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ChrisJC
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I am sure you will all be reading this over breakfast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55191623

I wonder where in Shropshire it has been tested?

Chris.

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Down and beyond
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4 years ago

A very interesting article thanks for sharing

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Peter Burgess
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4 years ago

Get back to me when they make one that can dig through filled passages.

ttxela
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4 years ago

Impressive stuff.

Who's going to be the first to be scanned sitting against an adit wall with their flask of tea and egg sandwiches when one of these flies by. :lol:

Down and beyond
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My other hobby ww1 and ww2 I watch documentaries about these with lidar attached I find it great technology, I would like to own one to send it down the mines we cannot get further in because of o2 levels I think it would be brilliant!

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pwhole
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4 years ago

Bear in mind that nine times out of ten it will be operated by a fat guy called Barry who will sit in his van for 90% of the shift, whilst his speccy young 'student' mate Nathan wrestles with a dysfunctional battery in the rain for three hours. Barry will then sack off the shift just as Nathan gets it working, and they'll all go home and come back again tomorrow and do it all over again.

Graigwen
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"pwhole" wrote:
Bear in mind that nine times out of ten it will be operated by a fat guy called Barry who will sit in his van for 90% of the shift, whilst his speccy young 'student' mate Nathan wrestles with a dysfunctional battery in the rain for three hours. Barry will then sack off the shift just as Nathan gets it working, and they'll all go home and come back again tomorrow and do it all over again.

Aha! I see that you live in the real world.

Down and beyond
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"pwhole" wrote:
Bear in mind that nine times out of ten it will be operated by a fat guy called Barry who will sit in his van for 90% of the shift, whilst his speccy young 'student' mate Nathan wrestles with a dysfunctional battery in the rain for three hours. Barry will then sack off the shift just as Nathan gets it working, and they'll all go home and come back again tomorrow and do it all over again.

Brilliant that made me chuckle brings back memories of working on highways me laying the tarmac 6 managers watching with clip boards and then my labourer walking 1mph with a wheel barrow .

From the land of the pillar and stall

pwhole
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4 years ago

I've done a few rope-access de-veg jobs on nights, so yes, definitely the real world. I try to avoid that kind of work if I can, for the reasons mentioned above. Day shifts with a line closure are less onerous, as you can see stuff for one thing, and folks are more inclined to look busy. Apart from Barry.

The best ones I've had are photographing the lads doing the job - though doing both portals of a 1.5 mile-long tunnel gets a bit tedious - especially when you have to walk back to collect the tripod that I only remembered halfway through it 😉

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4 years ago

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"ChrisJC" wrote:
I am sure you will all be reading this over breakfast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55191623

I wonder where in Shropshire it has been tested?

Chris.

Snailbeach

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#11

"ChrisJC" wrote:
I am sure you will all be reading this over breakfast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55191623

I wonder where in Shropshire it has been tested?

Chris.

Snailbeach

Monty Stubble
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4 years ago

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Lots of drones already out there.

The Flyability Elios has been around for a few years for difficult access. It's a drone in a cage so can bounce off stuff. However at £30K for its latest manifestation it's a bit high for most.

The Swedes and Canadians have developed underground drones which use Lidar to find their way around. Great for survey work.

There is an American captive 'drone' which can be lowered down shafts on a wire and can maintain it's position precisely for shaft inspection, etc.

COMRU are looking at a drone which can carry both a gas detector and a thermal camera and can 'remember' where obstacles are as well as turn itself the right way up if it crashes.

Lots going on in the world of underground drones.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau