Friday :: 03 July 2009 :: 07:18 PM
175 days to Christmas!
If your chip has your car or truck vinlocked and will not unlock. Maybe you lost the chip controller; or maybe the performance chip broke down. Regardless, you are now in a bind. You will likely have to take your vehicle down to your local dealer and have the chip reflashed. Reflashing a chip sets it back to the OEM default settings.
Big Muskie A Brief Summary
The Big Muskie was a 4250W walking dragline manufactured by Bucyrus-Erie Company at their South Milwaukee plant at a cost of twenty-five million dollars. At twenty-two stories high and an extended boom that was almost 1.5 times the length of a football field, it was the world's largest mobile land machine. The dragline used more electrical power than a city of 100,000 people. It was capable of moving thirty-nine million pounds of earth and rock every hour.
- Weight: 27,000,000 lbs. (13,500 tons) work ready.
- Length: 487' 6" (horizontally extended boom).
- Width: 151' (exterior of walking shoes).
- Height from base: to top of house enclosure - 67' 1"
- Height from base to top of A-frame - 119' 11.25"
- Height from base to top of boom at highest operating angle - 222' 6"
- Maximum digging depth - 185'
- Electrically powered: 13,800 volts
- Bucket Capacity: 220 cubic yards, 350 tons
- Empty bucket weight: 230 tons
- Bucket width: 23'1"
The Big Muskie worked in the Ohio Power Company's Muskingum mine in eastern Ohio from 1969 to 1991. During that time, it removed 608,000,000 cubic yards of overburden -- twice the earth moved during the construction of the Panama Canal. This work uncovered over 20,000,000 tons of clean coal. It was parked on 01 March 1991 due to a depression in the market for coal. By the end of the decade environmental laws demanded the reclamation of the mining areas and the removal of all equipment. In 1999 it was dismantled and the bucket put on permanent display at Miners Memorial Park in Noble County, Ohio.
Random Humor: The Problems Of Old Age
Three elderly gentlemen were discussing the daily business of living. "Sometimes," says the first man, I go to the refrigerator and can't remember if I'm taking something out or putting something in."
"I'll say," returned the second. "I find myself at the bottom of the stair and can't remember if I'm going up or down."
"Well, I'm thankful I don't have those problems," retorts the third man as he knocks on wood. "Say, there's someone at the door."