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My brother in law works at a mine up north. He sent me this picture last week.



The mine is conducting tests to see what the impact will be if a mine truck drives into a microbus. He told me that they use baywindows with everything still intact.
He also told me about a splitty. They welded in a rollcage and sent it down a steep incline. He said he stood and watched as the two front windows shattered as it rolled.

There doesn't sound like much scientific basis for their "crash tests".

I agree Fig. If you have a look at the impact on the nose of the bay it looks quite scary. That could be your legs in the way.

No man, this must be a joke, surely ? What next ? Does he have any more pics, especially of the split bus !

There's still some glass and probably a seat or two to salvage!

Surely they don't need everything inside for their tests...

Why don't they test on new buses most people are driving them and not the old buses

They must be proper scientists - everyone knows - including taxi drivers - that a Bay is far stronger than the new bake bean tins people are been loaded into !

Prize 's

Us miners are strange folk Easy come easy go and when some manager and especially safety manager gets something in his head Watch out LOL

Now I know why there a bunch of Fords and Chev's, piled up in a ditch next to the Bus at the mine....they must of been for testing.

Think its more of too much time on their hands,cheap brandy and not enough women in the area to keep them in line

My grandfather says they called "Rock slope stability Mechanic".

They come and perform tests to see how wide and how high benches can be...he says after a few years and you start to mine down and create benches they come in with a car that has been in an accident and get it back on wheels and rolling, then they have the front end loader get it up to a speed of about 60kmh and run it off ground level and into the quarry to see how many benches it will fall and how much damage is done before it comes to a stop.

IMPI wrote:Us miners are strange folk Easy come easy go and when some manager and especially safety manager gets something in his head Watch out LOL

Hey boet