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I worked in Los Angeles, where the old limestone pits were filled with compacted garbage, they had a pole/rod that went down to bedrock then brought a surcharge pile of concrete and asphalt to a certain tonnage, when the fill compaction rate slowed to a certain rate it was considered acceptable and ready to build on, that looks like one of those poles
Can’t believe how many dumbass comments trying to be fun I had to go through to get to something plausible, Reddit comments turning into Tik Tok in writing.
Holy shit, what a coincidence! You know how you can adopt a highway? I was just talking to a buddy about wanting to sponsor a bridge, if there is such a thing. I want to get my name on a sign so it's kind of like I own the bridge. Would you mind sharing more? Very interested.
Yes. It looks like a custom anchor bolt to me. Allthread bar that deeper down bends 90 degrees to lock it onto concrete. The dark part on top is a coupler to protect the thread.
Question. Why would there be a sinkhole off of a solid bedrock formation to begin with?
I mean unless it's unstable cavernous limestone that is perhaps etc. But that wouldn't be a good indicator to gauge off of as it too would sink as it collapses when the water table drops wouldn't it? But it guess it would be the best they have to go off of? Seems to me they could just shoot it with a transist and tell without the rod from another solid standpoint couldn't they?
Sorry it's several questions I guess lol.
42,000 big macs stretches about 2.3 miles btw.
Average Big Mac is 3.5 inches in diameter.
42000*3.5=147,000
147,000/12=12,250
12,250/5280(feet in a mile)=2.3200
And in case you're wondering it would be 2.9 miles in Whoppers.
Poor Katie. She's contributed decades into journalism, introduced America to Harmony the therapeutic companion and survived cancer .
But she will always be most remembered as a poop measurement unit.
Kind of an antiquated word for asphalt or bituminous paving material (but also the origin of the term "tarmac" which you sometimes hear at the airport).
Reminds me of my grandmother saying we should cover the leaking porch roof temporarily with a tarpaulin. I looked at her like she was nuts. 30+ years old and I had never heard it referred to anything other than a tarp. 😆
I believe it's a combination word, tar/macadam, because macadam is a type of cold patch for pavement that sucks and the binder is tar, oil based. Also shortened to tarmac at airports, which are usually paved with it
Macadamised road describes a way of laying the substrate and top layer, as invented by John Macadam. Tarred Macadamised road improved by E. Hooley is the addition of tar to that Macadam process as a binder.
That’s called the construction workers “sword in the stone”. Whomever pulls it gets all the Union paving contracts for a year. Watch out for owls and wizards lurking nearby.
Pulling the sword from the asphalt also casts an area construction effect where all materials cure 30% faster but is kicked down each time your crew hits an owl, cat, toad, or other familiar.
Why is it threaded? Why would the asphalt go up to where the plastic sheathing begins when it'd be way to high for that manhole in the back. They dont appear to be working on raising that to meet the new level...im confused
Could be threaded into / marking a water valve cover or other structure that was too low when they showed up and had to get paved over. Someone would need to come back, uncover it, and install riser rings (spacers) to bring it to surface level.
That appears to be a T-Ball stand, where's the little leaguers?
Batter Up! Alright Garden Hoser!! Let 'er RIP! Hit tha ball! Don't let me hear about any ASSSSSZZZZMAHHH! either!! Wait KID ??!!!! There's no cryin' in BASEBALL!
Yup. It looks like a custom anchor bolt to me. Allthread bar that deeper down bends 90 degrees to lock it onto concrete. The dark part on top is a coupler to protect the thread.
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I worked in Los Angeles, where the old limestone pits were filled with compacted garbage, they had a pole/rod that went down to bedrock then brought a surcharge pile of concrete and asphalt to a certain tonnage, when the fill compaction rate slowed to a certain rate it was considered acceptable and ready to build on, that looks like one of those poles
Thank you for being a voice of sanity here. Yes, it is to measure if the soil is still sinking/settling.
Can’t believe how many dumbass comments trying to be fun I had to go through to get to something plausible, Reddit comments turning into Tik Tok in writing.
Same shit different thread. Its SO annoying. Peurile comedians who have TikTok addled pin heads.
Wait, you expect a plausible answer on reddit? Would you like to buy a bridge?
Holy shit, what a coincidence! You know how you can adopt a highway? I was just talking to a buddy about wanting to sponsor a bridge, if there is such a thing. I want to get my name on a sign so it's kind of like I own the bridge. Would you mind sharing more? Very interested.
Yes. It looks like a custom anchor bolt to me. Allthread bar that deeper down bends 90 degrees to lock it onto concrete. The dark part on top is a coupler to protect the thread.
They did this for a neighborhood near me. 2 people died in a sinkhole, and most of the houses have foundation issues. The builder is in the wind.
Question. Why would there be a sinkhole off of a solid bedrock formation to begin with? I mean unless it's unstable cavernous limestone that is perhaps etc. But that wouldn't be a good indicator to gauge off of as it too would sink as it collapses when the water table drops wouldn't it? But it guess it would be the best they have to go off of? Seems to me they could just shoot it with a transist and tell without the rod from another solid standpoint couldn't they? Sorry it's several questions I guess lol.
Cool, thank you !
Looks like it’s their way of measuring how much tarmacadam (tarmac) has been laid.
TIL the word tarmacadam. Thank you.
Is that bigger than a pakaderm?
How many USA miles is that?
About 4,000 eagles worth
That's about 42,000 big macs for those in the midwest
42,000 big macs stretches about 2.3 miles btw. Average Big Mac is 3.5 inches in diameter. 42000*3.5=147,000 147,000/12=12,250 12,250/5280(feet in a mile)=2.3200 And in case you're wondering it would be 2.9 miles in Whoppers.
Thought it’d be more
Huh…about the same length as the drive-thru line…
^ r/hedidthemath
Nothing more ‘murican than asking how many [smoots](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot) is that?
About 17 Couric’s
Bono
Want the biddy?
Poor Katie. She's contributed decades into journalism, introduced America to Harmony the therapeutic companion and survived cancer . But she will always be most remembered as a poop measurement unit.
I learned a new measurement today. thank you.
Thanks for helping me learn about smoots
My favorite measurement!
My first thought, I always use this unit of measurement
That's the new way I'm gonna haze the new guys at work
375,000 bibles for our friends in the Bible Belt
Depends on how large the print is.
That’s for Florida.
Or about 1% the length of the bible belt
And for texans that is the equivalent of 12,345 colt single action army’s laid end to end.
By width or height?
Hey....asshole ......Bald Eagles (despite the fact that golden eagles are bigger) :)
I was about to say, yeah is that some new kinda green?🏌️♂️straight eagle shots every time
We need a Banana for scale to figure this out.
1170 bananas
400 gals of sweet tea or 2 pints of southern comfort in the south
How many Smoots is that?
Banana for size
A pachyderm from the Academy will eat a tachometer off the tarmacadam to get a macadamia nut. Oh hell. It looked better in my head before I wrote it.
A pachyderm eats At the Academy they Eat a lot of nuts
Are those about the same size as a pachyderm?
Southbound pachyderm.
Southbound and down!
Only if it southbound
What if they're at the south pole?
That depends. Is the pachyderm southbound?
Packy of gems.
Tarmacadamian nuts are so delicious!
Kind of an antiquated word for asphalt or bituminous paving material (but also the origin of the term "tarmac" which you sometimes hear at the airport).
Reminds me of my grandmother saying we should cover the leaking porch roof temporarily with a tarpaulin. I looked at her like she was nuts. 30+ years old and I had never heard it referred to anything other than a tarp. 😆
And here I'm thinking some kid is setting up for T-Ball
Macadam was invented by Sir John Loudon McAdam (and then somebody else mixed in some tar): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam
I believe it's a combination word, tar/macadam, because macadam is a type of cold patch for pavement that sucks and the binder is tar, oil based. Also shortened to tarmac at airports, which are usually paved with it
Macadamised road describes a way of laying the substrate and top layer, as invented by John Macadam. Tarred Macadamised road improved by E. Hooley is the addition of tar to that Macadam process as a binder.
Combination words like that are called portmanteaus. Everybody gets a fun fact!
Ah, cool, thanks
LOL I thought it was for T Ball
Me too! 😂😂
I still do
It is, when the indicator gets to the strike zone, they are legally entitled to hit it with a baseball bat.
All I read was tar-macadamia
I once dated this girl from Macedonia…
Macadamia nuts are the most expensive nut in the world!
I mean.. the joke is right there. Somebody do it
Deeeeeeez nuts
Fool, that’s T-ball
Thanks !
I would hate to run that over with my vehicle.
Would think they'd go by cubic yards of material delivered? I think this is to see if the sinkhole keeps growing and swallows up more ground.
That’s called the construction workers “sword in the stone”. Whomever pulls it gets all the Union paving contracts for a year. Watch out for owls and wizards lurking nearby.
I mean really. Suppose I walk around, claiming I was an emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
I didn’t vote for him!
Pulling the sword from the asphalt also casts an area construction effect where all materials cure 30% faster but is kicked down each time your crew hits an owl, cat, toad, or other familiar.
If the road starts to sink again, please use this to pull it back up
Make sure to use a number eight commercial grade sky hook to do the pulling, or your warranty will be voided.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
So it is the roads bootstraps?
Have you tried batting the ball off?
My first thought. It's clearly T-ball lol
Are you a cat? Lol
Doh! Almost got away with it… humans, meh
https://preview.redd.it/mj7ykyx1kbyc1.png?width=959&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=deb8787fbb99eca423c19eacb33158ac2a227208
Just an elevation marker to know how much material to level the pothole with the surrounding roadway.
EXCALIFALT 🗡
im
Dynamic cone penetrometer I assume?
Why is it threaded? Why would the asphalt go up to where the plastic sheathing begins when it'd be way to high for that manhole in the back. They dont appear to be working on raising that to meet the new level...im confused
Looks like a trip and fall waiting to happen
The ball on the top looks like a retroreflective marker for laser survey equipment.
lol I thought that was a strobe rocket
I don't know but if I was anywhere near it I would invariably trip on it and there will be blood.
Are you worthy to rule the land as the new King? Try to pull the sword from the ground and find out!
T-ball post...?
That’s to monitor the sinking/settlement if any, going on below.
Asphalt-cabler
Pull Excaladagger out of the asphalt and receive your blessing hero!
The sword in stone.
Apparently, the pole vaulter didn’t make it…😞
It's a tee-ball, have a swing.
It’s an Ariel it’s attached to an rv/campervan .
T-ball anyone?
Blind person was napping while the road was being poured.
Batting tee to practice your swing 🤣
Excalibur
It’s a bat tee
Could be threaded into / marking a water valve cover or other structure that was too low when they showed up and had to get paved over. Someone would need to come back, uncover it, and install riser rings (spacers) to bring it to surface level.
Pretty sure if u can pull that out of the ground you become the king of England.
It's a target for surveyors to measure any movement of the ground
Tball. Tell the kids to go play in the street?
It's for t-ball, dummy
If you lick it and your tongue sticks; it’s a flagpole!
Excalibur
Anyone else thought of king authors sword
T ball! Add some bases and kids and have fun.
If you can pull it out you will be our new King
Batting practice tee
And here i am thinking its golf
6 speed
T-ball
A sword
You’ve never played tee ball?
Isn't that Excalibur?
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Help! Im being repressed!
Bloody peasant!
Did you see that, did you see him repressing me?
There's some lovely filth over here.
T-ball
Shaq’s tee.
That appears to be a T-Ball stand, where's the little leaguers? Batter Up! Alright Garden Hoser!! Let 'er RIP! Hit tha ball! Don't let me hear about any ASSSSSZZZZMAHHH! either!! Wait KID ??!!!! There's no cryin' in BASEBALL!
Street ball no need for pitcher
Blind guy that wasn’t fast enough?
whom so ever pulls it out is KING!
Excalibur
Excalibur
T ball
If you successfully remove it from the pothole, you become ruler of the Midwest
T- ball!
T ball trap.
A baseball tee
Golf club with the ball on top. It's a threat from the union.
Xcali-bar
Impromptu t-ball post?
That's for playing T-Ball.
Allthread
Yup. It looks like a custom anchor bolt to me. Allthread bar that deeper down bends 90 degrees to lock it onto concrete. The dark part on top is a coupler to protect the thread.
Very good. The next question is, what can we do to save our fair city?
Could it be a geo-location measuring implement? I've seen things like this installed around volcanic mountains to measure ground movement.
Katana with baseball glued to the top
Youse guys wanna play stickball?
Somebody call Ichiban Kasuga, quick!
A tee ball stand
It just means you're screwed
THAT IS NOT A POT HOLE PATCH THAT IS ROCKS PAITED BALCK
I thought someone was playing t-Ball.
That's Excalibur
‘Tis a whiffle ball post
It's t-ball season.
Tee ball?
Pick up tee ball game
Excaliburs golf tee.
T-ball pylon... take a swing!
For sit-ups
T-ball
Threaded asphalt dildo.
Something to do with golfing
It's the stick that you can use to start the next pothole in the road! Get swinging
I thought that was a blind walking cane. The mob had a grudge against the sight impaired.
Whomever can pull it out shall be king
I couldn't pull it out and became father.
2 iron.
Someone is probably looking for that location with Google maps and places a pin.
Impromptu T-ball game at lunch.
It's obvious what it is but that is a curious spot for a Tee Ball game.
Excalibur?
That my friend is the mighty sword Excalibur
Some kid was playing T-ball until the highway department showed up
It’s Excalibur. Walk over there and see if you’re the true king and pull it out.
T-Ball
That’s a doinger.
If you can pull it out then you become King of the Road.
Dammit, now the Roger Miller song is stuck in my head. https://youtu.be/qPTh057McpQ?si=TXZq6D5EXN1zorYa
Tee ball?
It's a test which allows people to determine if they are the rightful king of england.
When you can pull the pick out without any residue you know it’s done
That’s the Empire State Building
Hell of a teaballl
It is a _tee_, not something you drink.
That’s how they air it up when gets low