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Bus being transported on four small boats.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3514#post78220
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...457#post127626
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...950#post137571
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...051#post134163
train ferry
That’s about a teaspoon away from disaster
What could possibly go wrong there?
The driver seems to have his foot on the brake. Presumably there is a platform across the boats that will be hooked to a low dock ?
This might LOOK like four small boats, but they all rise and fall in EXACTLY the same relation to each other. They are either fixed together very very securely, or it's a barge with four bows, constructed like two catamarans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
As to the second vid, "She'll be right mate" after all, what's one bus more or less?
i think it's faked. look at the bus. Could it really be supported by those small boats well enough to be doable. I doubt it.
I imagine the bus is on a full length ''ramp'' lashed to the boats. I wonder if they can use the tide to float the ensemble?Quote:
Originally Posted by old kodger
With the inner sides of the boats touching the underside of the bus, there would be little room for movement independently, the bus is the binder for this, I just hope the brakes hold! That's not 4 hp, that's 4 MAN power! so about 1/4 to 1/5 hp or less! Not sure why they don't just use on of the other boats to tow it and let the 4 guys just steer?
Here in the land of liability lawyers and the consequent nanny state, we could never conceive of trying something like this.
I do overbuild. I'm no engineer and don't know that I could use a narrower bolt or a narrower stick of material. Nevertheless, if this is what the resources of these people allows them to do, then I say, "good on you."
I like the can-do mentality but boy they must need that bus where it is going very badly!Quote:
Originally Posted by neilbourjaily
No wonder it takes little Billy so long to get home from school!
The Twitter thread I found this in is a good example of Poe's Law - in internet posts, it's difficult to detect sarcasm. This was posted with the title "Public transport in Nepal". I don't know if this actually Nepal, but it's not public transport. I'm guessing it's a sketchy vehicle rescue operation. Anyway, the comments are filled with offended Nepalese people.
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Cableways are a pretty common engineering practice. Here's one lowering a rail car to the Hoover Dam Powerhouse in 2019. That BUILT the Hoover damn in the 30's moving concrete via cableways
EDITED as Youtube wouldn't allow embedding... hit the "watch on youtube" link
https://youtu.be/r-HdlzQCKk0