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Title: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Randimus Maximus on February 14, 2012, 05:25:20 PM
...please stop me.

Canadian takes over seven years to dig out basement using R/C construction equipment:

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/02/14/canadian-takes-over-seven-years-to-dig-out-basement-using-r-c-co/#continued (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/02/14/canadian-takes-over-seven-years-to-dig-out-basement-using-r-c-co/#continued)

Go Pro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD6R8AtMJas#)

Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Mother on February 14, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
I dunno man

that's a pretty cool thing to have told at your funeral

I mean

that shit would stick in some minds
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: mitt on February 14, 2012, 06:08:04 PM
Fascinating

[thumbsup]

mitt
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Grampa on February 14, 2012, 06:19:41 PM
<insert illegal alien joke here>
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Buckethead on February 14, 2012, 07:16:23 PM
It'd take 3 years to bury a mother in law.

I can't wait that long.
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: sofadriver on February 14, 2012, 08:23:33 PM
getting my brains blown out now or 7 years of that.

hmmmm...........tough choice
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Privateer on February 14, 2012, 08:42:46 PM
do they have long winters in Saskatchewan?
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Speeddog on February 14, 2012, 08:49:10 PM
well, a little creepy, but them are some looooong winters.
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: RAT900 on February 15, 2012, 03:00:14 AM
that is ootrageous
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Buckethead on February 15, 2012, 06:06:15 AM
Quote from: RAT900 on February 15, 2012, 03:00:14 AM
that is ootrageous

[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: KRJ on February 15, 2012, 09:43:23 PM


   I wonder about maintenance costs, on the reality side a person must REALLY be into it...Wish I had that much time to piss off...
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Grappa on February 16, 2012, 11:05:29 AM
First thoughts are that it is really sad.  But upon further thinking, people spend much more time aimlessly channel surfing, or aimlessly internet surfing.  So, if it gives the guy pleasure and piece of mind, why not?  Just hope he isn't building the basement for nefarious purposes.  (Think Silence of the Lambs.)
Title: Re: If I ever take up a hobby like this...
Post by: Le Pirate on February 16, 2012, 02:50:07 PM
I read through the thread they mention on Autoblog. I thought it was kinda neat at first, but it quickly became depressing. The guy casually mentions that his wife basically walked out on him in his second year of digging  :-X

Going by the reactions in the R/C forum, sounds like it's pretty common...

But then I figured out why. I looked up the price of one of those excavators on a website they talk about (Gardentrucking.com), because...well hell...I wanted one  [laugh]

Those damn things are $6k, and that doesn't include the radio  :o