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Between this and the new fancy music I barely recognize the place.
Favorite Comment: Fixer A Random Pooka says, “Excitebike kludge. Not a Mario kludge.”
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Aside from the fact that a part of this picture resembles a Super Mario level, I fail to see the kludge here.
Remove gravel. Try to drive car down road.
Realize improvised single lane gravel mound is a good idea to compensate pipe not being below road.
Learn definition of kludge.
I know what it’s doing, but AFAIK this is pretty much standard practice when you have to (temporarily) lay down a water pipe on the road. Ain’t it?
Everyone may do it, but until you get your gravel especially designed for it, it remains a kludge.
Mmmm, there’s a market here, just need to corr^H^H^H^Hlobby the unions to agree non-optimized gravel is non-OHSA. By gravel. Print a few labels. Step 3: profit!
Ah, I see your point. Yeah, that would be much safer. Who cares if it’s a little more expensive. For the safety of our construction workers, motorists, water pipes and Princess Peach, it’s worth it.
OK, technically it is a kludge, but it’s also not unusual. It’s either do this or use those plastic ramps that are specially made for thins kind of situation.
The only odd thing about what the road crew (I assume it was a road crew) did here is that they only covered half the width of the road in gravel, thus turning a 2-lane road into a single-lane road. But that’s just a FAIL! What happened, did they run out of gravel?
Well the road isn’t really crowded with cars, so maybe the extra work wasn’t worth it.
I would say it is the valve handle there that they don’t want cars to drive over. It sits in the middle of the lane that is uncovered.
Sometimes TIFI needs something stupid to make fun of so bad, we have to turn on each other.
Case in point: bob_super bravely volunteers to be our stupid thing.
You fail to see why this would be a fail repair? You would drive over some pvc piping covered in rocks? Those usually go under the ground ’round here Cletus Spuckler.
It’s a temporary installation, not a repair. Nothing is being repaired here. They just needed to temporarily pipe water over the roadway, and the gravel is just there so people can driver over the pipe without crushing it. The only fail is that they didn’t us enough gravel, and only covered one lane’s worth of roadway.
Aw, I wanted a video of someone trying to drive over it without the pipe cracking/snapping.
Where are the item boxes?
Sorry, but your Princess is in another castle
The cone people, having completed phase 1 -be ubiquitous to be unnoticed- of their takeover plan masterfully, then moved to phase 2 -start constricting roads further and further- with resounding success. Phase 3 -drive drivers nuts with inexplicable closures- is now in motion, as shown here. Once they are in place around this pipe, the gravel that lets them cross over the obstacle will be removed and none shall pass.
Complete Gridlock -phase 4- and Total Roads Takeover -phase 5- are expected to be complete soon.
Then the roads will be safe for the mating season, after which the cones will quickly have to fatten on as much gravel and pothole patches as they can before they let humans collect them once more and store them for the bitter cold season.
The counselors at Camp Kitchiecoomi finally learned the reason why the lake at neighboring Camp Wassalakka was always so much fuller than theirs.
Excitebike kludge. Not a Mario kludge.
Oh good point.
Touche.
This works, but… Only thing I don’t like is, you’re still putting the weight of the vehicle on the plastic pipe at two concentrated points.
If a fully loaded Class 8 Semi has to go through, you’re liable to have a crushed temporary water pipe. Lovely fountain, though…
Get two stacks of railroad ties and a nice thick trench-plate that has a few inches clearance over and around the pipe. Use the gravel for the approach and departure ramps, and ask me again.
or… put a “no trucks” sign (written with duct tape on cardboard).
Roads redundancy rules!
A fully loaded semi is likely too wide to fit over the ramp, and anyway the cones are set narrower than it.
If a fully loaded class 8 semi is going down this road, he’s on the wrong road!
There should be a sign, “Attention, Pipe crossing!”
I think I have a pretty good idea what’s going on in that pipe, and where it leads…
It’s a really, really big stretch to call this a kludge when it’s the official, correct solution to the problem of having to run a temporary pipe across a road. If this counts, you might as well start posting pictures of sturdy scaffolding, bridge plates, and detour signs.
Fair enough… this is a legitimate solution. But tell me this… what’s the excuse for the single cone in the middle of the usable lane?
Prank.
This road must be fun to traverse at night, especially to the unwary driver. Assuming you made it past this obstacle course unscathed, you get to count all the new gray hairs that have appeared when you return home.
At last, a reasonable accommodation for toad mating season.
I suspect someone is going to get a lesson in load factor vs. depth of coverage for buried plastic pipes!