What is an activity that you can't do in the area that you live in, but that you would like to try out?

Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 67 points –
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I want to make a tunnel boring machine for digging ~2 meter tall tunnels in sandstone. Sadly I live in a place with only sand in the underground and that's not suitable for digging tunnels DIY style

That's all?

Man, I'm really sorry you're stuck in a sand pit.

We have so much fun with our TBM's in my area. My neighbor, Ralf, built a 3M BEAST! You wouldn't believe the daily progress he makes. It's got integrated support walls and everything. Our club is in a bit of a feud with the hacks 3 subdivisions over. They keep boring too close to our tunnels. Not. Cool. Man.

Anyway, at least you can cut and cover with sand, a perfectly viable tunnelling strategy with lower startup costs.

Oh that sounds so cool, you got any videos of those machines?

I could do other tunneling methods, but I really want to make a TBM specifically

It feels like you guys are speaking a different language from a different planet