creative innovation of the decade.... I was very impressed.
And WHAT planet are you from??
Ritual and reason far beyond and forgotten once again in a season. The cattle truly are pathet
7 years later & so, What was blocking the drilling machine? Does Goggle know?
The ran into the seattle underground, it had shops cars bussed a whole city buried
Remember that noise people were hearing in the sky sounded like trumpets like 3 or 4 years ago. Listen to one of these drills going off they sound exactly the same
It's 5 story's high, designed to bore through the ground. 80 million dollars. And your saying a 20 ft. Rock is stoping it. Maybe it's out of fuel. Or someone pulled the plug.
Why don't they aim this down and drill to the center of the Earth? I have heard that there is a whole world of fantastic beasts down there, including dinosaurs!
No one's willing to pay for that, and it always seems costly in the sci-fi movies.
Maybe if they started on Oak Island.
A tunnel and earthquakes... No thanks.
What was an uncharted 60 foot steel pipe doing there,
sooo...if the bridge can collapse due to earth movement whats to stop a structure tightly encased in the earth from being torn up?
I love the comment that the pre-existing road way is ugly, old and will fall down some day if the earth moves...what do you think will happen underground if they have an earth quake, which starts underground? The "earth" moves, it's mother nature, she will take that tunnel out, I pray it don't happen, but more than likely it will...because it will get old and ugly too.....technology can not beat mother nature -
Modern TBM-created tunnels are lined with small, curved panels of high-density concrete. This is done to make the tunnel more flexible. In the event of an earthquake, only some of these panels will crack or fall out instead of a huge solid cylinder cracking all over the place.
+Deathheads69 until the thin sea wall caves in, engulfing cars in shattered concrete and millions of gallons of water. But hey, lets take a chance anyway!
+Deathheads69 Thank you Mayor Murray, you are right. It will be your issue though not mine, Im moving lol
You should tell that to the engineers who designed this $80 million dollar machine, you're so genius!
@Deathheads69 what happens if a tsunami hits the Seattle area, they aint got enough pumps to keep it from flooding.
It drilled into Chuck Norris's bunker
Exactly.👍
Big deal. Just pull it back 200 feet, drill some holes in the boulder, loosen it up with TNT and then get Bertha moving on it again to chew it up...
MAYBE...Al Capones OTHER vault.
Quick! Call Geraldo!
This is funny 😂
Pulease, call the coroner...
They stumbled across sumthing but they won't actually tell the truth about it...i promise you that.
An ancient spaceship from long ago like in the Transformer movies where they crash landed on Earth they all got put in suspended animation made out of exotic metal that don't exist on the Periodic Chart
A billion dollars in small unmarked bills, most likely!
It's a alien space ship, maybe?
An ancient iron pyramid with skeletons of 15 ft tall giants, I presume?
Aliens
Why does the front have the Walmart emblem on it.
How does it bore a tunnel when it's sitting at the surface
So it's been 7 years...what was the mystery object?
How many years would something like this machine,take to drill 580 miles?????
Depends on the job and how many TBMs they can get. In theory you could use just one for the whole route. Realistically they would use multiple TBMs to speed up work as much as possible
Did they ever get this dug?
It has been open for awhile now.
Umm stupid question Don't they still have earthquakes in Seattle?
It's an alien ship.
Professor Quartermass found one in a pit in London back in '67 ..... estimates put it as having been ... 5 Million Years to Earth .....
That was a great movie! I gotta see if I can find it on the Internet now ...
You tube held this video back for 4 years. That's the other half of the story.
Now I've seen it all..... it's an earthquake away from mass death if and when it collapses.
a large rock blocked the machine. That's it, that's the news but you stretched it out into much more. Aggravating.
Well what was the mystery object I've been waiting for weeks to find out !!!!?????!!!!!????
They better do something to relive the subduction zone pressure too
Why should cities have a giant tunnel underneath ?
Sure build a double decker tunnel in an earthquake and Tsunami prone area. What could possibly go wrong?
I wouldn't drive in that if you paid me!
What is going to stop the tunnel from collapsing in earthquake ?
Next week my first notification will be. Fossilized Megalodon found while drilling🤣🤣🤣
They say the old highway will fall... The underground tunnels can fall as well😬
So that was in 2013, 6 years ago... Where's the followup? This report is ridiculous.
Hello....2019 now?
This is old news. But for all your information the tunnel opened to traffic this year! (2019) A bit late and horrendously over budget but at least it is not like the Boston tunnel that will continue on indefinitely!
Big bertha was also the name of a gigantic artillery piece that was used to fire on England from across the English channel.
You guys really don't know is what they use to cause earth quakes with!!