The 3rd World

[Klause]

Drone pic taken outside of Fraga, San Louis, Argentina. Middle of nowhere Ag Land.
(Map below)

That is Routa 7 one of the new "Autopista" 4 lane divided highways. Route 7 is 1300KM of 4 lane built in the last couple of years. Notice the aqueduct for irrigation / drainage water along side the highway, and 3 phase power lines running through the field.

[TASFarms]

Thats pretty good,use the dirt removed for the aquduct to build the highway.

[furrowtickler]

Meanwhile , locally it’s taken 3 years to repair 2 miles of secondary hiway , 378 .
They are not done yet but maybe next year lol lol . Depends if they can find a crew that is willing to work more than 3-4 hrs per day in between morning coffee, lunch and afternoon coffee / nap time then wrap er up by 4:29 .

[SASKFARMER3]

See that's progress here we cant have a ditch as a drainage project that bad.

WTF are we ever stupid?

[farmaholic]

See that's progress here we cant have a ditch as a drainage project that bad.

WTF are we ever stupid?

Oh you can have a ditch alright. But it has to be approved by the Water Security Agency. Or have someone in your area start a Conservation and Development project and depending on which end of the general drainage area your situated in...you might be dead before the "project" reaches your land. And then you can pay a mandatory levy on some of your land that will have absolutely no benefit from the project.

Some people suffer from hydrocephalus.

[farmaholic]

See that's progress here we cant have a ditch as a drainage project that bad.

WTF are we ever stupid?

Oh you can have a ditch alright. But it has to be approved by the Water Security Agency. Or have someone in your area start a Conservation and Development project and depending on which end of the general drainage area your situated in...you might be dead before the "project" reaches your land. And then you can pay a mandatory levy on some of your land that will have absolutely no benefit from the project.

Some people suffer from hydrocephalus.

[farmaholic]

See that's progress here we cant have a ditch as a drainage project that bad.

WTF are we ever stupid?

Oh you can have a ditch alright. But it has to be approved by the Water Security Agency. Or have someone in your area start a Conservation and Development project and depending on which end of the general drainage area your situated in...you might be dead before the "project" reaches your land. And then you can pay a mandatory levy on some of your land that will have absolutely no benefit from the project.

Some people suffer from hydrocephalus.

[furrowtickler]

Ohhh , but the project would take an extra 5 years to complete here to study the process of gender neutral workers , and balance of culture environment and climate change . Project costs would Tripple then the project itself would be canceled due to project overruns and continuous protests from speacial interest groups . Leaving tax payers on the hook for 2/3 rd the cost of an unfinished project. Only in Canada 🇨🇦..Ehh ..

[checking]

Some people have repetitious routines just to get out the door in the morning!

[farming101]

Belt and Road is getting the job done in the third world

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-19/a-chinese-company-reshaping-the-world-leaves-a-troubled-trail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-19/a-chinese-company-reshaping-the-world-leaves-a-troubled-trail

[Guest]

you can have a ditch here too, as long as some duck hunting group in the US says its ok

[chuckChuck]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/clayton-rm-bridge-collapse-1.4827748

Meanwhile back in "first world" Saskatchewan the reeve of the RM of Clayton Duane Hicks called the recent collapse of a new bridge over the swan river an "act of god"! “It wasn’t structurally faulty. The fault is in what God did under the river.” Huh?

He admitted that they had not done a geotech study because they are expensive! Oh and rebuilding a bridge built on an unknown base is cheaper?

If only council had asked god what was under the river, then this could have all been prevented. LOL

[furrowtickler]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/clayton-rm-bridge-collapse-1.4827748

Meanwhile back in "first world" Saskatchewan the reeve of the RM of Clayton Duane Hicks called the recent collapse of a new bridge over the swan river an "act of god"! “It wasn’t structurally faulty. The fault is in what God did under the river.” Huh?

He admitted that they had not done a geotech study because they are expensive! Oh and rebuilding a bridge built on an unknown base is cheaper?

If only council had asked god what was under the river, then this could have all been prevented. LOL

Actually good one chuck lol

[bucket]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/clayton-rm-bridge-collapse-1.4827748

Meanwhile back in "first world" Saskatchewan the reeve of the RM of Clayton Duane Hicks called the recent collapse of a new bridge over the swan river an "act of god"! “It wasn’t structurally faulty. The fault is in what God did under the river.” Huh?

He admitted that they had not done a geotech study because they are expensive! Oh and rebuilding a bridge built on an unknown base is cheaper?

If only council had asked god what was under the river, then this could have all been prevented. LOL

Thats a bunch of bullshit....from the reeve ....that was no act of god **** all...the recent rain is an act of god ....building a shitty bridge is not an act of god.

[Klause]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/clayton-rm-bridge-collapse-1.4827748

Meanwhile back in "first world" Saskatchewan the reeve of the RM of Clayton Duane Hicks called the recent collapse of a new bridge over the swan river an "act of god"! “It wasn’t structurally faulty. The fault is in what God did under the river.” Huh?

He admitted that they had not done a geotech study because they are expensive! Oh and rebuilding a bridge built on an unknown base is cheaper?

If only council had asked god what was under the river, then this could have all been prevented. LOL

I fully agree with you.

The fact that this happens in today's day and age in a 1st world "Knowledge economy" is telling.


Just like in Saskatoon, on the Mcormond / #5 interchange, hauling in a hundred thousand cubes of contaminated dirt to build up the ramps... What, nobody checked the fill properties before hauling it???

We see it on directional work all the time too. Some engineer dreams up having to put a 0-3 cable 11 meters under ground, and his elevations don't take into account the exit side of the bore is 6 meters higher than the entry side.

Hell, read the news lately? Every article on CBC or CTV has typos or grammatical errors - nobody cares about their jobs or the quality of the work they produce.

Was that three years ago when that new bridge in Ontario buckled?


There were engineering fails 100 years ago when theories were new and man was pushing the boundaries on what we call "basic" engineering today. We shouldn't have fails on standard bridges anymore.