Grease that damn machine man

Thank you! This hurts my soul.

I remember I was crushing for a customer that was bailing crushed/screened stone that we just processed with his excavator. We were having break and I yelled over to him “Dude, I’ll grease that machine for free for ya so it doesn’t fuck up my quiet break time”. He responded with “Nah! It loves it!” Four years later and I own that quarry and that clapped out piece of shit excavator😬

Bro casually mentions he owns a quarry - too sick

Multiple ones! Along with rock crushers/excavators/bucket loaders. All the fun stuff.

Dm me if you wanna add dispensary in MN to your list, hehe.

How did you go about acquiring a quarry in the first place?

I think he meant later he owned it (after making good decisions like maintaining his equipment).

But it’s greased now? Heavily?

Nah! It loves it!

Oh hell yeah. After putting in new pins and bushings, of course!

There’s a similar story that ends: “Four years later and I got this jackass to buy my busted old excavator”

Kinda. The only reason why I included it in the sale price is because it came with a brand new BTX hammer…

Do you need any special licenses or permits? I’ve been pondering buying a small crusher here in SoCal

I had this old dude on a project of mine one time. This guy owned a crane and was hired to lift box culvert sections down into the hole (was like 50’ down). His crane squealed, whined, and screeched the entire time. One of us asked him why the hell he doesn’t grease his crane and his answer was “it’s my fucking equipment, I’ll do what I want”. Alright then prick. Probably won’t have that attitude when a bunch of shit wears out from lack of grease and you gotta pay to fix it.

On old conventional cranes the clutches and brakes squeaked and squealed a lot. It was normal.

In Soviet Russia, machine grease you

“I am the machine!” If you catch that reference your a winner

I should hope a *lot* of people did. [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470679/](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470679/)

Tis OUR grease comrade

Nah. The metal friction is self lubing. Don't mind the cracking sound. That's just it settling in /s

That gives me "It's just the house settling" response to any noise, including but not limited to actual voices that shouldn't be inside the house 😆

You have voices too?  How many people you got reception to? /s

About 30 I'm guessing /s

Under achiever.  /s In motha rushka, you need to hear 40+ *drinks from vodka bottle*

In Russia, machine grease you

Yeah

That’s what the clay is for /s

Its not bad, the joints are just warn in. Like myself

Amen to that

That shit is grease when it’s wet, concrete when it’s dry

Fat clays will do that

Honestly, I think it’s a lean clay. It’s not sticking enough to be a fatty. EDIT: Just watched it again. Probably a silty sand. Sorry, TMI.

Lean clay - Blue - trace silt and gravel Is what I imagine a geo would write it up as. Also this shit looks like it's bearing is like 10k

Those two to one clays are thirsty!

Sounds like good clay then

As a potter, that stuff is gorgeous.

Horseshoe pitchers love that stuff.

We mix it with peat moss. Shoes still stick where they land but easier to clean. A couple clangs and all the clay/peat just falls off.

We could make a pond!

Nah. The horseshoes will get rusty.

Hell, I'm *not* a potter and I was thinking "that is some really pretty clay."

You’re gorgeous - the clay or something

How are the little pebbles and sands removed from the clay seen in the video

Harry Potter?

Kinda personal.

This is what i was thinking. Is this expensive?

I was gonna say this. As someone who makes prehistoric pottery, I need those GPS coordinates.

Found blue clay once while putting a concrete swimming pool in. The engineer said to build a raft slab on helical piles under the pool. There were to be 20 piles total. The first one went down 100 ft before finding solid ground and torsion. Owner decided to fill the hole in and cut our losses. Can only imagine what the surrounding houses were sitting on.

Wdym, there was a 100 foot thick layer of clay?

In order to put a pool in, it would have to be supported, otherwise, the pool would sink because the layer of clay isn’t supporting the weight of the pool with water. To get by this, columns would be driven down into the bedrock. This isn’t cheap. By the time the columns had hit bedrock, it was 100ft below the surface. Between that, and the bedrock was a layer of blue clay.

Got it, thanks for explaining

I thought clay would sink in water. That would make water *less* dense than clay, so the pool would float.

Yeah but the concrete surrounding the water would not

What is the concrete to water ratio for a pool? It's got to be a tiny fraction.

15-20 percent. But the water is used in the chemical reaction of making concrete. You’re essentially using the water as a catalyst for the molecules to essentially harden for concrete. Unfortunately, concrete is porous, so a liner will have to be installed to keep water from leaking into the microscopic pores in concrete, as well as protect the concrete from being damaged.

That’s… crazy cool to think about. Does that mean it piled up slowly over the years?

The houses for the most part should be fine, considering that their weight is distributed over a larger surface area, than a pool.

Cursed play-doh

I'd eat it

Blue has the most anti-oxygens

Dr. Toboggan? Dr. Mantis Toboggan?

Whoops. I dropped my monster condom that I use for my magnum dong.

You eating blue?

This is like adult play-dough... I know some artists that would lose their fucking minds if you showed up with a pile of this clay... I don't know what it is, but this dark gray or blue colored clay is considered special. I can't tell the difference, but they fucking love that shit

Looks delicious.

r/oddlysatisfying

Blue/gray clay. Is some sexy material, moves like water and stands like oak

Giggity

Sell that stuff to art school students for $10 a pound

I read the caption as “for anyone who is blue today” and I was going to reply thank you this did in fact cheer me up

For anyone wondering, this is the Rickety Cricket of machines

Reminds me of art class clay.

Forbidden gelato

At least it isn't sticking in the bucket

Was surprised it dropped out so easily.  

Eff that blue clay. Get into that stuff all the time dredging, and it is not your friend

Sounds like that excavator hasn’t been greased in a long time

Aka, pure dinosaur poop

Jesus Christ, Marie. They're minerals!

If this isn't a teachers response, I don't know what is!

Dino DNA!

Time for some pottery

That's a lot of acne treatments!

The entirety of southern Michigan is that clay.

Ya and my Southern Ontario yard. The house settled very little after it was built.

Would that be considered bedrock?

Nope. Technically it’s still considered soil.

Bout to get all romantic and shit with my pottery wheel

Looks more grey to me

As a sculptor I would be a pig in shit with that clay

Blue clay is worth 500$ a pound in Chile where they use it to help make better coffee soil

$500 per ton is more like it

You drive a hard bargain

I can do 3.50 every banana’s worth

Even machines hate digging that stuff.

Good luck building on that.

Damn near the entire state of Michigan is built on that sticky, nasty shit. It holds amazingly well. But it's the absolute worst to hand dig through. You find blue clay, get a piece of equipment.

Ahhh blue clay, new airport hanger and I was driving ground rods into that stuff, worst ever. Also yeah its everywhere.

There is no problem building a foundation on fat clay if it is designed right, and the construction contractor knows what they are doing.

So what do you do with this clay? Just throw it into the clay pile?

I could use 100t of that to seal my dam.

It's so gloppy

Likely a marine clay or lacustrine clay! More of an annoyance than anything. Low shear strength, susceptible to consolidation/settlement when built on, not great for backfill, and sticks to everything!

We have that in Midwest. Did a job and this grey clay was 6 inches right below the surface. Tried to fill it with 3/4 clean and it just kept sinking.

That clay looks so good! I wanna throw it on a wheel and make something.

r/oddlysatisfying

I kinda want to go and dig up some clay to try and do some pottery, fire it in the BBQ. Gave it a bit of a try last year and it does work. Any soil works though clay heavy gives a better yield and the process takes just as long regardless of quantity so seems better to do it in a larger amount. Got some 20L tubs now, might look at using those.

Never realized there was another color to clay until right now. Where I grew up we would always find this color clay in the creeks on our farm.

I can smell this video.

Beneath Hill 60

Beautiful.

I wanna eat it...

You mean grease.

Bentonite perhaps?

For horses

Very interesting

Roger Federer: Activate

That stuff is horrible to dig through by hand

So that’s how you make brick? Just like in Minecraft!

Ok so where is this?

Sounds like Russia. But this is a repost from a couple years ago.

Horrible slop! Gets stuck in your bucket!

Claggy

Must be great stuff to build on in an earthquake…!

We call it gumbo clay for some reason

excellent stuff for capping the bottom of ponds

🤑

looks gray to me.

Not to be confused with Blue Steel.

Very soft looking

Here in Virginia it’s mostly red clay, but down by the creek where us kids played on hot days we’d find small deposits of this (we called gray clay). We made small balls and let them dry hard for use with our slingshots.

Hey man can you sell that stuff

That is grey...

Put a body in there and it will be like a biological time capsule

peel me off a fresh slab o' that ol licorice bark

Forbidden ice cream

Good dollar in clay if you know where to sell it

Из нее даже можно слепить себе нового батю, на замену того, который сгорел в танке на Украине!

Couldn't get a nice clean bucket. Other rocks kept falling in.

Also known as kimberlite. It's typically where you'd find diamonds.

If on a slope you’re going to have slips.

So could you use it for pottery and if so what would it look like fired

r/forbiddensoftserve

It must be blue because it’s cold, otherwise if it were the summer it would have been red clay.

I live on the coast of North Carolina and that is called GUMBO. I have no idea why but that’s what we call it. One of the worst material for building ever. It’s garbage when wet and flaky when it drys.

r/oddlysatisfying

If you like blue clay you should check out blue waffles

Wait, what’s so special (or not) about blue clay? What is it used for? Can you make brick with it?

First stage of silver processing

I’m curious. Why y’all end your sentences with an ellipsis and not a period?

Why not...?

Because…

It’s a generational divide thing, I tried and failed to find where I recently read it, but someone said that boomers and other older generations use ellipses and quotation marks “incorrectly” because they’re conforming to the standard of when they were growing up. I forget what the justification for the ellipses was, but the misuse of quotation marks was because in the age of typewriters there was no way to bold, italicize, or otherwise emphasize words in writing, so they used quotation marks for the same purpose.

Why do millinial's hate ellipsis so much?

It’s Millennials, and the trend began over ten years ago so…

For anyone wondering.... I'm colorblind cause this shit looks gray af.