Headin' Home (featuring "the dent")

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 04/19/2018 at 22:12 • Filed to: None

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Heading home from my trip up north near the Alaskan border. I know after my last post, you people wanted to know more about the dent so here’s a pic after the jump. The silo in the claim is one of 4. Each silo is 115 feet in height and holds 12.5 tons of my client’s product.

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AestheticsInMotion > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:23

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Ooof. That can’t be cheap. Is your client Darigold and do the silos contain chocolate milk?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:24

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O.o

gotta find the kid that hit that with his baseball...... helluva swing

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > AestheticsInMotion 04/19/2018 at 22:26

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I wish lol. I’d drink so much. The product isn’t edible sadly.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/19/2018 at 22:30

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lol. Helluva baseball to do that damage. Those things are massive

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:34

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How does that even happen?

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:35

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With that dent that Silo could totally pass off as a Toyota Camry.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:37

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It was actually caused by wind

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 04/19/2018 at 22:38

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lol

AestheticsInMotion > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:40

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I should have the Miata fixed up pretty soon. You’ll have to come down and drive it sometime this summer. Should be a few fun meets once the weather is consistently decent again

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:40

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Wow, impressive. I bet if it was full it would not have collapsed.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > AestheticsInMotion 04/19/2018 at 22:41

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That’d be cool! I’m planning on being pretty free this summer. I’m also posting my monthly schedule and events. I plan on trying to attend some shows in WA as well.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/tag/coflsummer2018

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:43

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Likely. It had just been unloaded onto a ship when the windstorm hit. Winds were so strong they blew train cars off the rails on site. Right onto their sides.

The structure is rated for 14o kph (87mph) winds.

LOREM IPSUM > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/19/2018 at 22:54

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Mother nature is a bad bitch.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > LOREM IPSUM 04/19/2018 at 22:57

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For sure man

shop-teacher > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/19/2018 at 23:06

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That’s one bigly dent!

EngineerWithTools > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/20/2018 at 09:47

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That’s really fascinating! 

I wonder if the dent is from the wind pushing on the silo (Camry vs the world), or from local buckling, caused by longitudinal compression along that side (which would be caused by the wind pushing on the opposite side).

Being near the top (and the fact that it’s still standing) makes me think more Camry than buckle. That said, second order effects could turn large deflection from wind into a local buckling thing.

Also, wind speeding up to pass through the space between the silos could have some really interesting effects - like vortex shedding off the conveyor support tower or the silos themselves. The overall wind speed could be significantly amplified!