One of my
'strange' Hobbies Is Visiting quarries and mucking around on the machinery thats left there, You know those BIG UGE belts that go from the ground to about 70 foot up into the air? Or in this case to a Crusher.. (8 foot plates of Titanium) Been up there plenty of times to know whats in it and how it works... So as a dare one day I get the pleasure of climbing up one of these belts, INSIDE! which is about a foot tall, Me being a lanky bastard can just about fit inside. My mate in the meantime has found the electrical room and somehow restored all power to the remaining equipment that was left on the quarry! Some twunt had switched the conveyor and the crusher on (me when I was cocking around in the control room) and I found myself being shifted at a slow rate, but I was shitting myself as I could hear a thump, thump THUMP THUMP! THUMP!! - you get the picture, I was on my way to certain death by crusher.... With me yelling between the thumps of my soon to be grave... My mate heard me and knocked the power off! Safe? nope, the belt and crusher kept going, but slower and slower, It was about 1 foot away from the top when I finally stopped and bricking myself Shot out of the belt to a rusty gantry, which gave way seconds later! landed in a big Dust pit 6 foot down! 2 near death expieriences there and we still fuck about in there! Penhow Quarry If your interested... Frequent Summer camping trips there every year.
( Goriath, Fri 26 Nov 2004, 19:38, Reply)