Posted Apr 5, 2017, 11:23 PM
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Can I has a tunnel?
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: East Van
Posts: 2,202
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Originally Posted by jsbertram
TBMs are rarely "thrown away" after a project because they are expensive to build.
They are usually dismantled at the extraction pit and shipped to a local storage yard where the owner has all the parts inspected, and where necessary repaired or reconditioned before the TBM is containerized and shipped off to the next project on its schedule.
It's next project may be across the city, across the province, across the country, across the continent, or across the ocean.
Scheduled projects for these machines can be assigned years in the future, and are constantly being adjusted as future projects arise (or flounder) with the changing political winds.
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He says as Big Bertha is being sold for scrap...
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