Seattle's Big Bertha tunnel drill blocked by mystery object

[@anthonydiamond5906]

So when people hear and feel vibration and weird sounds, it's this 5 story gopher digging under them

[@OneWildTurkey]

From NBC News: 2014 Jan 4 - The Washington State Department of Transportation said Friday that the steel pipe that stopped Bertha, as the borer is nicknamed, on Dec. 6 is a 119-foot-long well casing installed in 2002 to study groundwater movement under downtown Seattle.

[@Killashandra111]

And nobody checked it on the city plans? What a bunch of dope heads.

[@shannonpace9433]

I think it's a big block of common sense and they don't know what it is.

[@darrenkastl8160]

Lol! Nice!

[@johntailing5283]

Shannon Pace Gotta be the best thread comment I’ve ever read on KZbin! -We’ve got the same in the Uk

[@williamcondon7729]

Common sense is the bias you have before you turn 18. It took more than a bunch of 16 yr olds to build the tunnel. It took experts with experience.

[@BasicShapes]

ba dum tss

[@trellegion1997]

funny coming from someone with a picture of an angry elf looking mfr

[@jamesreck8476]

Giant underground tunnel near the Cascadia subduction zone, what could go wrong?

[@stevendx6601]

Idiots. Tunnels are never needed. They claim to save money meanwhile dozens of gravel yards have excess materiel for sale that could build alternative routes. They approve building permits that are unwise and proven to cause traffic jams, apartments and small residential lots (sardine can theory) usually the culprit. The media could care less, never studying or talking about it on their own.

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

Not a thing, ...all by design...

[@devilshaircut9]

It was the MOST expensive option of all those. As an added idiocy the tunnel has one LESS lane than the viaduct it is replacing. Higher price, Less capacity, Go Seattle!

[@MrTM-fg6zn]

They have eq repelent spray.

[@bigtravis6159]

Elon Musk says tunnels are safe during earthquakes, I’m not sure how that work

[@bobgwin5469]

Solved - 60 ft steel pipe left during pre-lim work. Can we just take this off now?

[@SFbayArea94121]

Bob Gwin they’re so stupid

[@archiecunningham3734]

Nice

[@Heavywall70]

Had to scroll to find the answer Yours should be moved to the FIRST comment Of course I’m just going to take your word for it because I’m bored and there are people falling down on KZbin I need to see

[@loitmox9939]

9

[@jaredconner4143]

You just saved 2 minutes of my life.

[@socialmedia4637]

*It probably said something offensive and hit a Facebook block*

[@miktwo6369]

I take offense to that comment, reporting u now

[@gtown1742]

Indeed!

[@franksturgis9118]

Facebook can dish it out but they can't take it

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

Hatespeech...😵

[@blessedtrinity9664]

Made my day thanks🤗

[@asian1erTheDestroyer]

This is how they connected all the underground military bases the last 30 years

[@getminesallday24]

Yuup some people have no clue thanks for being woke

[@rxonmymind8362]

Need on Mars. Yesterday.

[@jerrybartlett1142]

Nope a nuclear rock cutter heats the rock and melts it back to the walls way stronger faster and probley dont exist;)

[@lyndonwhitson2269]

Mexico said they wanted to borrow that machine

[@AsianManZan]

Lol what. Do you know how slow these things are. It would take hundreds of years to do that.

[@swali555]

There was a previous 8 inch steel well casting that damaged the blades for 4 years the drill finally finished the path in 2017 thanks for the 8 year old news youtube giving me "great" recommendations

[@bonniebever6124]

Thanks

[@tunneltech9976]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ_anZKIqrCld68

[@user-pk4tl2fk3n]

shut up goofy

[@keving1774]

It was an 8in diameter 119 ft long steel pipe.

[@Swishasweet2811]

How do you know

[@user-xl7dn3zu6t]

My dad retired from that job,that machine is insane,specially made for this job.

[@h2okopf415]

@Steven Strain Yes, in Germany!

[@chemicloud6443]

Any crazy stories? I mean no children in those D.um.b.s? Or what

[@JR-gc8el]

I had no Idea they were doing this and it's 2020 now!!! What the heck happened to all those years!!!???

[@emmanuelgutierrez8616]

It got stuck again with no one wanting to pay the repair bill, it's 3 years behind schedule.

[@wendyarbes9514]

Still not completed?

[@thatfeeble-mindedboy]

If they wait much longer there won’t be any need for it… well, unless it just fills up with homeless people from Portland …

[@AsianManZan]

It’s been done for like 10 years. I drive through it everyday.

[@ssherrierable]

@@thatfeeble-mindedboy plenty people from Seattles homeless community to fill the first half

[@charliebennett6335]

They may have hit one of those massive meteorites that impacted the eastern pacific.

[@michaelvangundy226]

They tried drilling into the Chinese district from the back. Wong Ho complained loudly.

[@erics3886]

Wong Ho Fu

[@diorynovis]

The mystery object could be a politician blocking its way.

[@tuffenuf1237]

Well it’s Seattle so probably a bunch of liberal Democrat

[@monroekunz1331]

Jimmy Hoffa

[@jaydeedub]

Yawn. You people are commenting on something that happened 5 years ago! And now I am... Damnit...

[@jamesclaussen5329]

Jimmy Hoffa in concrete casket?

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

It could be just simply morals and logic....😒

[@slipjones2]

Wow someone improving infrastructure. I didn’t think this was allowed.

[@chriscamgemi368]

Wtf,,,,this is from 4 yrs ago,,get a clue KZbin

[@enriqueshockwave8869]

6 years and it's recommended to me?

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

Oh, they are, they are.... Intelligence is hate speech!

[@Fuzzmo147]

Chris Camgemi Just seen it... what was it?😂😂😂

[@Fuzzmo147]

Oh ffs! There’s a sequel? Can’t be arsed😂

[@vanessaparker6232]

Did the tunnel work or was it a flop.?

[@LimitedWarranty]

The real mystery is how a 60ft pipe got in the way?

[@Heavywall70]

OH DEAR WHAT HAPPENED???!!!?? 5 years ago 😐 KZbin has de-platformed so much content that THIS is “news” now.

[@PhilipMReeder]

Yup. I've noticed that too.

[@sethbrown9667]

Its annoying

[@williamrichardson8948]

They are killing off the platforms that most people want to see. They have a strange way of maintaining a revenue stream. But that could mean they will demonotize them selves!😳

[@jiov3223]

Thank you for the laugh... Needed that!

[@sumtingwog1273]

And we got a bunch of more commercials. Any three minute video you get to watch 4 commercials

[@JorgeRodriguez-qn6vc]

I rather be on a highway that might fall due to age and have a chance of surving than being buried alive and not survive

[@Heavywall70]

Big Lou Preach!

[@joed3339]

Tunnels are safer than bridges. Do some research

[@marynelson4445]

Jorge Rodriguez yes

[@deejames6371]

1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake!... I remember going to Oakland A's Games prior to the quake, and driving under the Cypress Structure thinking, "What would happen if We(S.F. Bay Area) had the "Big One?"....... Google it?

[@paulforester6996]

Hey, they saved you from funeral cost, and burial.

[@dashriprock7036]

An expensive crypt for motorists during the "big one".

[@rickhinojosa5455]

I thought it was funny that the engineer commented how hazardous the above ground freeways are due to the ground shaking (earthquakes) and how much more catastrophic it would be to get caught UNDERGROUND in an earthquake. They're just making money, and playing with toys. 🙄

[@travelsofmunch1476]

Nah, tunnels are the safest place to be during an earthquake. The shock ripples on the surface leaving tunnels nearly untouched, like a submarine below a hurricane. And Aboveground Highways are dangerous, during the San Francisco Earthquake in the 80's a highway viaduct collapsed, killing many.

[@scarface3690]

Poles will flip2012 is coming

[@jdsol1938]

the only mystery is why they hired this contractor

[@georgejetson3702]

lowest bidder

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Not the contractors fault. It is a client’s risk.

[@madda2012]

people in Seattle need to keep all eye's on this 1

[@arnoldlee2148]

The posting of this old video is further confirmation that You Tube is dead. Way past time to go to other platforms.

[@lilmann5171]

arnold lee what other platforms?

[@dw.baltimore]

So you saying it's KZbin fault of what other post on here smh 😣

[@trumpeteerdenfender1932]

Seattle is blocked by large object, Rosie O'Donnel!

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

By your self indulgent ego!

[@marynelson4445]

Trumpeteer Denfender that’s funny

[@darkelectronic444]

Rosie O’Donnell walks into a bar holding a duck. Bartender says “Get that pig out of here!” Rosie says “It’s not a pig, it’s a duck.” Bartender replies “I know, I was talking to the duck.” 😂😂😂

[@TheCthtoNicfLy]

Who?

[@ilovfood]

😲😲😲😅🤣😂😂😂

[@NoMoreForeignWars]

It turned out to be an ancient ufo buried for thousands of years. Amazing.

[@BigSimpin420]

Bob Woodward ok nerd. May the force be with u.

[@xila-man8249]

@@BigSimpin420 He shouldn't forget to put his tinfoil hat too

[@midwayinn1043]

@@xila-man8249 um yeah about that congress just made disclosure take your tinfoil hat insult and choke on it.

[@cliftonjames785]

@@xila-man8249 the man was being sarcastic

[@NOTTHASAME]

They do not understand what they have hit because they don't know what Seattle is composed from. This would blow the average person's mind !

[@andyramirez5439]

What you mean? There ground is more compact ??

[@NOTTHASAME]

@@andyramirez5439 No , what the ground is and what you are living on top of you entire life and don't know it ! They teach you and tell you it is ground but it is actually something that will not blow your mind !

[@micahwest2793]

@@NOTTHASAME what are you talking about?

[@NOTTHASAME]

@@micahwest2793 This is about the composition of the ground in Seattle and all other land masses above oceanic waters. Basically biological science

[@NOTTHASAME]

@@micahwest2793 Are you in Seattle ??

[@hadleymanmusic]

That machines cool! Id like to see a machine like this cut above ground shallow walls through just the edges of plateaus so windows can be cut through the thin wall and then build habitat in .

[@Blueskies_23]

They stumbled across sumthing but they won't actually tell the truth about it...i promise you that.

[@charlesneely]

An ancient spaceship from long ago like in the Transformer movies where they crash landed on Earth they all got put in suspended animation made out of exotic metal that don't exist on the Periodic Chart

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

A billion dollars in small unmarked bills, most likely!

[@60viking]

It's a alien space ship, maybe?

[@wiredupretro]

An ancient iron pyramid with skeletons of 15 ft tall giants, I presume?

[@dragonblood7815]

Aliens

[@iguanaamphibioustruck7352]

In the 70's the Robbins Co. and Lawrence Mfg were the leaders in tunnel boring. I helped in the bearings for the cutters. Iguana

[@mdhaynie]

Thanks KZbin for recommending this breaking news..... 6 years late.

[@MYC_ODD_APP]

"Every city should have an underground tunnel beneath it" Why ??????

[@KCTattooist101]

So "they" can pop up anywhere anytime

[@ilovfood]

More work for him

[@bones007able]

I thought they found one of Mars's hidden space ships waiting to emerge and attack....

[@jacwilson2578]

why do i feel like thats a war of the worlds refrence

[@johncoffelt6645]

Bill Gates second vault for all his money.

[@thatONEmachine]

Someone working on this project has come out and said that on the other side it was a whole city. Interesting.

[@thedys70]

hmmm... got a url bro?

[@dougyates7218]

Did they ever tell us what happened?

[@johnwolf1475]

A tunnel and earthquakes... No thanks.

[@skilledroc3536]

A billion dollar project and yet no geological surveys.. 🤔

[@toosunakabooma1213]

To not be aware of an obstruction blocking the path of this project is pitiful.1-800 MISS DIG

[@jaydeedub]

(edit: spelling correction) I don't believe geological surveys reveal 8-inch diameter steel pipes...

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

Above comment...

[@JMcKaySV]

$3b, seems pretty cheap actually - and a positive way of spending cash. Meanwhile over here in the UK we're throwing away over $5b on trying to restore the houses of parliament building...

[@jayhardin3259]

James McKay that’s what parliament is doing with the money .....

[@rvnmedic1968]

I really need to start checking the date of these vids. So, what was in the way???

[@michaelpike1704]

i feel left out by the fact of not knowing they were building these machines its like they just appeared on the seen. but theres alot i dont know.

[@patrikpass2962]

They dig a tunnel but a boulder stops them!?

[@hasoevo]

So what was the object? Any updates?

[@melkel2010]

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[@americanpatriot9865]

Aren’t there geological surveys done prior to drilling? I guess not!

[@larryscott3982]

Kind of like an X-ray, read by radiologists. It’s not like a photograph. And it’ll set them back what? a couple of weeks?

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

Hey, this is government contracted. Get serious!

[@nicolegagnon4642]

Wouldn't it be logical and rational if the Earth moves from an earthquake or any sort of seismic activity that tunnels underground would also collapse?

[@HashBrownDoyler]

Most tunnels don’t collapse after an earthquake if constructed competently.

[@skyploom9877]

When California goes down seattle will follow, what a big mistake , they should making highways out of the city for when the earthquake hits. Theres another city below seattle, a city that existed for a long time.

[@jonbertocchi173]

And how exactly will California go down? Sink? Lol

[@pudintain9656]

KZbin, why did you show me this 4 years later? So, can anyone tell me if they ever finished this tunnel?

[@rayologyxm]

It drilled into Chuck Norris's bunker

[@johnpaulkane5977]

Exactly.👍

[@christopheranders6725]

What was the problem what stopped it

[@hambonebecracken9606]

Did they ever finish this project is it operable now?

[@MrHarrisjp]

Yes

[@mikegatesman7021]

Would that be near Adam schiff's bunker?

[@cormacbrowne9448]

MAYBE...Al Capones OTHER vault. Quick! Call Geraldo!

[@thepervertedmonk2353]

This is funny 😂

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

Pulease, call the coroner...

[@captainjocassee]

8 years later….any update?

[@efeddwdw9782]

completed a few years back

[@lorrizzo]

I love the comment that the pre-existing road way is ugly, old and will fall down some day if the earth moves...what do you think will happen underground if they have an earth quake, which starts underground? The "earth" moves, it's mother nature, she will take that tunnel out, I pray it don't happen, but more than likely it will...because it will get old and ugly too.....technology can not beat mother nature -

[@greenfilly]

Modern TBM-created tunnels are lined with small, curved panels of high-density concrete. This is done to make the tunnel more flexible. In the event of an earthquake, only some of these panels will crack or fall out instead of a huge solid cylinder cracking all over the place.

[@K_Wi_Ess]

+Deathheads69 until the thin sea wall caves in, engulfing cars in shattered concrete and millions of gallons of water. But hey, lets take a chance anyway!

[@K_Wi_Ess]

+Deathheads69 Thank you Mayor Murray, you are right. It will be your issue though not mine, Im moving lol

[@tracymaine9071]

You should tell that to the engineers who designed this $80 million dollar machine, you're so genius!

[@QuicKnDead911]

@Deathheads69 what happens if a tsunami hits the Seattle area, they aint got enough pumps to keep it from flooding.

[@FeveredDreams]

True. Every city needs a giant tunnel under it, preferably a complex system of very stable and reinforced tunnels.

[@lurkerrekrul]

How is a tunnel any safer than a raised highway? If there's an earthquake, it could collapse, or if there's water around it, it could flood. Doesn't seem like driving miles underground would be the safest way to travel.

[@sc9604]

It can withstand a .9 earthquake

[@bobskier4274]

The previous structure was similar to the ones that collapsed in CA earthquake years ago.

[@jesseolivares2269]

I wouldn't wanna be in that tunnel if a 7.0 or 9.0 earthquake hit. 😨

[@TheBungle699]

was it Jimmy Hoffa

[@abdulrahmanbinabdullah970]

Wonderful creative innovation of the decade.... I was very impressed.

[@reeblesnarfle5443]

And WHAT planet are you from??

[@CoincidenceTheorist]

Ritual and reason far beyond and forgotten once again in a season. The cattle truly are pathet

[@elli003]

What a wonderful multi-billion dollar lava tube for Mt. Rainier.

[@PaulGreen11]

Big Bertha: "WTF!?" John Henry: "Hold my beer!!"

[@atryda6]

Happened 6 year s ago...any update ??

[@PhilipMReeder]

Yes. KZbin has removed so many videos and de-platformed so many creators content that this is current news.

[@yesitispolitical4658]

Did they ever get this dug?

[@bobskier4274]

It has been open for awhile now.

[@leroyjoseph5298]

Has it now been completed? 24/04/23

[@chubzlanders3371]

Remember that noise people were hearing in the sky sounded like trumpets like 3 or 4 years ago. Listen to one of these drills going off they sound exactly the same

[@jaycustom2179]

It’s An ancient spaceship that Aniki flew in to get to Earth🤣😂😂😅🤣

[@ladeda7033]

I cant believe the stupidity of todays folk . They believe in everything and anything he storytellers conger up.

[@urdirtyness5132]

Next week my first notification will be. Fossilized Megalodon found while drilling🤣🤣🤣

[@dannyleon1985]

You guys really don't know is what they use to cause earth quakes with!!

[@cryipticcreep5586]

20Ft rock vrs 80 million dollar machine..... Can we get a refund...it doesn't work...

[@aldofhister6859]

The great Seattle mystery has been solved: The object blocking the world's largest tunnel boring machine isn't an old steamship or locomotive or alien spaceship - it's an 8-inch-diameter steel pipe.

[@DiggerDeeper01]

So it's been 7 years...what was the mystery object?

[@numssened]

Was it Rossie O’Donnell??

[@ericb6784]

When the water rises, you're going to have a problem.

[@davidthecardcollector]

Double decker highway under ground on the east coast, what could go wrong.

[@jayhardin3259]

Da C. That would be the West coast

[@dannygarcia3787]

Solved- it was a 250 year old UFO Craft with 3 Alien corpses inside.

[@spreadlove7656]

Danny Garcia Link?

[@briansmith-bo1ul]

Well it looks like big Bertha isn’t cutting the mustard

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

What is the status and held it up,?

[@candacebradley7544]

7 years later & so, What was blocking the drilling machine? Does Goggle know?

[@shawnicavasconi184]

The ran into the seattle underground, it had shops cars bussed a whole city buried

[@dellampman7629]

You tube held this video back for 4 years. That's the other half of the story.

[@mistervacation23]

I liked the old guy with the pitchfork thinking that he was going to clear the debris from the road - brought a toothpick to a gun fight.

[@umaxen0048]

Big deal. Just pull it back 200 feet, drill some holes in the boulder, loosen it up with TNT and then get Bertha moving on it again to chew it up...

[@astrochaos4182]

I love how it was called Bertha and had the same colours as Bertha from the cartoon

[@maranatha8768]

Holes in the ground and Earthquakes a great combo for God

[@mrbrucewayne631]

we have a tunnel under the east side of Providence Rhode Island which has been blocked off for decades....

[@greyalien9074]

I know plate tetctonics take a long time but is this the best idea ? How long will something like this last skyscrappers shelf life is like 200 years

[@edwardservis2214]

The Big Bertha broke through 4 years ago. Shows over folks, go home. No refunds Thank you.

[@aldermandavis3733]

They better do something to relive the subduction zone pressure too

[@mikelovetere4719]

Big bertha was also the name of a gigantic artillery piece that was used to fire on England from across the English channel.

[@arlisbartlett403]

What was an uncharted 60 foot steel pipe doing there,

[@arnnori8089]

We’ll it’s 2021 any update?

[@Medusa5150]

WOW! Wish them the best with it's construction and stability in a natural crisis situation 🙏

[@intellectualsmoke]

All done, all good.

[@2ingrams]

Now I've seen it all..... it's an earthquake away from mass death if and when it collapses.

[@RW-ph3sx]

Well what was the mystery object I've been waiting for weeks to find out !!!!?????!!!!!????

[@jahnets11]

What is going to stop the tunnel from collapsing in earthquake ?

[@w41duvernay]

Umm stupid question Don't they still have earthquakes in Seattle?

[@wayneg1212]

What could stop big Bertha?

[@khadijagwen]

I've seen that plane twice. Both times, very fast and noiseless. One time at least 3 times the speed of an airliner and a lot higher, over Portland, Oregon. One time south of Salem, Oregon.

[@bryanpowers3459]

What plane?

[@conniestevenson226]

@@bryanpowers3459 thee plane thee plane

[@bryanpowers3459]

@@conniestevenson226 lmao

[@kolbaruch2568]

How many years would something like this machine,take to drill 580 miles?????

[@metrofilmer8894]

Depends on the job and how many TBMs they can get. In theory you could use just one for the whole route. Realistically they would use multiple TBMs to speed up work as much as possible

[@Replica-Airgun-Lovers]

Its the land of the Lizard people stopping you from moving further

[@sammarchetti2484]

How does it bore a tunnel when it's sitting at the surface