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    • Alan Limbach

      Comment on "item:object:river_object"

      Donnie the Tunnel Boring Machine, behind some people. https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/ #Coxwell

      • Dave Anderson

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        This prufrock thing pure vaporware. Elon Musk has no experience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnel boring machines. You may hire some experien...this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnel boring machine...

        • Santiago Morales

          Comment on "Follo line double TBM breakthrough! (Norway)"

          The machine is Herrenknecht. But anybody know what Disc cutters they used? Also Herrenknecht?

          • Kris Lubcek

            Comment on "Follo line double TBM breakthrough! (Norway)"

            Maybe the disc cutters were not Herrenknecht. You know how it works. First x meters you use disc cutters of the TBM manufacturer. So maybe first x meter they used Herrenknecht disc cutters and then switched to an after...

            • Dave Anderson

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              ' thanks to the Japanese engineers' contributions to tunnel boring machine technology'? Are you serious? The last time I checked it was the USA a.k.a Robbins, who invented TBM and took it further than anyone else.

              • Pankaj

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                We are happy as our cutters and other tools are preforming well on this project

                • Ari G.J. van der Dijk

                  Comment on "Follo line double TBM breakthrough! (Norway)"

                  @Paolo As far as I know, the disc cutters did a good job in Follo.

                  • Coert Klomp

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                    As usual, New Civil Engineer is has a more sober header than daily newspapers. Progress revealed on HS2 tunnel boring machines https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/progress-revealed-on-hs2-tunnel-boring-machines-27-05-2020/  

                    • Paolo Kerguel

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                      Yes it is true that whenever an article has "Elon Musk" in it, the guy gets the benefit of the doubt even for radical things like 10 times faster boring tunnel boring machine...

                      • Paolo Kerguel

                        Comment on "Follo line double TBM breakthrough! (Norway)"

                        pretty imressive. I heard that it hasn't been a smooth ride all along. I heard they had to change a lot of disc cutters along the way. Like I heard 20 disc cutter every single  day had to be replaced!