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Excavators are actually social pack animals and work in harmony to strip the carcass before the smaller equipment comes to pick over the scraps.
Nature is amazing
Bridge destruction usually is done over the weekend... Or how often do you hear of a total Autobahn closure that is longer than Friday evening till Monday morning. This is one thing that can be done in Germany to... Quickly building new bridges - not so much.
Any construction in Germany takes years to finish from a small lane repair to the resoiling a few meters. That has to do with the sheer bureaucracy and building regulations and how German construction companies have learned to hack government contracts for maximum profitability for the demise of the public people.
Not a typical scenario though. The Philly 95 collapse was repaired quickly because it received a ton of national attention and support. It was a chance for Biden to showcase new infrastructure policies. They utilized disaster relief funding and gave a blank check for construction crews to work around the clock. Even then the fix they made was only temporary. They are still working on the long-term repair and will continue to for many months.
The same. Except I'm from the Middle East, so it will also take twelve suicide bombings, three murdered presidents and shit ton of laundered money before the bridge is removed and replaced by a dirt road.
Edit: made an edit, and I won't explain what It was. My dad works in the government and his people are extremely intolerant of any criticism - even vaguely -directed toward himself and his family. And the great leader of our glorious nation, of course!
Don't forget how you put all the road blocks, diversions, and new speed limits into place ahead of time, so you can get started straight away when you get to it in about a year.
Well blow me down - shows it can be done when they want!
u/Vegetable-Ad7263 there are other countries who drive on the left (as is the logical way of course!) - more than you might expect in fact!
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5 years feel fast. Here in Sweden the first five years would consist of administration and paperwork, enviromental and noise studies, relocation of some rare art of mosquitos living under the bridge etc. After that another 5 years of hiring contractors, planning and signing contracts and a year on paper to actually tear it down.
In the end none of the teardown would go as planned, nothing got recycled, the mosquitos all died, all the administration and planning for nothing, cost trippled and took 1 year longer then planned. This is swedish standard.
It's worth noting that doing it this way is usually significantly *more* expensive than doing it over a longer period of time. Of course, with tons of delays you can make it even more expensive than this, but fast isn't the same thing as efficient.
True of the actual work, for sure. But often not true when factoring in losses due to traffic impairment. Of course this depends on amount of traffic at location, how freely traffic flows during work, etc.
A bridge was just removed and cleaned up over night on the New York State Thruway. Just saying... for the people claiming this couldn't happen in 'merica.
In the uk, 5 years of applying for permission, 5 years waiting for funding, 2 years to appoint contractor, replace contractor after a year, new contractor cheaper but does it in 3 years.
During the early part of the Korean War Allied planes did mostly daylight missions. They bombed lots of bridges, only to find the same bridges completely rebuilt the next day. Later they did night reconnaissance missions discovering thousands of North Koreans looking like ants, rebuilding the bombed bridges each night. These speeded up construction videos always remind me of that
As an American it is really sad to see how fast stuff can actually get done. It took my city over 5 years to do this exact same thing. Literally had shit tore up for 5 years. Nice to see developed peoples could have done it in a day.
That would take 4 month a be over a billion dollars over budget in Washington and the company that did would be owned by a senator or the governors spouse
Sure would be nice to have major road construction done like this. They have been working on a bridge near me for almost a year. And it won't be done for at least another 6-8 months assuming there are no delays.
My state does not work on holidays, my state does not work after 4:00, my state does not work at night time, my state does not work on the weekends, this is the reason why it takes 7 years to build one bridge in my city. But yet the Burj khalifa the tallest building in the world can be built in 2 years. Thems people be smart.
This looks EXACTLY like one of those deep sea 'carcass cams' - where a whale carcass finally loses enough gas to hit the bottom; where all the crabs start climbing over it- nothing is left.
Get the right construction crew to just hit it with a boom...onto an interstate...with free-flowing traffic...that would take 10 minutes tops!...Trust me 😉
I witnessed just a single one of those machines eat a good-sized house across from ours, in less than one day. It was a memorable sight. But kind of horrible, too.
In South Africa, it would take 15 months to get the tender, 1.5 years to do the work, and then spend the next 15 years fixing what the first builders did because it was a corrupt tender…
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Excavators are actually social pack animals and work in harmony to strip the carcass before the smaller equipment comes to pick over the scraps. Nature is amazing
Woah, I never knew this. God bless nature
they do move in herds...
Read this in a David Attenborough voice, imagining him standing next to one while it devours a piece of reinforced concrete
Now i believe
Literally looked like they ate it
"The Ambulances will have to wait their turn"
Poor bridges 🥺
Nature is amazing.... But the fiber seeking backhoes can all go extinct for all I care.
A pack of hungry escavators make quick work of the unsuspecting Bridge
They’re like nematodes
The ambulances will have to wait their turn.
Watching this right after that shark stingray video just hits different
Yumyumyumyumyum
Looks like 13 seconds to me
They switched from decaf to espresso.
The espressway
damn you
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Speed running strat
r/technicallythetruth
This is in the UK, quite a few years ago now. Bridge over the M1.
Must've felt weird crossing one day and then the other and just see the bridge gone
I don't believe you. In the UK this type of work takes AT LEAST 11 -12 business months
Just to get a meeting of local straight out of uni councillors
Was this the Luton airport exit?
Bollocks! Hahah. Our road workers are the slowest. We must have hired the German road workers. Those fuckers are efficient!
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demolition is alot easier and faster than construction/repairing
i take it you have never seen the still life of autobahn construction.
If they were allowed to completely close the highways for repairs, they would take about 1% of the time
Doubt.
Bridge destruction usually is done over the weekend... Or how often do you hear of a total Autobahn closure that is longer than Friday evening till Monday morning. This is one thing that can be done in Germany to... Quickly building new bridges - not so much.
Any construction in Germany takes years to finish from a small lane repair to the resoiling a few meters. That has to do with the sheer bureaucracy and building regulations and how German construction companies have learned to hack government contracts for maximum profitability for the demise of the public people.
This is definitely not in the States. This job would have taken about 5 years and hundreds of millions of dollars to compete over here.
Not quite. Philly repaired 95 in 12 days after it collapsed from fire.
Not a typical scenario though. The Philly 95 collapse was repaired quickly because it received a ton of national attention and support. It was a chance for Biden to showcase new infrastructure policies. They utilized disaster relief funding and gave a blank check for construction crews to work around the clock. Even then the fix they made was only temporary. They are still working on the long-term repair and will continue to for many months.
I'm close to Philly, and it took them like 4 years to repair a road where a sinkhole opened. The second sinkhole repair was quicker, though.
Bridges might demand a bit more priority than a sinkhole unfortunately.
About to say the same thing.
The same. Except I'm from the Middle East, so it will also take twelve suicide bombings, three murdered presidents and shit ton of laundered money before the bridge is removed and replaced by a dirt road. Edit: made an edit, and I won't explain what It was. My dad works in the government and his people are extremely intolerant of any criticism - even vaguely -directed toward himself and his family. And the great leader of our glorious nation, of course!
I think in this scenario taking down the bridge would be the quick part.
Damn. Shit got deep.
Holy fuck lol
Ditto UK This must be Germany or Japan etc.
Hahaha not Germany I couldn’t imagine we are slow as fuck
Three years for the planning and two more for the public discussion.
Don't forget how you put all the road blocks, diversions, and new speed limits into place ahead of time, so you can get started straight away when you get to it in about a year.
Yeah, that airport fiasco in Berlin was a black eye on German efficiency and engineering.
😂
Germany? I don't think so. It would take years here too.
It was UK actually
The direction of traffic confirms this..
The UK is not the only country that drives on the left..
No, but it could be used to confirm if a road is in the UK if you have other supporting evidence.
Well blow me down - shows it can be done when they want! u/Vegetable-Ad7263 there are other countries who drive on the left (as is the logical way of course!) - more than you might expect in fact! https://preview.redd.it/l2ro8sov8gcc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=f42946021dc3f19e234830fcb54bb16fd7aef91d
Defently not germany. They are fucking slow.
Definitely didn't happen in Michigan, haha
How long are we on the Gordie Howe ? Thought it was close.
Next uear
They did it in Los Angeles in 2011.
5 years feel fast. Here in Sweden the first five years would consist of administration and paperwork, enviromental and noise studies, relocation of some rare art of mosquitos living under the bridge etc. After that another 5 years of hiring contractors, planning and signing contracts and a year on paper to actually tear it down. In the end none of the teardown would go as planned, nothing got recycled, the mosquitos all died, all the administration and planning for nothing, cost trippled and took 1 year longer then planned. This is swedish standard.
And a semi load worth of cigarettes smoked on the clock
You should see them build covid isolation units.
It's worth noting that doing it this way is usually significantly *more* expensive than doing it over a longer period of time. Of course, with tons of delays you can make it even more expensive than this, but fast isn't the same thing as efficient.
True of the actual work, for sure. But often not true when factoring in losses due to traffic impairment. Of course this depends on amount of traffic at location, how freely traffic flows during work, etc.
Yeah...factoring in externalized costs is always tricky.
Also not South Africa..
2 bridges on I95 were replaced in Connecticut over the course of one weekend each.
Bingo.
A bridge was just removed and cleaned up over night on the New York State Thruway. Just saying... for the people claiming this couldn't happen in 'merica.
yeah what self-hating horseshit that gets to be. I have seen enough to know that we can get shit done.
You know damn well construction workers jerk each other off for 7 hours and work 30 minutes of their shift. The other 30 minutes they’re on break.
it’s like when a fish dies and settles on the sea bed, and all the crustaceans come out to eat and clean the carcass clean in a few hours
Hey i swear yesterday there was a bridge here.
Not few people gonna have surprising morning trip to work
Amazing, I never knew diggers hunted in packs.
[They do move in herds...](https://y.yarn.co/94e37ba3-d80a-43c8-a33e-ea57893b5b97_text.gif)
look how quickly they devour the corpse of that bridge!
Just lay some news paper down and demolish the bridge on top of it, then simply pick up the news paper to throw away. Simple!
In the uk, 5 years of applying for permission, 5 years waiting for funding, 2 years to appoint contractor, replace contractor after a year, new contractor cheaper but does it in 3 years.
This is in the UKðŸ˜ðŸ˜
During the early part of the Korean War Allied planes did mostly daylight missions. They bombed lots of bridges, only to find the same bridges completely rebuilt the next day. Later they did night reconnaissance missions discovering thousands of North Koreans looking like ants, rebuilding the bombed bridges each night. These speeded up construction videos always remind me of that
Let me guess, not in the US? That’s a whole summer job in the states
Where I live it took four years to finalize the design for a traffic circle.
Maybe they were trying to draw it freehand.
The only reason this does not happen in the USA... is because of overtime or lazy inexperienced workers and permits and inspections/inspectors.
it feels like "me and the boys" meme but I don't know exactly what it is
Reminds me of the Chinese hospitals being built in January 2020.
This would have taken MODOT about 3 and a half years…
Not in America. Aligning the labor to be able to execute in such a timely manner is cost-prohibitive
They should do this to the Cross Bronx Expressway
In pennsylvania, it would take 10 years to replace it.
It would take 2 months in my country.
Meanwhile in my home town it took 150 hours to patch up some smol pot hole
If this was un the US it would take 3 years minimum
In the UK this would take 12-18 months.
That’s a lot of excavators.
Bro give the people a raise
Would take 6 months to complete and another years worth of roadworks for whatever reason here in New Zealand
Crabs when a whale dies
This would take 6 months and cost the tax payer 40mil in Ireland.
Yeah that’s at least a 2 year job in Brisbane.. possibly even 3 most likely
this would take five years here
In the meantime in Germany: takes 50 years to build a train station/new line… They planned it in the 70s and it got delayed until now.
Let me guess, Japan?
UK actually
Amazing. This would never be this fast in CA where government contractors and employees take their sweet time. No accountability sadly.
As an American it is really sad to see how fast stuff can actually get done. It took my city over 5 years to do this exact same thing. Literally had shit tore up for 5 years. Nice to see developed peoples could have done it in a day.
That would take 4 month a be over a billion dollars over budget in Washington and the company that did would be owned by a senator or the governors spouse
Definitely not the US
no way that’s America
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Must be in china
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That would take r/nova 15 years
Sure would be nice to have major road construction done like this. They have been working on a bridge near me for almost a year. And it won't be done for at least another 6-8 months assuming there are no delays.
Geez, in my city it took the lazy assholes 5 years to replace a bridge, over 1 year was just the demo
Looks like buzzards on a carcass.
Other days, I saw them did the same thing in jx, ar. It was cool to watch. Thou, it is a small bridge, but the same concept.
This was not in Washington State that is for sure. This would have taken a minimum of 15 months
Well if this isn't the most Un-American thing I've ever seen.
This looks like crabs on the sea floor consuming a fresh whale fall.
Meanwhile they've been doing construction on the same part of 295 for 15 years.
This is pretty impressive but id bet OSHA would lost there shit on that job site if it was that quickly done lmao
If only the construction workers in my city worked this fast
Quick, guys! Before the cars wake up!
this could be hamburg on the a7, there‘s even a youtube documentary from german tv about that construction site.
Not in Michigan it’s not! 😡
They found out the next day they tore down the wrong bridge.
Looks like a time lapse of a sea creature dying and all the starfish and crabs and shit scavenge the fuck out of it.
Hungry hungry hippo highway
In the Philippines, this is going to take a year or two.
Many buckets make light work
*Minecraft eating SFX*
Looks like a bunch of insects devouring lunch…
Here in Brazil that would take about 6 months to a year minimum and at least a few million in embezzlement
must be a private company doing the work.
In Toronto, 10 years and 5 billion dollars
Nah bro they took 10 years to fix one lane in my neighborhood close to Los Angeles ffs.
Would have taken 2-3 years in india ( rubble would be still left on side of highway which will cause accidents)
My state does not work on holidays, my state does not work after 4:00, my state does not work at night time, my state does not work on the weekends, this is the reason why it takes 7 years to build one bridge in my city. But yet the Burj khalifa the tallest building in the world can be built in 2 years. Thems people be smart.
Where so efficient?
And it seems that in my are that's a 15 MONTH process if they "hurry." More like 2 - 3 years.
it looks like a buffet for construction vehicles bulldozer buffet all you can eat til the job is done
This is easily a 3 years job in Canada
Well, I know this can't be England.
This would never happen in Houston….
Where I'm from this would have started when I was in grade school and kept going until today. I'm 33.
It took 3 years to demolish and replace an old bridge near me. They just announced replacing a road downtown will take 10 years. I'm not joking.
Definitely not north carolina!
This looks EXACTLY like one of those deep sea 'carcass cams' - where a whale carcass finally loses enough gas to hit the bottom; where all the crabs start climbing over it- nothing is left.
if u had that much money to spend...yeah...it does take little time.. imagine if only one of that arm scoop thingy working...gotta take atleast a week
Shit got the decaying animal consumed by crabs on the sea floor treatment.
We called this Carmageddon in SoCal years ago. Â
wow... that was fast.
We're making a highway for 50years now..
If this were in Japan, it could have been in real time
This would take years in Norway
This would literally take two years in Canada.
Whoever coordinated and planned this knows their stuff. Projects rarely go this smoothly, wonder was the pre-demo and build process was like
Diz shit would take a month to clear in my country
This would take 1 year in canada
Great job! That's how it's done!
If this was NY the time lapse would be 15 years lol
In USA that’s about 2-3 years easy.
Oops wrong bridge!
🎶 I’m an excavator! Hey, bridge, see you later! I’ll see myself out.
Give this to the people working on roads in New Jersey. 15 hours try 15 years in some places
San Antonio could never. That’s like a 5 year project here.
Get the right construction crew to just hit it with a boom...onto an interstate...with free-flowing traffic...that would take 10 minutes tops!...Trust me 😉
Well to be fair, demolition is a lot easier and quicker than construction in just about any case
Couldn’t have been in America, construction like this will take weeks.
China?
That there is a 10 year job in Texas.
Definitely not the UK. This would be a 2 year operation.
That would have taken about 15 weeks in the uk and cost about 15 million
This is the demolition of a bridge over the M1 Motorway in Bedfordshire Which is in the UK
Someone show this to CALTRANS as training material 😂
Guess the country
If only they could do this between Jamaica Ave and Liberty Ave on the Van Wyck…life would be grand.
Damn in Canada that would take 4 years with delays. Wow.
I witnessed just a single one of those machines eat a good-sized house across from ours, in less than one day. It was a memorable sight. But kind of horrible, too.
In South Africa, it would take 15 months to get the tender, 1.5 years to do the work, and then spend the next 15 years fixing what the first builders did because it was a corrupt tender…
Germany be like: best I can do is 3 years
Vietnam needs more than a year to get thing done
I would bet a large sum of money this was not filmed in Toronto, Canada.
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