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World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:21 am
by Apoptosis
http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... world.html
Awesome pictures... The one think I noticed is that one is the mine the drive to on Ice Road Truckers... They never showed the mine on TV, but it's impressive! I know at least Bubba will know what I'm talking about!
Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada
This incredible mine can be found 300km Northeast of Yellowknife in Canada. The mine is so huge and the area so remote that it even has its own airport with a runway large enough to accomodate a Boeing 737. it also looks equally as cool when the surrounding water is frozen.
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Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:28 am
by kenc51
Bubba, did your machines do this?
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:31 am
by skier
that diamond mine is crazy looking in the winter pic
the reservoir drain is pretty sweet, and i wouldnt want to be anywhere nearthe bottom of that dam if the waters high enough to go into it
what is the drian in germany, it looks like it served a purpose at one point, but not in 50 years or so
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:59 am
by stev
That sink hole not being man-made is shocking!
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:21 pm
by bubba
kenc51 wrote:Bubba, did your machines do this?
Nope, the biggest hole we could make would just be about 18" across, granted it could a good 3-400 feet deep. They would use a machine like ours to go looking for it. Then they would bring in really big stuff to excavate the dirt for processing.
Something like this is use to haul out the material.
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:31 pm
by DMB2000uk
Hey, they showed that Ice Road Truckers on TV here a bit ago, only caught a couple of episodes but it was really interesting.
So nice to see what the big fuss was about.
But daymn, those are some big holes!
Dan
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:47 pm
by Dragon_Cooler
Where is the ASS?
Really bad ace pictures though!! Who would have thought holes can be so cool!
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:54 pm
by Alathald
Dragon_Cooler wrote:Where is the ASS?
You know you're a geek when you read "Where is the AS5?" the first time through...I was like WTF is he talking about? >_<
Those holes are freaking awesome though!
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:11 pm
by kappage
Heres the super pit in Western Australia
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Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:14 pm
by FZ1
I was expecting something a little different from this thread
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:21 pm
by DaIceMan
FZ1 wrote:I was expecting something a little different from this thread
me too... but at least it wasn't a golf thread.
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:57 pm
by martini161
DaIceMan wrote:FZ1 wrote:I was expecting something a little different from this thread
me too... but at least it wasn't a golf thread.
same here, weird though cause one of the whole in the link is called "Glory Hole"
anyway, that is one hell of a sink hole in guatamala
Re: World's Best Holes
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:27 pm
by Darkstar
martini161 wrote:DaIceMan wrote:FZ1 wrote:I was expecting something a little different from this thread
me too... but at least it wasn't a golf thread.
same here, weird though cause one of the whole in the link is called "Glory Hole"
anyway, that is one hell of a sink hole in guatamala
that must be what set off my web filter !!!! access denied....lol
