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Demolition and sorting grabs are universal tools for demolition, sorting, and loading all kinds of materials. The name Multi Grapple is quite a good description for them. The basic structure is quite simple and similar for all brands: a rigid main body with two moving jaws mounted on both ends of the frame. The jaws are powered by one or two hydraulic cylinders and they are connected together with a steel bar so that they move simultaneously. For heavy applications, these excavator grapples are always equipped with a powerful hydraulic rotator but for light loading and sorting jobs, a tilt rotator can replace it. A tiltrotator (known under a number of trade names) is a hydraulic attachment/tool used on most excavators, and backhoes between 1,5–40 tons in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, and Norway)
The end of a fence panel shows the triggering mechanism. The slide fence panel at left is suspended on a cable. Two large springs connect the fence panel to the fence post. A circuit box is mounted to the fence and linked to the panel by a double cable with a set amount of slack.
When a Volkswagen sized chunk of limestone comes off the bluff and thunders across this road it will run into the fence, stretching it so that the fence panel slides along the suspension cable and pulls it away from the fence post, extending the springs and pulling the slack out of the cable to the circuit box and breaking the circuit causing the block signals to drop to red and stop traffic on the RR below. Fairly simple but pretty effective safety device. March 2, 2013.
When I shoot from a kite lofted camera I often employ an intervalometer to snap photos every 5-10 seconds. This results in hundreds of photos per shoot and, since I started doing this 2 years ago, I've managed to amass over 70,000 aerial shots. Every once in awhile I look back on some of the older shots. According to Lightroom I've assigned 4 or more stars to this and 2000 others.
This U.S. Historic Landmark has it's own wikipedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakers
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Visit my BLOG to “Take a Peek Inside the Huber Breaker Ruins”:
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The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) established the family fortune in steamships and later in the New York Central Railroad, which was a pivotal development in the industrial growth of the nation during the late 19th century.
The Commodore's grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, became The Breakers dining roomChairman and President of the New York Central Railroad system in 1885, and purchased a wooden house called The Breakers in Newport during that same year. In 1893, he commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a villa to replace the earlier wood-framed house which was destroyed by fire the previous year. Hunt directed an international team of craftsmen and artisans to create a 70 room Italian Renaissance- style palazzo inspired by the 16th century palaces of Genoa and Turin. Allard and Sons of Paris assisted Hunt with furnishings and fixtures, Austro-American sculptor Karl Bitter designed relief sculpture, and Boston architect Ogden Codman decorated the family quarters. Source: www.newportmansions.org/explore/the-breakers
Bay to Breakers
San Francisco
12 Kilometer Run
Run?
A large version so you can see if there is anyone you know.
Started in 1912, it is the longest consecutively running footrace in the world.
For more history:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_to_Breakers
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